Official "Ridley Scott's Prometheus" Discussion Thread (Spoilers)

[Lejuan]

The more time that has passed for me with my initial viewing, the angrier I feel towards this movie.

I agree. I walked out of the cinema thinking this was a 7/10, but as the memory of the stunning visuals recedes from memory, all I can think about is the rubbish script that Lindelof served up.

 

[Matt S]

I agree. I walked out of the cinema thinking this was a 7/10, but as the memory of the stunning visuals recedes from memory, all I can think about is the rubbish script that Lindelof served up.

if i were him, I'd feel embarrassed that I actually got paid to write that movie

 

[Sabres21768]

Whether you like it, or not (I do)...here's a nice clear shot of the Deacon...

 

[plasmid303]

I think it would've been creepier with the opaque white skin like the Engineers.

 

[Sabres21768]

I think it would've been creepier with the opaque white skin like the Engineers.

Yeah, that would have been cool.

That or more black...I'm just not too sure about the blue.

 

[Niltusk]

I agree. I walked out of the cinema thinking this was a 7/10, but as the memory of the stunning visuals recedes from memory, all I can think about is the rubbish script that Lindelof served up.

if i were him, I'd feel embarrassed that I actually got paid to write that movie

Its a double edged sword for me. I want to see more, but I don't want Lindelof writing it. SO, I want it to be successful enough to keep going, but not successful enough to keep Lindelhof on board.
Plus, in one of his interviews, he said he was going to really veer off from what people expect in the sequel, and coming from him, thats just scary.

Whether you like it, or not (I do)...here's a nice clear shot of the Deacon...

I like it, unique design, but close enough to "count". I'd like to see if it sheds and grows quickly like its facehugger/starsquid progenitor.

 

[Lejuan]

if i were him, I'd feel embarrassed that I actually got paid to write that movie

That'd be some consolation for those of us who disliked it, but 'fraid not. This is what he's said about it:

"...although it is genuinely painful and disheartening to hear people say that they hate it or that they wish that they'd never watched it in the first place, there's also something sort of sadistically cool about knowing that fights are happening out there about something that I've done."

from: https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/69618372.html

His first response in that interview is a cracker too:

"When I came in, there was a script that had been written by Jon Spaihts, who I share screenplay credit with, that I thought was quite good, but it was a dyed-in-the-wool Alien prequel. And I fundamentally felt like the best version of this movie would be to strip away its own inherent prequel-ness, which made it feel like you go into it knowing exactly how the movie is going to end."

Its a double edged sword for me. I want to see more, but I don't want Lindelof writing it. SO, I want it to be successful enough to keep going, but not successful enough to keep Lindelhof on board.
Plus, in one of his interviews, he said he was going to really veer off from what people expect in the sequel, and coming from him, thats just scary.

I like it, unique design, but close enough to "count". I'd like to see if it sheds and grows quickly like its facehugger/starsquid progenitor.

If Scott brings on board anyone but Lindelof for another movie, I'll gladly give it a go. But I personally will never watch anything that guy has a hand in again.

 

[Wor-Gar]

why do they call it the deacon?

 

[Niltusk]

"...although it is genuinely painful and disheartening to hear people say that they hate it or that they wish that they'd never watched it in the first place, there's also something sort of sadistically cool about knowing that fights are happening out there about something that I've done."

from: https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/69618372.html

His first response in that interview is a cracker too:

"When I came in, there was a script that had been written by Jon Spaihts, who I share screenplay credit with, that I thought was quite good, but it was a dyed-in-the-wool Alien prequel. And I fundamentally felt like the best version of this movie would be to strip away its own inherent prequel-ness, which made it feel like you go into it knowing exactly how the movie is going to end."



If Scott brings on board anyone but Lindelof for another movie, I'll gladly give it a go. But I personally will never watch anything that guy has a hand in again.

I would love to get a synopsis of the Spaihts version. If for nothing else, just to see what Lindelhof felt was so bad that he needed to gut it.

 

[Lejuan]

It is not out of the realm of possibility that the next movie will begin with the Prometheus crew waking up from stasis to find that everything that happened in the last movie was all a dream.

 

[IrishJedi]

why do they call it the deacon?

Ridley Scott just nicknamed the design that because he felt the shape of the head resembles the long, pointy hats some deacons and pontiffs wear.

 

[Niltusk]

why do they call it the deacon?

The Deacon - Ridley Scott's own name for the offspring of the Trilobite and the Engineer, who dubbed it so because the final design - which includes elements from Shaw, the Engineer and the Trilobite - looked, "like a Bishop's mitre, the evil Deacon's pointed hat." Two versions of it were built: One for inside the birthing sac within the Engineer, and one for when it stands up. -Movies.com

 

[Wor-Gar]

Thank you, gentlemen. Good service here.

 

[ebor]

It is not out of the realm of possibility that the next movie will begin with the Prometheus crew waking up from stasis to find that everything that happened in the last movie was all a dream.

good, then put me in stasis too so that the movie I watched 2 weeks ago was '"just a dream."


WHEW!

Wow that was just a bad dream...







(then I realize that, yup $10.50 is still missing from my wallet)

 

[IrishJedi]

Thank you, gentlemen. Good service here.

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

.....face rape



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[fosing]

vajay-jay wid teeth.

 

[Devil_666]

Man that giant squid thing looks like crap.

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

....cup of tea before his morning swim

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[crows]

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