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Do you know Prometheus? it sounds like its gonna be amazing. Alien directors new movie out this year 2012, |
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I am so excited to see this, It looks amazing. Plus there are "space jockeys" |
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2 months till release definitely one to see on the big screen, its actually an alien prequel, wow. : P |
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xltronic's own jackie harvey |
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i am looking forward to this more than any other film in the last ten years i think. also, not exactly a prequel: "The thing about a prequel is, as fascinating as it may to watch Anakin turn to the dark side of the Force, there's an inevitability to it. You know when you go in the prequel can only cover A to Y and then Z is gonna be the preexisting material. You can't end it in an exciting or surprising way. You can only end it in the inevitable way. ... When I went to go see The Thing prequel, for example, I'm assuming this movie is going to be the sequence of events that led up to a dog being infected by the Thing and then being chased by a helicopter across the frozen tundra-because I know then what happens next because I saw The Thing. And that's exactly what it was. On a certain level, you're satisfied because if you're calling a movie a prequel, that's what you're expecting. On another level, you sort of walk out going, "Boy I wish there was a little bit more room for me to not exactly know what I was walking into." In my opinion, in order to define Prometheus as a prequel, Is it set in the Alien universe? ... If you just watch the teaser trailer, and you see how the word Prometheus reveals itself ... or look at the production design, you don't need me to tell you anything. So then the next question is: Is it a prequel to Alien? To that, I can't really answer the question because my definition of prequel, the A-to-Y definition, I hope it's not. I hope that this movie can be surprising. The ending of this movie; the sequel to Prometheus is not Alien. The sequel to Prometheus, if it does well and people like it, would be another movie that goes off in its own direction, that runs tangential to Alien." -Damon Lindelof |
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It looks good. LOST was my favorite show ever, so I'll give anything Lindelof writes a shot. I enjoyed the sound design in the trailer. That said, my hype for Diablo 3 *far* exceeds my hype for any other thing at the moment. Just 40 days, 7 hours, 6 minutes, 50 seconds till release. |
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great trailer..seems there is some HR gioger stuff used..did he work on the movie? |
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giger... |
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I was curious about that also, I have yet to find any info on it. Like I said before, I am STOAKED. Looks so cool.... |
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Fuck yes to anything HR Giger. He apparently did a few murals that made it into the movie, but I don't think he designed anything specific (although his influence from Alien is still apparent). (p.s. diablo 3) |
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What does that mean if we're not going to see a xenomorph? Who knows! Like I said, Scott isn't terribly forthcoming with details right now. He did, however, talk about the way that H.R. Giger, the original designer of Alien's creatures, contributed to the visuals in Prometheus. He won't be designing any beasts, it seems, but according to Scott he's "been doing some murals, big murals, which we’ll see in almost one of the first chambers we encounter when we land where we’re gonna go." Fuck I've not been to a cinema for years..now I have to. |
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It's going to disappoint. This isn't being made by Alien/Bladerunner-era Ridley Scott. It's the shitty one. The really, really shitty one. And now there's CGI to fuck it up even further. I won't go as far as to say it will be bad, but I do think it'll be solidly. firmly mediocre. One of those films people will keep clinging onto because there are a couple of interesting concepts in there, but they'll disappear under the sheer weight of all the bad narrative decisions. |
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It may be even worse than that. Think about a changing society which implicitly forces Scott and his team to make lots of bad decisions. For instance, I'm afraid the characters will be so stupidly superficial the entire story falls flat. And maybe, just maybe, being stupidly superficial is the new norm in current society. *watches transformer movies* |
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Even the original alien(s) suck. It needs more 'deleted scenes' so its like 5 minutes long. Almost all movies should be 5 minutes long or so. Just an information overload blast of all the interesting stuff. The trailer looked like a typical modern movie. |
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sorry man if you didn't like the original alien just stop watching movies |
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NEVER SAY A BAD THING ABOUT THE ORIGINAL ALIEN. |
