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I'll just assume that you're speaking without knowledge as usual or that you're just trying to hurt me and ignore that.

Dan Harmon's IAmA on reddit.

oh boy

Half-Life 3 by Valve and make it a video game.

Aw c'mon Charlie Kaufman + Community = the stuff dreams are made of.

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just found this on reddit, apparently some random guy on the streets was handing them out.

lost for me was mostly about the WTF moments. And I also liked it because I actually believed that the thing was going somewhere, so naive of me. It's also more creative and original than prometheus, lol.

children of men is obviously on a different level, and not because it's great (which it is) but because Prometheus is pretty much a B-movie with good photography.

there's been too much hate, I agree. how about those that really liked it tell us which was their favorite scene.

wow are you full or yourself. I can easily turn that around: It's sad to see a generation raised by reality TV respond to empty symbolism and religious iconography as if there was any thought behind it other than the equivalent of dangling a set of car keys over a baby's head.

well... it's just very mediocre. more than being annoyed at the lack of explanations/coherence I was bothered by how much I just didn't care about anything that was happening. jump scares were about the only well executed thing imo.

well apparently my friends are dumb/cheap and I will be seeing it in normal digital 2D. gml.

so i might see this tomorrow, is 3D recommended? imax?

plot holes was incorrect wording because i narrowed my subject to just the first movie; that's my mistake. there are huge inconsistencies between the series of movies i would deem plot holes, and i originally considered bringing those up but realized it wasn't necessary when Scott's Alien is nearly as vague as Prometheus on its own. we see little or no discussion about the implications of finding alien life. it's totally a non-issue. whereas in the real world, finding alien life would be the discovery of the century at the least....yet no one really cares or is interested in this? i get that the two maintenance guys are rather indifferent, they're just interested in cash money; i understand that about those characters and that is also a part of all the characters (save Ash) to some extent. but Dallas, Ripley, Kane? Ash even? they all seem like intelligent people (/android!) and yet none seem the least bit interested in the discovery of alien life. that's either bad writing, bad editing, or bad directing not catching the first two options. OR alien life is found all the time and that is left out of the information we receive as viewers. Kane getting a face hugger on him would of course direct their attention elsewhere...but there aren't subplots about the larger implications of alien contact discussed at all. it is simply left out, similar to much information in Prometheus everyone seems to be up in arms about. the vagueness about the post-facehugger dinner comes in that there is no explanation given as to why Kane isn't quarantined. there's a big scene between Ripley and Dallas as they try to board the ship with a facehuggered Kane...then after the face hugger dies no one cares about this anymore? it's just left up to the viewer to assume the characters intentions over what should be at the least another point of contention. the sleeping alien in the escape pod is indeed silly. if this was some intended aspect of the Xenomorph, after supposed safety and a 2 minute check of his surroundings, go into dormancy and wait until something more important than a human being a foot away happens, then i would perhaps let it go as a silly quirk of an alien creature. Scott/O'Bannon may have intended that for the Xenomorph, but that idea was not held up in any subsequent movies. i can at least let that slide for the reasons of the franchise being in the hands of different writers and directors at each step of the way (until now). the scene is bad writing disguised as....well, not even disguised. that's just bad writing. i'm not defending Prometheus. i enjoyed it, but there are problems in it. EDIT: but there are also problems in Alien, that's what i'm trying to illustrate. if Alien came out in this day and age everyone would be picking it apart, if they cared about it at all....the fact that at this point in time it's a 'classic' clouds our judgments and skews how we interpret the film. END EDIT the thing that i would love to hear explained is how "Where did the alien come from? Oh, just some goo in a cave." is any better than "where did these alien eggs come from? ooh just a cargo hold in the first-alien-life-ever's space ship." using the sequels to explain things doesn't count, because Scott has said he left those unanswered oddities in Alien to allow room to explore in sequels, he just didn't get to do them. he has stated in more words that he's doing the same here with Prometheus. leaving things shown unanswered and open for interpretation and exploration by being vague with their intent and purpose....this is what he's done with both movies. Lindelof (as much as i dislike some stuff he's done) was a perfect pairing for that kind of a story. nah. First, it's silly to hold up against the first film what the others did or didn't do. and all the stuff you mention is very minor. It is implied early alien that humanity was already somewhat aware of other forms in life in the universe, when they talk about receiving a signal, one of the crew asks "human?" and someone replies "we don't know", if later films in the series forgot about this it's not to blame on the first one. You see the jockey and you immediately know what is it: it's a dead alien, you see a bunch of eggs and you already know what they are: eggs. And then on retrospect you can fill in the details: the dead alien suffered the same fate that the nostromo crew was facing, and then the creatures laid eggs. same with the sleeping alien, you see it and you immediately think "oh, he's like in hibernation or some shit", and then forget about it and continue experiencing the tense moment. I'll grant you the point about the dinner bit, but to be honest the movie is constructed so that one does not even wonder about this, everyone's just happy that the guy seems fine now, also they're busy with repairing the ship and shit, oh and btw the one in charge of science stuff and quarantines and shit is the android, who we later find out is following secret orders, he is after all the one who opens the door for them, so even in this the movie is actually consistent. So I guess it's relative, but that's part of what good writing is, making those (relative) flaws a non-issue, while Lindelof seems to think they should be the central one. If i were to nitpick alien for something it would be for ripley going back for the cat, and the nostromo blowing up like 10 times.

Most people don't even remember the space jockey scene from alien.

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lol so he openly admits they just made shitty so to open the possibility for a second movie. also it's funny how much ridley and damon blame eachother,

because that was the creators' creators plan all along.

WTF WHY DID RIPLEY GO BACK FOR THE CAT?! THAT MAKES NO SENSE WHAT A CRAP MOVIE.

I haven't even seen it, It's fun to be awepittance.

yeah i know that's what you said, I even said that's what you're saying. I tried to word it in a way that makes it evident why that is silly. I failed apparently.

because then you are saying that his masterplan is deliberately using incompetent people.