Prometheus (Alien 0) - 1 Year Later
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Keep the conversation on topic please.
I hope there isn't really dissension in the ranks forPrometheus2.
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Grimmlokk
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It's pretty standard trolling. Escalate til you get a reaction then act stunned and cunthurt that you got a reaction.
On topic please? I would hate for you to go to RRP for trolling in thePrometheusthread. I think there is a thread in Retard Rickshaw where you can discuss the abuse of the mods in relation to this thread.
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Michael Fassbender was born in Heidelberg, Germany. He is of German and Irish parentage. His father is from Germany and his mother is from Northern Ireland. Michael was raised in the town of Killarney, Co. Kerry, in south west Ireland. At the moment he is based in London, England.
Double agent in the Nerd Reich?
Loser Araysar
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I think people are upset about it because they really expected xenomorphs running around, chasing people through tunnels, etc.
What they fail to realize is that the movie wasnt set up as a direct prequel to Alien, but more like a movie that runs in parallel with the Alien story. Its set in the same universe but instead of focusing on the monster aspect of it, it attempts to address the larger questions in Alien as to how these things came to be, who were the Engineers, background on the Space Jockey, etc.
I am fine with that and to be honest, I am more interested in the Engineers than the Aliens. I didn't want a monster horror movie, i can watch the first 2 Alien movies for that. I wanted something more closer to Contact without all the faggy aspects of Contact. As a matter of fact, I was very disappointed with the last scene where the facehugger tentacle thing overpowers the Engineer. It felt like something that was tossed together at the last moment as fan service and instead of being intriguing, it felt very hackneyed.
I wish they would have left that scene out and didnt show any facehuggers, etc.
Soygen
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I liked the first 30 minutes of this flick. Then when people actually had to start doing shit and making decisions, it just went downhill for me. I mean, every 'suspense' or 'horror' film needs some idiots, but everyone other than the cyborg dude was dumb as fuck(and even he wasn't too bright). Granted, I saw it on release weekend and haven't seen it again since. Maybe I owe it one more watch, but I don't think I can really justify spending more of my free time on it.
Loser Araysar
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I think you owe yourself at least 1 more viewing. Pretty much everyone universally agrees that it looks much better on the home screen rather than the theater, so that's at least 1 more reason to give it another shot even if you dislike the script.
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I was pretty hyped aboutPrometheusbefore it released, and walked away from it completely disappointed after my viewing. It started with the retard fucking geologist that couldn't read a map, and kept going downhill, culminating with with stupid shit like the girl being able to run around immediately after a self-surgery. It just ended up seeming like half of the movie was forced.
Void
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I rewatched it just for you Araysar. Almost every single scene where anything more than a trivial decision needed to be made, a bad decision was made. The obvious ones already recounted, but also scenese like sticking electrodes into a severed head and making it explode with little concern for contaminants...or ruining the head itself, which apparently they might have gotten a lot of info from.
Scenes where decisions didn't have to be made, but something fairly important was happening, there was no logical reason for it to be happening. Let's skip stuff like whether or not you'd be able to find a single alien outpost on a planet roughly the size of Earth in 3 minutes, no matter what advanced tech you have. We can chalk that up to trying to keep the pace exciting. Instead, let's take stuff like the whole hologram recordings of the engineers fleeing and dying. Why did that particular scene replay right then? Why not any number of countless recordings that were probably taken of that same hallway? Did someone survive and set that to auto-play for some reason? Why were they running back into the room with all the black goo? If someone set it as a warning, wouldn't they want you to run away from that room? How did Fassbender know wtf to do to open the door? How to speak with the engineer? How to operate the gel pad keyboard?
All manner of scenes and situations made practically zero sense. I could go through and list dozens of things like those above. Almost every single time they picked the wrong choice, or something random happened at exactly the right time to heighten the suspense or drama (that hologram playing right then being chief among them). If I list the good choices they made (again not including things like not crashing the ship upon landing), that list is woefully small compared to the bad choices they made.
Like others, I expect some of that in a movie just to further the plot without making us wait extra long for crap like scanning the planet and locating the installation (even though there was zero nod to even trying something like that, they just fucking found it by pure luck)...but I don't expect practically every scene to contain those shortcuts or plot-furthering serendipity.
And yes, I realize I am probably being trolled even if he says he isn't. Just the fact that I watched it again, and responded, means I got trolled. But this truly is one of the worst written movies ever, in the history of movies, and I will accept being trolled to reinforce that fact. I'm sure he knows it is as terrible as I'm saying it is and relishes the fact that he made me subject myself to it all over again, but I can live with that. And if he truly thinks it is good, I still *feel* like I was trolled
Scenes where decisions didn't have to be made, but something fairly important was happening, there was no logical reason for it to be happening. Let's skip stuff like whether or not you'd be able to find a single alien outpost on a planet roughly the size of Earth in 3 minutes, no matter what advanced tech you have. We can chalk that up to trying to keep the pace exciting. Instead, let's take stuff like the whole hologram recordings of the engineers fleeing and dying. Why did that particular scene replay right then? Why not any number of countless recordings that were probably taken of that same hallway? Did someone survive and set that to auto-play for some reason? Why were they running back into the room with all the black goo? If someone set it as a warning, wouldn't they want you to run away from that room? How did Fassbender know wtf to do to open the door? How to speak with the engineer? How to operate the gel pad keyboard?
All manner of scenes and situations made practically zero sense. I could go through and list dozens of things like those above. Almost every single time they picked the wrong choice, or something random happened at exactly the right time to heighten the suspense or drama (that hologram playing right then being chief among them). If I list the good choices they made (again not including things like not crashing the ship upon landing), that list is woefully small compared to the bad choices they made.
Like others, I expect some of that in a movie just to further the plot without making us wait extra long for crap like scanning the planet and locating the installation (even though there was zero nod to even trying something like that, they just fucking found it by pure luck)...but I don't expect practically every scene to contain those shortcuts or plot-furthering serendipity.
And yes, I realize I am probably being trolled even if he says he isn't. Just the fact that I watched it again, and responded, means I got trolled. But this truly is one of the worst written movies ever, in the history of movies, and I will accept being trolled to reinforce that fact. I'm sure he knows it is as terrible as I'm saying it is and relishes the fact that he made me subject myself to it all over again, but I can live with that. And if he truly thinks it is good, I still *feel* like I was trolled
Nester
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As i mentioned, i enjoyed this flick. To give you some perspective, I really could not care less about any of the other alien movies. I like this becouse it seems similar to the Chariots of the Gods / Ancient Aliens stuff which i find to be interesting. I dont bye that shit but i love fiction aspects of these types of ideas.
I could see why a Fan of the Alien movies could be disapointed.
People who think its odd they destroyed the head, how come you don't think its odd the head is has not entered rigamortus? =p Also who cares about that head, they had a pile of bodies they could use if needed. I will agree they should have started the head disection in the contained area to avoid contamination.
I could see why a Fan of the Alien movies could be disapointed.
People who think its odd they destroyed the head, how come you don't think its odd the head is has not entered rigamortus? =p Also who cares about that head, they had a pile of bodies they could use if needed. I will agree they should have started the head disection in the contained area to avoid contamination.