Prometheus (Ridley Scott's Alien "Prequel" )



JMRouse said:

Just a few more days for us Americans. I'm getting the feeling that impressions from the film have been mixed, but mostly lean positive. It might be one of those cases that we end up with a decent, but not great film that ends up being judged more harshly because of its heritage.

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Generally, yeah. There are some rough script moments and/or plot holes mixed with some questionable editing in cases (the original cut was apparently 2:27 mins long...) that hurt the film a bit, but top notch cinematography, effects, generally good acting and plot points (or holes in some cases depending upon who you ask) that are getting a lot of people talking as well. Some of the nitpicking/judging based on heritage or what people were expecting is amusing though, some fan boys are going crazy (myself as one on occasion), but there are quite a lot of issues/plot holes/nit picking etc. that can be done on the original films as well... gasp...and people seem to want to ignore that like they were the holy of holy and this is the bastard offspring.

Bradford said:

What the hell is up with the Coors Light tie in? They keep running these ads during the NBA games. Do they take Coors Light on the spaceship or something?

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No Coors in the film that I saw, and no tie ins over here in France that I've seen either.

my work is taking the office to see it during work hours pumped up for this, also dgaf about the previous reviews. even if it is a mindless, flawed piece of sci-fi, anything remotely respectable with references and tie-ins to IP like alien gets a thumbs up. in other words, as long as its not avp, i'll be happy.



jarude said:

my work is taking the office to see it during work hours pumped up for this, also dgaf about the previous reviews. even if it is a mindless, flawed piece of sci-fi, anything remotely respectable with references and tie-ins to IP like alien gets a thumbs up. in other words, as long as its not avp, i'll be happy.

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How kick ass is that of your office! Are you in media or something similar? I would be very pleased if my work took to me to Prometheus

I think you'll be happy with it, it's a long way from AVP

Tempted to do a midnight showing, but last time I did that I was miserable at work the next day.

Alien just came on Showtime as I was reading this thread. Talk about perfect timing.

My fiancee watched Alien. She really loved it and it was great watching her watch it.

When the skinny white engineer was attacked in the room with the chains, they showed the Alien hanging down waiting for him, but she never noticed it. She also never noticed the Alien when it was in the detachable shuttle at the end once Ripley thought she was safe, then it held it's arm out right before she put the suit on and opened the air lock.

I can kind of see it. Giger's Alien is hard to spot unless you know his art, or what a xenomorph looks like. It makes me wish I could see it for the first time, but I saw the movie first when I was too young to remember. Also, when Ash, the Science guy android had white blood bleeding down his face and freaked out, the surprise at that scene must have been pretty intense. They didn't establish that androids existed, and his behavior was very unsettling.

I'm guessing the scenes they changed for the collecter's edition were the computer screens? They looked too clean for a 1979 movie.



Reggs said:

My fiancee watched Alien. She really loved it and it was great watching her watch it.
When the skinny white engineer was attacked in the room with the chains, they showed the Alien hanging down waiting for him, but she never noticed it. She also never noticed the Alien when it was in the detachable shuttle at the end once Ripley thought she was safe, then it held it's arm out right before she put the suit on and opened the air lock.
I can kind of see it. Giger's Alien is hard to spot unless you know his art, or what a xenomorph looks like. It makes me wish I could see it for the first time, but I saw the movie first when I was too young to remember. Also, when Ash, the Science guy android had white blood bleeding down his face and freaked out, the surprise at that scene must have been pretty intense. They didn't establish that androids existed, and his behavior was very unsettling.
I'm guessing the scenes they changed for the collecter's edition were the computer screens? They looked too clean for a 1979 movie.

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That's great she really loved it!

I didn't notice the alien on the chains in the mining room until relatively recently, it blends in very well especially in the theatrical release.

Ash is a brilliant character, as you say very unsettling, he seems evil in how detached he is. Later he appears to have been driven mad by the mission and trying to kill Ripley.

I always found the extreme growth of the alien very interesting. Some writers say that as the alien is biomechanoid it's able to eat metal and other parts of the ship to fuel growth of a foot or so into 7 feet in half a day or less.

IMAX tickets purchased for tomorrow. Watching Alien Director's Cut on Blu-Ray now.



gort said:

IMAX tickets purchased for tomorrow. Watching Alien Director's Cut on Blu-Ray now.

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Will watch next week with a group of nerd friends.



whiteslashasian said:

Will watch next week with a group of nerd friends.

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Lame, bro. It hits tonight.



JMRouse said:

Lame, bro. It hits tonight.

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I KNOW but I have obligations and several of the group are out of town. We promised we'd all watch it together as a group.

See it and don't tell them.

Got my tickets for the 11:55 showing tonight!

So watched the movie...