The worst thing was Guy Pearce in old man makeup. Super creepy. Also, if I’m remembering it correctly, they never showed his character as a young man… so why the heck didn’t they just find a real old man to play the part?
What a waste of a great cast. I walked out the theatre sagging in my disappointment and confusion.
I’ve always started by blaming the script. The dingdong who wrote “Lost” had a hand in it, and his idea of a good script is apparently to just pile nonsense and plot twists up until you hit your word limit and then say “ship it!”
I’m still annoyed about it, tbh. I loved both Alien and Aliens, and it breaks my heart whenever somebody wastes Charlize Theron’s precious time.
@kaighintze and are then resolved by deus ex machina. Monty Python could do a better ending. (and while I’m here, maybe someone could tell SNL about d-e-m, they haven’t finished a skit in 30 seasons)
i know i must have seen it, because i’ve seen all the alien movies (except the newest one we just haven’t had time to see yet) but even after reading the plot on wikipedia, aside from the self surgery scene nothing even rings a bell. so…i guess i didn’t think it was that great…or that terrible.
I know the ending was supposed to be profound, touching on the great eternal question of Why Do We Exist? But it was just profoundly stupid. They’ve suffered terrible losses narrowly surviving a brief contact with this powerful and ancient species that created ours and now intends to destroy us. So instead of limping home to warn everyone about the threat, the survivors decide to confront these implacable enemies on their homeworld so they can ask, “Why did you make us? Why don’t you love us?” Who among us has never wanted to ask God “WTF?”, but I still thought it was an amazingly stupid ending.
My biggest issue was the size of the space jockey. In Alien, a human comes up to about his knee
…but in Prometheus, they’re only like, a foot or two taller than humans
@medz I have no idea what you’re saying. Are you being sarcastic about me saying “only a foot or two taller” or are you saying they were always 9-10 feet tall, even in Alien?
@medz YEAH NO SHIT BUT THE PROP IS STILL HUGE LOOK AT THAT FIRST PICTURE THE GUY CLIMBING UP IS LIKE AS TALL AS THE JOCKEY’S BICEP WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ARE YOU CRAZY OR SOMETHING THEY ARE CLEARLY NOT THE SAME SCALE
@Moose
In the first photo, the person is closer to the camera than the bicep. In the 2nd photo, the person is closer than the engineer. Things that are closer to the camera will appear larger than things in the background. In both cases, the camera angle is very low. It’s all visual trickery, guy. They were only like 10 feet tall. It’s a scientific fact.
@medz Nope, you just refuse to be reasonable! If you really think the last image you posted and the second image I posted show the same height difference, then I can’t simply help you.
@medz I am willing to accept that they are 9-10 feet tall, but I will not accept that the remains they find in Alien would also be 9-10 feet tall! That thing is way bigger! I am saying the movies are inconsistent!
@Moose Well, the space jockey was all like fused to the chair and ship and all. Most of that was like non-organic stuff. Peel all that away and the actual dude would be like 10 feet tall. Plus, actors were shorter back when alien was filmed. Those people are probably like 4’5".
@Moose Something kinda neat I just learned about that:
For some shots in the scene featuring the Pilot, the Nostromo crew members were actually played by children, namely Scott’s sons Jake and Luke and cinematographer Derek Vanlint’s son, in order to make the set appear even larger than it was.
@Pantheist Director over-did it and made the scale illusion exaggerated. Or maybe some artsy explanation like the director wanted the moment to convey the gravity of the discovery beyond a physical observation of size. So, while the creature was only 9-10 feet tall, the scene’s context was so immense, it had to be visually amplified.
In future earth, the cream of the labor pool available for a space mission are: Dr and Mrs Dr Chariots of the Gods; Not Jeff Goldblum, biologist; Dope fiend McClueless, geologist; Captain Insensible; Hollywood Upstairs Medical School, MD; Red Shirt Security Dude; Female Michael from The Office; Robo-Toole; and Old Man Weyland.
Liked it well enough, certainly better than what followed
The worst thing was Guy Pearce in old man makeup. Super creepy. Also, if I’m remembering it correctly, they never showed his character as a young man… so why the heck didn’t they just find a real old man to play the part?
I thought it would answer some questions rather than just opening more.
I liked the part where he stole robe-blankets from the gods to help humans keep warm for late night online shopping.
@lazyideas
Spelled backwards is
steknalb-ebor.
What a waste of a great cast. I walked out the theatre sagging in my disappointment and confusion.
I’ve always started by blaming the script. The dingdong who wrote “Lost” had a hand in it, and his idea of a good script is apparently to just pile nonsense and plot twists up until you hit your word limit and then say “ship it!”
I’m still annoyed about it, tbh. I loved both Alien and Aliens, and it breaks my heart whenever somebody wastes Charlize Theron’s precious time.
\end rant
@UncleVinny
Oh, we’re talking about THIS dingleberry:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511541/
Or did you mean JJ?
@CylustheVirus Lindehof… <takes long, embittered drag on an unfiltered Pall Mall> …aye, that’s the weasel.
It seems like 9 out of 10 movie plots depend on supposedly intelligent people making amazingly stupid decisions.
@kaighintze and are then resolved by deus ex machina. Monty Python could do a better ending. (and while I’m here, maybe someone could tell SNL about d-e-m, they haven’t finished a skit in 30 seasons)
Given how much CinemaSins I watch, I would definitely have to say the way that they ran away from things.
