[trailer] Prometheus - Ridley Scott's not/well maybe it is Alien Prequel

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Link They have done a great job of hyping the release of the trailer with mini-trailers for the trailer over the last few days and now it is out. I actually think the mini-trailers did a better job of explaining the situation.

Still it looks pretty great!

Looks pretty cool.

I don't mind if the trailer doesn't spell anything out for me. The best trailers tell you nothing but make you want to watch the movie.

I can't wait for this. I really need to go on a media blackout until it's released because there are too many details in the trailer.

LockAndLoad wrote:

I can't wait for this. I really need to go on a media blackout until it's released because there are too many details in the trailer. :)

Really? I guess I got the gist of the movie but it completely lacked anything about the personalities of the crew which I think hides enough for me. It felt very strong on visuals but kept the story and the characters very well hidden.

I'm interested but skeptical. Ridley Scott has always been a visually arresting director, but I feel like his good stories are the exceptions in his body of work rather than the rule. However, I will admit that I seem to be out of step with a lot of people where he's concerned and like some of his movies (Bladerunner, Gladiator) a lot less than most.

farley3k wrote:
LockAndLoad wrote:

I can't wait for this. I really need to go on a media blackout until it's released because there are too many details in the trailer. :)

Really? I guess I got the gist of the movie but it completely lacked anything about the personalities of the crew which I think hides enough for me. It felt very strong on visuals but kept the story and the characters very well hidden.

Well, just from the preview alone we see the space jockey cannon, the ship from the first Alien (the derelict where they find the first egg, see 0:48 below), a room full of urns that resembles the egg room from said derelict ship, and the glaring copying of the Alien font/title reveal from the 1st film

nel e nel wrote:

Well, just from the preview alone we see the space jockey cannon, the ship from the first Alien (the derelict where they find the first egg), a room full of urns that resembles the egg room from said derelict ship, and the glaring copying of the Alien font/title reveal from the 1st film

As well as some irritating Chris Nolan-style cello stabs.

I hadn't seen the trailer for Alien before. It's so much better!

nel e nel wrote:

Well, just from the preview alone we see the space jockey cannon, the ship from the first Alien (the derelict where they find the first egg, see 0:48 below), a room full of urns that resembles the egg room from said derelict ship, and the glaring copying of the Alien font/title reveal from the 1st film

Oh don't get me wrong it tells a lot of the visuals - and settles the argument as to whether it is an Alien prequel (at least in my mind) but it doesn't give away any of the story. We have no idea who these folks are, why they are there, etc.

I guess to me it didn't give away anything I didn't already know about the movie - it just showed me how those things would look.

farley3k wrote:

I guess to me it didn't give away anything I didn't already know about the movie - it just showed me how those things would look.

Agreed. I do find it hilarious this whole time Scott has been denying it's a prequel ('you'll see the DNA of Alien in this but it's definitely not a sequel) and yet there are blaring references to Alien and it's clear that is is a prequel.

Promotheus!

Gotta admit I haven't been interested in *anything* from Hollywood for the past couple years like I am for this. But as was mentioned above, Scott is a lottery ticket... the majority of his stuff kind of blows but his hits rock.

PAR

One thing I found it that Downloading it and using Quicktime is nice because you can pause and go frame by frame.

Next I noticed that in the room with the alien like pods there is a huge human face statue. So did humans worship these creatures? Are humans worship by the aliens?

farley3k wrote:

Next I noticed that in the room with the alien like pods there is a huge human face statue. So did humans worship these creatures? Are humans worship by the aliens?

That face and the "they went looking for our origins" line are the things that most suggest the film will be terrible. But it sure looks like it will be exciting!

So sold. He does Sci-Fi like nobody else out there.

That looks like it's going to be a blast.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I'm interested but skeptical. Ridley Scott has always been a visually arresting director, but I feel like his good stories are the exceptions in his body of work rather than the rule. However, I will admit that I seem to be out of step with a lot of people where he's concerned and like some of his movies (Bladerunner, Gladiator) a lot less than most.

I agree with you completely, though I do like Bladerunner. Gladiator was FANTASTIC when I saw it in the theater, but not so much anymore.

Regardless, this will be pretty and we don't get too many big budget scifi flicks, so I'm happy it's being made.

After watching the trailer a few more times when showing it to friends and some family, I think I'm going into blackout mode on this one. No more trailers, no more reading.

Too many trailers now are including major plot points. This little teaser type trailer shows some bits of action, some basic scenes, but gives no context and doesn't spoil any motivation for any characters or actually tell you what's driving the plot. The "they went looking for our beginning" bit is vague enough that it doesn't actually spoil anything, at least imo, but I'd rather not test that for future trailers. I've been waiting for Scott to do another sci-fi film for too long to have a trailer ruin part of the experience for me.

