Ridley Scott's Prometheus[views:55897][posts:203]__________________________________ [Jun 11,2012 11:44am - MikeOv ""] Ross, do you have a source for that? I only ask because I want to read what Scott says about it, I'm not saying you're wrong. The only interview I've found and read that touched upon the opening scene is that it may not be taking place on Earth. When I first saw Prometheus on Friday night, I thought the same thing you wrote above. When my friend and I went back and saw it on Sunday, going into it after smoking this good pot, my outlook and thought process radically shifted, and I saw things in a more sinister light. It felt too obvious that he would be the messianic sacrifice. The engineers/space jockeys/call them what you will, seem to have an agenda we couldn't even begin to imagine. As seen in the film, they're very ruthless and cruel. There might be valid reasons for their general dispostions. My friend and both think that something else was going on in that scene. He seemed refreshed after gulping it down, a reaction one wouldn't have, knowing their body is about to disintegrate, even if he was prepared to sacrifice himself. When he starts convulsing, he appears shocked to me. The craft in the distance disappears ominously into the mist above. Man, such a killer scene. Shaw screams "Why do you hate us?" If you were an engineer, wouldn't you hate us as well? Our planet is fucked. |
__________________________________ [Jun 11,2012 11:45am - MikeOv ""] dispositions* |
______________________________________ [Jun 11,2012 11:48am - trioxin_245 ""] MikeOv said: Our planet is fucked. [img] |
________________________________________ [Jun 11,2012 12:26pm - Ripley Scott ""] MikeOv said:The only interview I've found and read that touched upon the opening scene is that it may not be taking place on Earth. It may not be. He is seeding a planet with life, however we do not know if it is Earth. |
________________________________________ [Jun 11,2012 12:42pm - Ripley Scott ""] MikeOv said:The engineers/space jockeys/call them what you will, seem to have an agenda we couldn't even begin to imagine. As seen in the film, they're very ruthless and cruel. There might be valid reasons for their general dispostions. Keep in mind, in the opening scene the ship is DIFFERENT than the later Engineer ships. If this is Earth, then between the opening scene and the rest of the film many thousands or even millions of years have passed. It is not so strange to think the intentions and manner of the Engineers may have changed in that span of time. Note the Alien is left behind, and dressed differently than the other Engineers we've seen. Despite coming from a space ship, he seems very simply dressed - perhaps the trepidation and surprise is due to him being a slave, forced to do this task? |
______________________________________________ [Jun 11,2012 12:50pm - MASTERS OF HORROR ""] Ripley%20Scott said: MikeOv said:The only interview I've found and read that touched upon the opening scene is that it may not be taking place on Earth. It may not be. He is seeding a planet with life, however we do not know if it is Earth. It was ICELAND ALL HUMANS COME FROM THERE. RIDLEY SCOTT IS RACIST |
________________________________________ [Jun 11,2012 12:58pm - Ripley Scott ""] I'm so gay. Two days later, I just got the "Prometheus" reference: The black ooze is supposed to be the fire stolen from the gods? |
____________________________________ [Jun 11,2012 12:59pm - chernobyl ""] MikeOv said:Ross, do you have a source for that? I only ask because I want to read what Scott says about it, I'm not saying you're wrong. The only interview I've found and read that touched upon the opening scene is that it may not be taking place on Earth. When I first saw Prometheus on Friday night, I thought the same thing you wrote above. When my friend and I went back and saw it on Sunday, going into it after smoking this good pot, my outlook and thought process radically shifted, and I saw things in a more sinister light. It felt too obvious that he would be the messianic sacrifice. The engineers/space jockeys/call them what you will, seem to have an agenda we couldn't even begin to imagine. As seen in the film, they're very ruthless and cruel. There might be valid reasons for their general dispostions. My friend and both think that something else was going on in that scene. He seemed refreshed after gulping it down, a reaction one wouldn't have, knowing their body is about to disintegrate, even if he was prepared to sacrifice himself. When he starts convulsing, he appears shocked to me. The