Alien Prequel - Prometheus - Page 15

Where has this been all of my life!!!!!

Any guess on what that bag on the right is? I have my own theory which I'll get to later but wanted to see what others think. Anybody?

LOL, a flashlight.
For some reason, I was thinking a weapon or somethin'....



I don't have the foggiest....

A bag full of flashlights.

Naomi: "Sir, is that a flashlight in your bag or are you just happy to see me?"

OK, OK, so not that many LED guys here. It was worth a shot. The guys at Candle Power Forum concur, it's a 45.

Props sell the story. This one has 3 heads instead of the typical 1. I have the version prior to this with 1 large head and a quad LED emitter. For those who might be curious, this series from Fenix is 10 plus times brighter than a typical 3D maglight. It runs on 8 AA cells.
I'm guessing 99.9% would think this prop was designed at pinewood for the shoot. The suits, helmets, etc. certainly are.

Vehicles and ship look very much like Ron Cobb from years past. Yes, Cameron used Ron's work.

My take: It's a flaming bag of poop to be left at the door of alien's ship after getting her request for a sample of life form formula rejected by aliens.

This...I like.

This is going to be the longest 6 months, hope it explains more or so the orgins as oppose to a chase of every crew member dead. So we can forget those horrid Alien Vs crap.. I can't freaking wait.

DJoel

Large LED "lights" are hard (and expensive) to manufacture, which is why America hasn't dumped the Edisons quite yet.

This is one of my top 3 films to see this year. I still haven't seen Alien 3 or 4, but love 1 and 2. These kinds of ideas about where we come from fascinate me. Even if they are just ideas. Hopefully this is a huge hit and we get more writers, directors and studios on board to make films with more thought behind them. I've seen enough about aliens wanting to take over the earth.

Lucky you, Come to think of it I haven't seen 4 in it's entirety either.


Djoel

You guys are not missing anything at all. I would even suggest not to watch 3 and or 4 at all. They spoiled this franchise.

Agree - Ridley probably took one look and said "OK, That Works"

Many people at the CPF questioned the 3 head design last year. The latest model (TK41) went back to a single XML LED with even more power. The lower setting uses only 1 of the heads and reduces heat to a point in the middle settings. The Flood vs Throw balance is effected by the design as well.
Likely the 3 head design allowed Fenix to use an existing LED at a lower cost between the previous 4 LED single head and the new high power single.
The LED innovation going on in China is interesting to say the least. At the risk of being political where I should not be - ever wonder why it's there?

BTW, the 'T' designates Tactical in the series, but it's larger than what most Cops and Mil use with weapons and clip-on, etc.
This series is a midpoint between common 123 cell carry lights and portable HID lights used in Star Trek for all those irritating glare flare shots.

Best

Or sponsorship from Fenix.

Wow, this movie can't come out fast enough, to put some life back into this thread.

Yeah I hear you, I've been ODing on everything Prometheus, even the mystical aspect which imho is a bad choice to call a ship, not destined to come back in one piece.


DJoel

+1000000000

I really never understood why 3 wasn't a focus on finding the Alien's home world be it for scientific interest or extermination, seems like it was the next natural step to me.

Is that the one were she's bald? I didn't see it completely either, but I felt they where going were most horror flicks go, a endless amount of stupid baseless story lines.


I want to get 1 and 2 on Blu ray and see them again, guess I would have to but them individually though.

DJoel

The weakest of all imo is really Resurrection, I can live with Alien 3 actually, which I don't find so bad after all. Yet, I also like Jeunet's work in general so he's forgiven Besides, the Anthology on Blu-ray is such a phenomenal set I sure don't regret my purchase.

If you could have taken the storyline of 3&4 and combined them into ONE movie, it could have been a proper sequel to Aliens.


Eventually, of course, in later chapters, humans would make a concerted effort to wipe the universe clean of the basterds (thank you QT).

NO.

NOW, we have a true sequel to the greatest sci-fi horror/action movie ever made.

So get 3 as well? Boy it's been years I've seen Alien, got make a weekend out of it soon before Prometheus is out.

Djoel

I recommend skipping 3 and going to 4.
At least 4 has SOME decent action (and SOME disturbing horror) in it.
3 is the biggest sequel letdown in movie history.

Fixed it!


You can thank me latter

Renny Harlin wanted to do something like that, but his version would have been limited by having to follow with more 'Action'. Interview is on Disk 6 of the quadrilogy or extras of the BD set. The budget was too much at the time, so he bailed on the project after months of working on it.