This is everything wrong with this hobby in one photo.

[karamazov80]

She was in the Swedish version

Right, I would have recognized her if she were the U.S. actress.

If that's what they were, the Prometheus practical effects didn't feel very realistic to me.

 

[Solidus]

I still haven't seen Prometheus .

 

[CelticPredator]

Since this is turning into an Alien (probe?) discussion, the answer is fairly simple. Take something insanely horrifying that no one had seen before in cinema and put it next to a vulnerable woman who had the ability to focus on the task at hand. Ripley allowed the audience to get close to the monster and if Weaver hadn't been as good at conveying fear and determination, I don't think we'd have as many sequels.

There really isn't anything that scary in Prometheus for Shaw to react to. CGI kind of kills the immersion, the character designs are naturally derivative. The movie should have had way more of the Engineer. I think it would have been awesome to see him flip the script on the "scientists" by bringing them in to study. As it was he was upstaged by a squid, a fleshlight cobra, and a bunch of goop.

You mean the one CGI creature she had to react too? Everything in that movie was practical. Except for the giant squid monster.

 

[Lejuan]

Ah, I didn't know that was her. I really enjoyed the U.S. version.

I recommend you give the Swedish version a go. The US version for me was ok, but some of the key aspects relating to the characters were out of kilter with the book.

 

[CarrotBun]

You mean the one CGI creature she had to react too? Everything in that movie was practical. Except for the giant squid monster.

actually he's real too
although they cgi enhanced/overed the tentacle grabbing
https://i46.tinypic.com/2r3knd2.jpg
https://i47.tinypic.com/344yrnr.jpg
https://i49.tinypic.com/2gt5jwo.jpg
https://i46.tinypic.com/3467tap.jpg

 

[fosing]

Noomi bares all in Daisy Diamond....that movie was kinda wtf.

 

[CarrotBun]

Babycall (retitled The Monitor in the usa) was my first noomi film
it was very cute. like The Grudge

 

[Kiva]

actually he's real too
although they cgi enhanced/overed the tentacle grabbing
https://i46.tinypic.com/2r3knd2.jpg
https://i47.tinypic.com/344yrnr.jpg
https://i46.tinypic.com/3467tap.jpg

I wish we got to see a lot more of that in the movie. I like less is more but it didnt work with the Trilobite. Alien? Well, we know it was humanoid shape with elongated head, tail and back pipes so we had a good idea of what it looked like. A big mass of tentacles flashing for afew seconds not so much

 

[CarrotBun]

whups ok I just read the first 20 or so pages of his thread.. not sure how it turned into this.

In reply to the first post:
Wouldn't men be more sexualized? Pretty much every action movie has shirtless guys fighting
It's just the norm/everywhere so people don't realize it.

And for superheroes, the teams are usually 80% male with bodies like Greek Gods

 

[Frank]

You mean the one CGI creature she had to react too? Everything in that movie was practical. Except for the giant squid monster.

It may have been real in some capacity, but it's movement betrays the CGI. At any rate, it wasn't very scary.

Prometheus did mostly practical effects and prosthetics
you should look at the behind the scenes stuff

Also, have you seen the 6 minute deleted sequence when she fight(tries to fight) the Enginner with the axe?

In all fairness I haven't seen that sequence. I'll have to check it out.

After countless discussions on this film, I've honed in on what I think would have been more interesting.

I wanted to see an Engineer actively using their intelligence and technology to interact with the crew. David might have started out as Weyland's "My Little Buddy" but wouldn't it have been cool if the Engineers took him over completely? How about an Engineer who is active and aware from the moment they arrived? I'd like to have seen them wield some insane Gigeresque implements. Space flutes suck.

Otherwise, what a wasted opportunity. The black goo just wasn't a very interesting choice, visually. The sheer scope of what this stuff was supposed to do was contradictory (it dissolves! it mutates! it transforms DNA into a primitive life building seed!). In the end, it's just a monster making potion. Engineers were reduced to intergalactic real estate flippers who liked their coffee really really strong.

