Ridley Scott's Prometheus (Alien Prequel)

Look like tapeworms...

ALIENS!!!!

Kind of. Still haven't watched the original from beginning to end. Seen Aliens, only seen bits and pieces of three. Seen all of Ressurection, but don't remember alot of anything but the important stuff (Winona Ryder as a nice Android, and that one dude weaponizing his emerging Xeno to kill a corrupt scientist).

While I consider the series awesome (that trailer alone is classic. You never see what the alien actually looks like, so back in the day, people must have shit themselves something fierce when it first showed it face), but I probably won't see this in theaters. Always been a casual fan in the long run.

However, it looks like it will kick some ass.

Or infect it with a horrible parasite that will devour your from the inside. You know, basic stuff.

Horrible stomach devouring parasites...
Theater popcorn...
To-may-to.
To-mah-to.

Judging by the reviews suddenly popping up everywhere I'm guessing there's been a screening somewhere? The scores so far have been in the 6-7-8/10 range.

This movie is supposed to be a prequel to Alien, right? I really wanna see it just for that.

It's not exclusively a prequel, I believe, more of a set-in-the-same-universe kind of deal. There is still Alien-continuity present, though.

Well, the Engineers are part of the Alien mythos. The engineers they talk about and you see in the commercials.

The reviews so far seem to be generally good, but disappointed that it's not the first Alien. I'm quite relieved that it isn't, as I was hoping for less horror-movie stuff and more of a space-exploration epic. More specifically, the visuals are reported to be awesome (we could tell that from the trailers, though), and apparently (no plot details spoiled) Fassbender steals the show. From the one clip that I've seen with him ("Why Did They Make Us"), I'm not surprised.

Incidentally, I watched Alien about a week ago in preparation for Prometheus and found it a bit over-hyped. It was a good movie, I liked it, but it didn't make a strong impression and it wasn't especially scary (granted, I knew basically the whole plot already and deliberately watched it in broad daylight, so that reduced the effect).

edited 31st May '12 3:02:08 PM by WarriorEowyn

Alien is only really effective the first time, before you know anything. That's the problem with suspense. If you know what's going to happen, it just doesn't work.

I was surprised at how much of the climax has been shown in the trailer(s). I'd wager roughly 60% of the trailer is from the last half an hour of the film. Still, it didn't give too much away or make it any less enjoyable for me.

Incredibly glad David survived to the end, if only at the prospect of more of him in any potential sequel.

YMMV. I know what's going to happen and I'm not scared of the film but I still get the suspense and emotion and check all room corners reflexily after watching it.

edited 31st May '12 7:25:58 PM by frumfrum

It was a good prequel.

I liked movie :3

Also, I say this because if I don't say this it will become my personal I Always Wanted to Say That (even though I don't really want to ever actually say that or be in context were it is apporiate xD)

I just saw alien getting killed by tentacle monster impregnating him by giving deepthroat

And reason I wanted to say that gross sentence is that its kind of hilarious sentence when said randomly xD

But yeah, loved special effects. Did they use puppets or computer animation for creatures? I guess large tentacle thing at end was cgi since its hard to animate tentacles with puppets, but what about other creatures like cobra face hugger and fetus tentacle monster?

Seeing this tomorrow. Can't wait.

...so. Alien: Trolling the shit out of pregnant people since 1979.

Are the aliens in this movie symbolic or anything, or do they subscribe to Rule of Scary? Just curious.

@Beary Scary: Well... Spoilers.(not just what they look like, but story also Space Jockeys/Engineers are huge pale humans with black eyes. Oh and they have same DNA as humans. First of alien creatures we see is like facehugger as worm/snake thing without impregnating. It just kills you by burrowing into you through mouth. Second is tentacle monster thing that character has to cut it from her stomach with that surgery which name I don't remember. It grows into huge tentacle monster thing which kills final Engineer with way I described. Oh and it kind of resembles huge facehugger with tentacles and thing that looks like penis instead of vagina mouth. The creature that bursts from Engineer that we see in final shot of movie looks like xenomoprh but less metallic and more slimy so its like proto-xenomorph. Right before credits start its mouth opens similar to goblin sharks so maybe it was still growing or its like pre xenomorph xenomorph.

SO what do monsters symbolize? *shrugs* I dunno, most of them seems like throw backs to Alien.

(Wrong topic, sorry)

edited 1st Jun '12 10:34:00 PM by frumfrum

Yeesh. People from Demographic X (women) may get pretty fucked-up trauma about Topic Y (giving birth) if they see this movie too young.

Hasn't that been true since Alien?

Well, since the Alien series has pretty much been analogous to rape of the worst possible kind, yeah, might throw up some red flags.

Yes, but this is where subtext and symbolism becomes text and... outright screaming of THERE IS A FUCKING SQUID IN YOUR WOMB.

In my opinion, it makes all the difference whether the monster is in the lungs, which represent the womb, or in the actual womb, which represents the womb.

This is actually making these movies sound less scary.

I know right :P Tentacle monsters are just hilarious these days!

Seriously though, movie is bit more thriller than horror