craft in the distance disappears ominously into the mist above. Man, such a killer scene. Shaw screams "Why do you hate us?" If you were an engineer, wouldn't you hate us as well? Our planet is fucked. I think the engineer at the beginning was sacrificing himself as ross said earlier...the way he drinks from that cup seems like he knew what to do. |
________________________________ [Jun 11,2012 1:00pm - Burnsy ""] I thought the planet he seeded was the moon that the crew journeys to. Seeding that planet with the xenoforms (his insides turn all black). |
_____________________________________ [Jun 11,2012 1:00pm - trioxin_245 ""] Ripley%20Scott said:I'm so gay. Two days later, I just got the "Prometheus" reference: The black ooze is supposed to be the fire stolen from the gods? I think that's reading too much into it. Prometheus is a reference to the creator of human beings, the black ooze is just a biological weapon. Fire was a GIFT from Prometheus to humanity, not a weapon to destroy them. |
_______________________________________ [Jun 11,2012 1:04pm - Ripley Scott ""] Something I do NOT have any theories about: What was the deal with the exploding re-animated Engineer head? |
_____________________________________ [Jun 11,2012 1:10pm - trioxin_245 ""] yea that's one thing I don't get at all. also, even though I know it doesn't matter, I want to know what david said to the engineer. |
_____________________________________________ [Jun 11,2012 1:17pm - MASTERS OF HORROR ""] YOUR ALL OVERANALYZING A SHITTY EXCUSE FOR A MOVIE |
__________________________________________________ [Jun 11,2012 1:19pm - Prometheus Side Service ""] I agree with MASTERS on this, you guys wouldn't know dangerous and original if it came up and bit you in the tuckus. |
_______________________________________ [Jun 11,2012 1:19pm - Ripley Scott ""] MASTERS%20OF%20HORROR said:YOUR ALL OVERANALYZING A SHITTY EXCUSE FOR A MOVIE YOUR ILLITERIT |
________________________________ [Jun 11,2012 2:42pm - KEVORD ""] This post goes way in depth to Prometheus and explains some of the deeper themes of the film as well as some stuff I completely overlooked while watching the film. NOTE: I did NOT write this post, I just found it on the web. Link: http://cavalorn.livejournal.com/584135.html#cutid1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in the film that not only enrich it, but offer possible hints as to what was going on in otherwise confusing scenes. Let's begin with the eponymous titan himself, Prometheus. He was a wise and benevolent entity who created mankind in the first place, forming the first humans from clay. The Gods were more or less okay with that, until Prometheus gave them fire. This was a big no-no, as fire was supposed to be the exclusive property of the Gods. As punishment, Prometheus was chained to a rock and condemned to have his liver ripped out and eaten every day by an eagle. (His liver magically grew back, in case you were wondering.) Fix that image in your mind, please: the giver of life, with his abdomen torn open. We'll be coming back to it many times in the course of this article. The ethos of the titan Prometheus is one of willing and necessary sacrifice for life's sake. That's a pattern we see replicated throughout the ancient world. J G Frazer wrote his lengthy anthropological study, The Golden Bough, around the idea of the Dying God - a lifegiver who voluntarily dies for the sake of the people. It was incumbent upon the King to die at the right and proper time, because that was what heaven demanded, and fertility would not ensue if he did not do his royal duty of dying. Now, consider the opening sequence of Prometheus. We fly over a spectacular vista, which may or may not be primordial Earth. According to Ridley Scott, it doesn't matter. A lone Engineer at the top of a waterfall goes through a strange ritual, drinking from a cup of black goo that causes his body to disintegrate into the building blocks of life. We see the fragments of his body falling into the river, twirling and spiralling into DNA helices. Ridley Scott has this to say about the scene: 'That could be a planet anywhere. All he’s doing is acting as a gardener in space. And the plant life, in fact, is the disintegration of himself. If you parallel that idea with other sacrificial elements in history – which are clearly illustrated with the Mayans and the Incas – he would live for one year as a prince, and at the end of that year, he would be taken and donated to the gods in hopes of improving what might happen next year, be it with crops or weather, etcetera.' Can we find a God in