PROMETHEUS is a science fiction horror film in which a group of people travel to a distant moon. It was classified ’15’ for strong violence, gore, threat and horror.
The film contains a number of scenes of strong violence that feature heavy blows and bloody detail. For example, in one scene a character’s arm is broken, revealing blood and bone, and in another scene a character’s head is smashed against the floor, resulting in a large spurt of blood. This emphasis on bloody detail exceeds the terms of the BBFC’s Guidelines at ’12A’/’12’ and is more appropriately classified at ’15’ where the Guidelines state ‘Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury’. There are also some scenes featuring gory detail, both when dead bodies are seen and when people are injured. One scene features some gory surgical detail that exceeds the type of ‘occasional gory moments’ that may be permitted at ’12A’.
The Guidelines at ’12A’/’12’ also state ‘Moderate physical and psychological threat may be permitted, provided disturbing sequences are not frequent or sustained’. The second half of the film in particular features a sense of threat towards the central characters that is both frequent and sustained.
PROMETHEUS also includes one use of strong language and one implied use of strong language, when a remark is broken up by static. It also includes some undetailed verbal sex references and a brief scene in which a couple start to have sex, without any nudity or other detail.
After fiddling with the console, David accidentally wakes Mr.Jockey from cryosleep. Merc freaks out because guess what the Jockey just swatted David's Head clean off, obviously pissed because of these weird people on his ship. Merc shoots at him, Ford is terrified beyond belief incapacitated with fear.
Merc gets swatted away, Ford's head gets crushed.
End scene.
That same magazine also mentions at least 2 crew members will be infected, they even confirm one of them is Fifield (who we knew about anyway), it will be interesting to find out if the other was indeed Holloway.
I still think it's either Weyland, Holloway or a Jockey behind the mask in one of the sarcophagi, while David or possibly Vickers looks on in the background...we'll just have to wait and see.
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I think that scene comes later when the jockey is really active and surprises them.
I'd put my money on Shaw, honestly.
Looking at some shots it looks like David, Shaw, Ford, and Red Shirt enter that chamber at one point together. There's a wide angle where Red Shirt seems to be firing towards the engineer, while Ford is standing there frozen - Between them is a red head running towards the stairs. I think that would be Shaw.
at least in my eyes it is.
True,and if you look closely you can see the dumb eye like the one when the engineer is struggling with the starbeast.
What makes you think it's Vickers?
Well I won't say it's definately him, it could be any one of 3 individuals including the Jockey himself. But to say "how could it be"... man if you had been really following events closely one thing would be apparent by now, one way or another Weyland will get what he came for, it's called poetic justice and Hollywood does it all the time.
No, there's some kind of a head apparatus on the back there. Possibly a neck support or interface or something. It's not Weyland. (How could it be?)
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and notice david standing in the background
Is that the Bane Jockey?
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......just a thought I have absolutely no proof, but is that hair on the back of the head...... could this really be Weyland??
Gore, is to be expected. They didn't say who it happened to, what order it happened in, if all injuries were fatal etc. They certainly didn't give key plot points. Nothing they said is going to give you definitive answers or insight about the movie.
People get hurt, people die, people bump uglies, its in outer space.
I get hurt, I learn people have died, I bump an ugly here and there, my mind stays on another planet. Maybe I'm just not affected by the article cause its everyday life for me.
I'm just saying don't be too scared to read it.
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Oh, well, forgive me then. This non-genius type is going to exit the thread.
I still recall the one bit of censorship Evil Dead 2 endured in the UK. You can hack people to bits, but you cannot kick a man when he is down!
Even Kick-ass got a 15 as well* (*that one raised eyebrows).
US you've just got to chill both the BBFC and MPAA have different categories/criteria for rating movies.
BBFC is more of a case by case rating. Here are some weird rating systems
ALIEN VS PREDATOR PG-13 (US) 15 (UK)
TERMINATOR 3- R (US) 12A (UK)
CLOVERFIELD PG-13 (US) 15 (UK)
AVP-R R (US) 15 (UK)
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Ha ha, true that. But besides the peeing story (which is probably apocryphal), she is damn classy, right?
I'm just saying! Maybe i'm weird...
Kate Beckinsale is absolutely a stunning, a classic beauty...the kind of which can fit in both modern cinema, or just as easily in the golden age. Timeless. I get why the young'uns go ape shit over Scarlett Johansson, really, I do...but in my fantasy world, I would choose Kate to be on my arm (I am a gentleman, after all) over Scarlett, Jessica Alba, etc. any day.
Plus, she is just so damn classy.
Kate Beckinsale can pee in my tea any time she wants.
Never heard the Beckinsdale story before - pretty funny.
About the sex scene comment:
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Probably not much more. She's not in the Hollywood leagues of someone like Kate Beckinsale and some actors, male and female, really don't give a damn about getting their kit off on screen.
Amusingly, Beckinsale, who was conned into going topless on one of her earliest films, revealed years later that she pissed in the director's tea in revenge, without him ever realising.
Personally speaking, I don't care about nudity. Less is very often more, IMO. Interesting that Scott, who once famously said that sex scenes are boring unless you're personally involved, seems to be:
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A 15 in 2012 for gore is pretty much the equivalent of an 18 in 1979 and 1986. I'd not be in the least bit surprised if it turns out to me the goriest Alien movie thus far.
So it's Alien with a longer first act? Nice!
Also, the UK version is uncut, so it's the same version as US R (if anything, the R is more likely to be cut)
Don't count on it, The Matrix was a very soft R in the united states. No gore, no nudity, not very many f-bombs either. That movie was rated also rated 15 in the UK if I'm correct for 'strong sci fi violence'.
I can only hope that the American 'R' version is slightly different, with more of the good stuff.
Good stuff being naked wimmins and unspeakable gore.
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f**king aeeerrhhhhbbwwwhhuhhhhhhhh..... WUHHHH!!!
*crumples into standing fetal position with balled-up fists, reminiscent of a young boy that's so excited, he makes things awkward for those around him*