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Ridley Scott confirms Prometheus 2 is his next film
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He bought the Wool rights? Oh shit. I unlike most of GAF am looking forward to a P2 but I'd much rather see Wool.
shinobi602
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Seeing the origins of the 'alien' itself and encountering the engineers was great in my opinion.
SomedayTheFire
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Why?
I don't even understand what this diss is supposed to mean.
Lindelof wanted to set the sequel in Biblical times and tell Ridley's Space Jesus story, so it's quite a shame really.
Could have been the new Life Of Brian.
I don't find hokey tales of Ancient Aliens very interesting, let alone profound. It removed the mystery of the Space Jockey and replaced it with bollocks.
The engineers were a breathtaking design. They way they looked both so human and so alien at the same time. So well done.
rokkerkory
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I liked / hated the first movie, mildly interested in a sequel
People shitting on Prometheus isn't anything new. While it does deal with the lore of the Xenomorph, it by no means holds a candle to the original 'Alien' movie. I get the desire to finish the story arc since quite frankly, we the audience deserve it.
People who can't look past the films faults (imo) miss some of the truly great things in the film.
People who can't look past the films faults (imo) miss some of the truly great things in the film.
Bobby Roberts
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There's nothing "truly great" in the film that has anything to do with its story.
Production design and cinematography get close to "great." Fassbender's performance, too.
The story, and the way that story was told? Nowhere near "great" at all.
More Fun To Compute
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Prometheus was better than District 9 and Interstellar combined. It had it's problems but people to were too eager to find flaws in ways they are not with other films.
efyu_lemonardo
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even if by the end of the film we learn practically nothing?
Why did the engineers create the goo? Why is there a crucified alien sculpture on the engineers' ship? Why does the crash site look so similar to another crash site on a different planet in the same system? Why did they want to send the ship to Earth? Why does the goo react so differently to everything it touches? Why did those two scientists decide to play with the alien snake? Why did everybody take off their helmets? How come that one guy turned into a zombie but the other one instead impregnated his girlfriend with "goo sperm"? How the hell did that octopus creature grow to be so large if it was locked in a sterile room with nothing to eat for all that time? Why did a surgery machine programmed to operate on a male know how to perform a cesarean? And those are just the things I remember...The amount of questions makes my head hurt...
The engineers were a breathtaking design. They way they looked both so human and so alien at the same time. So well done.
I'll give full credit to the film for a handful of breathtaking scenes and moments, but all together they amount to 20% of the screen time max!
Count Dookkake
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Prometheus is a beautiful idiot.
Prometheus Pros:
Gorgeous looking
Kinda Scary
Lawrence of Arabia
Interesting origin premise
Prometheus Cons:
Alien Dude (complete lack of) Explanation
Snake Idiot
Guy who isn't on the spaceship to make friends
If I could be bothered I'd edit a version with an easy fix. Lawrence talks to the Alien dude, explaining in captions that he's a robit. The Alien dude is all like, "What!? we hate robits and computers and artificial life because all our technology is based on real life like we keep in these dangerous jars" Then goes HAM.
Gorgeous looking
Kinda Scary
Lawrence of Arabia
Interesting origin premise
Prometheus Cons:
FATHER!
Snake Idiot
Guy who isn't on the spaceship to make friends
If I could be bothered I'd edit a version with an easy fix. Lawrence talks to the Alien dude, explaining in captions that he's a robit. The Alien dude is all like, "What!? we hate robits and computers and artificial life because all our technology is based on real life like we keep in these dangerous jars" Then goes HAM.
Pai Pai Master
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Fassbender was the only good fucking thing about that movie. Not sure if he'd make a sequel worth it.
Anton Sugar
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Bobby Roberts
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We didn't really get any "lore" - and what we did is directly tied to quasi-religious bullshit.
Did you know: the quasi-religious bullshit was specifically played up and inserted at Ridley Scott's request because he misunderstood a throwaway joke Jon Spaihts made in his original draft and thought the idea of an engineer actually being Jesus was meant to be taken seriously?
Prometheus is not a stupid film, it leaves a lot of questions unanswered because that is the kind of film it is.