Plus I find that not knowing more than the very basics about a movie before I see it usually helps me manage my expectations a lot. The less I've seen of a movie in trailers the more likely I am to enjoy it, at least that seems to be the way things correlate most often.

I think I will go on a media blackout as well since it seems interesting. But when it comes out I'll check out rotten tomatoes or some other rating of the movie to see if it's worth my time.

Thin_J wrote:

After watching the trailer a few more times when showing it to friends and some family, I think I'm going into blackout mode on this one. No more trailers, no more reading.

Too many trailers now are including major plot points. This little teaser type trailer shows some bits of action, some basic scenes, but gives no context and doesn't spoil any motivation for any characters or actually tell you what's driving the plot. The "they went looking for our beginning" bit is vague enough that it doesn't actually spoil anything, at least imo, but I'd rather not test that for future trailers. I've been waiting for Scott to do another sci-fi film for too long to have a trailer ruin part of the experience for me.

Plus I find that not knowing more than the very basics about a movie before I see it usually helps me manage my expectations a lot. The less I've seen of a movie in trailers the more likely I am to enjoy it, at least that seems to be the way things correlate most often.

I wanted to bring this up as the original trailer's beauty was it spoiled nothing. You never even saw a hint of the creature, save for a couple quick snips of the face hugger bursting from the egg. Anyone going into the original Alien had no clue what to expect, so legendary scenes like the chest burster and the creature's reveal were completely shocking.

So to me, this trailer is a perfect homage. In fact, it wasn't until I saw this trailer that I realized we haven't had truly good sci-fi in a long time. Every future has us making stuff to look like it was developed by Apple, with cheesy blockbuster Hollywood visions of an elegant future. This feels like the sort of sci-fi from the 70's and 80's brought back, and God help me, if this film can revive that kind of sci-fi alongside of reviving the Alien franchise, then I am all for it.

Call me a blasphemist, but I'm more eager for this film than either The Avengers or The Hobbit.

ccesarano wrote:

So to me, this trailer is a perfect homage. In fact, it wasn't until I saw this trailer that I realized we haven't had truly good sci-fi in a long time. Every future has us making stuff to look like it was developed by Apple, with cheesy blockbuster Hollywood visions of an elegant future. This feels like the sort of sci-fi from the 70's and 80's brought back, and God help me, if this film can revive that kind of sci-fi alongside of reviving the Alien franchise, then I am all for it.

Call me a blasphemist, but I'm more eager for this film than either The Avengers or The Hobbit.

I'm with you. This is why I said nobody does it like Ridley Scott. Because nobody has. The man hasn't made a sci-fi movie since the early 80's and you could still pick the ones he made out of a crowd simply by how they look and how they were shot.

No blasphemy there, Avengers and Hobbit are waaay down on my list of must-see for this coming year. Though I gotta admit, i I were only able to see one film in 2012, it would be Batman3, not this....though it's a very close 2nd.

I think I'm going to wait for Thin J's impressions. If he loves it, I'll probably skip it.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I think I'm going to wait for Thin J's impressions. If he loves it, I'll probably skip it. ;)

That's probably best. It's hard watching someone be so completely wrong as often as you are

Viral Campaign kicks in with a wonderful start: a future TED talk set in 2023 by none other than Peter Weyland, of the Weyland-Yutani Company of the Aliens Universe:

kexx wrote:

Viral Campaign kicks in with a wonderful start: a future TED talk set in 2023 by none other than Peter Weyland, of the Weyland-Yutani Company of the Aliens Universe:

Awesome!

So, it's Alien/s again?
I don't really see the point.

Also, it looks too clean. CGI always looks too clean.

Wow, TED speeches got super popular in the next 11 years judging on the size of that auditorium.

I wish I could find it again, but I read an article recently where Ridley Scott said that the only connection between Alien and Prometheus is that they were set in the same world and that Peter Weyland owns the Prometheus (that's the name of the ship they're on). Otherwise it's a new, unrelated story.

Yeah he's been distancing it from the Alien series for a while now. It's clearly connected, but only in small ways.

Yea, they have done their best to say its not a prequel but seriously, having the Space Jockey in it, the Space Jockey's ship, the Space Jockey's architecture, the Wayland company and all the other minor things we've seen so far its just silly to state its only "loosely" based on the original universe.

It seems that the question that is most important is if the original Aliens will be in it. All he has to do is say "no" and all the rest is moot.

PAR

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