Prometheus: Ridley Scott kickin' ass, again

ORIGINALS · Jun 9, 2012

See when you compare alien to prometheus, you can see that prometheus just doesnt have the punch that alien/aliens had.

evilbunny1991 · Jun 9, 2012

ORIGINALS said: ↑

See when you compare alien to prometheus, you can see that prometheus just doesnt have the punch that alien/aliens had.
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The problem the film has is that its going to be compared to alien even though the directors want to take it on another route. So anything in the film will be compared to how Alien did it, being a 2012 film the graphics and effects were pretty amazing.

What some might forget though is that Alien 1 in the beginning was very slow moving setting the scene. The first part of Prometheus was the same then the second part of both movies it really burst into life.

Efe · Jun 9, 2012

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Bit odd that the Prometheus uses a 100 year old Windows OS http://i.imgur.com/oDzET.jpg
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Who notices this stuff?

ghodsgift · Jun 9, 2012

evilbunny1991 said: ↑

The problem the film has is that its going to be compared to alien even though the directors want to take it on another route. So anything in the film will be compared to how Alien did it, being a 2012 film the graphics and effects were pretty amazing.

What some might forget though is that Alien 1 in the beginning was very slow moving setting the scene. The first part of Prometheus was the same then the second part of both movies it really burst into life.
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+1

Harry Caray · Jun 11, 2012

MAJOR SPOILERS

[Editor's Note: Information provided by director Ridley Scott, production designer Arthur Max, creature and special effects supervisor Neal Scanlan, and screenwriter Damon Lindelof.]

Q: So what’s up with that albino humanoid alien committing suicide in the prologue? Is he poisoning the planet’s water or something?

A: According to the Prometheus: The Art of the Film, the albino humanoids are known as “Engineers”, a superior race approximately 2-3 million years ahead of humans, that have learned how to seed planets with their own DNA. In the prologue, a sole Engineer is depicted seeding the planet Earth many, many, many years ago. His spacecraft departs moments later.

Q: What’s going on with all the cave drawings? If the Engineers are so bent on destroying us, why don’t they just wipe us out during one of their visits to our planet?

A: Arthur Max explains that “…the Engineers, playing the role of * in the universe, have visited Earth many times over millennia and given mankind genetic upgrades both physical and intellectual.”

Q: I don’t understand the importance of the big-* human head sculptures in the pyramid. Explain that *.

A: The giant head sculptures were constructed by the Engineers as a way to celebrate their place as * in the universe. A sort of self-effigy, if you will. Why is this celebratory head sculpture placed in a room with hundreds of ampules of black goo? It remains (purposely?) unexplained.

Q: Oh yeah, the black goo in the ampules. Where’d that * come from?

A: The Engineers developed it as a biochemical weapon intended to wipe out all of planet Earth, but the creatures somehow turned on them. It’s not mentioned why the Engineers are so bent on eradicating Earthlings, but there are hints that they felt a complete planetary reset was in order.

Q: There’s a zombie in this movie. Why is there a * zombie in this movie?

A: The original concept of the zombie-esque “Babyhead” creature was “more alien than human”, but they liked the “strong performance” of actor Sean Harris, ultimately deciding to use less make-up since “the general feeling was it would be much better to hold on to the actor’s features, hold on to all the things that he would bring to the show.”

Q: The Prometheus is flying missions almost 30 years before we were first introduced to the Nostromo from Alien. Why is the technology so much more advanced?

A: While the Nostromo was a commercial towing vessel, a tug used primarily for grunt labor, the Prometheus is the company flagship. Hence the heavy-duty upgrades.

Q: What’s up with the arch-shaped display in the pyramid? Was that an altar?

A: Yes, it was an altar, with the depiction of an * Giger-like alien at the center, apparently crucified. This indicates that the creatures from Alien have been around for centuries, and not first introduced in the final moments of Prometheus as some have speculated. The book is strangely coy in regard to the carving: “[The crew members] look at it and speculate briefly about it. But it’s not very clear what it is.”
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http://*-disgusting.com/news/3147596/omfg-prometheus-secrets-revealed-movie-tie-in-tells-all/

Well this explains alot.

Shepard · Jun 11, 2012

No watched this yet but it looks right good!

Markos1972 · Jun 11, 2012

Naughton said: ↑

MAJOR SPOILERS

http://*-disgusting.com/news/3147596/omfg-prometheus-secrets-revealed-movie-tie-in-tells-all/

Well this explains alot.
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That it does-cheers for the post.

ghodsgift · Jun 11, 2012

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MAJOR SPOILERS

Well this explains alot.
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Underwhelmed with some of the answers. The black goo thing told us what we already knew for starters. The Alien committing suicide to 'seed' the earth was already worked out by people.

