New Ridley Scott film trailer - Prometheus

[IanBruntlett]

Take a look at http://www.channel4.com/explore/prometheus/

 

[Vile]

I'll be scouring the cinemas for a 2D version of that one, to be sure! 3D makes me cross-eyed and gives me a headache.

 

[Prime_Evil]

I'm keen to see this one on the big screen, but I will also avoid the 3D version - I hate 3D films with a passion that borders on murderous rage.

 

[HorusZA]

In addition to a whole batch of trailers there have also been two "non-trailer" teasers which, IMHO, have been superb: David8 and TED2023.

You can see them here: http://www.imdb.com/list/Rt7fcXZ0T8Q

 

[Stainless]

I saw the first Alien movie when it came out. I was just a kid at the time (15 yo). I sat in the front row. IT SCARED ME SH!TLESS! Now that I'm old and grey, I'm not sure I want to go through that again. Thus, I'll wait until it's on DVD and watch it under my control (i.e., fast forward through the scary bits).

 

[Greg Smith]

The main trailer seems to have a pretty big spoiler in it.

This does seem to be a part reboot, part prequel. Hopefully they will tread carefully around the original, much like The (New) Thing did.

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

I saw the first Alien movie when it came out. I was just a kid at the time (15 yo). I sat in the front row. IT SCARED ME SH!TLESS! Now that I'm old and grey, I'm not sure I want to go through that again. Thus, I'll wait until it's on DVD and watch it under my control (i.e., fast forward through the scary bits).

Wet Wednesday afternoon in the old crappy ABC cinema in Oxford... same experience.

The thing I really like about Scott's films are the set design and decoration. They are always spot-on.

 

[GamerDude]

I saw the first Alien movie when it came out. I was just a kid at the time (15 yo). I sat in the front row.

Me, 19 years old. Taking my room mate who had Muscular Distrophy, and a case of "I can't shut my gawd dammed mouth"

"al what's happening"
"al why are they doing that"
"al why did they do THAT"
"AL what's happening NEXT"


The movie had me so wound up I was ready to explode, and Joey's constant mouth was not just distracting but was even more stressful than the movie. Fortunately a buddy of mine had given us the ride to the movie and was sitting with us, enabling me to growl out "Alex, I've got to get out of here, YOU watch Joey", then go stand just outside the doors watching.

I waited to see any of the rest until TV/DVD


NOTE: One of the stars (other female) is the actress who play Lizbeth Salander in the orignal verisons of "The Dragon Tattoo Trilogy". And a damm find job I watched all three - in Norwegian(I believe) with english subtitles.

 

[locarno24]

I liked the write-up in a local paper:

"...as the mission's representative from the Weyland-Yutani corporation (because that always ends well)..."

 

[Hopeless]

When I saw the trailer for this even with the Avengers trailers when I went round my friends for the occasional once per month roleplaying this was the movie I was suggesting about going to watch as a group.
They never did reply to my query though!

Still think this will be well worth watching although the only other movie that surpasses my interest is the Hobbit of course!

 

[SSWarlock]

I saw the first Alien movie when it came out. I was just a kid at the time (15 yo). I sat in the front row. IT SCARED ME SH!TLESS! Now that I'm old and grey, I'm not sure I want to go through that again. Thus, I'll wait until it's on DVD and watch it under my control (i.e., fast forward through the scary bits).

Lots of fun to see how the movie affected other Traveller players. My experience with the movie was being 19 and having just been run through the Kinunir adventure before I saw the movie. So the movie wasn't as scary as it should have been and was more frustrating because I kept thinking "no, No, NO! You guys are doing it all wrong! You're supposed to handle onboard threats by doing this and that." I remember shaking my head at the time and thinking, "Man, if my Book 4 Marine was dealing with this mess..."

Flash forward to when the Aliens movie came out. Talk about feeling redemption. This time I'd been playing Traveller for the better part of a decade, experienced a number of FFW adventures with college friends (some of whom were either martial artists or ex-military police types with urban combat training) and our characters had been part of a strongly successful paramilitary team through the war. That movie was like watching our characters on the big screen, including all their screwups and one-liners. Not a scary moment for any of us because it was all what we expected (and more) but we had a rollicking good time really identifying with the various movie characters and living the movie moments through the eyes of our Traveller characters.

Drives my wife nuts every time we see a horror flick and I go into threat analysis mode.

 

[Mithras]

Prometheus.

Seen an ALIEN movie before? 8/10
Not seen an ALIEN movie before? 5/10

Best bits: suits, ATV, space jockeys, David, the Prometheus, the 'structures' and the storm.
Not so good bits: tentacles, crew not being a 'crew' (working things out together).

 

[Greg Smith]

Prometheus.

Seen an ALIEN movie before? 8/10
Not seen an ALIEN movie before? 5/10

I would have put it the other way around.

Good bits: David, ship, space jockey.
Bad bits: tentacles, the fact there is an awful lot of weird stuff going on and no-one seems to have a human reaction - they just carry on, the fact there is no drama or tension for the first 45 minutes, the fact there seems to be no protocol for dealing with alien fauna, or alien infections....

