New Replies (Page 4,700)

Ooh creepy... It's in the US trailer too @1:04, covered by credits. Doesn't exactly look like piping does it? o.O

That picture above, to me it looks like a face hugger creeping out of its egg.

It's Elvis!!

After they leave LV-426 Lambert says 10 months to get back to earth. The Zeta Reticuli star system that they are supposedly near or in is about 39 light years from earth. How they are achieving such a quick journey is a mystery.

It has to be ten months! This would be the ONLY logical estimate. Period. The film made it clear that they were on the Cusp of Zeta2reticuli.

@wheresbasky? Actually, that scene in the end of Alien 3 is a recording from the end of Alien that Ripley made. If you remember back to Aliens Gorman wanted the marines to listen to Ripley's logs from her escape from the Nostromo. I hope this helps. :)

Oh, but as far as your other part of your question, I'm just as lost as you are. Hahaha.

@anovak1979, yep that's right. I always assumed it was a reference back to the remainder of the escape pod

Guys I think the recording was a A referance to Alien b Was a point to say Ripley has died (signing out) Sparky is the one to ask his knowledge on all things Alien is amazing

Zeta Ret 37 LY or 11.35 parsecs. 10 months travel time from their course change from Thedus to Earth. Lambert says they are roughly half way home. Thedus would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 74 LYs from Sol. If the speed of light in a vacuum is 186000 miles per second or 669.6 million miles per hour. In a standard year moving at just C or the speed of light the Nostromo could cover 5,785,344,000,000 miles. If Zeta Reticulae is 37 LYs from Sol that's 214,057,728,000,000 Two hundred fourteen trillion, fifty seven billion seven hundred and twenty eight million miles from Sol. If the Nostromo can do that distance in just 10 months (at just C that's 4,821,120,000,000 miles in 10 30 day months it would have taken them 444.48 months just to reach our solar system) she would have had to accelerate to more than 10 times that velocity to accomplish that goal, that's some incredible feat of engineering

Zeta Ret 37 LY or 11.35 parsecs. 10 months travel time from their course change from Thedus to Earth. Lambert says they are roughly half way home. Thedus would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 74 LYs from Sol. If the speed of light in a vacuum is 186000 miles per second or 669.6 million miles per hour. In a standard year moving at just C or the speed of light the Nostromo could cover 5,785,344,000,000 miles. If Zeta Reticulae is 37 LYs from Sol that's 214,057,728,000,000 Two hundred fourteen trillion, fifty seven billion seven hundred and twenty eight million miles from Sol. If the Nostromo can do that distance in just 10 months (at just C that's 4,821,120,000,000 miles in 10 30 day months it would have taken them 444.48 months just to reach our solar system) she would have had to accelerate to more than 44.4 times that velocity to accomplish that goal, that's some incredible feat of engineering.

@Ghost Solitare Wow that's a lot of numbers!!! I take it they have not got FTL capabilities? so What Tech are they using to cover that kind of distance in such a short time frame @ Anovak 1979 thanks for clearing that up!!! bit disappointed that it was just a recording,thought it was a nice touch that it appeared to be a signal drifting through space time that caught up with Ripley at the end of her story! After all that though how come if LV426 was surveyed(was brought up during Ripley's debrief at company HQ in Aliens) why didn't they spot the derelict? did this ever get cleared up in other posts?

Well if they are going Faster than the speed of light then they do have FTL capabilities.

so do they have to jump from Plaid to ludicrus speed (spaceballs reference there)

so how many light years out has mankind got then, do we think?

Did anyone wonder how gravity was achieved on the Nostromo? These are just things we must accept and move on else the movie will be 35732908503 hours long and mostly talk of equations. Man, I sure don't want to see a math class in 3D : )

Ghost Solitaire [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fI8834iCgo]Blinded me with Science[/url]

I don't know such stuff. I just do eyes.

I find all this SO many light years from home and FLT and time dilation VERY scary. I'm sure this will be factored in to the film's more tense moments.

so the reason they managed to travel great distances through space, in such a short time was purely clever editing at Fox!!! I think NASA could learn a thing or two from them!!!

I don't think you need the ? at the end there. I think it's hard to argue that we can't be considered bio-weapons with everything we've done to ourselves and our planet throughout history. Just look at all of the genocide that's been committed and the Atlantic Garbage Patch for just a few real life examples. The analogy made by Smith in Matrix about us being like a virus doesn't seem too far from the truth. I do believe we are like a double edged sword with the atrocities we are capable of on one side and our compassion and morals on the other. I wouldn't categorize your idea with Avatar though, that seemed too much like a familiar situation on a different planet, or as you could put in other words "Same shit; Different day". That pretty much summarizes Avatar for me. (Sorry fans)

Thanks, well said, and I agree, obviously! ;) I also agree that the idea has been touched on before with Agent Smith's monologue, and that Prom would be well served by staying far away from Avatar's "Earth on another planet" approach...hoping for something truly "Alien", literary and figurative, from Ridly... :)

Half of the people said they will walk out if there are no "xenos" and the other half will walk out if there it is too derivative. Some hate the mere mention of time travel and some hate the idea of time dilation. If people truly get upset over this stuff I expect to be sitting alone in the theater when the end credits roll. I pity Ridley Scott though no matter how good the movie is I think he is going to see the same kind of criticizing received by George Lucas after he made his prequels. EDIT: I think there are lights because if not the cameras would not be able to record the image. There's no way to know if there is any other reason why they are there. I will walk out if the movie is shot in a pitch black room! I will catch it when it comes out on the radio.

