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fishkettlebanana

MemberOvomorphMay 07, 20121825 Views23 Replies
I can't wait to see the movie, I always thought the mysterious derelict and the space jockey, the whole giger look was always more interesting than the alien. but something has been unsettling me since I saw the first picture of the space jockey set. the walls didn't look bio-mechanical enough or looked like a pale imitation of giger (even though Ridley said like giger only not so giger). what was it then that was wrong? the cavernous walls looked slick and as if metal shapes had been welded into the pattern, not slimy, diseased, boney, worm-like and like oily metal from the original alien, look closely at the original pictures, the new David picture confirms my suspicions but I still want to see it [img]http://www.prometheus-movie.com/uploads/newprometheusdavidstill.jpg[/img] look at the simplicity, slickness and lack of detail now look at the back wall of the original and the bone shapes [img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g-AfjN4A54A/TyHiukkC9yI/AAAAAAAAbWI/MFJ1GjHeACM/s1600/spacejockey13.jpg[/img] compare the detail of the space jockeys [img]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k172/BristolRuss/SpaceJockey-Prometheus.jpg[/img] they aren't the same and this is my only gripe, Im still excited just my expectations have been a little deflated as if his craft has become a little less detailed over the years. oh well, Ridleys feeding us a new sci fi movie and I shouldn't be biting the hand that feeds me

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It's the dream of Weyland. He said "we are gods now" but not we are only he wants to be a deadless supreme being so make alien DNA injection himself by David also routes ship to Earth and gets in the chair of Titan and tries to make a Godlike landing on Earth. may be....
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Ridley wanted to tone down the Organic Look from Alien he wanted it to be Bio Mechanical but in Alien it was more Bio Looking than Mechanical. Off course this difference still leads others to think we are looking at two different species and races and not that its just a re-design.

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I agree, this is definitely a substantial and sadly, inferior re-design. I'm sorry Lindelhof, but the original space jockey from alien was clearly never intended to be simply a suit with a regular large guy inside - how disappointing. Alos, if you follow the protrusion (trunk) from the head of the original space jockey, it goes right down past his chest. In prometheus it stops by his chin. Disappointingly, I think this is a manipulation to fit Lindelhof's story. The nightmare world of giger, has been reduced to Star Trek! Why was Giger not given more creative control of prometheus. His designs haunt us for years, but he's not designed a single new creature in prometheus? what a superb opportunity, lost.

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