Blade Runner is similar, and also got a "it's beautiful, but the story..." reaction when it came out.
I think time will be kind to Prometheus, as it was to Blade Runner.
Blade Runner is similar, and also got a "it's beautiful, but the story..." reaction when it came out.
I think time will be kind to Prometheus, as it was to Blade Runner.
RustyNails
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But who are the engineers?The engineers were a breathtaking design. They way they looked both so human and so alien at the same time. So well done.
Ridley has always said that is the question he wants to answer in the next film. Rapace and Fassbender are heading to their planet.
I wouldn't.
Blomkamp's last two have been stinkers and his new Alien film sounds like bad fanfic.
Not saying Scott is much better, but I have a tiny bit more faith in him.
You should be asking "who engineered the engineers" in the first place.
*sigh*
No one wants this film Ridley. Just let The Martian be your last 'space film' so you don't end up leaving a horrible taste in everyone's mouth.
I would rather see a naked, greased up Donald Trump on a mini trampoine than either of these films.
Seriously. They both sound just horrible.
To be fair at least some people (mistakenly) went to go and see Prometheus at the cinema.
No one turned up to see Dredd.
No one wants this film Ridley. Just let The Martian be your last 'space film' so you don't end up leaving a horrible taste in everyone's mouth.
I would rather see a naked, greased up Donald Trump on a mini trampoine than either of these films.
Seriously. They both sound just horrible.
To be fair at least some people (mistakenly) went to go and see Prometheus at the cinema.
No one turned up to see Dredd.
One made money and the other didn't. Blame people not seeing the movie and not the studio.
"The internet backlash against it was ridiculous" there's also real people in the real world who found the infuriatingly stupid characters carrying out a paper thin plot rather disappointing. visually it was nice, that is all.
shinobi602
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Sometimes I don't mind having questions at the end of a movie, I like having some things left to my imagination. All of those are valid questions but I don't really get hung up on them when watching films. Why did the engineers create the weaponized bio-weapon goop? I don't know, maybe they were at war with some other species millions of years ago. Maybe it reacts differently for each person given their own individual DNA makeup. These questions don't really take away from the movie for me, it's just a mystery that maybe I'll learn about in the future. I just thought it was enjoyable seeing the origins of things, regardless of all the questions surrounding them.
DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
Without Lindelof, something that happens may actually make sense this time.
Dredd has been very successful on blu-ray and dvd, it certainly has gained at least a cult following.
How successful was Prometheus? How anyone could enjoy that movie is beyond me.
Banjotanooki
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How about you try connecting Prometheus 2 to Alien finally?
The fact that Prometheus cock teased us by not even taking place on LV-426 was freaking annoying.
The fact that Prometheus cock teased us by not even taking place on LV-426 was freaking annoying.
Am I a bad person if I never saw Dredd until it hit Netflix? I kinda regret not seeing it in the theaters.
The Hermit
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Wherez mah boy lindelov?!
Jill Sandwich
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Yeah, i'm sorta the same way. I don't need every question answered to enjoy a movie/story. Some things are just better left to the imagination.
The 3d for it was fantastic. You really missed out.
It is an incredibly stupid film.
Engineers seed life, watch over us, invite us to a planet for no apparent reason where events which should be a prequel but are a different planet so that's ok play out, where a religious scientist discovers over Christmas that our creators hate us and wanted to kill us for crucifying Space Jesus, who would have succeeded if they hadn't been breathtakingly incompetent despite playing around with magic black goo for literally billions of years, encounters a half-size Space Jockey who's not a space elephant but actually a half-sized albino with anger-management issues and a fake trunk attachment, but heads off to Paradise to find more answers anyway with her severed robot head.
Amazing, only time will be able to do this one justice.
evilromero
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Same. I've watched it twice now and despite the issues regarding how it fits in with the Alien world I still enjoy it.
Prometheus made over $400 million world wide and Dredd made $35 million. It's not even close. People enjoy different things.
cloud_sleep
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Like where they xenomorphs come from and what's the deal with that space jockey thing in Alien.
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