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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

the director's cut is 2421 panels long includes 34 more characters and a time travel subplot

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Weird looking note the swcond guy is whistling

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

whistles in Hebrew

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OT, but I never googled Ridley Scott to know how they look like (or even gender) but in my mind the face that pops up is Sigourney Weaver. And no disrespect but I kinda like it :D

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I seriously thought ridley Scott was sigourney weaver for the longest time until people saying "he" I'm like I'm sure Ellen Ripley is female.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

i want a "saving the world" movie where the sole reason the team is able to do it is because everyone else is a horror movie moron and the protagonists tell them to stop doing stupid shit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

"I think he's a serial killer! He's waiting outside to catch us!"

"Ok call 911, lock the doors."

"We don't have service!"

"Ok use 911 over WiFi"

"They'll never get here in time, were in the middle of nowhere"

Texts geolocation of serial killer to police

FBI easily arrests meat face man who only move at a walking pace

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

And I'll add the disclaimer that it might be a just too close to reality. I was expecting a comedy and I ended being just depressed because I could see the world going down that route.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jesus that movie was depressing AF, too realistic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Too fucking depressing, especially when you realize the same sort of moronic attitudes, anti-intellectualism and inertia for byrocracys sake have existed on ones life for too many years, but one has just grown too accustomed to it. It really fucking makes one hate itself and makes one want to do SOMETHING to break these monkey people's moronic inertia against everything that might make the world a better place for as many people as possible. Fuck, is this self the r word? Im drunk, I dont know.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Yeah it's pretty close, except for that "able to do it" detail.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Source: @SmoothDunk on Twitter. (Despite the fact that not everyone can see links from the hellsite anymore, crediting sources is still the cool thing to do.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

@SmoothDunk

Thank you, i can't find the autor 👍

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

"I MUST stick my face in it! For SCIENCE!"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It blows my mind when people defend Prometheus and Covenant. ESPECIALLY when they say either one is their fave of the franchise. WTF

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just as Starbucks coffee is coffee for people who don't like coffee, Prometheus and Covenant are Alien movies for people who don't like Alien movies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The roast on your burn is as strong as what Starbucks does to their beans.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I'm convinced they're trying to crack fusion and the coffee beans are just the results of their failures..

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'll be honest, I kinda like Prometheus. I think it has some absolutely gorgeous scenes, although the plot is pretty bad. Covenant is in the same vein, with less beautiful scenes and a worse plot

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

The thing that killed Prometheus was entirely the script. Set design? Great. CGI? Great. Acting? Great.

But when everyone character acts exactly opposite of what their chosen profession was, I can only come to the conclusion that Ridley Scott has a deep disrespect for Scientists.

The Geologist/Cave Mapper got lost. The Archeologist contaminated the site. The Biologist didn't recognize a treat response. The Anthropologist couldn't separate her work from her religious beliefs. I can see the subtext that Scott was going for and I disagree with it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hated Prometheus the first time I watched it. I now love it after 5 watches

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I've never seen it and based on these comments I already hate it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That version is definitely not directed by Ridley Scott.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's a little unfair to the first Alien movie. It's been a while, but the first one is often hailed as an example of everyone acting intelligently as makes sense for the character's job and motivation.

Prometheus in the other hand... I think Ridley Scott doesn't respect scientists very much.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Scott obviously hates scientists or is completely oblivious to how science works. The crew is the least scientific group of people ever assembled on film.

The Prometheus cost a trillion dollars and Wayland is betting his life on the success of the mission, but off the top of my head:

  • The scientists aren't told what their mission is until they arrive at their destination which is so ridiculous, but you can argue that's what they signed up for, so okay. But that gives no one a chance to say "oh, then we should pack this odd piece of equipment."
  • Wayland's presence isn't known to the crew, so no one is prepared as any sort of backup to David other than his daughter.
  • There's one autodoc and it's only configured for males so again... Travel to another star after spending a trillion dollars with no backup? But somehow it can perform a C-section on a female with an alien in her. Okay.
  • The pilot has to stand up? Really?
  • The atmosphere is breathable so on that alone they take their helmets off. Sigh.

I mean the list is just goes on and on about how unscientific the mission is.

He should have brought the scientists and engineers that designed, tested and built the ship itself, because they were good.

I mean seriously. What the fuck.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Don't forget about the geologists equipped with mapping drone... getting lost in a cave!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I forgot about the autodoc only being set for Male. And it was just a software setting! Like, why?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does anyone ever actually graduate from the Prometheus School of Running Away From Things?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Of all the bad ideas to happen in that movie, including the "let's not let the audience know what the robot said to the alien", that has to be the most baffling. All it did was break immersion. Why couldn't the ship have fallen over and slid down the mountain? It's would have been as terrifying as an avalanche in a survival movie.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

FYI if you really want to know there's a guy on YouTube (Kroft) that has done dozens of very good videos on the Alien movies. He breaks down what was said as it was in the original script. And it's interesting and would have made a better movie, but I think Scott chickened out of the potential controversy.

Long and short of it is that 2000 years ago the Engineers had taken a human to their home world and trained him and enlightened him and sent him back to earth to spread the message but his compatriots nailed him to a cross.

The Engineers, therefore, decided that our race was a failed experiment and decided to exterminate us but their own weapons got away from them and killed them before they could pull it off.

There's more to it, but go watch Kroft's videos if you want to know more.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I want that two minutes and twenty-five seconds of my life back.

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