Prometheus

[eatlasagna]

the more I think about this movie the more I love it

[romantico]

For the past week I have been driving a friend of mine to work who works 3rd shift. It's a good 40 minute drive each way and when coming back late at night,I've been listening to this track from the PROMETHEUS soundtrack. I find it very relaxing and soothing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgfDnflqMGA

[Luscious]

I give the IMAX 3D experience an A+ (for $23 a ticket, it should be!), and the actual movie a B-. Isn't this, essentially, an ALIEN redo? It's practically the same plot with a little "where did we come from/how did we get here?" thrown in. Seems like a retread to me. And not a very scary one at that. I was underwhelmed. And as far as it not being a prequel, then why include that final scene? Seems like Scott wants to have his goo and eat it too.

[romantico]

Action figures come out later this summer. If they do not make a David action figure then seriously, what's the point?

[eatlasagna]

romantico... that track is awesome! i sat there in the theater loving the score... especially this piece! thanks

[tazber]

What did David really say to the Engineer?

[Bettyboy72]

I saw the movie tonight and loved it. I want a Michael Fassbender posable action figure.

My question is-having seen Shame, where was Fassbender's bulge? He must have been wearing a dance belt. lol

[romantico]

Even if there is an alien inside you, don't have an abortion!

Seattle's Slog reports that last month a local theater employee gave away a key plot point in Prometheus as patrons presented their tickets.

'A man named Jorge who attended a recent showing of Prometheus got a politically charged spoiler alert from the employee who was tearing his tickets. 'I have to warn you,' Jorge recalls the employee telling him and his guest. "Halfway through the movie, the main female character will perform a self induced abortion.' This happened at Regal Cinemas Thornton Place Stadium 14 in Seattle. 'I asked some other people entering the same auditorium if the same guy had warned them about the contents of the movie, and they said he did,' says Jorge, who asked that we not use his last name.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/07/02/theater-employee-warns-customers-that-prometheus-features-an-abortion

[TheatreDiva90016]

That's vile^^^^^

I saw it yesterday and was bothered that some father drug his two VERY young children in just as the abortion started and proceeded to watch the film with them completely freaked out by what they were seeing on screen. Several people commented on the way out.

Was it just me or did the engineers faces look like the statue of David?

[romantico]

It did resemble David a bit. I also think they looked a little like the statues on Easter Island. I'm sure this was intentional. I guess my gripe is with these pro choice nuts are, couldn't this be justified? I mean,make your moral argument over abortion but in this extreme case couldn't it be justified? Do you always have to blindly be on one side over another? Everything to these loonies are black or white. Frankly, if the usher ruined the film like that for me I would have made a scene.

[tazber]

I think Diva meant the statue of David by Michelangelo, romantico.


Which makes perfect sense in the mythology they have created with this movie. The statue being inspired by an Engineer who visited during the Renaissance fits perfectly with the through line.

[romantico]

That's what I meant. I should have said Davinci's David. I really am excited about the director's cut DVD coming out. I have not heard anything about the director's cut being released theatrically. I'd love to see PROMETHEUS again but if I know for sure a director's cut will be released theatrically, I will hold off. Only one that has been confirmed is THE AVENGERS which will be re-released sometime in August.

[Addison D.]

I enjoyed the film's soundtrack very much.

I enjoyed Michael Fassbinder very much.

Otherwise, I was disappointed. I've rarely left a film with my head so over-flowing with questions about gaping holes in logic and narrative coherence.

Apparently, I'm not the only one...
Lots of very important questions

[Addison D.]

Greetings from the wilderness of NW Connecticut, y'all...

I'm still spending a certain amount of time trying to make some sense of this film. Why? I guess my expectations for a Ridley Scott film were so high that I want to believe the failure is mine and not the film's. I don't believe that, yet, but Comic Book Girl will take you on a great little (9 minutes) field trip into some of the possibilities, including 'Space Jesus'.

Worth the time, in my opinion.


Comic book Girl explores Prometheus

[tazber]

Just announced:

BD will include first draft of the script which should be very cool.

Link

[tazber]

The sequel is picking up steam.

Fasbender and Rapace are both returning!
Link

[romantico]

******SPOILER******











I would love to see Charlize Theron return,assuming she really was an android. I can't wait to see the director's cut Blu Ray.Was hoping it would return to the theaters with the extra minutes added.

[tazber]

Check out this unused Fifield effect:

[romantico]

OH MY GOD!

I hope this will be in one of the deleted scenes. Do we know who this is suppose to be?

[Addison D.]

I don't agree with a lot of his politics, but I'm with him 100% in re: Prometheus...
A.H. on Prometheus

[tazber]

It's Fifield (the mohawk guy). I don't know why they scaled back his mutation, but they talk about it some more in the magazine cinefex.

I tried getting some more info, but I don't subscribe and I believe it's an exclusive.

[romantico]

Thanks for the info. I did not even know they still published Cinefex. I use to buy it years ago but they are so damn expensive.

[tazber]

I've been waiting for official news of a sequel all summer, because while it did well it didn't do blockbuster business.

Turns out it was announced a month ago! How did I miss this?

The studio's big summer bet was Ridley Scott's Prometheus, June's sort-of Alien prequel. The $130 million-budgeted film has grossed a solid but not spectacular $303 million globally, putting it right on the franchise bubble. (It should top out north of $360 million.) Fox confirms to THR that Scott and the studio actively are pushing ahead with a follow-up (stars Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace are signed) and are talking to new writers because Prometheus co-scribe Damon Lindelof might not be available. "Ridley is incredibly excited about the movie, but we have to get it right. We can't rush it," says Fox president of production Emma Watts, who also has overseen the successful reboots of the X-Men and Planet of the Apes franchises. A Prometheus sequel would be released in 2014 or 2015.

Best part: Lindelof probably won't be involved.

Fox, PLEASE keep him as far away from this franchise as possible!!! He doesn't know how to write complete story arcs - only set ups.
Link

[tazber]

14 minutes of deleted scenes

[Addison D.]

OK--talk to me. Explain why I'm supposed to be excited about a sequel to such a tragically mis-begotten enterprise such as 'Prometheus'? Great cast? Yes. Great score? Agreed. Full of digital wizardry that amazes and astounds? Certainly. Frankly, though, the digital wizardry in Google Maps amazes and astounds me. There's digital wizardry everywhere. So--why are we acting as though this is a landmark work of Art when it was just a deeply un-satisfying movie which failed to tell a coherent story?

As for the inevitable dribble of "lost" minutes--spare me. If I wanted to to assemble a movie myself, I would make one on my Mac. Scott had his chance to edit his film and 'Prometheus' is the one he made.

[tazber]

The best Christmas present Hollywood could give me!


Lindelof won't eff up the sequel