**** The Official Prometheus Spoiler Discussion Thread ****
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I agree with you there.
I honestly don't understand all the fuss about Theron. She's too skinny, she looked androgynous in this movie, and her character was a copy/pasted bitch from Ridley Scott's 'big bag of Hollywood stereotypes.' So where's the attraction?
Every movie needs a character or characters audience care enough about to follow through the plot. As an example - in Star Wars originals we liked most characters and we cared what happened to them, including villains, in Star Wars prequels characters were underdeveloped and used only to propel the story to bridge with the originals. And that's where prequels failed. Not only we didn't care what happens to annoying kid and whiney JarJar, most of us actually rooted for them to die. With no good guys to follow, we wanted to see more of Darth Maul.
In similar fashion, where Alien left all of us screaming "Get out of there Ripley" at tv screens, Prometheus didn't give us enough inside into any of the characters for us to care what happens to them. Noomi is a bit of a marmite actress even without faked British accent and horribly bad script, and her bipolar "i can't do it Charlie, boo hoo"/"I'm gonna ef you up with a porta potty pan you doctor, you" character didn't do it for a lot of viewers. And so since you don't feel like cheering for main character, you're not supposed to cheer for the android, you end up cheering for the only easy(ish) on the eye character (in similar way as most of us settled for Amidala in SW prequels).
It is fair to say though, that the art of telling the story through characters is lost on sci fi these days, the writers school rule of "if you were a kid and were to re-enact your story on playground, who would you be" just completely colapses in Prometheus. There are no Lukes, Hans, Deckards or Ripleys in this story. "I'll be Vickers comically crushed by giant croissant" will have to do.
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its always han and boba fett anyway!
i know what you mean though. in alien the only person i didnt care about was the winey bitch Lambert. i liked all the others. in Prometheus i didnt get the chance to know any of them before they start dying and the 2 scientists were so stupid i wanted them to die.
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That was intentional. Nothing much really counted in her character as interesting, I rate the back stories on some Lost episodes over her characters story really.
She was living in the shadow of her fathers titan empire, they could have made her more frustrated or flawed in her response to this influence instead the concept was patient restraint which is boring!
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i still think she will be in the sequel. although ridley does have form for killing off the big name actors.
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if you were an engineer capable of building these space craft and making this goo stuff - surely there's an easier way to spread dna than by killing ones self. i.e needle remove blood inject into water...
and if it is their blood that created life what's the goo for again?
and if it is their blood that created life what's the goo for again?
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its more like a ritual. to give yourself. like the myans etc. thats what im thinking
Because people expect to hear something? You've pretty much always had some type of engine noise from ships in space in most movies and tv shows (id imagine theres some that went the realistic route but nowhere near the amount that don't), would seem a bit odd now if they were suddenly just to have ships silently pootling along past the camera.
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IIRC firefly is one of the ones that have zero sounds in space. it makes it feel more creepy IMO.
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The spacecraft itself would create sound, it just wouldnt be heard in outer space. I just imagine the noise is what I'd heard if I had my ear against the engine of one these things
Theres some excellent camera footage taken of the journey of a space shuttle fuel canister and its journey back to earth, it has sound all the way
Yea I think its possible but shes not a robot so I wonder how they'd do it. If it was lost, we'd be doing flashbacks
The tank is jettisoned inside the Earth's atmosphere. The air is very thin at that altitude, but it's there. Sound generated by a true spaceship would consist only of thrust noise, which would only be detectable within the wash itself - and that assumes something is being expelled.
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It wasn't remotely explained.
That was my reading. Didn't he ask him a couple of questions that reinforced that decision?
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Something along the lines of (paraphrasing of course):
D: What would you be willing to do to get your answers?
H: Absolutely anything
D: Here...i've made you an alientini, enjoy!