human history who creates plant life through his own death, and who is associated with a river? It's not difficult to find several, but the most obvious candidate is Osiris, the epitome of all the Frazerian 'Dying Gods'. And we wouldn't be amiss in seeing the first of the movie's many Christian allegories in this scene, either. The Engineer removes his cloak before the ceremony, and hesitates before drinking the cupful of genetic solvent; he may well have been thinking 'If it be Thy will, let this cup pass from me.' So, we know something about the Engineers, a founding principle laid down in the very first scene: acceptance of death, up to and including self-sacrifice, is right and proper in the creation of life. Prometheus, Osiris, John Barleycorn, and of course the Jesus of Christianity are all supposed to embody this same principle. It is held up as one of the most enduring human concepts of what it means to be 'good'. Seen in this light, the perplexing obscurity of the rest of the film yields to an examination of the interwoven themes of sacrifice, creation, and preservation of life. We also discover, through hints, exactly what the nature of the clash between the Engineers and humanity entailed. The crew of the Prometheus discover an ancient chamber, presided over by a brooding solemn face, in which urns of the same black substance are kept. A mural on the wall presents an image which, if you did as I asked earlier on, you will recognise instantly: the lifegiver with his abdomen torn open. Go and look at it here to refresh your memory. Note the serenity on the Engineer's face here. And there's another mural there, one which shows a familiar xenomorph-like figure. This is the Destroyer who mirrors the Creator, I think - the avatar of supremely selfish life, devouring and destroying others purely to preserve itself. As Ash puts it: 'a survivor, unclouded by conscience, remorse or delusions of morality.' Through Shaw and Holloway's investigations, we learn that the Engineers not only created human life, they supervised our development. (How else are we to explain the numerous images of Engineers in primitive art, complete with star diagram showing us the way to find them?) We have to assume, then, that for a good few hundred thousand years, they were pretty happy with us. They could have destroyed us at any time, but instead, they effectively invited us over; the big pointy finger seems to be saying 'Hey, guys, when you're grown up enough to develop space travel, come see us.' Until something changed, something which not only messed up our relationship with them but caused their installation on LV-223 to be almost entirely wiped out. From the Engineers' perspective, so long as humans retained that notion of self-sacrifice as central, we weren't entirely beyond redemption. But we went and screwed it all up, and the film hints at when, if not why: the Engineers at the base died two thousand years ago. That suggests that the event that turned them against us and led to the huge piles of dead Engineers lying about was one and the same event. We did something very, very bad, and somehow the consequences of that dreadful act accompanied the Engineers back to LV-223 and massacred them. If you have uneasy suspicions about what 'a bad thing approximately 2,000 years ago' might be, then let me reassure you that you are right. An astonishing excerpt from the Movies.com interview with Ridley Scott: Movies.com: We had heard it was scripted that the Engineers were targeting our planet for destruction because we had crucified one of their representatives, and that Jesus Christ might have been an alien. Was that ever considered? Ridley Scott: We definitely did, and then we thought it was a little too on the nose. But if you look at it as an “our children are misbehaving down there” scenario, there are moments where it looks like we’ve gone out of control, running around with armor and skirts, which of course would be the Roman Empire. And they were given a long run. A thousand years before their disintegration actually started to happen. And you can say, "Let's send down one more of our emissaries to see if he can stop it." Guess what? They crucified him. Yeah. The reason the Engineers don't like us any more is that they made us a Space Jesus, and we broke him. Reader, that's not me pulling wild ideas out of my arse. That's RIDLEY SCOTT. So, imagine poor crucified Jesus, a fresh spear wound in his side. Oh, hey, there's the 'lifegiver with his abdomen torn open' motif again. That's three times now: Prometheus, Engineer mural, Jesus Christ. And I don't think