Prometheous

It seems I fell off the blogging wagon. Hope everyones holidays are going well.

Watched a bunch of movies lately.

The Town - very cool!

The Adjustment Bureau - was decent. Lets face it, Emily Blunt is good reason to stand up to the Agents of Fate.

Hall Pass - WTH was I thinking. Just painful enough for me to keep watching.

Bridemaids - was ok. I thought it would be funnier for me, but I found many of the scenes just made me anxious.

The Help - Bryce Dallas Howard and Emma Stone? Double red headed amazinginity! haha Seriously though, it was good.

And..thats it!

Now, theres something thats been brewing in my head last few days and I have to spit it out.

If you read my blog, then you know I'm a fanboy for the movie Alien. Even though it's really just a slasher film, it's done so in such a stylized way that for me it steps into the Venn circle of art. So in my little movie vault in my head, it has a top shelf spot. I was showing my dad my ipad the other day ( I fixed it by dropping it on the floor!) and was looking up the new Batman movie trailer. What's this Prometheous movie about? I read the tagline, "The search for our beginning cold lead to our end" I thought WTH is that crap, bah let's watch the trailer.

As soon as I saw the space craft engines, my name this movie in one note instincts flared up. Then the letter segments came on and I knew this was Ridley Scott's Alien prequel....finally after all these years. Holy Crap!!! Turns out it's not really a prequel, but a separate movie that has elements from the Alien movie. So I watched the trailer about 20 times that day and began scouring the corners of the interent for information. Scifi forums, imdb, youtube, ..heck I even googled script leak. I found some detailed plot synopsis too. For me, there's none of this I wanna be surprised when I see BS. I read both Aliens and Alien 3 novels before I saw the movies. With Aliens I was a super nerd and after seeing it 10 times in a row, I swear I could recite the movie's entire dialogue with minimal error. With Alien 3, I threw the book down and yelled No F'in way when I finished. I thought Alien 3 was a big disappointment too.

So Prometheous is coming next summer. How exciting! Lets look at some of the details of this movie. And while I'm thinking here, if you want to have no spoilers in your head, then just bookmark this badboy for another day. I may have to mention some spoilers here and there. But watch out, Fox is already putting out disinformation, so who knows.

Who better to make this movie? I had high hope for Tron 2.0 and still kinda hope Kazinski (is that his name?) cna do justice to The Black Hole, but he really dropped the ball I thought. So instead of a new upcoming director, we have the original director himself Sir Ridely Scott coming back into the mix. Scott has made some killer movies. Heres a list of them I liked:

Alien
BladeRunner
Legend
Black Rain
Thelma & Louise
GI Jane
Blackhawk Down
Gladiator

Alien, Bladerunner,Legend, Blackhawk, and Gladiator I think all kinda set the bar in some way for their Genre. They are movies that are used as reference points. Like someone will say oh District 9 is like BlackHawk Down meets whatever. So Scott has some potent cred to his name. He's made some "not so good" movies too. And some would say, he hasn't made anything good in a while. So i think he's due for some awesomeness.

The cast seems pretty good too. Thank Gawd Russell Crowe is not in it! They all seem capable of delivering strong performances. One thing I loved about the first Alien movie is how rough they all looked. Cartwright and Weaver had like zero makeup. Harry Dean Stanton as a mechanic is the real deal. Yaphet..dude what have you been up to. But they were miners right, whereas this crew is corporate scientists? It just always rubs me when the cast looks so clean. Small nit pick perhaps.

So good director- check good cast - check, but what about writers? One writer has hardly any cred and the movie Darkest Hour which he wrote for is getting horrible reviews. Lindelof seems to have passion for the material ,but his effort for Cowboys & Aliens doesn't really inspire. So this is kind of a scary part. Thw writing could really suck for this movie. So much of what made Alien good was the dialogue. Scott seems to be really pumped about Lindelof's work though when watching the Comic Con video so that is hopeful.

Finally, the plot synopsis I have read online have seemed ..well like they could easily be stupid. But then again if one read the plot for Alien, before it was released, you might think...really? Thats it? That's stupid. Ahhh but it wasn't was it. So here's hoping some magic happens with this movie.