@vdeogmer hopefully some more people will go to the Prometheus School Of Running Away From Things.
@RiotDemon
Ding!
@vdeogmer Honestly disappointed this wasn’t an option. For shame @mediocrebot
Never saw it, but definitely the lack of candy corn.
Isn’t that right @ThomasF?
@gumtreertmug Yes.
No.
No.
I liked it, but I voted for the idiocy of supposedly smart people. Why so many stupid decisions…
The guy getting chained to the top of a mountain and getting his innards plucked out by birds…wait, are you talking about a different Prometheus?
@Salohcin714 yeah, that was BOGUS!
The gods should have given mankind fire. You need it to cook. What, were they the gods of trichinosis?
@PocketBrain sushi gods
Heaven help us if they keep sending morons into space. “What’s that, you say? Don’t touch that pod thing? Why not?!”
@cybrsrfr
i know i must have seen it, because i’ve seen all the alien movies (except the newest one we just haven’t had time to see yet) but even after reading the plot on wikipedia, aside from the self surgery scene nothing even rings a bell. so…i guess i didn’t think it was that great…or that terrible.
anyway, who remembers prometheus and bob?
@jerk_nugget Damn. That looks vaguely familiar.
@RiotDemon it wasn’t my favorite short, but i do remember getting a kick out of most things on
He is really nice in pictures, especially when the Christmas tree is behind him!
I know the ending was supposed to be profound, touching on the great eternal question of Why Do We Exist? But it was just profoundly stupid. They’ve suffered terrible losses narrowly surviving a brief contact with this powerful and ancient species that created ours and now intends to destroy us. So instead of limping home to warn everyone about the threat, the survivors decide to confront these implacable enemies on their homeworld so they can ask, “Why did you make us? Why don’t you love us?” Who among us has never wanted to ask God “WTF?”, but I still thought it was an amazingly stupid ending.
My biggest issue was the size of the space jockey. In Alien, a human comes up to about his knee
…but in Prometheus, they’re only like, a foot or two taller than humans
@Moose They’re only like 9-10 feet tall. An average person would come up to at least their waist. #sizematterstomoose
@medz I have no idea what you’re saying. Are you being sarcastic about me saying “only a foot or two taller” or are you saying they were always 9-10 feet tall, even in Alien?
@Moose Only 9-10 feet tall in Alien.
/google how tall is a space jockey?
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@medz You’re insane. Watch the scene again, it is waaay taller than 9-10 feet.
(skip to 4:10)
Also:
@Moose Bruh. The entire prop was 26 feet tall. The jockey was only fraction of the whole prop.
@medz YEAH NO SHIT BUT THE PROP IS STILL HUGE LOOK AT THAT FIRST PICTURE THE GUY CLIMBING UP IS LIKE AS TALL AS THE JOCKEY’S BICEP WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ARE YOU CRAZY OR SOMETHING THEY ARE CLEARLY NOT THE SAME SCALE
@Moose
In the first photo, the person is closer to the camera than the bicep. In the 2nd photo, the person is closer than the engineer. Things that are closer to the camera will appear larger than things in the background. In both cases, the camera angle is very low. It’s all visual trickery, guy. They were only like 10 feet tall. It’s a scientific fact.
/giphy I won!
@medz Nope, you just refuse to be reasonable! If you really think the last image you posted and the second image I posted show the same height difference, then I can’t simply help you.
@Moose 2:10
2:52
They’re only like 9-10 feet tall.
Feels good to win.
@medz I am willing to accept that they are 9-10 feet tall, but I will not accept that the remains they find in Alien would also be 9-10 feet tall! That thing is way bigger! I am saying the movies are inconsistent!
@Moose Well, the space jockey was all like fused to the chair and ship and all. Most of that was like non-organic stuff. Peel all that away and the actual dude would be like 10 feet tall. Plus, actors were shorter back when alien was filmed. Those people are probably like 4’5".
@medz I hope a giant spaceship rolls over you.
@Moose Hope you have great day!
@medz
@Moose Something kinda neat I just learned about that:
@Pantheist Ah. That clears it up. Children would probably be less than waist tall of a 9-10 foot being.
@medz Yup, so it sounds like you were supposed to see it as taller than 9-10 feet tall even if that was its height in the real world.
@Pantheist Director over-did it and made the scale illusion exaggerated. Or maybe some artsy explanation like the director wanted the moment to convey the gravity of the discovery beyond a physical observation of size. So, while the creature was only 9-10 feet tall, the scene’s context was so immense, it had to be visually amplified.
@medz Could be that too. I’m no movie buff, I just like watching them.
@Pantheist yeah I’m not even sure if I’ve seen that entire movie…
In future earth, the cream of the labor pool available for a space mission are: Dr and Mrs Dr Chariots of the Gods; Not Jeff Goldblum, biologist; Dope fiend McClueless, geologist; Captain Insensible; Hollywood Upstairs Medical School, MD; Red Shirt Security Dude; Female Michael from The Office; Robo-Toole; and Old Man Weyland.
@zippyus I haven’t even seen the movie, or anything from the Alien franchise really…,
and even I know that description is spot on.
Ummm, is that a movie or something?
It’s a valuable lesson that there are no stories that are too illogical to be aired for the consumer audience.
@aetris I think it’s more there is a generation of filmmakers dedicated to Ed Wood Nouveau.