I have to mention the 'sacrifice in the interest of giving life' bit again, do I? Everyone on the same page? Good. So how did our (in the context of the film) terrible murderous act of crucifixion end up wiping out all but one of the Engineers back on LV-223? Presumably through the black slime, which evidently models its behaviour on the user's mental state. Create unselfishly, accepting self-destruction as the cost, and the black stuff engenders fertile life. But expose the potent black slimy stuff to the thoughts and emotions of flawed humanity, and 'the sleep of reason produces monsters'. We never see the threat that the Engineers were fleeing from, we never see them killed other than accidentally (decapitation by door), and we see no remaining trace of whatever killed them. Either it left a long time ago, or it reverted to inert black slime, waiting for a human mind to reactivate it. The black slime reacts to the nature and intent of the being that wields it, and the humans in the film didn't even know that they WERE wielding it. That's why it remained completely inert in David's presence, and why he needed a human proxy in order to use the stuff to create anything. The black goo could read no emotion or intent from him, because he was an android. Shaw's comment when the urn chamber is entered - 'we've changed the atmosphere in the room' - is deceptively informative. The psychic atmosphere has changed, because humans - tainted, Space Jesus-killing humans - are present. The slime begins to engender new life, drawing not from a self-sacrificing Engineer but from human hunger for knowledge, for more life, for more everything. Little wonder, then, that it takes serpent-like form. The symbolism of a corrupting serpent, turning men into beasts, is pretty unmistakeable. Refusal to accept death is anathema to the Engineers. Right from the first scene, we learned their code of willing self-sacrifice in accord with a greater purpose. When the severed Engineer head is temporarily brought back to life, its expression registers horror and disgust. Cinemagoers are confused when the head explodes, because it's not clear why it should have done so. Perhaps the Engineer wanted to die again, to undo the tainted human agenda of new life without sacrifice. But some humans do act in ways the Engineers might have grudgingly admired. Take Holloway, Shaw's lover, who impregnates her barren womb with his black slime riddled semen before realising he is being transformed into something Other. Unlike the hapless geologist and botanist left behind in the chamber, who only want to stay alive, Holloway willingly embraces death. He all but invites Meredith Vickers to kill him, and it's surely significant that she does so using fire, the other gift Prometheus gave to man besides his life. The 'Caesarean' scene is central to the film's themes of creation, sacrifice, and giving life. Shaw has discovered she's pregnant with something non-human and sets the autodoc to slice it out of her. She lies there screaming, a gaping wound in her stomach, while her tentacled alien child thrashes and squeals in the clamp above her and OH HEY IT'S THE LIFEGIVER WITH HER ABDOMEN TORN OPEN. How many times has that image come up now? Four, I make it. (We're not done yet.) And she doesn't kill it. And she calls the procedure a 'caesarean' instead of an 'abortion'. (I'm not even going to begin to explore the pro-choice versus forced birth implications of that scene. I don't think they're clear, and I'm not entirely comfortable doing so. Let's just say that her unwanted offspring turning out to be her salvation is possibly problematic from a feminist standpoint and leave it there for now.) Here's where the Christian allegories really come through. The day of this strange birth just happens to be Christmas Day. And this is a 'virgin birth' of sorts, although a dark and twisted one, because Shaw couldn't possibly be pregnant. And Shaw's the crucifix-wearing Christian of the crew. We may well ask, echoing Yeats: what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards LV-223 to be born? Consider the scene where David tells Shaw that she's pregnant, and tell me that's not a riff on the Annunciation. The calm, graciously angelic android delivering the news, the pious mother who insists she can't possibly be pregnant, the wry declaration that it's no ordinary child... yeah, we've seen this before. 