Some movie trailers are works of art in their own right that exceed the actual movies they advertise. Prometheus is a recent example. Watch this trailer and tell me you don’t, just for a moment, forget the disappointment of the actual film:
The crowning achievement in movie trailers, though, has to be 1989’s The Abyss. The movie ended up pretty forgettable, IMHO, but the trailer still stands as one of the best scifi short films in history: Continue reading →
It occurred to me that this is the third-to-last sequential-numbers date we’ll have for nearly a century. Next year we’ll have 11-12-13, and after that 12-13-14 (assuming we don’t all vaporize on 12-21-12, of course.) That’s it until the next 1-2-03, though (assuming civilization survives Y2.1K, of course.)
I had an elaborate blog post in mind after I saw Prometheus in the theater, but I never wrote it. I think I am still processing my feelings about the film. At least one of those feelings, I’ll admit, is disappointment. (It took me years to admit, even to myself, that Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace was a lousy, lousy movie. Prometheus was better than Phantom Menace.)
Anyway, today’s date appeared in this image from the end credits of Prometheus, and it leads you to some other viral stuff that may or may not be significant to something. To be honest, I only intended to write a brief post pondering the ethereal nature of numbers, and how a date like 10-11-12 can take on imaginary meaning. When I started to type “10/11/12” into Google, though, it auto-filled “10/11/12 at the end of prometheus,” and that sort of sucked me in.
Since I don’t really have anything else meaningful to say this morning, here are a couple of GIFs of Jessica Simpson at a car wash: Continue reading →
By now everyone has probably seen multiple Prometheus trailers. My favorite is actually still the first teaser trailer, which has almost no dialogue and a lot of loud, scary sound effects:
Maybe it just fits with my ADHD.
What I did not realize, until someone helpfully posted it to YouTube, is that the original trailer for 1979’s Alien used the same creepy sound effect, and it is just as scary. I’ve seen Alien dozens of times, and this still creeps me out:
The official trailer for “Prometheus” came out last week, and I must admit that I am very excited.
The initial teaser trailer, released on December 22, 2011, was like brain foreplay for fans of the original “Alien”:
The “official” trailer came out last week to the collective squee of millions:
Finally, the “international” trailer pretty much rubs the awesome in our faces:
I have to allow for the possibility that this movie will not be good, or that it even might suck. Ridley Scott might have given us the original “Alien” and “Gladiator,” but he also gave us “Robin Hood” and “Hannibal.” I’m enough of an “Alien” fan, though, that I even went public with my excitement about Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, a film that took two incredible science fiction icons and turned them into a slightly higher-budget Jason Voorhees.
“Prometheus” has a remarkably solid cast, probably the most solid of any film in the franchise since the original. I’m not a fan of Michael Fassbender (he gets on my nerves for some reason), but I can’t deny the guy can act. I’m glad to see Noomi Rapace get a chance to reach a wider audience, especially now that most Americans picture a different actress when they think of Lisbeth Salander. I will watch anything with Idris Elba in it, just sayin’.
Of course, I am assuming that “Prometheus” actually is a prequel to the “Alien” movies. The director and producers have been extremelycoy about that issue. Anyone who has seen the original “Alien” will recognize the derelict ship and the Space Jockey’s chair in the new trailers. Then again, that last Aliens vs. Predator movie seemed to want to set up the Predators as the race that piloted the derelict, although it could have been an homage. I suspect “Prometheus” will pull a reboot and ignore the AvP movies entirely (and justifiably). The project began with the idea of a prequel telling the story of the Space Jockey’s race, and that appears to be where this film is headed.
I can delve more into the “Alien” films, but for now just enjoy the anticipation of “Prometheus.”
Also, “enjoy” might not be the right word for this, but marvel that someone actually took the time to compile all the “kill scenes” from the first four films:
Spoiler alert: although I disagree with the math, they find the total score to be Aliens 53, Sigourney Weaver 17.
