Comments on: Prometheus! http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat/2012/09/04/prometheus/ Sun, 09 Feb 2014 13:56:57 +0000 hourly 1 By: Yours Truly http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat/2012/09/04/prometheus/#comment-2474 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:32:59 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat/?p=711#comment-2474 I definitely enjoyed it and enjoyed aspects of it (C section! Idris Elba’s little concertina!). It was fun to watch just in all its messy glory.

]]> By: Yours Truly http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat/2012/09/04/prometheus/#comment-2473 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:32:13 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat/?p=711#comment-2473 WEIRD!!!

]]> By: Yours Truly http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat/2012/09/04/prometheus/#comment-2472 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:27:46 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat/?p=711#comment-2472 GREAT QUESTION! Seriously! Maybe because British signals stuffy and/or some kind of a robot, and they wanted Elba to be real salt-o-the-earth working class warm-heart pilot guy? I have no idea. Maybe American audiences are uncomfortable with black dudes with British accents? I can hardly even think of a mainstream American movie that has a British-speaking black dude in it, can I? I will keep trying.

]]> By: B C http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat/2012/09/04/prometheus/#comment-2470 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:56:26 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat/?p=711#comment-2470 Oh yeah, I forgot about the old man’s crypto-life cling – I think you got that right. Speaking of old man face, why don’t they let Elba just be British? Some of the other crew weren’t American, so why is he?

]]> By: dv http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat/2012/09/04/prometheus/#comment-2462 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 06:07:18 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat/?p=711#comment-2462 My feelings about this movie improved over time after seeing it. I ended up feeling like “There was something special about that weird, flawed movie that I did really like.” Watching a bunch of YouTube “explanation” videos made by weirdos helped endear it to me.

]]> By: M http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat/2012/09/04/prometheus/#comment-2460 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 05:10:43 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat/?p=711#comment-2460 Yes to all of this! I can explain the young-guy-in-old-face bit, though. Apparently, there were promotional materials (and possibly deleted scenes?) which show him without the old age makeup, mock ads for his character’s company or somesuch. Which I never actually saw, despite hearing about this movie from EVERYONE pretty much from the time when it was announced. So… Terrible promotional plan along with a disaster of a movie, I think.

]]> By: Yours Truly http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat/2012/09/04/prometheus/#comment-2457 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:49:41 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat/?p=711#comment-2457 oh yeah, but I think it was programmed for a male body because it had been brought there specifically for the use of the old dude? Like it was his personal medical pod. That’s what I thought but maybe this wasn’t the case!

medical pod = awesome. I love that there was a setting for “remove foreign body from abdominal area” a.k.a. an abortion

]]> By: B C http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat/2012/09/04/prometheus/#comment-2455 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:04:52 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat/?p=711#comment-2455 Sci-fi gender stuff in the C-section scene: when she goes to program the C-section it blips out and is like, “configured for a male body only” or something (?) and then she has to spend 5 more minutes figuring out how to program abdominal surgery or whatever. It was so sublte and/or “duh” I couldn’t tell if it was supposed to be gender commentary, or if Scott was trying to say something about…something.

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