timdiggerm said:
I like the caption under the first photo in the fourth row. I think it should have been the working title of the film:
"Total Douchebag: the tale of Charlie Holloway"
:)
see you auntie said:
Hopefully, for some sort of anniversary edition, Scott will go back to the Alien negative and cut out all the shots of computer screens on the flight deck, Mother etc, and replace them with shots featuring floating flatscreens and then throw the excised negative in the rubbish.
While he's at it, he can add a lens flare to every shot, have Ash fart periodically for comedic effect, and have a CGI xenomorph pass in front of the camera during Kane's chest bursting scene.
ChainsawAsh said:
Again, the Nostromo is a space semi truck that looks like it was made before any of the crew from Alien were born. The Prometheus is an extremely heavily-funded scientific research vessel. Of course it's going to have better technology.
Like 005 said, the Nostromo is probably older than the Prometheus, too.
The only problem I have with that excuse/reasoning is that it still leaves quite an unbelievable technological discrepancy between the ships. By that same logic, if I were to compare a garbage truck built in 1960 to a 2012 Rolls Royce, there should be a dramatic difference in technology. Sure, there would be advancements and refinements made in that time gap, but the the basic technology would still be the same. The Rolls Royce may look/handle/feel nicer, but both vehicles would have a windshield, steering wheel, tires, drive shaft, etc.
I would completely buy into the Prometheus' tech if it were comparable to that of the Nostromo's -- say, LCD or OLED flat screens with touch-sensitive controls -- but 3D holographic projections? Not even the same universe as Alien as far as I'm concerned. The only way a gap like that would be plausible in my mind would be if the Nostromo and the Prometheus were made over a century apart or if the latter was built with alien technology. I doubt a century-old ship would still be in service, and there's nothing to suggest that the Prometheus is anything but a man-made vessel.
Like Asterisk8 said, I'm still eager to see this film, and will judge it on its own merits, but aesthetically I really do wish it were more in line with Alien.
doubleofive said:
The Nostromo may very well predate the Prometheus.
Interesting... I hadn't considered that possibility.
Judging by the visual look of this film, I've come to the following conclusion:
given that the technology we're seeing in the trailers is more advanced than what we see in the original Alien film, I think Prometheus must take place at a time after the current Alien movies. This, coupled with the fact that the derelict vessel is still intact, would further indicate that this film will involve some element of time travel, wherein the derelict vessel, which is actually from the future, somehow manages to crash in the past...
that, or Sir Ridley Scott has completely lost his mind and is about to make a terrible movie.
Seriously, what's with the floating CGI computer screens in every science fiction movie made in the last 15 years? Where's the low-tech CRT monitors, switches and dials? I really hope Scott doesn't drop the ball on this film. We've all seen what can happen when a formerly well-respected director revisits a movie universe after an extended leave of absence.
I hope I don't leave the theatre thinking that Scott should have left well enough alone.
Bobocop said:
I wonder if it could be made to look like he falls all the way down and crashes into the ground
I also think this would be quite funny. Would it impact Zam's and Obi-Wan's landings at all?
Harmy, you might want to check out this chart:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.05/starwars.html
(bigger version here): http://also.kottke.org/misc/images/star-wars-influence-map.gif
It was featured in Wired back in 2005, and illustrates the people, companies, technologies, and entertainment industries that were affected by Star Wars.
pat man said:
Hey Adywan,if you can, please have a 2 to 3 min clip of the new Wampa. Can you start it at the part where Luke says " Hey...smell something?" Than cut the part out with Han,and cut to the part with Luke hanging upside down,in the cave. Than finish it with Luke running out of the cave.Can you post it on Vimeo please. Thank you.
Would you like fries with that?
Bingowings said:
You could shift it to the beginning of the film and just have him moaning about sand.