'And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.' A barren woman called Elizabeth, made pregnant by 'God'? Subtle, Ridley. Anyway. If it weren't already clear enough that the central theme of the film is 'I suffer and die so that others may live' versus 'you suffer and die so that I may live' writ extremely large, Meredith Vickers helpfully spells it out: 'A king has his reign, and then he dies. It's inevitable.' Vickers is not just speaking out of personal frustration here, though that's obviously one level of it. She wants her father out of the way, so she can finally come in to her inheritance. It's insult enough that Weyland describes the android David as 'the closest thing I have to a son', as if only a male heir was of any worth; his obstinate refusal to accept death is a slap in her face. Weyland, preserved by his wealth and the technology it can buy, has lived far, far longer than his rightful time. A ghoulish, wizened creature who looks neither old nor young, he reminds me of Slough Feg, the decaying tyrant from the Slaine series in British comic 2000AD. In Slaine, an ancient (and by now familiar to you, dear reader, or so I would hope) Celtic law decrees that the King has to be ritually and willingly sacrificed at the end of his appointed time, for the good of the land and the people. Slough Feg refused to die, and became a rotting horror, the embodiment of evil. The image of the sorcerer who refuses to accept rightful death is fundamental: it even forms a part of some occult philosophy. In Crowley's system, the magician who refuses to accept the bitter cup of Babalon and undergo dissolution of his individual ego in the Great Sea (remember that opening scene?) becomes an ossified, corrupted entity called a 'Black Brother' who can create no new life, and lives on as a sterile, emasculated husk. With all this in mind, we can better understand the climactic scene in which the withered Weyland confronts the last surviving Engineer. See it from the Engineer's perspective. Two thousand years ago, humanity not only murdered the Engineers' emissary, it infected the Engineers' life-creating fluid with its own tainted selfish nature, creating monsters. And now, after so long, here humanity is, presumptuously accepting a long-overdue invitation, and even reawakening (and corrupting all over again) the life fluid. And who has humanity chosen to represent them? A self-centred, self-satisfied narcissist who revels in his own artificially extended life, who speaks through the medium of a merely mechanical offspring. Humanity couldn't have chosen a worse ambassador. It's hardly surprising that the Engineer reacts with contempt and disgust, ripping David's head off and battering Weyland to death with it. The subtext is bitter and ironic: you caused us to die at the hands of our own creation, so I am going to kill you with YOUR own creation, albeit in a crude and bludgeoning way. The only way to save humanity is through self-sacrifice, and this is exactly what the captain (and his two oddly complacent co-pilots) opt to do. They crash the Prometheus into the Engineer's ship, giving up their lives in order to save others. Their willing self-sacrifice stands alongside Holloway's and the Engineer's from the opening sequence; by now, the film has racked up no less than five self-sacrificing gestures (six if we consider the exploding Engineer head). Meredith Vickers, of course, has no interest in self-sacrifice. Like her father, she wants to keep herself alive, and so she ejects and lands on the planet's surface. With the surviving cast now down to Vickers and Shaw, we witness Vickers's rather silly death as the Engineer ship rolls over and crushes her, due to a sudden inability on her part to run sideways. Perhaps that's the point; perhaps the film is saying her view is blinkered, and ultimately that kills her. But I doubt it. Sometimes a daft death is just a daft death. Finally, in the squidgy ending scenes of the film, the wrathful Engineer conveniently meets its death at the tentacles of Shaw's alien child, now somehow grown huge. But it's not just a death; there's obscene life being created here, too. The (in the Engineers' eyes) horrific human impulse to sacrifice others in order to survive has taken on flesh. The Engineer's body bursts open - blah blah lifegiver blah blah abdomen ripped apart hey we're up to five now - and the proto-Alien that emerges is the very image of the creature from the mural. On the face of it, it seems absurd to suggest that the genesis of the Alien xenomorph ultimately lies in the grotesque human act of crucifying the Space Jockeys' emissary to Israel in four B.C., but that's what Ridley Scott proposes. It seems equally insane to propose that Prometheus is fundamentally about the clash between acceptance of death