Alien Prequel - Prometheus - Page 29

Well that proves it - look at all that bug spray.
The place must be infected with Alien Skeeters! OMG!

Good.

Man, even the short TV trailer that has been popping up during the NBA playoffs has a ton of spoilers!

Trailer appeared during Fringe tonight, as well!

Yup, I averted my eyes while the trailer played prior to the start of The Avengers today....

Saw a trailer last night on something I was watching and couldn't help myself, luckily it didn't look to be to revealing, nothing I hadn't seen before. I'm thinking of just swearing off all trailers, websites, and this thread until I see the movie itself, too easy for something to be blurted out and ruin it for me. Lee's comment about "no aliens" gave me plenty of pause right then and there to drop reading this thread altogether.

After 29 pages and almost 850 posts, that was established a long time ago.

Ridley Scott is such a "visual" director who loves plot twists, when he makes a Sci-Fi movie that IMO, even with the extended trailers, you are only seeing a tiny fraction of what is to come . . . the very tip of the iceberg.

"It's the only way to be sure."

True, but a lot of us are really good at connecting "dots."



Lee, this is what I was alluding to.



Exactly.

LOL - there are so many dots missing you have barely a clue as to what Scott is up to.


Wussies!

OK...I am a Wuss.
As much as I would ordinarily embrace such a challenge, I must back off.

I am such a geek for this stuff, I just can't "bite...."
And, yes, you have my permission to beat the snot outta me....

The new footage released of the Prometheus landing is cool and not spoilerish.

The look and the FX look outstanding from those clips.

For some reason, the more I hear the actors speak the dialogue the less enthusiastic I get about the movie. Someone mentioned on another forum that thus far it sounds like 90's action movie banalities falling from the lips of the actors. Here's hoping....

True, but the newest TV spot is a gruesome spoiler.
Ridley promised Uncivilized


OK, there's 2 spots. Can't believe this is on TV. The guys at pforum are poppin' a vein over these

Whoa, just saw it. Though it was spoilerific it did show the crew is going to be in some gruesome peril. So now I'm more stoked.

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox/prometheus/

clip of the Prometheus ship landing on the planet

Rewatched Alien last night to get ready for Pro. Even the wife is excited about the new movie after seeing the original, again!!

Hmmmm....that IS a good reason to re-watch the series again.

A 35mm print of ALIEN will be screened in NYC the end of this month, along with prints of almost all of Ridley Scott's films. A couple will show digitally.

This story takes place prior to Alien (not necessarily prequel) but those instruments in the cockpit look considerably more advanced than Nostromo's.

Several reasons for that.

Prometheus is a state of the art science spaceship. Norstromo was an old commercial towing spaceship.

Ridley wanted an haunting atmosphere on the ship.

The crew of Nostromo had greasy/dirty hands, and that dont go well with touchscreen.

And last

Alien was made in 1979 and Prometheus was made in 2012.

Did anyone expect Ridley to use a bunch of 12 inch CRT monitors in this? .......Hell No

Fun Viral - non spoiler - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=EeZinBCMfAc

The more of this stuff I see, the more I think Wayland & Co. will be a very critical part of the story.

Like I've mentioned before, for me part of what makes the original Alien so compelling is it's overall texture in both visuals and sound. They combine so beautifully to create a palpable world. The really odd combinations of analog sound effects continually offer a sense of surprise, texture and individuality to the sound design. Those incredibly strange and unique bleeps and blips of the alien signal coming in, waking up the ships computers, being a good example. The subtle "breathing" machine tone of the "Mother" computer control room being another. The sound design in Ridley's early movies, especially Alien, don't get near enough credit - for me they are as iconic as the visuals. In the same way that visual FX people had to be resourceful and inventive due to the pre-digital limitations, the same goes for sound effects, in which sometimes really simple sources and manipulations resulted in a very direct, individual character to the sounds.

The fact that we can layer upon layer sound so easily today often means a certain sense of individuality can be rubbed out of sound effects. That's one reason why Ben Bert remains such an amazing sound designer. After all these years he still manages to come up with iconic, memorable sound effects.

In doing a film now it will be interesting if Ridley's movie is able to contain a comparable quality and character to the sounds, as with the visuals.

Yes the ship lives. Thats a detail any scifi movie should replicate. I love the subtle sounds that is in alien.

Would love to be there, but 3,000 miles is a long hike.

If you're gonna go, I would be interested in your take (as to how the BD stacks up).

Love the build up for your last point. Priceless!!

I don't know about that.
"The Nostromo is a M class starship that is registered to Weyland-Yutani Corporation out of the US state of Panama. It was refitted to be a commercial towing vehicle in 2116, after that, the Nostromo has largely been employed running automated ore and oil refineries between the Sol system and 20 Reticuli."
http://nostromo.joeh.org/content/nostromo/..html


Not the navigators, science and flight officers.

Now that's something to think about. It's harder to futurize the look than retrotize.


Are you sure?
"USS Prometheus (AR-3) was a repair ship that served the ..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Prometheus_%28AR-3%29

bcruiser, how much of your info comes from the actual movie.

As for the navigators and flightofficers, im sure they picked their nose of screen.

Since this movie isn't out yet, none regarding the info on Prometheus. As for Nostormo, both Alien and Aliens.

I'm sure the bridge of the ship is dust-free or at least well controlled enough so that the booger isn't an issue. It's a spaceship you know.