In many respects it is an interesting, exciting, good-looking sci-fi movie. But in other respects it is a poor, muddled, unconvincing film. IMHO of course.

 

[Prime_Evil]

I haven't seen the movie yet, but that's kind of what I'm expecting.

I'm not expecting Prometheus to be as good as either Alien or Aliens, but I'm hoping that it will make up for this by giving us some strong visual design work. It's been a long time since we have had a big budget SF movie that does the whole "grungy industrial look in space" thing. Avatar had a few hints of this design aesthetic, but these were drowned out by ridiculous amounts of CGI.

 

[evo]

Not so good bits:
- tentacles
- crew not being a 'crew' (working things out together).
- scientists with 2 IQ !!! (idiots everywhere).
:mrgreen:

 

[Prime_Evil]

Not so good bits:
- tentacles
- crew not being a 'crew' (working things out together).
- scientists with 2 IQ !!! (idiots everywhere).
:mrgreen:

Well...based upon the trailer, it seems that the scientists believe in Eric von Daniken's theories....

Actually, when I saw the trailer my thought was that the Wayland Corporation might be sponsoring the expedition as a tax write-off given that it all sounded so crazy... :lol:

(Incidentally, that might be a good angle to use in Traveller - have a megacorporation hire the characters to do something seemingly pointless - like ferry a bunch of clueless archaeologists to some alien ruins - because it gives the corporation a nice tax deduction to claim against other activities. Of course, when the players arrive at their destination, things are not as they seem).

 

[locarno24]

the fact there seems to be no protocol for dealing with alien fauna, or alien infections....

scientists with 2 IQ !!! (idiots everywhere).

I get that they didn't exactly tell them what they were going looking for, and that the boss (and by extension, David) are a bit nuts, but since they were going looking for alien life, surely someone must have planned this stuff out...

"The air's fine." [Takes helmet off]
"Excellent. Glad to hear it. Have fun in quarantine for the next 48 hours." [Pointedly doesn't take helmet off]

"The containers made by the alien bio-engineers are leaking greenish goo."
"Great. Should be, y'know, leave?"

 

[Mithras]

I'm not expecting Prometheus to be as good as either Alien or Aliens, but I'm hoping that it will make up for this by giving us some strong visual design work. It's been a long time since we have had a big budget SF movie that does the whole "grungy industrial look in space" thing. Avatar had a few hints of this design aesthetic, but these were drowned out by ridiculous amounts of CGI.

You won't be disappointed, it looks awesome, all of it!

 

[Greg Smith]

I'm not expecting Prometheus to be as good as either Alien or Aliens, but I'm hoping that it will make up for this by giving us some strong visual design work. It's been a long time since we have had a big budget SF movie that does the whole "grungy industrial look in space" thing.

It does look very good (apart from the tentacles). But there's not a whole lot of grunge on display - Prometheus (the ship) is slick and shiny.

 

[Hopeless]

the fact there seems to be no protocol for dealing with alien fauna, or alien infections....

scientists with 2 IQ !!! (idiots everywhere).

I get that they didn't exactly tell them what they were going looking for, and that the boss (and by extension, David) are a bit nuts, but since they were going looking for alien life, surely someone must have planned this stuff out...

"The air's fine." [Takes helmet off]
"Excellent. Glad to hear it. Have fun in quarantine for the next 48 hours." [Pointedly doesn't take helmet off]

Too true!!!

Nobody mentioned that their two colleagues wandered off and nobody mentioned this to anyone aboard their mothership who have that handy tabletop map with all of their signals on it...
And when returning not one of them thought to double check where the two idiots were before heading back to the ship, in fact they only bothered to ask when they finally arrive!

They must have really annoyed them, even David didn't bother to mention the fact they had to be still inside the complex!

I wondered why they didn't bother leaving tell tale tagging so they could head out the right way since they certainly couldn't have known there was a breathable part to that complex...

Yes they really didn't like them!

Lucky for their corporate representative (Charlize Theron) she didn't need to use her medbay since it wasn't programmed to perform medical procedures on women and noone bothered to clean up after the woman who was obviously undergoing an accelerated pregannacy suddenly turned up without said pregnancy and quite obviously in a heck of a lot of pain is ignored even though David should have been interested enough to go find out what she had done with his science project.

Apparently that life pod has enough supplies to last two years, someone should have checked the insurance on improper hygiene procedures and why they seemed to only have three medics aboard one being the archaeologist, the crewwoman and of course David... I bet nobody fancied going to him regarding hangover problems...

Seventeen crew... no military personnel beyond maybe the psychotic or unhinged geologist with no direction sense, his friend the biologist with no idea that when confronted with an alien lifeform that resembles a snake make darn sure you either have a six foot meat shield with high calibre weapons between you and it and for gods sake don't get within touching distance!

No offence they should have had at least a platoon or two squads of security to assist even if they weren't awakened until the head honcho was brought out, guess I remember Gene Roddenbury's Andromeda far too much!