You could have lots of shots of sand, from films like Lawrence of Arabia, Dune, Star Wars etc and then shots of people making sandcastles on sandy beaches, carpenters using sand paper, while the song Sandy from Grease played in the background intercut with Anakin rolling around in the way that he does mumbling "sand....It gets everywhere...rough....the sand is the sand... sand I HATE YOU!".
This could all speed up until he wakes up with a start.
ALLOL.
Picard says:
Make it so, TV's Frink.... please.
Is that "Train 48" you're referring to? Man, I completely forgot about that show.
theprequelsrule said:
zombie84 said:
Lee-Sensei said:
About the US and UK's global significance... it's called Cultural Imperialism. The cultures of the countries at the top are very influential.
Well, to be honest in the case of Star Wars is just boils down to 1) English speaking countries and 2) Domestic production. Star Wars was in many ways an American-British co-production so of course it will be biggest in those two countries. It's also, I would argue, equally big in Canada, which is maybe the one area you could make the case for cultural imperialism, but it's not really imperialism since it's a deliberate audience choice mainly because our own entertainment industry sucks in comparison.
Aren't you are forgetting about a little movie called Men with Brooms?
Or the aforementioned Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter?
I think the drum roll from Holy Grail (when Lancelot is seen running from afar) should be more audible in the scenes where Padme is running toward Anakin. Otherwise, very funny :)
As a kid, I think my first realization that Star Wars was culturally (or at least cinematically) significant came from going to our local cinema at the time. On the outside of the theatre there was a backlit sign resembling a filmstrip, and in each of the four frames was the image of a different Hollywood icon: Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, and Darth Vader. Although I was young, I knew who the other people were and that they were iconic, and I always thought it was interesting that someone as contemporary as Vader would be included there alongside them.
On a side note:
zombie84 said:
Ah, I see you're familiar with the finer exports from Canada's capital :)
Davnes007 said:
darth_ender said:
^It's nice to catch Frink on a pic fail now and then, since he's so fond of punishing everyone else for it ;)
^It's nice to catch darth_ender writing about something that later gets fixed.
...well, I can the see the picture. O^O
No pics or it didn't happen.
It's not porn... it's art.
Bingowings said:
With me, I posted a picture of an Ice-Cream van on the politics board at the wrong time and he has hated my guts ever since.
That garnered a literal laugh out loud... thanks :)
And thanks for your summary of events... I did catch a bit of the curfuffle around DAYV awhile back, but I was foggy on the specifics, and I didn't know Warbler was as involved as he was in the whole thing.
*sigh* ;)
Fair enough.
So -1, you like knowing where line breaks will occur in your sentences? Sounds to me like you have control issues. You need to learn to just let go, man... Maybe have a couple White Russians and adhere to a strict drug regimen to keep your mind limber.
I'll bite--what's the history between warb and bingo? I don't like the idea of ignoring people on the forum in general, but to ignore someone who is as thoughtful, intelligent, and humourous in their posts as bingowings is beyond me.
Mielr said:
I like the fact that some of the images are so different from the finished films--- they're fun to look at as "alternate" visions of the trilogy.
When I listen to the radio dramas, I like to visualize the characters and environments as they appear in McQuarrie's work. It truly is a cool way of experiencing an alternate version of the trilogy, as you say.
TV's Frink said:
doubleofive said:
They're called "lesbians."Davnes007 said:
Gracie is the name of the female whale.ALLOL.
+ 1 :)
SpilkaBilka said:
These two images in particular... I dunno, when I look at them, they take me somewhere special, a place even more fantastic and unimaginable than the movies themselves do... I can't put into words how they make me feel...
You took the words right out of my mouth, SpilkaBilka. That's exactly how I feel about McQuarrie's art, with this one being my favourite:
So cool, in fact, Kotobukiya made a statue of it:
RIP Mr. McQuarrie, and thanks for leaving behind such a wonderful legacy.
- this shit looks like disney world at night with all these damn fireworks
- situation normal my ass
- she is such a slut
Yeeaah... I don't remember thinking these things the first time I watched Star Wars.
