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Prometheus (2012)


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In the Alien Franchise arguably this is the most important film after the 1) House of Horror, 2) The Pay Back.
3) Was just more downer horror house fodder. 4) Horrible lure to the box office 5&6) AvP really a different story
7) Prometheus the hope was this was the path forward, major questions answered about the Engineers, and the why? So much potential offered. Shocking, great visuals.

David is a a great character, Android, only as evil as his maker commanded him, he should be viewed as a sociopath. And he proves it in 8) Covenant, just more nonsense that fails the overall potential of a story like this. 9) Romulus just more House of Horrors… been there , done that.

Now ironically it’s a TV series Alien Earth that bring more to the franchise and this is a prequel to the original film but it’s the same universe and might branch off, or maybe finish, at least providing more meaningful meat to this narrative.
  • Alien – 1979
  • Aliens – 1986
  • Alien 3 – 1992
  • Alien: Resurrection – 1997
  • Alien vs. Predator (AVP) – 2004
  • AVPR: Aliens vs. Predator – Requiem – 2007
  • Prometheus – 2012
  • Alien: Covenant – 2017
  • Alien: Romulus – 2024
  • Alien: Earth (TV Series) – 2025
 
Huntn said:
Prometheus (2012)


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In the Alien Franchise arguably this is the most important film after the 1) House of Horror, 2) The Pay Back.
3) Was just more downer horror house fodder. 4) Horrible lure to the box office 5&6) AvP really a different story
7) Prometheus the hope was this was the path forward, major questions answered about the Engineers, and the why? So much potential offered. Shocking, great visuals.

David is a a great character, Android, only as evil as his maker commanded him, he should be viewed as a sociopath. And he proves it in 8) Covenant, just more nonsense that fails the overall potential of a story like this. 9) Romulus just more House of Horrors… been there , done that.

Now ironically it’s a TV series Alien Earth that bring more to the franchise and this is a prequel to the original film but it’s the same universe and might branch off, or maybe finish, at least providing more meaningful meat to this narrative.
  • Alien – 1979
  • Aliens – 1986
  • Alien 3 – 1992
  • Alien: Resurrection – 1997
  • Alien vs. Predator (AVP) – 2004
  • AVPR: Aliens vs. Predator – Requiem – 2007
  • Prometheus – 2012
  • Alien: Covenant – 2017
  • Alien: Romulus – 2024
  • Alien: Earth (TV Series) – 2025
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Prometheus is an excellent movie, I've seen it a few times now.

The show not so much, I stopped watching after 2 episodes.
 
Eric said:
Prometheus is an excellent movie, I've seen it a few times now.

The show not so much, I stopped watching after 2 episodes.
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I very much like the show. Just curious what you did not like?
 
Huntn said:
I very much like the show. Just curious what you did not like?
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For me it's too long and drawn out, typical for a series I suppose but it's not enough to keep me interested.
 
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)- One of the finest Marvel films from the Infinity Stone Era (but no Infinity Stones to speak of here), Capt American saves America from Shield/Hydra and reunites with an old friend. Great all around, all star cast, great story.

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Death Becomes Her (1992)- PLOT SPOILER
I liked this movie comedy, but the plot never made sense to me. If you take a potion that rejuvenates your body to give you immortality, in essence it heals the body’s aging, but what about injury? And if you die from injury, you remain animated, I reason the healing qualities should continue, but they don’t, you just become an animated but thinking, aware, rotting body unless you inject yourself with embalming fluid.
If in the position of these 2 characters, the best choice would be to shed your body via fire, become a Spector, and hope there is some path out of this mortal plain…. 😐
Thev worst aspect of the plot is what the customers of this potion were not told, what I just described. :)

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Galaxie Quest (1999)- The best space spoof movie ever made… Cdr Taggert does his best to save the Termites, or was that The Dalmatians? Wonderful performances.
“Let’s get out of here before they kill Guy!” ☺️

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Interview with a Vampire (1994)- otherwise known as “The Reluctant Blood Sucker”. ☺️ Kidding aside, this is Anne Rice’s excellent story and movie , and I judge to be Brad Pitt’s and Tom Cruise’s best artistic roles.

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We dug on IWTV (it's 'the', BTW, not 'a' :D ), even as fans of the books, Cruise was decimating the scenery in the best possible way, Pitt was beautiful to look at but a little sleepy.

At any rate, best Cruise (and Pitt) performance? Not in the Top 3, that would be:

Magnolia
Collateral
Born of the 4th of July

Special shout out to Tropic Thunder :D

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Pitt?

Some order of these:

Moneyball
The Assassination of Jesse James
A River Runs Through It

Maybe Once Upon a Time in Hollywood since, you know, he did actually win an Academy for the role.

Hmm, might put 12 Monkeys in that list too, his big breakout role and he was perfectly crazy-insane :D
 
Alli said:
You're kidding, right? Cruise made a mockery of LeStadt.
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I’m not kidding, speaking in terms of the spectrum of Tom Cruise. 🙃 Ok seriously, I read the books and have no issue with Tom Cruise’s portrayal of LeStadt. Let me ask my local authority…
My spouse liked him in this role and says that Anne Rice liked his performance too. 😛 I admit, I when I first heard Cruises was playing this role, I had low expectations.
 
The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)- Good story, but I actually prefer Manuel Garcia-Rulfo from the 2022 series as Mickey Haller.

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House of Dynamite (2025 Netflix)- Military doomsday thriller about an ICBM flying at the US from an uncertain foe does one thing well, illustrates how close we are to self annihilation. Excellent tension since FailSafe. This theme was big during the Cold War. We just don’t think about it now. However the ending is frustrating because I did not want to watch this scenario 3 times from different perspectives and everything about the ending is unknown other than it can perceived to be bad, but I’ll leave that for you to decide.
 
I kept seeing snippets of The Gentlemen (2019) on TikTok - finally got to watch it yesterday. Thoroughly enjoyed it. It's cathartic - seeing rat bastards getting what they deserve for a change. :D

Matthew McConaughey always delivers such captivating performances. :)
 
fischersd said:
I kept seeing snippets of The Gentlemen (2019) on TikTok - finally got to watch it yesterday. Thoroughly enjoyed it. It's cathartic - seeing rat bastards getting what they deserve for a change. :D

Matthew McConaughey always delivers such captivating performances. :)
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It's super fun, we generally dig on Guy Ritchie films. Everyone is great, Farrell, Hunnam, Dockery, Strong - and Hugh Grant delivers a deliciously sleezy performance (for an insane, creepy performance check out Heretic from 2024, also stars Sophie Thatcher who's another fave of ours).

Oh, and the soundtrack is killer:

 
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