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Posted 29 February 2012 - 05:52 PM

Game over, man, game over!
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 05:55 PM

We're on a express elevator to hell, going DOWN!

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Posted 29 February 2012 - 11:13 PM

Well, I thought I'd spice it up a bit.


You changed it completely.
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Posted 01 March 2012 - 03:53 AM

I finally watched the clip with sound. There is something very airy about the way Guy Pearce speaks, almost like he's channeling George C Scott as Patton in his delivery. It's been so long since I've seen him in anything that I almost forgot what a good and underrated actor he is.

The clip is intriguing. I like this kind of marketing.

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Posted 01 March 2012 - 04:35 AM

So, is this the first time ever that they filmed a separate standalone scene in order to promote a movie? And is the scene truly directed by the son of Scott?

BTW, if this is the tone of Prometheus, then it isn't as low-key as the tone in Alien.


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The Dark Knight had an interview show with Anthony Michael Hall's character "interviewing" all the major characters from the movie in different episodes as a way to introduce the plot points that would be explored. If Prometheus continues with videos like this my anticipation will continue to grow.

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Posted 01 March 2012 - 11:30 AM

Didnt The Muppets trailers haves stuff shot especially for those?

Also, Hitchcocks trailer for Psycho.


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Posted 01 March 2012 - 11:48 AM

I finally watched the clip with sound. There is something very airy about the way Guy Pearce speaks, almost like he's channeling George C Scott as Patton in his delivery. It's been so long since I've seen him in anything that I almost forgot what a good and underrated actor he is.

The clip is intriguing. I like this kind of marketing.

Yup. It is almost like he is doing George C. Scott with a twist of Pierce Brosnan in his voice at the same time. Gotta to love entrepreneur-megalomaniac characters with good orator skills. And an intriguing way to market this movie. Got me interested and I have not been very excited about this film.

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Posted 01 March 2012 - 12:23 PM

Interesting. I thought the reverb on the voice didn't match the size of the mega theater. Could it be he's standing in a green screen studio? ;)
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Posted 01 March 2012 - 12:26 PM

Good teaser. So will the film take place in just over 10 years?

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Posted 01 March 2012 - 02:27 PM

Yes, but in a more advanced version of our current timeline, because he celebrates "fusion" as one of the advances of the first decade of the 21st century. Fusion on a widespread, commercially practical and profitable scale has not yet occurred. It would probably end all issues regarding a sustainable grid for powering buildings.

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Posted 01 March 2012 - 03:06 PM

Interesting. I thought the reverb on the voice didn't match the size of the mega theater.


It doesn't.

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Posted 01 March 2012 - 03:09 PM

Last night I dreamed I saw this film.

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Posted 01 March 2012 - 03:38 PM

Well, what are you waiting for? Type up a review man!

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Posted 01 March 2012 - 03:58 PM

Yeah, was it any good? I once had a nightmare, I dreamt that I went to see ROTJ and I hated what I saw. A few months later the film opened in theaters and the nightmare came true.


Ricard: looking at the size of that hall, the reverb should take forever to die.
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Posted 01 March 2012 - 03:59 PM

Indeed. Suprised the makers of that short didn't realize that!
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Posted 01 March 2012 - 04:04 PM

Maybe microphones of the future are embedded in vocal cords.

Maybe Guy Pearce is already the first cybernetic lifeform, and his speech is transmitted to the recorders digitally without such pesky artifacts like sound and echo.

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Posted 01 March 2012 - 04:19 PM

His voice goes digitally to the TV studio and that's the sound we are hearing? Incredible! Still, his voice is far from dry sounding. You can hear reverb but it's not what it should be. How do you explain that?
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Posted 01 March 2012 - 04:21 PM

The Scott of Alien and Blade Runner would not have let that happen.

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Posted 01 March 2012 - 04:26 PM

This time we need to blame the son of Scott.
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Posted 01 March 2012 - 04:28 PM

I'm wondering.

Will Scott's final film be a sequel or prequel of The Duellist?

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Posted 01 March 2012 - 04:28 PM

His voice goes digitally to the TV studio and that's the sound we are hearing? Incredible! Still, his voice is far from dry sounding. You can hear reverb but it's not what it should be. How do you explain that?


The man is standing inside a holodeck the size of a telephone booth, and the vast arena is just an illusion?

Seriously, I got nothing. I'm quite content with the lack of impressive echo, which might muddle the man's words. Fortunately the man can enunciate.

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Posted 01 March 2012 - 04:38 PM

I'm wondering.

Will Scott's final film be a sequel or prequel of The Duellist?


Probably the sequel to Thelma and Louise.
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Posted 01 March 2012 - 04:55 PM

Scott was only the prequel to his son!

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Posted 17 March 2012 - 09:50 AM

New trailer

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Posted 17 March 2012 - 11:03 AM

Is it one of those trailers where they show you everything? I thought the previous trailers were nicely vague so I'm gonna keep it at that.
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Posted 17 March 2012 - 11:51 AM

I haven't watched it. I haven't watched any other than the first vague teaser.

I want to maximise the potential for this to be awesome.

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Posted 17 March 2012 - 11:57 AM

It's not longer than the previous trailer, but the editing makes it look "less cool".

There's a good shot of one of the... beings... moving...

It has a big Lovecraft/Lem vibe...

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Posted 17 March 2012 - 04:09 PM

Why does the giant Xenomorph say "I am your creator, you petty humans!" :eh:

And since when do 'aliens' speak?

The world is holding its breath to see Scott's return to the sci-fi genre, a genre he helped define. Sometimes I wonder if Scott is aware of that.
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Posted 17 March 2012 - 04:10 PM

They always spoke. But in the other film they did not have a Universal Translater system.

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Posted 17 March 2012 - 04:51 PM

For some reason Quint's link didn't work at all for me, but I found it on youtube:



Awesome trailer! It's only 1:11 long, and doesn't give away anything

This movie looks really good. Love the 1970's look
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Posted 17 March 2012 - 08:48 PM

It wasn't working for me either in iTunes, VLC, or Winamp, the three programs that the interwebz should handle .m3u8 files.

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Posted 17 March 2012 - 08:59 PM

It still looks a lot like Alien, even though Sir Ridley seems to insist this is something completely different.

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Posted 17 March 2012 - 10:40 PM

I doubt he can keep saying that considering Guy Pierce is playing Peter Weyland. He could stick to his guns before that, but now its too obvious an "alien" movie. Might not deal with Zenomorphs, but definitely takes place in the same universe with a shared history of the alien films.

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Posted 17 March 2012 - 10:42 PM

I liked that sitting creature in 1:00 spot.

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Posted 18 March 2012 - 12:01 AM

The full trailer:

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Posted 18 March 2012 - 12:04 AM

Looking at the full trailer I'm starting to see where Scott is coming from. The tone and story might turn out to be a bit unlike Alien.

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Posted 18 March 2012 - 12:36 AM

The film has many elements of Alien, but something is different.
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Posted 18 March 2012 - 12:42 AM

Looks more like Event Horizon.
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Posted 18 March 2012 - 01:30 AM

If you do a frame by frame at about 2:04 that has to be a facehugger inside the pod attacking someone's face. Doesn't it? :D
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Posted 18 March 2012 - 07:36 AM

I doubt he can keep saying that considering Guy Pierce is playing Peter Weyland. He could stick to his guns before that, but now its too obvious an "alien" movie. Might not deal with Zenomorphs, but definitely takes place in the same universe with a shared history of the alien films.


Eh, it's a prequel?
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