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Rather than criticising things as plot holes or mistakes I criticise them for being annoying and contrived, and the same material that I could see in a million direct to video thrillers inspired by the original Alien. Even then I wouldn't bother criticising except for the fact that both the creators and the fans seem to maintain that there was some clever statement on accepting death in there, and while I recognise the attempt I disagree that it was clever, admirable, or even decently entertaining.
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 05:27 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 07:57 |
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Alien ripoffs are good. Watch Contamination or something ya big baby.
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 05:35 |
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Tujague, gasping out before another swirly posted:Prometheus is just one of those movies that causes tragically un-self-aware pseudointellectual pieces of human garbage to identify themselves at the top of their lungs. It does it better than, say, Inception, that old Zippy the Pinhead Clown comic strip or Frank Zappa music. There's just something about it that stimulates fat dopes who have been surfing an ego wave since they banged out a good score on a standardized test in middle school. I couldn't make the point any more clear than this thread already is. Never fails. You need to cool off jabroni You don't want your processors overheating (I'm using nerd-speak, we'll see if it gets through)
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 05:35 |
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Yeah, why don't you dramatically leave the thread again, and then return all full of bluster like my fat-rear end little cousin after we all make fun of him at family gatherings and he needs to go cry in the bathroom. I'm sure that will make it seem more like I'm the one who *really* got picked on the entire time he was a schoolboy. Really selling it. No, really.
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 05:40 |
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Tujague posted:Prometheus is just one of those movies that causes tragically un-self-aware pseudointellectual pieces of human garbage to identify themselves at the top of their lungs. It does it better than, say, Inception, that old Zippy the Pinhead Clown comic strip or Frank Zappa music. There's just something about it that stimulates fat dopes who have been surfing an ego wave since they banged out a good score on a standardized test in middle school. I couldn't make the point any more clear than this thread already is. Never fails.
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 05:41 |
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 05:41 |
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Finally got around to seeing this movie, and a lot of it doesn't make sense. For instance, in the first scene (the prologue), we see the Muscular Albino Alien dissolve himself into a waterfall; clearly this is the aliens' seeding of the infant Earth. But how are we supposed to believe that this alien is that exact same one that comes out of Dr. Shaw's tummy millions of years later? They don't look anything alike, and I'm not sure how such a thing is even possible. Did she drink some water out of that waterfall before leaving Earth?
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 05:42 |
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Spakstik posted:in the movie prometheus why didn't they just make a good movie instead of making prometheus this guy should be president
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 05:45 |
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Tujague posted:Yeah, why don't you dramatically leave the thread again, and then return all full of bluster like my fat-rear end little cousin after we all make fun of him at family gatherings and he needs to go cry in the bathroom. I'm sure that will make it seem more like I'm the one who *really* got picked on the entire time he was a schoolboy. Wow man, I don't know if either side needs to get emotional and personal about things. It's just fun to argue on the internet, especially if it's with people who have strong opinions about and a shared interest in film.
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 05:47 |
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The female planes are apparently designed by someone who has no idea what a female plane would look like. The idea of introducing gendered identities to normally non-gendered objects so often treats the familiar as inherently masculine. Female planes are painted hot pink and granted the enlarged, fluttery eyelashes so often used to distinguish women from men in lazily drawn cartoons. "Look at that propellor," declares Dusty and he gets a look at one of the ladyplanes' rear end. In one scene, the film even eroticises the tilting of wingflaps for a disturbingly long time. You could argue that it is a joke. I would argue that it enforces the idea of objectifying women to all the five-year-old boys in the audience by applying it to literal objects who have gender but no sex. Gotta start them off early, after all. -Cinema Discusso
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 05:57 |
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Former Human posted:So you know two people who are smart but impractical? Those types probably wouldn't be selected for a secret interstellar mission. Unless the mission is put together by a superstitious trillionaire?
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 05:58 |
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Pulp Can Move posted:Finally got around to seeing this movie, and a lot of it doesn't make sense. For instance, in the first scene (the prologue), we see the Muscular Albino Alien dissolve himself into a waterfall; clearly this is the aliens' seeding of the infant Earth. But how are we supposed to believe that this alien is that exact same one that comes out of Dr. Shaw's tummy millions of years later? They don't look anything alike, and I'm not sure how such a thing is even possible. Did she drink some water out of that waterfall before leaving Earth? No, she got knocked up by Holloway, who drank a pure black goo drop (no albino, no waterfall) mixed with champagne and that drop granted her deepest wish, just not in the way she wanted. So you see, Prometheus is a movie about Life (and also death-loving )
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 06:04 |
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How could Captain Janek possibly think that the Prometheus could survive ramming into the alien ship? And not only that, but still be in good enough shape to get back to Earth?