Had Shaw been permitted to realistically explore David's artificial psychology or the Engineer's twisted culture in detail, it might have made for some interesting sci-fi. I was hoping Shaw would be more of a cerebral heroine in her own right while mixing in some of that determined Ripley female archetype. Her story just boils down to "Church Lady in Space Vs. The Unprotected Sex Monster".

 

[CarrotBun]

Eh, she had a lot of other aspects like obsession and mad scientist thing. Some interesting ties like Elizabeth - Wife of Dr Frankenstein: A Modern Day Prometheus - electric probe head scene - creation killing creator etc.. and her beliefs seem kind of Deistic.. I'll stop myself before I begin ranting though
not a prometheus thread

Deleted scenes actually contain more of what you would have liked.
Weyland gives a long speech in one of them and the Engineer responds angrily. here are two small clips from Final Battle though
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrEYrWNBiSM[/ame]
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adlJJF5KNbg[/ame]
and there's more stuff about her parents and analysis of the engineer outbreak. and the extended ending where she's mean to David and calls him a *****ing robot. and he tells a bit about the Engineer homeworld. lots of other stuff
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojMldB5MHDo[/ame]
The black mutagenic stuff
(Fifield was becoming perfected or transcended into a Deacon.
just like the temple worms or Ash describes the Alien. //perfect organism highly aggressive no morality, etc//)

 

[Lejuan]

If anyone had told me two months ago that derailing a thread into a discussion about Prometheus would improve said thread, no way would I have believed them.



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[Frank]

If anyone had told me two months ago that derailing a thread into a discussion about Prometheus would improve said thread, no way would I have believed them.



.

Yup.

 

[crows]

If anyone had told me two months ago that derailing a thread into a discussion about Prometheus would improve said thread, no way would I have believed them.



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[devilof76]

Well, there's obviously this guy:

https://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/member.php?u=9659

There is not that guy. You have been led astray.

If anyone had told me two months ago that derailing a thread into a discussion about Prometheus would improve said thread, no way would I have believed them.

No kidding. Just a few posts back I was ready to nominate it for outhouse of the year. In spite of Jen's regal display of feminine sophistication and raw common sense horsepower, it was one of the more horrifying things I've seen in the course of my five years here.

And I haven't even seen Prometheus. Now I have to.

 

[ebor]

If you do Devil, you are going down a darker path then this thread...


...just sayin'

 

[Jen]

Strange.. Alien had no action in it and we don't learn anything about Ripley until the sequels
she just spends her time running away (self preservation)

I noticed how you edited my quoted post...I had said it didn't have as much action as the Alien franchise...meaning all the movies, not just the first one. I will agree that Alien had about the same action as Prometheus...maybe a little more. But 2 and 3 (I never really cared for Resurrection) definitely had a lot of action, which I enjoyed. The scene in Aliens where Ripley screams at the Alien Queen, "Get away from her, you *****!" is such an iconic scene. Sadly, we never got anything even remotely close to that in Prometheus.

 

[morphosis]

She was the Swedish version haha

Prometheus did mostly practical effects and prosthetics
you should look at the behind the scenes stuff

Also, have you seen the 6 minute deleted sequence when she fight(tries to fight) the Enginner with the axe?

Noomi rocks!!!! She is always amazing!!!! LOved the axe scene. Shame those weren't in the original cut felt they all were important scenes.

 

[CelticPredator]

You're all welcome.

 

[CarrotBun]

I noticed how you edited my quoted post...I had said it didn't have as much action as the Alien franchise...meaning all the movies, not just the first one.

I didn't even realize I left off the last world. haha

The scene in Aliens where Ripley screams at the Alien Queen, "Get away from her, you *****!" is such an iconic scene. Sadly, we never got anything even remotely close to that in Prometheus.

"It's not exactly a traditional Fetus" beats it

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