Whoever done this interview asked the wrong questions here.

Harry Caray · Jun 11, 2012

ghodsgift said: ↑

Underwhelmed with some of the answers. The black goo thing told us what we already knew for starters. The Alien committing suicide to 'seed' the earth was already worked out by people.

Whoever done this interview asked the wrong questions here.
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It isnt a real interview if you would go to the link it states that it is a fake discussion, it reveals these answers in the book Prometheus: The Art of the Film. Surely you cannot be that underwhelmed ? We both that the Alien that bursts from the Engineer at the end of the film was the first of that type of Alien but it wasnt, completely forgot about the picture of the Alien on the wall which dismisses that theory !

ghodsgift · Jun 11, 2012

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It isnt a real interview if you would go to the link it states that it is a fake discussion, it reveals these answers in the book Prometheus: The Art of the Film. Surely you cannot be that underwhelmed ? We both that the Alien that bursts from the Engineer at the end of the film was the first of that type of Alien but it wasnt, completely forgot about the picture of the Alien on the wall which dismisses that theory !
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I know but as it states in that wee interview-majiggy thing.

Yes, it was an altar, with the depiction of an * Giger-like alien at the center, apparently crucified. This indicates that the creatures from Alien have been around for centuries, and not first introduced in the final moments of Prometheus as some have speculated
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The answer to that was right under our noses and plain as daylight in the film and it seems we all over looked it haha Feel silly as * after reading that bit but hey ho.

Re quoting a part of my post earlier in the topic - i would like these answered as its quite annoying me that there was nothing to explain this.

Why they were wanting to wipe out mankind in the first place. We never got an answer or clue to this either.

Why was the big bad * Engineer the only survivor? From what i read on the new someone brought up a good point. He was relatively calm up until David spoke to him. So what did David actually say?

Harry Caray · Jun 11, 2012

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The answer to that was right under our noses and plain as daylight in the film and it seems we all over looked it haha Feel silly as * after reading that bit but hey ho.

Re quoting a part of my post earlier in the topic - i would like these answered as its quite annoying me that there was nothing to explain this.

Why they were wanting to wipe out mankind in the first place. We never got an answer or clue to this either.

Why was the big bad * Engineer the only survivor? From what i read on the new someone brought up a good point. He was relatively calm up until David spoke to him. So what did David actually say?
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Why do the Engineers want to kill us? This portion of the dissertation explores the idea that the Engineers sent Jesus (the alien) down to save us and we in turn killed him.

“From the Engineers’ perspective, so long as humans retained that notion of self-sacrifice as central, we weren’t entirely beyond redemption. But we went and screwed it all up, and the film hints at when, if not why: the Engineers at the base died two thousand years ago. That suggests that the event that turned them against us and led to the huge piles of dead Engineers lying about was one and the same event. We did something very, very bad, and somehow the consequences of that dreadful act accompanied the Engineers back to LV-223 and massacred them.

If you have uneasy suspicions about what ‘a bad thing approximately 2,000 years ago’ might be, then let me reassure you that you are right. An astonishing excerpt from the Movies.com interview with Ridley Scott:

Movies.com: We had heard it was scripted that the Engineers were targeting our planet for destruction because we had crucified one of their representatives, and that Jesus Christ might have been an alien. Was that ever considered?

Ridley Scott: We definitely did, and then we thought it was a little too on the nose. But if you look at it as an “our children are misbehaving down there” scenario, there are moments where it looks like we’ve gone out of control, running around with armor and skirts, which of course would be the Roman Empire. And they were given a long run. A thousand years before their disintegration actually started to happen. And you can say, “Let’s send down one more of our emissaries to see if he can stop it.” Guess what? They crucified him.

Yeah. The reason the Engineers don’t like us any more is that they made us a Space Jesus, and we broke him.”
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http://cavalorn.livejournal.com/584135.html

Very good site explains alot

ghodsgift · Jun 11, 2012

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http://cavalorn.livejournal.com/584135.html

Very good site explains alot
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* I burst out laughing at the opening sentences! Im gonna give this a wee read mate. Thanks

Harry Caray · Jun 11, 2012

I'm defo gonna buy that art book some cool pics, deleted scenes etc

Engineers home planet ?

Also these "elders" were cut out of the final film

ghodsgift · Jun 11, 2012

Holy *! That would be a cracking book actually! Is it available yet?

Harry Caray · Jun 11, 2012

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Yeahh man !

Nowhereman · Jun 24, 2012

Loved it. And now I'm pouring over that cavalorn blog post to really dissect it. Really puts the whole movie into perspective