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 06:10 |
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Black Bones posted:No, she got knocked up by Holloway, who drank a pure black goo drop (no albino, no waterfall) mixed with champagne and that drop granted her deepest wish, just not in the way she wanted. Shove a wine bottle up your rear end and thrust until you can no longer walk. Then tell the police you were raped. Duh. Look, I don't know why I have to repeat myself. This should be your go-to solution. Consider all other advice to be a sound Plan B. Why? Because the cops never ignore rape victims, and accused rapists are always, always convicted on the strength of the victim's testimony.
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 06:10 |
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 06:13 |
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Former Human posted:Perfect example right here of all the mental gymnastics and explanations that people have to make up themselves to fill in plot holes and contradictions and help themselves believe the movie was actually more interesting (less stupid) than it is. Tujague posted:Prometheus is just one of those movies that causes tragically un-self-aware pseudointellectual pieces of human garbage to identify themselves at the top of their lungs. It does it better than, say, Inception, that old Zippy the Pinhead Clown comic strip or Frank Zappa music. There's just something about it that stimulates fat dopes who have been surfing an ego wave since they banged out a good score on a standardized test in middle school. I couldn't make the point any more clear than this thread already is. Never fails.
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 06:19 |
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Shove a wine bottle up your rear end and thrust until you can no longer walk. Then tell the police you were raped. Duh. Look, I don't know why I have to repeat myself. This should be your go-to solution. Consider all other advice to be a sound Plan B. Why? Because the cops never ignore rape victims, and accused rapists are always, always convicted on the strength of the victim's testimony.
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 06:21 |
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Tujague posted:Yeah, why don't you dramatically leave the thread again, and then return all full of bluster like my fat-rear end little cousin after we all make fun of him at family gatherings and he needs to go cry in the bathroom. I'm sure that will make it seem more like I'm the one who *really* got picked on the entire time he was a schoolboy. Be nice to your family, nerd. This is why you get beat up so much, it's tough love to teach you to be less terrible ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Shove a wine bottle up your rear end and thrust until you can no longer walk. Then tell the police you were raped. Duh. Look, I don't know why I have to repeat myself. This should be your go-to solution. Consider all other advice to be a sound Plan B. Why? Because the cops never ignore rape victims, and accused rapists are always, always convicted on the strength of the victim's testimony. I think the fem/gamer thread got moved to DnD, bro Pulp Can Move posted:How could Captain Janek possibly think that the Prometheus could survive ramming into the alien ship? And not only that, but still be in good enough shape to get back to Earth? Well, he is Polish
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 06:24 |
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 06:31 |
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:I'm really confused about why he died after smoking weed in this slasher movie. Please reiterate your theory re: the subtext when the geologist character becomes a zombie and he's crouching on the ground and it has significance... because rocks. Fascinating second-hand smegma posted:Unless the mission is put together by a superstitious trillionaire? A superstitious trillionaire who deliberately hired idiots so his expensive, multi-year mission would have a 99% chance of failure? I wonder how he made his trillions. Not by having good judgment, apparently. Maybe he won the space lottery?
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 06:31 |
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Tujague posted:Prometheus is just one of those movies that causes tragically un-self-aware pseudointellectual pieces of human garbage to identify themselves at the top of their lungs. It does it better than, say, Inception, that old Zippy the Pinhead Clown comic strip or Frank Zappa music. There's just something about it that stimulates fat dopes who have been surfing an ego wave since they banged out a good score on a standardized test in middle school. I couldn't make the point any more clear than this thread already is. Never fails. It's okay if people like Prometheus. Really, it is.
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 06:38 |
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Former Human posted:
Well, usually people make money by having money already.
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 06:38 |
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 06:38 |
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Former Human posted:Please reiterate your theory re: the subtext when the geologist character becomes a zombie and he's crouching on the ground and it has significance... because rocks. He used his boot straps: invented more stable robots than Tyrell's "abominations" (his words). Weyland's are prob street legal on Earth too, but that could be due to better connections. Well I gotta go to bed and dream about Noomi, g'night GBS see you in the morning *dramatically leaves thread crying*
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 07:02 |
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noomi rapeface
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 07:07 |
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Shove a wine bottle up your rear end and thrust until you can no longer walk. Then tell the police you were raped. Duh. Look, I don't know why I have to repeat myself. This should be your go-to solution. Consider all other advice to be a sound Plan B. Why? Because the cops never ignore rape victims, and accused rapists are always, always convicted on the strength of the victim's testimony.
