3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2012
⏱️ 39 minutes
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0:17.3 | Hi, this is Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, and this is a Slate's spoiler special podcast on Prometheus, the new Ridley Scott Sci-Fi Blockbuster. |
0:24.8 | This is also my first ever remotely recorded spoiler special podcast. I'm taping from WBEZ Studios in Chicago, where I came to do a live podcast, a film spotting podcast with Adam Kempanara FilmSpotting. Hi, Adam. |
0:36.5 | Hello, Dana. It's great to be here. And, yeah, we decided to go ahead and spoil remotely, |
0:40.8 | because if there's one movie coming out this summer that absolutely can't really be talked about |
0:44.7 | without spoiling, it's Prometheus and also just one of the most hyped, one of the most anticipated. |
0:49.5 | And as I was coming to Chicago to do your live show with you. I was thinking, oh, the only downside is that I can't spoil Prometheus. And then I thought, what am I talking about? I'm going to Chicago to hang out with movie geeks. We have mics here. Yeah. We can do it. We've got radio stations and everything. I'm a little bit nervous, though. I really have no idea what's going on in Prometheus. I thought we were spoiling Madagascar 3. Is this not the Madagascar 3 spoiler special? In fact, Adam, I think if you brought the analysis of Madagascar 3 to this spoiler, it might help explicate Prometheus better than Prometheus itself does. |
1:16.2 | Indeed. |
1:17.0 | So first, let's try to get through just a thumbnail sketch of the story of what happens in Prometheus, and then we can get to some major spoiling. |
1:23.1 | So Prometheus is the first sci-fi movie. |
1:25.1 | This is true, right, that Ridley Scott has made in over 30 years. |
1:27.9 | Since Blade Runner, 82? |
1:29.4 | He hasn't made anything that could be classified as sci-fi since then. |
1:31.9 | I don't think so. |
1:32.7 | Because he's been pretty productive, but I guess he's worked more in the action movie kind of drama genre, right? |
1:38.4 | He made Thelman Louise, which I think is maybe his best movie outside of the science fiction genre. But he's sort of tended toward |
1:44.3 | these fair to middling action movies and crime dramas, things like that, right? American |
1:48.6 | gangster, matchstick men are the titles that are coming to mind. Robin Hood recently. And |
1:52.5 | Robin Hood. And now at the age of 74, older than I would have thought he is, he's turning back |
1:56.7 | not only to sci-fi, but to the alien franchise, and making what was very vaguely and enigmatically |
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