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Watching a movie is an hour+ opportunity cost of not being on the internet, so its immediately boring. Who cares what some committee of uncreative self-award-giving assclowns make for profit. Which stupid popular actors star in this shit, I hope not 'russell crowe' or that ass that starred in good will hunting, or whatever other shills the elite installed as actors to boost their popularity to better manipulate everyone with. They should just make movies about car insurance since everyone is forced to pay for that scam, like taxes, and its all about profit (last time I went out to the movies, it had commercials for car insurance before the movie even started.. 10 or whatever bucks and you still get commercials). And yes I went with my MOM, practically a date since I'm a completely failed shell of a girlfriendless stunted arrested development wus. And she paid. Alien was shit just like robocop... wait and wait, finally an 'event' happens, a boring event. When the car hit that retarded guy in robocop it was ok, but that's like a 2.7/5 in 'internet entertainment' and you had to wait forever for it to happen. Plus chances are you're watching it on the scam called dvd so you can't easily loop it over and over without going to the title screen with freakin farmville or some shit installed into it and drm and animated 3d shit then select the part, scroll to find it etc. Haven't you learned that last 837 times that remakes of anything are pure crap for profit? Plus it taints the original with shitty memes sharing the same name. Thus, for example all children of a certain generation were indoctrinated to think that 'punchout' is that shitty wii version.. its memetic murder of the original, putting it in the bottom of a porta potty where nobody will find it. |
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Been keeping myself away from the trailer as much as possible to preserve my virginity for this experience. There are no excuses why Ripley, I mean Ridley, can't make something very special with this. |
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I mean it could go either way. Scott has made great films (Alien, Blade Runner etc) and some awful ones (Kingdom Of Heaven, Russell Crowe Goes To France). Lindelof is a decent writer, but the other scriptwriter also wrote The Darkest Hour which was total toilet. Even if the characterisation is sub-par, you have some of the best actors working today to combat it (Fassbender, Rapace, even Charlize Theron and Guy Pearce). The trailer made me giddy. I don't think there'll be any aliens in it mind. That's probably a good thing. |
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I like how you complain about taxes and the profit motive in the same post. Well played. It almost saddens me that GiGi is going to hunt you down and gut you like a deer now. ;( |
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I don't care about the story of the movie..I'm just hoping to see great works from HR Giger on a very big screen |
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last time i went to the movies , when fast action happens, like a space ship flying across the screen, it would jitter ..as it flew across like a weird frame rate conversion. Why would they need to convert the frame rate in a cinema? surly these new digital projectors can cope with anything:? |
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good question..but i dont know. |
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I'm releasing a 2012 edition of Eris with some alien/prometheus easter eggs. Added a space jockey, and some weyland snippets. my is very much like the prometheus one, music, cues, etc. |
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I think you need glasses |
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alien easter eggs? , omg that would be insane: a thing jumps out and clasps on yer face, AAhhhg. |
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yeh, the chocolate alien clasps on yer face...you scream .. your mates laugh and film it for you tube...but once it melts a bit...you can pull it off your face and eat the yummy chocolate alien. |
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after it laid it's eggs of course. kinder suprise might have the technology to make this happen. |
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It has some Alien DNA but it's not an A to Z prequel. According to the man himself. |
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freqy, |
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OMG ! that was my easter nigh/day/dream/mare! totally freqin BIzzarre,!!! HAHAHAHAHAAHAHA did you see the bunny! haha perfect. : P |
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Watched it 3 times and i still can't see the bunny. |
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that new trailer is teh shit. srsly one of the most intense i've seen. getting more excited about this. |
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HR Gigiger |
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Nice one dael, for the -p in Ripley as a -d after a 180° rotation. |
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I saw it Saturday. I thought it was alright, then thought about it and thought it was shit, then read about it and felt confident it was shit, then backtracked, and now I want to see it again. But it's a 7 or 8 out of ten at most |
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I saw it too. thought it was pretty good. |
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how about the giger art workzz..? Was it there a lot? |
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the first half of it was ok, the rest was shit. so many plot holes and stupid clichés. the movie really lost its focus (if it ever had any). total change in tone. the good things: it's great visually, and the 3d is actually bearable. |
