Prometheus Unbound: What The Movie Was Actually About

[Iris Sirius]

At 21:29 the hot corporate bitch says to somebody just waking up from a
real long nap and who is now fingering a particularly nifty gadget, "Don't
touch that.  It's a very expensive piece of machinery."

A very expensive piece of machinery!  I've heard that before, great line!
 Don't touch it, it's pricey!  The woman speaking is brainless and soulless
just like the robot standing next to her--but she's human!  Just corporate!

I can't wait to find out how corporate the aliens are--

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:26 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> I haven't seen it yet (should I?).  But here's another take on why it
> sucks (they civilized it):
>
> http://tomshone.blogspot.com/2012/06/review-prometheus-dir-scott.html
>
> One of the things I love about [the original] Alien was the
> imaginative effort it took to live up to its title. Unlike so many
> past attempts to imagine aliens and their worlds, Scott's
> gyno-shocker-masterpiece presented us with something that seemed
> genuinely other, exotic, non-human. It seemed alien. From the
> Giger-designed creature itself  — eyeless, with an extended cranium,
> and its endless sets of jaws-with-jaws — to the space wreck in which
> we first found it, with its rack-of-rib-lined corridors and
> fallopian-tube doorways, the film presented us with a queasily
> beautiful mixture of the mechanical and the organic, like a cross
> between a cathedral and a quadruple bypass operation.  Scott's new
> movie, Prometheus, blithely undoes all that, reconverting all that
> foreignness back into the reliably humanoid.  The space jockey is just
> a suit; underneath it looks just like a human, or to be more specific,
> a glow-in-the-dark ancient Greek, entombed in a room of ancient
> hieroglyphs.
>
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:29 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > The Lindelof interview really pinpoints the problem.  Scott and Lindelof
> seriously believed that they were in the same league as Kubrick and Clarke?
>  Let's throw in assorted Big Questions for depth; some exploding bodies for
> Alien fans; gratuitous references to good movies to show that we know about
> that stuff; a hot, corporate bitch, 'cause our dumb audience needs some
> stock tropes; and a heaping serving of faux-religion.  Something for
> everyone works, right?
>
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