PROMETHEUS was (Alien 0?) NOW NO LONGER SPOILER FREE. — Page 17

Then why'd they staple the skin, just cauterize it with the magic 2089 laser.  My imagination says that when you cut completely thru some organ, the laser cauterizing trick doesn't work, the staples action says the writers believe that as well, but phuck it we've gotta keep this thing moving.

ray_afraid wrote: It stapled her tummy back together to keep her organs from falling out. It wasn't set up for a female, so it wouldn't have known to staple the uterus back up.

Then she's dead.

doubleofive wrote: That's what people are complaining about? Internal bleeding?

nah there's other things, this is just one which someone took the effort to refute.

Internal bleeding is kinda important if the only remaining character for your sequel is given life thru faulty lines of logic.  But she's obviously diety of your choice 3.0 so why stick to anything, mesaih complexes fix all....  I hope she meets Neo and they defeat the Tardis by giving it an alien ooze cold.  If the Matrix Architect teams up with the Alien Engineer and they hire the construction firm from X-Super X-Great X-Home X-Make X-Over X-Edition (yes Krychek is acting site superintendant) can we call this genre over.  (until it's rebooted for SW4.10 of course)

What duration do you think Prometheus covers.  two three days?

There is a theory kicking around that Vickers is transgendered.

She started off as a boy but had the full works done.

Weyland being an old fashioned sort of git modeled David on the man she should have been and tried to cut her out of control of the company.

It sounds a bit too 'out there' for me but at least it fits.

I imagine the 'only male' thing was to throw a bit of delay into the scene to ramp up the tension and to be another hint at the shockingly not surprise that Guy-Guy Pearce is onboard but as it's already been pointed out there is nothing surgically wrong with Weyland (other than his Halloween Cake face) and if it's for him why not have it in his secret sanctum?

Seeing as he is paying for it and everyone back home thinks his dead why does he need a secret sanctum anyway?

The last time I had to go on the internet to try and figure out what the hell I just watched was Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes.  And like in that instance, I'm finding no answers (except "lousy screenwriting").

I don't even understand what the black oil (that they ripped off from X-Files) was.  Some people are saying it was a mutagen; others are saying it was a weaponized liquid form of Alien eggs.

I wish I had known some LOST flunkie had written the screenplay.  It would have saved me $19.  I hate that Lost/X-Files crap with a passion.

I'm really baffled as to the incoherence of scripts and movies these days.  Are test screenings no longer being done?

Tobar said:

Red Letter Media

So true!  I hope they post the 30 min one someday.

I'm really disappointed by this movie's rabid defenders.  All their arguments boil down to "You're too much of a [A) Retard B) Mouthbreather C)Troglodyte D) dumb fanboy that lives in his mother's basemet] to understand the genius of this film."

They usually don't go any further than that to enlighten us.  If they do, it's something that completely contradicts what the previous know-it-all said.

Somebody should do a "Prometheus" edit of Star Wars.  Remove any scenes of exposition and other random scenes so that the narrative makes no sense.  Cut out Obi-Wan explaining what the Force is and what lightsabers and Jedi are.  Remove all of Vader's lines so he's always silent and killing people for no reason.  And end the film right when we see the X-Wings take off from Yavin.

I enjoyed it, now that a week has passed and I still think about it. I have rationalised it, it feels to me that I've experienced it, like a dream, dreams can be flawed, parts don't fit, doorways lead to different places,....dunno....even with RLM's list of errors, I would still recommend this movie.

Its not the feeling when I saw the Star Wars prequels....I wanted to like them....but in my gut I knew they were off.

Maybe in time I'll view it differently

J

Someone should do a David Lynch style edit of the film so it can only be interpreted as a visually stunning bizarre dream art film and then you don't need to worry about the fact it makes no sense on any level.

I was strongly reminded in the theater of the theatrical cut of Kingdom of Heaven.  The movie was good, but it felt like there was a lot that got ripped out for time without any thought as to how it would affect the story.

And then yesterday, I read that Ridley Scott is releasing an extended cut - 20 minutes longer - on Blu-Ray.

So I'm going to reserve any and all judgment about Prometheus until I see the extended cut, since his KoH DC turned a movie I loved to bitch about* into one of my favorite movies of all time.

*Because it had so much potential that was wasted because the soul of the movie had been gutted, not because I thought it was bad.  Which is pretty much how I feel about Prometheus.

It's needs another hour of new footage really and lots of nonsense trimmed away.

A few seconds of Shaw explaining that the large figures in carvings she found are associated with the creator Gods of the various regions she found them in would explain were she pulls her theories from.

Even if they aren't very scientific.

In the film as it currently stand she just pulls that out of the air.

I think in the long form the Red Letter guys let the film off in a way they would never have a Star Wars prequel.

I remember long passages in all three Plinkett reviews where Jedi were accused of behaviour inconsistent with what we previous thought Jedi would do and yet the scientists not only don't follow the scientific method in any way, they also say things which make no scientific sense.

There aren't any real Jedi to weigh up what Jedi do, there are no books of actual Jedi facts and philosophy or codes of practice (we have to refer to the OT for reference).

Not only do we have real and past examples of scientists we know that the distance from Earth quoted in the film is within the Solar System and not in another Star System.

And yet the map at the beginning of the film is of another Star System (or maybe they were just balls like the script).

Er, the distance quoted in the film is 35 light-years if I remember correctly - hardly within our solar system.

If you're referring to Charlize Theron's character's "half a billion miles" comment, well, she's a corporate suit who doesn't know what the fuck she's talking about.  She probably just pulled a number out of her ass that sounded big to her.