On the radio - hehe. Well, I'll be the only one in the theater where I see it. I'll stay till the end, no matter what. I'm so excited about this movie but I try not to show it ;)

I think we got enough entertainment already just talking about the movie to justify the cost of admission. Nothing really could disappoint me but I am pretty easy to please.

I'm really looking forward to a good ride with this movie. I hope I'm not disappointed. I want to leave the theater with goosebumps (chicken skin as my European friends say) and I want it to keep me awake at night...

Dont worry T-Minus-Five Ive a feeling we'll all be shit scared for a month after this one LOL

He also states: H R Giger : As for the chair in which he sits, I thought it had to be mechanical but not with normal arms and legs that could be moved with the feet or the hands. I liked very much the stone tablet in 2001 Space Odyssey, because it seemed to have some interior-like computer. So I thought that the outside could be very normal-looking and the whole machinery could go inside. (FX, 7, 1999 (spanish magazine) )

Giger has so many thoughts and ideas in his head that he could write or collaborate with someone to write a totally creepy sci-fi movie.

Totally. But here's what Ridley says: Ridley Scott: "As they enter the derelict, I wanted them to come up over the edge of something and into this vast chamber that's dominated by a huge chair. In preparing this frame of the storyboard, I went through Giger's Necronomicon and took this character, whom we call the "space jockey", because I wanted a fossil, almost, one which you'd have a hard time deciding where he leaves off and the chair, on which he died, begins. So here they are with this dead space jockey frozen in death to the weapon he was firing when he died. And he's kind of gargoyle-like and spooky. Sometimes we got very close to the films visuals in the storyboard" (Fantastic Film, number 11 (US), p 28-29) Hmmm... weapon?

they seemed to be unable to decide what that thing was that the Jockey was sitting at.

grown out of the chair is way more alien-esque, biomechanical and in keeping with the body-horror theme than the relatively pedestrian "SJ=suit" idea. Imagine the ship has its mission programmed through the consciousness of a pilot, a biomechanical computer, that just happens to retain arms because they're like "legacy source code", necessary for the ship's hybrid intelligence to have "compiled" (grown) correctly. (see modern theories on AI that state human intelligence is highly tied to the IO, including the tool-making hands)

The jackass movies have desensitized humanity to point of laughing at acid burns

Although peopledo laugh in stressful situations, I think in this instance it is more likely shock or a gasp. But it would make a good outake if the person did laugh. I'd like to see all of the humourous outakes at a later date than watching the film. :)

Check out [url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/1124]this[/url] thread I started. It shows pics of what is believed to be Guy Pearce and Rafe Spall (in the "red laser" pic). If these are pics of both of those actors, then it appears that their characters both wear glasses. With that in mind, look at the other picture I loaded of the "acid" burn picture - you'll see it looks like the person next to them is wearing glasses. So, in my estimation, it's either Pearce's or Spall's character. [img]http://i1075.photobucket.com/albums/w439/Membrane1/guy2.jpg[/img]

"[i]The jackass movies have desensitized humanity to point of laughing at acid burns[/i]" LOL! Oh, sorry... ;P But yeah, it looked like the guy was laughing to me at first as well (first thought was of the leaked plot "outlines" where some of the Humans turn against the others and side with the Engineer), but it's probably a scream or yell shown from a somewhat awkward angle...the figure in question's tongue appears to be moving/rolling, looks like he/she's yelling a name (looks like it may be the "oll" sound in "Holloway")?

Oh yea, very nice find, haven`t noticed that before. Ater this i watched the trailer again, and the person is not laughing at all, he is more like shocked and shouting the name of victim, maybe that is Holloway, as Robotpo said...

My money's on either "Millburn" (Rafe Spall just seems the type), or Ravel (who's seen screaming in one of the leaked shots from the Comic-Con reel, and whose name may be a play on "unravel").

The Third Photo looks like a Ship With Mechanical Arms. No really Sure

Bingo! I was looking at this last night! I opened it in windows movie maker and put it on a loop, trying to figure out what it is. Whatever it is in the second image, it looks like it has pincers or something. There seems to be a helmeted thing at the bottom of the screen, perhaps a crew member, or maybe even the jockey. But whats that on the left? Im almost sure its a monster anyway! Maybe Ill make a gif out of it and post it for others to have at it!