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The "spoilerization" of Prometheus - how to react?

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centrosphere

MemberOvomorphMay-07-2012 11:05 AM
It´s beggining. Sooner than I believed. Well...my two cents. When I saw "Alien" in 1979, the internet...isn´t. I had only small hints from the press telling what the movie was about. Actually, newspapers in my country displayed news about an intriguing movie where there was a monster that could "change it´s shape" _ what gave me a totally wrong expectative about the movie. We are very far away from that world, now. The important thing to ponder, now, is: how the movie industry has reacted to the internet? "Prometheus" itself is one part of the answer: they manage it as they can to create the more hype possible, thru viral marketing and mouth to mouth. But this is the way to go UNTIL the movie shows to the world, After that, the internet becomes "risk". Because mouth to mouth can be BAD mouth to mouth, etc. I think Hollywood has reacted to that by brandification: creating a kind of spectacle where the visual is the important thing, and knowing that there is a demographics that simply can´t resist, whatever the "story". "Transformers" come to mind. The problem comes when you have a movie where the visual can be stunning, but people have high expectations about the plot, too. How "Prometheus" can solve this problem? I mean: if people comes to know the plot in advance, are they still going to see the movie? From the traiers and stills, we already know that the visuals are stunning. Is this the warranty, for the studio, that people will go see the movie even if they know the plot in advance, "transformers"-like? Could it be that Scott, Lindeloff and Spaiths tried to create a plot so intriguing that people would go to see the movie EVEN knowing the plot in advance? What kind of magic this story should display to this effect? What do you think?
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RoboticPanda

MemberOvomorphMay-07-2012 11:06 AM
There is a VERY good chance those spoilers were all fake. They are somewhat internally inconsistent and people who worked on the film say that she is absolutely wrong.

Ruth

MemberOvomorphMay-07-2012 11:11 AM
Just ignore all the nonsense.

JP

MemberOvomorphMay-07-2012 11:26 AM
dont show test screenings - fcking pointless, have some conviction in your work if youre story has a major plot twist AND you are milking the 'marketing/viral' cow and generating hype - dont release the picture intrenationally over a period of 4 months and expect everyone to keep their mouths (or thumbs) shut for any other film - noone would care - spoilers are out there for every film, they just dont trend. If only we had tweeting of this nature before The Sixth Sense.....one trick ponies like that can be ruined in 140 characters (or indeed much less), noone wouldve gone and M Night Shalabalabingbong would be back flipping burgers. Unless there is a seriously concerted effort to sabotage Prometheus with every plot point - or there is a huge twist that the whole film stands on - Im hoping we can navigate and avoid the spoilers The admins are going to be very busy on these boards - especially in the opening week.

Forever War

MemberOvomorphMay-07-2012 11:33 AM
Check the status board for my take on this

takka_takka_takka

MemberOvomorphMay-07-2012 12:02 PM
Well, I didn't see Titanic because I knew the ship sank at the end.

Jason8

MemberOvomorphMay-07-2012 12:05 PM
This site has provided many clues to the story. A complex story requires the audience to be educated in its mythology to get the maximum enjoyment. This web site and the Weyland site provide a lot of that background material. There may be some spoilers but the movie will be more accessible because of them IMO.

the coming

MemberOvomorphMay-07-2012 12:08 PM
I don't know why people hate spoilers...movies that have twists have terrible rewatch value

B1-66ER

MemberOvomorphMay-07-2012 1:38 PM
@the coming Good point.

Movie.Monster

MemberOvomorphMay-07-2012 1:40 PM
If you want to understand promethus read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_Madness

aintnozeno

MemberOvomorphMay-07-2012 4:16 PM
I fail to see the problems with spoilers. This site was built on the darn things, and now everyone wants to gripe about them. Sour grapes in reverse! I would go see it if the actual script was released, along with a "making of" documentary from RS himself on BD, and the graphic novel as a digital copy. I've seen many screenplays before films were released and it spoiled NOTHING about the film for me. I say anyone who wants to avoid spoilers should shut down their internet services until June 9th, 2012- and stop hounding us for not sticking our heads in the sand as they have.

Cypher

Co-AdminMemberOvomorphMay-07-2012 10:56 PM
I'm not trusting squat until my butt is planted in a movie theater and the movie starts up. From there, I'll believe what's on the screen :-P
[url=http://www.robocopmovie.net/][img]http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/snorkelbottom/NewRoboBanner.jpg[/img][/url] "Is it dead this time?" "I dunno, poke it with this stick and see."

Spartacus

MemberOvomorphMay-07-2012 11:05 PM
I just cannot understand how people can have such a complete lack of faith in what is beyond any shadow of any doubt one of the top 5 Film Directors still alive today and of All Time ! If this thing Sucked IN ANY WAY it never would have gotten this far, Scott never WOULD HAVE ALLOWED IT !!! And I got news, as much as we hate HIM...Giler, AND ALL THE SUITS AT FOX, and everyone else who played any part in making this thing, would have stopped it completely dead in it's tracks after seeing the first crappy "dailys"! I will say this again IN ENGLISH this time... [b]THIS IS A SURE FIRE CANNOT MISS HIT MOTION PICTURE EVENT !!! THE LIKES OF WHICH HAS NOT BEEN SEEN IN THE WORLD OF FILM SINCE THE 26TH OF DECEMBER 1973...THE DAY "THE EXORCIST" WAS RELEASED.[/b]
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