P R O M E T H E U S |OT| Ridley Scott goes back to Building Better Worlds

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IMAX tickets booked.

aaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwww yyyyyyyyyeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh
 
callmedave said:
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Junior Asparagus said:
No one has this? Really? I may just take it then... Thanks!
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That was my desktop wallpaper for 6 months.
 
mingus said:
Beijing until end of July. If my Chinese wasn't so terrible I could probably figure it out somehow on Baidu or something. Is there some sort of imdb or movies.yahoo.com type website in English I could use to look up release dates?
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My brother lives in Beijing. He went to the Megabox in Sanlitun today to see if he could find out whether Prometheus is being shown over there - doesn't look promising, I'm afraid.

Their website is here - http://www.imegabox.com/movies/MovieList.aspx?categoryid=1

I'd check on it periodically and hope that the film will be released sometime soon.

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Got an email from my local imax in Bradford, England saying that they're going to be showing Prometheus! Yes!

..But only from June 25th onwards. Doh. =[
 
Why the hell aren't tickets available yet on Cineplex.com? Argh.

And I will definitely not be seeing this in IMAX 3D. Saw AVATAR in IMAX 3D and the image was pretty dark. UltraAVX 3D will look much better. Sharper image.
 
Eye Drop said:
Is this being marketed anywhere as an Aliens film? A TV spot aired heaps during a recent football game here in Australia and when I quizzed my friends on whether or not we want to marathon the Aliens series before seing it they all were confused as to why.

Even my father, a decent fan of the Alien quadrilogy, was unaware this was an Aliens prequel when I asked him if he wanted to see it.

They're doing a great job marketing it without explaining too much. Also, the trailer in 3D is the best looking 3D I've seen thus far.
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yeah when I saw the trailer with a few friends before a film, most of them agreed it looked lame. I told them it did not at all and it is sort of prequel to Alien from the same director, and they suddenly changed their minds.
 
Zeliard said:
You guys need to watch Shame and Hunger if you haven't. Glorious Fassbender performances.
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Not sure if this is spoiler worthy bit I'm tagging it anyways (has to do with Shame)
Always had a weird feeling that he was going to have sex with his sister in that film. It goes against his no strings attached/emotionless sex but that vibe was present throughout.
 
symphonask said:
Anyone read the new Ridley Scott interview in Rolling Stone? In it he says that he'd love to make a western (when asked if there's a different genre he'd like to get into). Man, I'd LOVE to see Ridley's take on the western.

http://m.rollingstone.com/?redirurl...us-mad-men-and-a-blade-runner-sequel-20120523
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A Scott western would indeed be great. We need more westerns, I think.
3N16MA said:
Not sure if this is spoiler worthy bit I'm tagging it anyways (has to do with Shame)
Always had a weird feeling that he was going to have sex with his sister in that film. It goes against his no strings attached/emotionless sex but that vibe was present throughout.
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that's the point. sissy makes him feel vulnerable and angry. reveals more of his inability to connect with anyone.
 
Two tickets for a 3D showing booked for the 1st of June at 1pm. Not one cinema close by is showing it in 2D. I better find my 3D glasses.
 
Interesting article/interview with Scott.

As always, be wary of spoilers when skimming.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/p...ott-the-most-macho-man-in-movies-7782369.html

Alien has since been subjected to the ignominy of three sequels, a corresponding decline in quality – and, worst of all, a pair of Alien vs Predator films. Of these, Scott (and everyone else) prefers the first: James Cameron's Aliens (1986). But he maintains his original was the scariest: "Some audiences were so incensed by that kitchen scene [in which, famously, the alien bursts from John Hurt's chest] that they got up and left. It was distressing. I loved that. There are some moments that are pretty distressing in Prometheus. In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing."

James Cameron – who has his own fire engine for tackling blazes in the hills above Malibu, and recently dived alone in a one-man submarine to the deepest point on earth – is one of Scott's closest friends in Hollywood. His other buddies, he says, are his brother Tony, director of Top Gun and a clutch of Denzel Washington action movies, and Michael Mann, whose testosterone-fuelled filmography includes Heat and Miami Vice. Sounds like a pretty macho poker game, I suggest.

Naturally, Scott's friends are rivals, too, and it was a visit to the set of Cameron's Avatar that convinced him to shoot Prometheus in 3D. "I said to Jim: 'You've gone and raised the fucking bar again! I've got to do something about this...'."
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Much has been made of Scott's return to science fiction, three decades after he redefined the genre. After Prometheus, he has a follow-up to his other futuristic masterpiece, Blade Runner, in the works. It will be a sequel, he suggests, not a prequel or a remake – but Harrison Ford is unlikely to feature prominently. "I don't think it'll be Harry [starring]. But I've got to have him in it somewhere. That'd be amusing." In the meantime, he's set to direct The Counselor, a "morality tale" about a lawyer who foolishly dabbles in the drugs trade. The script is the first by celebrated novelist Cormac McCarthy, and the cast list already includes the names Fassbender, Pitt, Diaz, Bardem and Cruz.
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More at the link.
 