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God how disappointing, there's some great performances (from Rapace and Fassbender as is to be expected) and a really nice and intriguing premise but it just falls apart at the end. So many questions asked that the film just couldn't answer without apparently having a sequel. Utterly shoddy cop out writing. -crazone, there is one scene with Giger artwork. SPOILER LOADED RANT AHEAD. Why was Meredith Vickers character even there? Her purpose was simply to provide a room to have some scenes in (the escape pod thing) without giving away the 'twist' about Weyland. In fact most of the crew were completely superfluous two dimensional characters. The two that died in the head room? Didn't give a shit. They were dead as soon as they were separated from the others to the point I was willing the film to just get it over with. Why did one come back as a zombie? Is this in character with what those worm things do? We have no idea, they're used once and not again. If it is a characteristic that they do this how does that evolve in to the monsters we see later (I'll cover this at the end)? It makes no sense. Why have Guy Pearce in it in old man make up? He doesn't appear as a younger man at any point during the film (only in the viral video promo thing) and it was distracting to the point of pulling me out of the film. Such a small percentage of viewers have seen that viral that the majority of them must be scratching their heads as to why this guy was obviously a young man in old mans make up, expecting some great reveal. What in the fuck was David's motivation? He's there to ensure the continuing life of Weyland apparently. Then what ludicrous jump in logic led him to believe that releasing an unknown biological weapon on to the ship was a good idea? What a twat. The last shot of the film. Fucking hell. OK so we get a proto-xenomorph. Fine. Let's look at the evolution of the creature: |
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1. Charlie ingest the black goo from David (stupid) 2. Charlie goes black veined and crispy but not before fucking Elizabeth 3. Elizabeth is impregnated with a fast growing squid baby. 4. Elizabeth c-sections her squid baby out. 5. The squid baby grows gigantic and face fucks an engineer. 6. The proto-xenomorph is born. FINE. Disregarding the sudden weird evolutionary jump that happens somewhere in in Charlies sperm that turns the black goo from something that produces zombie making worms to something that makes chest impregnating squids that kill their host rather than take it over we are left with a very specific set of circumstances. The goo must go through humans and engineers to produce the xenomorph. Fine that happened that's how we got the Alien but then we end up with this incredibly convoluted plot to get the xenomorph in to the place it is in Alien. It is explicitly stated in the film that this planet is not LV-426. this is not where Alien or Aliens take place. This means that at some point between the two films the Engineers come back to the military installation that has been abandoned for THOUSANDS OF YEARS due to their weapon getting out of control and decide to see what's up. picking up the xenomorph and continuing to engineer it before things go tits up. Stupid. You can create the entirety of human existence and be prepared to destroy it again but you're too dumb to nuke that site from orbit. Speaking of destroying man kind, why the fuck leave a map to your military installation on which you are building the weapon that you will eventually use to destroy mankind? What's the point? Was it a warning? 'Don't go there guys otherwise we'll kill you but we're gonna kill you anyway, lol!' It obviously wasn't an invitation to humanity to come and visiting once they were 'enlightened' enough otherwise it would have pointed to somewhere like their home planet rather then a weapons factory. I dunno. Also what was with the big screen in the escape pod Stupid film. 10/10 am going to w |
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10/10 am going to watch it again next week. I just realised I have more questions. Whatever. |
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That's what I did. I watched it with a growing sense of disillusionment then thought about it afterwards and went right through disgust into thinking it was rather clever |
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It's not though, it's a gorgeous pair of bollocks |
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I won't be seeing this film. There is zero chance it can live up to the legacy of Alien. Yes, I said it. Zero. |
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i agree with qrter |
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great then, some money saved. |
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all the geek fan boys etc I know thought it was shitty then I guess for my non-geek, non-fan boy attitude it has to be shitty.... long live Ripley :( |
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debating whether to see this tonight. not going to 3d tho. worth it going thru the effort of making it to the cinema instead of drinking a few beers and passing out at 10:30 while watching the office? |
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The 3D was actually really good, it's a gorgeous film. Some shots look like pulp sic-fi book covers. |
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