Prometheus

POSTED BY: pizmobeach
UPDATED: Saturday, August 4, 2012 11:57
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CATPIRATE

Friday, June 15, 2012 8:12 AM

Can't wait to see. Big Cherry Coke and Popcorn. I am a 2D man. If I see flying red balls it tells me horror flick. I ain't never trusted them since they first came on screen with Phantasm. It's like flying monkeys from Wizard of Oz.

After a movie if I can't get an In and Out burger I'll slam a Del Taco burger. A little known secret they got good cheap burgers from a taco joint.

TWO

Friday, June 15, 2012 4:15 PM

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Originally posted by CATPIRATE:
Can't wait to see. Big Cherry Coke and Popcorn. I am a 2D man.

From your pithy sentences I know you'll love that the characters speak in short bursts of basic English, to make them easier to subtitle. They never really say anything with depth. There's no reason to care about them. Their dialogue is only as a function of the plot.

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

CATPIRATE

Saturday, June 16, 2012 2:33 PM

Well how about that "I'm Pithy".

I just saw the movie. Very entertaining. Great CGI. Good Plot and story. Cut half the actors out. For me they had no chemistry. I don't care for the actress who played Shaw. I don't know what they see in her. But to many Scots in the flick. Not to mention professionals are not going to look like punk rockers.

The movie has scenes from other movies. They do that a lot. But overall an "A".

Alex Jones condemns it as a conspiracy movie. The Illuminati has symbols in it. My kind of stuff.

Any reason to buy a cherry coke and popcorn. Topps.

SHINYGOODGUY

Thursday, June 28, 2012 5:32 AM

I agree Two. It seemed to me that Ridley Scott phoned it in. I saw an interview with the 2nd screenwriter, Damon Lindelof (Jon Spaihts being the first), and he tells a tale of not making it another Alien movie but rather something different.
He stated that in Spaiphts screenplay there were lots of monsters and alien-like creatures running about. He suggested to Ridley to only hint at the fact that this was an Alien prequel. By the way, he's a Joss fan, mostly Buffy but Firefly as well. Below is a full interview that appeared on Hulu's Spoilers.

To me the script was lazy, in particular with the dialogue, but also with the character development (of which there was slim to none) Noomi Rapace's character was the only one almost fully realized. Charlize's character also had some interesting things going on, but that's pretty much it. The robot has been done in just about every Alien movie since it's inception, so I was kind of disappointed. But I was also fascinated by Fassbender's performance, which brings me to the conclusion that it wasn't his fault that the movie fell short of greatness. Ridley hired Lindelof to read the screenplay by Spaihts to see what could be done to spice it up, but, instead, he convinced Scott to go in a different direction with the atory.

Lindelof, was responsible for Lost. Enough said. Still though Ridley Scott could have said something to make the story more credible. These space explorers were a bit on the dumb side, didn't anyone do any research regarding space travel.
Why would a biologist go up to a snake-like creature and start playing with it? Why would the guy who brought the mapping device get lost? Why wouldn't they have a quarantine section in the medical bay for emergency parasite removal? Instead the flame-throw his ass. It's funny how they thought enough about a "red alert" moment to bring a flame thrower, but how did they know it would work in the moon's atmo? No oxygen, remember!?

Now all this stuff looks cool in a trailer but when you watch the movie, you begin to wonder - who wrote this. But it begs the question why did Scott allow this in his movie? Sure it was beautiful to look at, BTW I loved the visuals, but I also love a great story. At the end, I was disappointed. Ridley Scott could do better than that.

SGG

Where does he get those wonderful toys?

SHINYGOODGUY

Thursday, June 28, 2012 5:46 AM

Hey Pizmo,

Little Big Man...............you're right. Saw the trailer with the TED speech, that was quite good. Why they cut it is beyond me.

SGG

SHINYGOODGUY

Thursday, June 28, 2012 5:46 AM

Hey Pizmo,

Little Big Man...............you're right. Saw the trailer with the TED speech, that was quite good. Why they cut it is beyond me.

SGG

PIZMOBEACH

Thursday, June 28, 2012 2:03 PM

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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Hey Pizmo,

Little Big Man...............you're right. Saw the trailer with the TED speech, that was quite good. Why they cut it is beyond me.

SGG

Scott has always been the director bringing the best visuals to cinema for me, kind of like the torch bearer for Stanley Kubrik - always couldn't wait to see one of his films. But great films have to have great scripts - this one too many writers maybe, or too many disinterested ones - good details about that btw, thx.
I will hold off final judgement after the director's cut comes out on BluRay.
The lost guy messing with the alien snake thing had to be a low point in any Scott movie.... almost expected Benny Hill music to break out! Daaaaaaaaa rump da ditty, da da rump da ditty, da da da da da da do.....

Scifi movie music + Firefly dialogue clips, 24 hours a day - http://www.scifiradio.com

TWO

Thursday, June 28, 2012 5:12 PM

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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
I will hold off final judgement after the director's cut comes out on BluRay.
The lost guy messing with the alien snake thing had to be a low point in any Scott movie.... almost expected Benny Hill music to break out!

Some movies can't be fixed with a mere series of technical edits and tiny changes. Viewers understand that a movie can be about "smart" things, but if it goes about them in incoherent ways...

Red Letter Media talks about Prometheus - SPOILERS on youtube.

Hulk examines PROMETHEUS and Damon Lindelof's debilitating fixation.

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Even if it has become fashionable in some corners of the film world to pick on him, there is one simple fact that matters: Damon Lindelof is a supremely talented writer with all the promise in the world.

And much more than that, he matters. The meteoric rise of Lost has propelled him into being that rarest of Hollywood birds: a valued screenwriter. What gives that distinction all the more impact is that his writing showcases both personality and style, i.e. The very things that qualify one as having "a voice." We need more writers like him to be honest. And to top it off he seems to be a kind, affable guy. Still, Hulk can't help but worry about the direction his work has been taking lately.

With the ending of Lost and then the one two punch of Cowboys and Aliens and Prometheus, it seems as if the very themes and stylistic choices that initially made him feel so distinct are starting to reach a kind of critical mass. Please understand this isn't some reactionary sentiment of someone just getting bored with what he does. This is about how his stringent devotion to his own interests are actually undoing the coherency and pragmatic function of his work, which can mean only one thing:

Lindelof needs to start growing as a writer... Like, right now.

http://badassdigest.com/2012/06/17/film-crit-hulk-smash-the-damon-lind
leof-intervention/

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

TWO

Sunday, July 8, 2012 7:01 PM

P R O M E T H E U S

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

SHINYGOODGUY

Saturday, August 4, 2012 11:57 AM

That was great, lol. I lmao!!!!

Did he ever take a breath?

SGG

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