as a condition of creating/sustaining life versus clinging on to life at the expense of others, but the repeated, insistent use of motifs and themes bears this out. As a closing point, let me draw your attention to a very different strand of symbolism that runs through Prometheus: the British science fiction show Doctor Who. In the 1970s episode 'The Daemons', an ancient mound is opened up, leading to an encounter with a gigantic being who proves to be an alien responsible for having guided mankind's development, and who now views mankind as a failed experiment that must be destroyed. The Engineers are seen tootling on flutes, in exactly the same way that the second Doctor does. The Third Doctor had an companion whose name was Liz Shaw, the same name as the protagonist of Prometheus. As with anything else in the film, it could all be coincidental; but knowing Ridley Scott, it doesn't seem very likely. |
________________________________________ [Jun 11,2012 2:44pm - Lvl 36 Wizard ""] WALL OF TEXT |
__________________________________ [Jun 12,2012 10:01am - MikeOv ""] Up |
___________________________________________ [Jun 12,2012 10:07am - joeyvsdavidlopan ""] So assuming we buy all that (and it makes enough sense that I've got no problems with it), how does our killing the engineers' emissary on Earth translate to their black liquid coming under our influence and wreaking the havoc that it does on their base? |
__________________________________ [Jun 12,2012 10:21am - MikeOv ""] The engineer acting as a savior figure in our distant past was not included in this film. Unless it is included in the sequel, it's really difficult to rely upon that as the reason the engineers are so hostile towards us. The impression I got from Ridley's interview was that he thought such a plot device would be far too cliche, "on the nose" as he put it. We'll just have to wait for a sequel to find out more answers. I'm enjoying the speculations though. |
______________________________________ [Jun 12,2012 10:59am - trioxin_245 ""] Frankly I think everyone is trying to hard to interpret some relatively simple concepts and scenes. Ridley himself has said that he didn't think EVERY SINGLE ASPECT of the movie through as much as everyone seems to think, and the things he did are not necessarily supposed to be open to all kinds of interpretations, some things were just there because that's the way they fit into the movie, and not everything that happens has to do with the Alien franchise. |
____________________________________ [Jun 12,2012 11:25am - arktouros ""] i still haven't seen this, but movies like this tend to be overanalyzed to a point way beyond the creators thought -- Damon Lindelof was already guilty of this in LOST. it's like trying to pick apart a david lynch movie, some things are meant to be interpreted a number of ways or not at all. |
______________________________________ [Jun 12,2012 11:32am - trioxin_245 ""] Exactly. I'm not trying to shoot anyone down, just saying. I could sit here and talk for hours about the underlying class-warfare themes in "Hard Target" but I'd rather just enjoy it for what it is: a good action flick. |
__________________________________________ [Jun 12,2012 1:01pm - joeyvsdavidlopan ""] MikeOv said:The engineer acting as a savior figure in our distant past was not included in this film. Unless it is included in the sequel, it's really difficult to rely upon that as the reason the engineers are so hostile towards us. The impression I got from Ridley's interview was that he thought such a plot device would be far too cliche, "on the nose" as he put it. We'll just have to wait for a sequel to find out more answers. I'm enjoying the speculations though. Right right, the idea was just way too tempting to latch on to. I really hope we get a sequel. My brain's been very happy with the amount of engagement it's been getting, even if a full 98% of it is overanalysis. |
_________________________________ [Jun 12,2012 2:27pm - MikeOv ""] arktouros said:i still haven't seen this, but movies like this tend to be overanalyzed to a point way beyond the creators thought -- Damon Lindelof was already guilty of this in LOST. it's like trying to pick apart a david lynch movie, some things are meant to be interpreted a number of ways or not at all. That's why Lynch is one of my favorite writers/directors. To use Lost Highway as a perfect example, that film was panned for what critics felt was an aimless plot with no real meaning behind it. I enjoy being able to interpret Lost Highway in my own personal way. Lynch is intentionally vague and hits his