Prometheus / General scifi discussion

[DRTY]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/ ... _v_3d.html

Fully agree with that. 3D is a massive pile of shit

[grillis]

3d movie screens are a joke to be honest... they come off as cheap and tacky right now. i bet in a year or three the technology will be cheap enough for theatres to want to upgrade and will market these screens along with some spiel indicating just how shit the old technology was and why we're all a bunch of suckas for buying into it so early.

[DRTY]

there is a format in existence where its 3d without glasses, but its not practical (need to film from 9 angles at once I think), and the viewing angle is tiny. Until they have some mental hologram shit, it's going to be shit either way. 2D ftw

[joeki]

As you have figured out by now, I am a massive nerd. I don't see how The Fountain is sci-fi. It's melodrama. Visually stunning, interesting story but it didn't grab me as much as some others here. I don't see it as sci-fi at all.

I AM A NERD!

[capo ultra]

that's why The Fountain is so good, it takes expansive grandiose ideas and marries it with universal themes of loss and regret.

[garethom]

there is a format in existence where its 3d without glasses, but its not practical (need to film from 9 angles at once I think), and the viewing angle is tiny. Until they have some mental hologram shit, it's going to be shit either way. 2D ftw

Yep, I get more than enough 3d every other minute of my life. I'm not gonna shit my pants and start cheering because something is in 3d.

[DRTY]

As you have figured out by now, I am a massive nerd. I don't see how The Fountain is sci-fi. It's melodrama. Visually stunning, interesting story but it didn't grab me as much as some others here. I don't see it as sci-fi at all.

I AM A NERD!

for da record i nevar said it was sci fi, I just saw someone mentioned it so ceased an opportunity to bum it some more

[capo ultra]

it is a sci fi. it is also a melodrama. It is also a romance.

Robert A. Heinlein, "a handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method."

basically sums up The Fountain in a sentence.

I think Joeski has more classic space-set scifi in mind though.

[grillis]

yeh bluray 1080 on a big led screen is my favourite format for watching movies, 3d looks pretty good on that too. it's the refresh of the 3d cinema screens that gets me the most- wide cinematic panning shots are super blurry, worse than old shit lcd screens.

[nousd]

back to Prometheus:

overall I thought it was clumsy, with the script being the worst aspect
how anyone can get some deepness out of it, beats me

the best actors, in order, were:
1. the red surveying bots (energetic performances)
2. Loomi (she seemed genuinely frightened at times)
3. the big marble guy (he looked worried at the prospect of being invaded by the octopus
...even bracing his legs against the doorway)

Theron varied from pantomime baddy to a woman showing first signs of menopause & dementia.
Dave looked funny as a head but if he was so vain about his hairstyle why did he persist with matchstick arms?
The Cap'n belonged in Snakes on a Plane & his crew of nerdy gamers couldn't wait to do something real, like dying.

The design of Prometheus was illogical & the sound for the ourobos spacecraft crashing was underwhelming.

How did the tatooed geologist become a full-on monster so quickly when the archaeologist, who'd been infected for some time, was only starting to turn?

I'm confused about why some mutations need to be implanted by fucking & some by oral sex...

Apart from that, I was engaged & thought the very end, where Loomi decides she has to give up returning to Earth but, instead, adventure on with a multilingual bighead in a bag, to find her Big Makers' home planet and get the answer as to why they didn't like us any more, was the most elevating concept in the whole film.

EDIT: must've had some impact...
I was watching the trees for signs of treachery today
& got closer to having the korean barbeque:

paranoia needs the balance of an open mind

EDIT#2: that seems to have killed off the thread
I might go & see it again, in 3D.

[SCope13]

Finally got around to watching Prometheus. I really enjoyed it tbh. Only seen the first to Alien movies though and I haven't seen the 2nd one in forever. But yeah, as far as mainstream movies go it's one of the better ones. I mean shit, you can't honestly tell me it's as bad as say, Transformers.

[test_recordings]

3d films are just layered 2d, there`s nothing really 3d about them... no more than a theatre backdrop, anyway

[Terpit]

Didnt read the whole thread but saw people asking about the goo and why it interacted with people differently, i was under the impression that it reacted with emotion or personality which is why there were such drastic differences.

[Terpit]

and this

[joeki]

but man + tentacles = also alien?

[Terpit]

but man + tentacles = also alien?

Cant remember, will have to watch it again

[joeki]

and also, if Man and Space Jockey = same DNA : why Space Jockey + Goo = Man, but Man + goo = contortionist zombie?

*edit*

I suppose that could be explained if the goo reacted to ones character, which is a childish fairytale explanation for me but you never know with the writer from lost. It doesn't look like the Space Jockey's are that friendly.

[Terpit]

I suppose that could be explained if the goo reacted to ones character, which is a childish fairytale explanation for me but you never know with the writer from lost. It doesn't look like the Space Jockey's are that friendly.

i think that was the case, its the only possible explanation i can think of anyway.

[Phase Down]

I like how phigure is like NO this not how evolution works! I have been long enough to experience all of it!

[garethom]

iirc a aliem bit the dude and he turned into a aliem/octopus cus his blood was an aliems blood now