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My Turn - Prometheus (2012)

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Video Game Culture, Video Games, Rewatch, Video Game Development, Replay, Leisure, Television, Movies, Tv & Film, Games

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 122 minutes

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My Turn returns with Cado bringing a controversial pick: 2012’s Prometheus. A prequel to the Aliens franchise, we get Ridley Scott’s most cynical views on humanity, hubris, and faith, but without, uh, some of the careful plotting that makes Alien a masterpiece. We discuss our history with the xenomorph, the wild marketing campaign (fake TED talks!), and the bizarre sequel that completely reframes the movie’s cliffhanger.

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0:00.0

Hey, mom said it was my turn on the podcast. Welcome to my turn where the way boy crew talk

0:21.3

about movies that are tangentially related and sometimes pick specifically to annoy each

0:25.4

other. This week we're talking about 2012's Prometheus director Ridley Scott's return to

0:31.6

the alien franchise after 30 plus years away from it with me today is Rob Zachney. Hello,

0:40.1

hello Patrick Kleppek. You managed to get Rob to push away from the mic 10 seconds into the

0:46.2

intro, which is that's good. That's I am racing to do things like that whenever I host. I'm

0:52.6

just I just think how do you're off to a great. They were bringing the kind of energy that made me

0:56.4

expect a gushers ad to break into the level podcast somehow. And we're not a price. Hello, and how

1:04.9

do you hello. So Prometheus was a contentious choice when I originally announced it back at the end

1:12.0

of the wait wait wait wait wait wait wait. Contentious with contentious. The way you just said it

1:16.7

implies as a group. There was a lot of uncomfortableness. I think what you're saying is something more

1:23.4

specific. So Rob, you had a very strong reaction to this to to me picking this movie. Had you you

1:35.0

said you had seen it in theaters correctly, right? Yeah. So I had seen it and remember it as being

1:42.4

one of the funniest theater experiences of my life because midway through I became convinced

1:47.9

actually watching it again. I'm not actually sure this is the wrong take on it. This is an extremely

1:54.0

funny movie. Like there is so little sympathy it builds up for most of these characters that like

1:59.4

and then and then the type of horror you were seeing is so extreme that it just begins to get

2:06.2

increasingly cartoonish in terms of what is happening. So there is a the thing I remember is I

2:11.8

went to see it in theaters with some friends of mine with a friend of mine and his but not his

2:18.4

therapist, but his buddy who is a therapist. Okay. And there is love to have a movie night with

2:24.2

the person helping you with my mental health. But the thing is the the part that really sticks out

2:30.6

with me because there's much people in this who are like reverently, oh it's really scour returning

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