Prometheus (Post-release)

[Too Much Garlic]

Speaking only for myself, and I am unanimous in this... I'd STILL like to know how Mankind manages to break the Light Speed Barrier only 80 years from now, and then only 30-40 years after that (maybe even less, as we don't know how long the Nostromo had been in service) they've managed to increase the speed of the vessels, even small life boats, roughly 20-fold compared to the Prometheus! I guess all those years the Weyland Corporation spent gathering up artifacts left behind by the Predators in the early 21st century really paid off!

I like the explanation presented in Futurama regarding this.

 

[Kit Rae]

Well, strictly speaking, I doubt the life boat Ripley's in at the end of the movie had all that coolant, either.

It didn't. Lambert and Parker were putting it in that shopping cart, but didn't get it to the shuttle before the Alien killed them. That's why it crapped out on Ripley and it took her 57 years to get found

 

[Kit Rae]

 

[Noeland]

Well, the apathy doesn't start in the temple. Look at the crew after Halloway and Shaw lay out the reason they are there. Nobody believes his story and nobody much cares about it. Milburn even makes fun of them, and nobody gives a flip. The Captain doesn't even attend the briefing. It's established right from the get go that it's pretty much a crew of strangers who don't care for one another.

When the Captain is telling Fifield and Milburn they can't come and get them until the storm passes in the morning, he makes a face. He has no idea when the storm will pass, or if they can come and get them at all, and it's obvious in that moment he doesn't much care. After they lose contact with them, and he was gone from the bridge, I think he feels a somewhat personal responsibility to go get them though.

Vickers is incredibly apathetic about the whole mission and everyone and every thing involved including her father. She is just going through the motions as a character until they find bodies and life, things start going wrong and minimizing risk starts to get very difficult for her.

 

[blipper]

No.

I didn't recall it, but one of my friends just reminded me at lunch today that I said the same thing about Blade Runner.

Well remember with great power comes great responsibility - Your friend might be a little upset if you ever used your power to predict a classic for evil


I wondered if you lived in the UK as there's a company that runs an event - you pay for a ticket on a certain date then they contact you with a location to meet at which I think is London-centric (in specific dress if possible)
Then you are taken to a venue where everything is themed around an unspecified movie and you kick around for a while immersing yourself in the ambiance and theatre they lay on which relates to the movie.
I was given some tickets at short notice for last Sunday and when we met at the specified location I was sure the movie and theme was going to be Prometheus as I spotted a small W logo on an organisers arm (and I'd heard the company has a penchant for Alien and Blade Runner)

Turned out it was Prometheus and was quite amusing - 'actors' wandering about and role playing various characters from the movie, about three floors with various rooms dressed appropriately, they even had the vehicles there from the movie which I had a good nose around. And it ends with everyone being ushered in to a 3d showing of Prometheus with a special message from Ridley Scott at the beginning. Good fun if you're up for it, and even though I think Prometheus is very problematic I can still enjoy it for what it is. I'm not sure how much longer this particular event goes on for though.

Click pic for video -

 

[Kit Rae]

No, I'm not in the UK. Odd that no one has even mentioned this event online that I have see. Interesting marketing. That must have been fun looking around the vehicles.

 

[Kerr Avon]

I like the explanation presented in Futurama regarding this.

I don't recall that, what was "Futurama"s explanation?

But the increase in speed? Not entirely unbelievable. A common staple of hard scifi is that if we send out ships right now with the purpose of going to another solar system, chances are that before that ship gets to the new solar system they'll be passed by something that was built after them and can significantly outpace them.

 

[ghostryder]

One Theory That Finally Explains What's Going on in Prometheus

 

[MooCriket]

http://i.imgur.com/JVWsP.png

 

[ghostryder]

 

[BrundelFly]

Everything Wrong with Prometheus...hahah

Everything That Is Wrong With "Prometheus"

 

[allosaur176]

Not sure if explained already, but what was the deal with the glittery green slime on the control panel that David activates?

 

[EvilRocketeer]

Re: Everything Wrong with Prometheus...hahah

that was pretty funny

 

[SmilingOtter]

The Sneezings of the Makers.

 

[Jedi2016]

Not sure if explained already, but what was the deal with the glittery green slime on the control panel that David activates?

I think that's just what makes it glow when touched. I imagine most of their technology is based on biological solutions, so their "lights" are some kind of bioluminescent lifeform that glows under certain conditions. Like in those squishy buttons on the control panel in the cockpit.

 

[Jeyl]

"The action comes out of the characters and it serves the characters."
- Producer Joel Silver

How did that scene with the zombie complement anything? It comes out of nowhere, it happens too quickly to register what's going on, and it ends so abruptly that it felt like you were watching a scene from a completely different movie and just changed the channel back to Prometheus.

If you're going to take a scene featuring all the key characters (Weyland and Shaw), remove them entirely, have tons of off screen ADR to build the scene up and have no follow up scene, you might as well remove the scene entirely. The sequence just doesn't work. It's there for one reason and one reason only, to kill characters who are not in the final act. Remember how in ALIEN and ALIENS that every time a character died, the movie sort of changed? Even with these stand in characters dead, nothing really changes.

 

[Jedi2016]

The "zombie" scene in particular interests me, because I can't figure out why he moved it. It was originally (based on the evidence from the trailers) meant to take place at more or less the same point in the story, probably just a couple of minutes later (shortly after Shaw's surgery).

The change seemed to happen fairly early in post-production, I think. The scene with Janek and Shaw talking is, I think, a pickup/reshoot, done as a result of moving the scene and changing it around slightly. I think the scene would have been more interesting had they left it in its original place because, like you said, it actually involved some of the main characters, rather than happening more or less "off screen" as far as the main characters are concerned.

Makes me wonder if the Blu-ray release will have the original scene on the disc, or (maybe?) reintegrated into the film.

 

[CessnaDriver]

Hey guys, If I come up to you in agony mutating into god knows what and want to die.
Please take a moment and find a gun, rather then a flame thrower.

Thanks.

 

[terryr]

Re: Everything Wrong with Prometheus...hahah

Yeah, Whhhhyyyyy?

 

[SmilingOtter]

Sorry, you may also have a chest burster in you as well. CessnaDriver flambe, coming up.