# The trailer for Prometheus **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2012, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132 "2012-03-18T13:14:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132/1 "2012-03-18T13:14:24Z")
I try to be skeptical of trailers, but this one’s broken through my defenses: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/HHcHYisZFLU/maxresdefault.jpg "Prometheus - Official Full HD Trailer - Ridley Scott, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHcHYisZFLU) Looks like incredible fun. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132/2 "2012-03-18T13:49:10Z")
Oh. Ancient astronauts. How original. I still trust Scott, though. ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132/3 "2012-03-18T14:35:44Z")
this trailer gives me 37 boners, each of which has it’s own little boner ---
**Author:** ![coolbyrne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@coolbyrne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coolbyrne)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132/4 "2012-03-18T15:02:38Z")
I’m very interested to see what Noomi Rapace can do in her first major English movie (I don’t really count her small role in Sherlock Holmes). It looks amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132/5 "2012-03-18T16:55:45Z")
This movie is gonna totally fuckin’ rock! ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132/6 "2012-03-18T17:32:33Z")
Alas, shot in ubiquitous Blu-O-Vision, like everything else these days. Still, probably go see it. Look like one that needs big-screen viewing to appreciate, since it will probably be story-lite and sfx heavy. I doubt it will replace Aliens in my affections, however. ---
**Author:** ![Estilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Estilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Estilicon)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132/7 "2012-03-18T20:52:28Z")
Hot chicks in skim suits: checked. Distant mysterious planet: checked. Aliens: Checked. Ridley Scott: checked. Very hot chicks in skim suits: checked. What are the chances that this goes wrong? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132/8 "2012-03-18T21:20:39Z")
> [@fubbleskag](#): > > this trailer gives me 37 boners, each of which has it’s own little boner \ ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132/9 "2012-03-18T21:53:49Z")
That’s 74 boners for those of you keeping track. ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132/10 "2012-03-18T23:44:08Z")
I’ll have you know that my boner rating has been within 5 points of the aggregated Rotten Tomatoes rating on 90% of all summer blockbusters for the last 12 months. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132/11 "2012-03-19T00:08:15Z")
> [@fubbleskag](#): > > I’ll have you know that my boner rating has been within 5 points of the aggregated Rotten Tomatoes rating on 90% of all summer blockbusters for the last 12 months. Zero boners comes pretty close to filling that criteria. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132/12 "2012-03-19T01:56:43Z")
More footage here at IDMB: [more trailers and a 3 minute scene (not in the movie) of Guy Pearce as Weyland Industries’ CEO Peter Weyland.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/videogallery) _Conceived and designed by Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof and directed by Luke Scott, (the Weyland) piece was created for TED. It is not a scene from the movie. The piece provides a look into what may lay ahead, as well as important backstory into the mythology explored in Prometheus._ [TED](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_%28conference%29) (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate “ideas worth spreading.” I liked the mystery of the Space jockey and hope they do justice to his backstory. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132/13 "2012-03-20T04:13:58Z")
The Space Jockey! ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132/14 "2012-03-20T04:25:50Z")
Went to the movies yesterday (saw Safe House - it was OK), and they showed a trailer for this movie. It looks awesome, and having Idris Elba in it is a bonus. They also showed a trailer for a movie called [Battleship](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDMXkPfxjOc), which looks so fucking awful i can barely believe it got made. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132/15 "2012-03-20T04:31:53Z")
Hello. I’m the Doctor. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132/16 "2012-03-20T05:08:57Z")
I don’t think we really need to know anything about the Space Jockey. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132/17 "2012-03-20T11:32:07Z")
I can’t figure out what he’s doing here. The space ship? looks an awful lot like the one from _Alien_, and we see what appears to be the _other_ alien pilot (the one who seemed to be part of his chair, and had a burst-open chest) in another scene in the trailer. And the way the title appears is done in the same way that R/Greenberg Associates did the (then) ground-breaking title for _Alien_, so he’s clearly going out of his way to invoke his 1979 opus. And then going out of his way to say it’s not the same thing. “Hey, folks. You may remember I did science fiction before. It looked like this. I’m going to do science fiction again, but it’s completely different. Even though it looks the same.” ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132/18 "2012-03-20T13:11:47Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > And then going out of his way to say it’s not the same thing. I could be wrong, but I thought they were making it pretty clear this is an “Alien” prequel. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132/19 "2012-03-20T13:11:53Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > They also showed a trailer for a movie called [Battleship](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDMXkPfxjOc), which looks so fucking awful i can barely believe it got made. We had a [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=618789&highlight=battleship) about this. Almost unbelievably, it’s based on the board game. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132/20 "2012-03-20T13:27:29Z")
> [@interface2x](#): > > I could be wrong, but I thought they were making it pretty clear this is an “Alien” prequel. The last go-round with reporters had Scott admitting that it takes place within the Alien universe but isn’t a “prequel” per se. Just that it takes place before Alien. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trailer-for-prometheus/616132.md?page=2)