Timbuktu said:
More than for clarity, it's the size and more importantly the sound.
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LieMAX sound is pretty much indistinguishable. And you realise you're going to get a smaller rectangle in the middle of that huge IMAX screen, right? It's not actually going to be blown up to IMAX size.
 
Scullibundo said:
LieMAX sound is pretty much indistinguishable. And you realise you're going to get a smaller rectangle in the middle of that huge IMAX screen, right? It's not actually going to be blown up to IMAX size.
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I don't know of any screen round here that is even close to the bfi IMAX in size, even if the picture is not full IMAX quality. To be honest, i don't know if there are 'LIeMAX' in London. I only know that the best theatre experience i've had are there and the price is almost the same as many decent multiplexes nowadays.
 
Scullibundo said:
LieMAX sound is pretty much indistinguishable. And you realise you're going to get a smaller rectangle in the middle of that huge IMAX screen, right? It's not actually going to be blown up to IMAX size.
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What was up with Avengers being blown up to IMAX or 'LieMAX' size when I saw it? Is it like that in real IMAX theaters too?
 
American Gangster (2007)

For his biopic of crime boss Frank Lucas, Scott filmed at more than 50 locations in Harlem. Having shot commercials in the same neighbourhoods in the years when the film is set, he was keen to avoid romanticising the district. "I kept being told what Harlem was really like, and I said, 'You say that one more fucking time... I was standing here in 1959, photographing people lying on the street in their own vomit. This is what it was like. Where the fuck were you? You weren't even born!'."
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Lol.
 
Got an awesome deal at BBY today, copped both A L I E N and A L I EN S on bluray and each one came with $10 toward tix for P R O M E T H U S. Pretty cool
 
Good Job Bob said:
What was up with Avengers being blown up to IMAX or 'LieMAX' size when I saw it? Is it like that in real IMAX theaters too?
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Avengers was shot in an odd aspect ratio - I can't recall what it was exactly but I'm sure someone somewhere knows. That's probably why it might fit quite snugly onto an IMAX screen.

Edit: Django!? This is getting too good to be true.
 
SunhiLegend said:
Personally prefer the directors cut
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I watched both in two evenings this week. And there are aspects of both that I like. I miss Ripley asking Dallas if he had flown with Ash before in the directors, but I really miss the glimpse of the alien hanging from the chains above Brett in the theatrical, great parallel to the shot of the alien in the shuttle later.

Both are good and nearly indestinguishable unless you watch them closely Bach to back. Directors feels a little leaner though ( in a good way)
 
Scullibundo said:
Digital 3D is the way to go for this film and any 3D film. Find a digital screen, because on this movie especially you don't want a darkened 3D experience. Make sure the theatre is doing the job properly.
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Aren't most non-IMAX theaters digital now? I'm trying to decide whether to watch the movie in IMAX 3D (a 35 minute drive away) or in a regular theater in 2D or 3D (much closer). I don't even know if the standard theater is showing it in 3D though.
 
Watched the Directors Cut of Alien earlier. So.damn.ready. Dallas going solo in the air shaft and that quick shot of the xenomorph. Fuck.
 
Both these interviews are great.

symphonask said:
Anyone read the new Ridley Scott interview in Rolling Stone? In it he says that he'd love to make a western (when asked if there's a different genre he'd like to get into). Man, I'd LOVE to see Ridley's take on the western.

http://m.rollingstone.com/?redirurl...us-mad-men-and-a-blade-runner-sequel-20120523
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What do you think of the other Alien films that followed your original?

I don't count the last few movies. I know why they did it: to promote the franchise and, hello, it's about money. This is not denigrating any filmmaker, because it is hard enough, God knows. But I really was a little bit upset by how my baby was being misused. We came up with one of the best all-time monsters. Without that monster, I've got a nice, very well-acted, beautifully art-directed movie, but I ain't got that fucking heart-stopping son of a bitch that defies logic.
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Ridley knows what's up.

Scullibundo said:
Interesting article/interview with Scott.

As always, be wary of spoilers when skimming.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/p...ott-the-most-macho-man-in-movies-7782369.html
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"I wanted Alien to be all about claustrophobia," he explains. "I remember going round measuring the heights of the ceilings, saying to the set-builders, 'I said seven-foot-four, you've got these at seven-foot-six. I want you to drop the ceilings another two inches, otherwise I won't see them in the bloody camera!'. I was always a camera operator in commercials. It was faster – one less person to have to communicate with. So I was the operator on Alien, and I took a camera body on set with a lens and said, 'You're lying! Measure it!'. And they had to drop the ceilings."

This close attention to visual detail, however, led to a perception that Scott was more interested in his sets than in his performers – not exactly an actor's director.

"It's bullshit." He spits the word, along with some cupcake crumbs. "Bullshit. There was this idea that the actors were really unhappy on Alien. But it didn't half work, did it? When has Sigourney been better? When has Tom Skerritt been better? Harry Dean Stanton thanked me at the end of it. I climb into the arena with the actors. I cast really carefully, and then I join the club. If Fassbender says, 'How do you want me to do it?' I say, 'Do you want me to show you?'. I don't care. I'm fearless. I'll fucking do it."
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I fucking love this man.
 
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