audience with a barrage of irrational imagery that is loosely connected. He leaves it up to the viewer to solve the puzzle however they choose. Having said that, Lynch is a true auteur and he never gives too much away, if anything at all. Prometheus wasn't meant to be as surreal or puzzling as a Lynch film, but I think it still left a lot to be debated and that's part of the fun of cinema, for me at least. |
_________________________________ [Jun 12,2012 2:29pm - MikeOv ""] joeyvsdavidlopan said: I really hope we get a sequel. My brain's been very happy with the amount of engagement it's been getting, even if a full 98% of it is overanalysis. Yup, same here. |
_____________________________________ [Jun 12,2012 2:33pm - trioxin_245 ""] I've heard Lynch say that a fair amount of Lost Highway was 'film for films sake' |
_________________________________ [Jun 12,2012 2:35pm - MikeOv ""] I've heard him say a lot of things, haha. |
_____________________________________ [Jun 12,2012 2:37pm - trioxin_245 ""] Yea I'm pretty sure half of his 'intended interpretations' were after the fact haha. |
_________________________________ [Jun 12,2012 2:38pm - MikeOv ""] Lost Highway is both a faustian and a cautionary tale. The point? DON'T YOU EVER FUCKING TAILGATE. |
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______________________________________ [Jun 13,2012 10:33am - EffeyeMess ""] One thing that irritated me about this movie was the lack of that creepy siren sound from the commercial. i waited the whole movie for that! |
_________________________________ [Jun 13,2012 12:30pm - Burnsy ""] Thanks ark. I had basically forgotten that fucking face. Fuck. |
_____________________________________ [Jun 13,2012 12:55pm - trioxin245 ""] Burnsy said:Thanks ark. I had basically forgotten that fucking face. Fuck. IM IN YOUR HOUSSSSSSE |
___________________________________ [Jun 13,2012 1:34pm - chernobyl ""] arktourOs said:[img] That Burnsy? |
________________________________ [Oct 9,2012 11:44am - xmikex ""] Prometheus filmmakers purposely left out explanatory scenes intended for blu-ray "deleted scenes." Nowadays Ridley Scott, fuck off. http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/10/the-dele...n-a-whole-bunch-of-important-stuff/ |
______________________________________ [Oct 9,2012 11:51am - the_reverend ""] I need to DL and watch this. |
_____________________________________ [Oct 9,2012 12:03pm - Randy_Marsh ""] what about DVD? |
________________________________ [Oct 9,2012 12:18pm - KEVORD ""] Gonna stop and buy the Blu Ray on the way home from work. Can't wait to see the extras. |
__________________________________________ [Oct 9,2012 12:29pm - joeyvsdavidlopan ""] xmikex said:Prometheus filmmakers purposely left out explanatory scenes intended for blu-ray "deleted scenes." Nowadays Ridley Scott, fuck off. http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/10/the-deleted-scenes-of-prometheus-actually-explain-a-whole-bunch-of-important-stuff/ What the hell. |
_____________________________________ [Oct 9,2012 12:59pm - Randy_Marsh ""] Buying the dvd today |
_____________________________ [Oct 9,2012 2:05pm - ark ""] I don't own any but BluRay is a great format. If Scott wants to collect all the shit on the cutting room floor and put it on a disc then that's fucking awesome. The theater format, on the other hand, is lame because the producers are really limited to around 2 hours and need to cut certain things to make it through the MPAA and to the market. I have the ultra Blade Runner DVD suitcase that I still haven't plowed through. |
_____________________________________ [Oct 9,2012 9:49pm - the_reverend ""] just put this on... |
_____________________________________ [Oct 9,2012 9:52pm - the_reverend ""] oh my... forgot I have a surround sound system in here. |
______________________________________ [Oct 9,2012 11:01pm - the_reverend ""] the first deaths.. my my my... dong to the throat. |
______________________________________ [Oct 9,2012 11:54pm - the_reverend ""] that was pretty good. except what came of the dude that took the dong to the throat? |
______________________________________ [Oct 10,2012 3:20pm - the_reverend ""] http://www.comicbookmovie.com/scifi_movies/news/?a=62120 |
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______________________________ [Oct 11,2012 2:19pm - BSV ""] got the 4 disc blu ray. I found everything pretty clear after the first view and nothing was really left uncovered however, I dug the deleted scene when they have dialogue with the engineer who was awakened. anyone got a 3d tv I can watch this on? |