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 07:34 |
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Black Bones posted:
I had this dream where Noomi put her thin and beautiful arm around mine and called me her favorite working joe, gazing longingly at me as she held me tighter and tighter to the point I thought I would break, that perfect angelic face, those thin lips, her silvery skin glistening in the cave light as she reached into my shirt, i could feel her pulsing all around me, feel the hot liquid warmth of my bone-marrow and plasma seeping out of the compound fracture in my wrist, and finally she put her mouth to my own and filled my throat with every last inch of her tentacle. Afterwards I asked if she wanted to stay the night and she just sighed in that cute way she does and curled up inside my trachea. 9 hours later we're expecting our first trilobite!
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 09:11 |
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Tujague posted:Prometheus is just one of those movies that causes tragically un-self-aware pseudointellectual pieces of human garbage to identify themselves at the top of their lungs. It does it better than, say, Inception, that old Zippy the Pinhead Clown comic strip or Frank Zappa music. There's just something about it that stimulates fat dopes who have been surfing an ego wave since they banged out a good score on a standardized test in middle school. I couldn't make the point any more clear than this thread already is. Never fails. Nothing says you're above the middlebrow hoi paloi like a MLP avatar you jackass.
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 09:19 |
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Why cookie Rocket posted:Nothing says you're above the middlebrow hoi paloi like a MLP avatar you jackass. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3469348&userid=116430
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 09:56 |
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the more you guys hate this movie the more i like it
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 10:14 |
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Retarded_Clown_ posted:the more you guys hate this movie the more i like it ::shakes fist @ internet::
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 10:16 |
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Maldoror posted:experts are often overconfident and do dumb things because they think hey i'm an expert, this is more true if the expert has never had a serious accident Next time I watch this movie which I watch again all the time because it is the greatest movie ever made I am going to pretend the biologist is Steve Irwin and I imagine it will make it even greater.
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 10:18 |
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Why cookie Rocket posted:Nothing says you're above the middlebrow hoi paloi like a MLP avatar you jackass. Shove a wine bottle up your rear end and thrust until you can no longer walk. Then tell the police you were raped. Duh. Look, I don't know why I have to repeat myself. This should be your go-to solution. Consider all other advice to be a sound Plan B. Why? Because the cops never ignore rape victims, and accused rapists are always, always convicted on the strength of the victim's testimony.
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 10:25 |
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Pitdragon posted:They should have kept the original CGI psuedo-alien monster that this guy turns into, not sure why they decided to turn him into a hills have eyes mutant The amount of professionals that act like idiots far out-weight those that dont, at least those that i have worked with. And i like this movie. Admittedly i saw it once at the cinema, and that was when it came out. I'm sure ive got he dvd around here somewhere.
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 11:03 |
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is there a director's cut of this? kingdom of heaven's director's cut made it a decent movie. it also made it 3+ hours... ridley scott should just make direct to video movies so he can have the final vision of his films be over 3 discs, uncut, and intact
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 11:09 |
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The movie itself was pretty well shot and looked good. The thing that got me the most was how little of a poo poo everyone seemed to give. Oh here we are, a new planet! An alien spaceship! A woman running around the spaceship covered in blood! Everyone looked bored as gently caress.
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 11:32 |
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Cum on my rear end
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 11:41 |
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henpod posted:The movie itself was pretty well shot and looked good. The thing that got me the most was how little of a poo poo everyone seemed to give. Oh here we are, a new planet! An alien spaceship! "So we have two guys lost in a storm on an alien spaceship after discovering we are not alone in the universe, so that's why I'm sitting here alone and bored at mission control. I think everyone else is off loving. Wanna gently caress?" MEANWHILE "I was scared so shitless I forgot I was the maps guy, let me think a hissing venom-spitting looks friendly and in need of a pet. Oh and it's alien life." Honestly if that scenario happened in a sci-fi comedy, it'd still be less outlandish.
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 12:52 |
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its ok to like bad films but pretending bad films are good, is bad dont be bad, be good. and cool
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# ? Jul 27, 2015 13:40 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 07:57 |
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there is a half-hour long youtube movie where some people talk about plot holes and explanations and they do a pretty good job. prometheus was okay. 3rd best in aliens franchise. maybe 4th best because the prison one was okay too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpEx7pdp2-Q
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