Prometheus (Post-release)
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madmikeee
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I swear, am I the only person that actually fully enjoyed this movie? Sure there were a few things to nitpick about but as a whole I thought it was very well done. It's funny, over the course of the past 10-20 years people have forgotten that watching a movie was just about watching a movie and instead now have to over analyze it and nit pick every minute detail to death. This is not based in reality so who GAFF about the distances traveled, some of the terminolgy used or OMG the engineers aren't to "proper scale"
Oh and this is NOT aimed at anyone here, after reading all the reviews I was hesitant to buy the disc but it was on sale for $19.99 at best buy so figured what the hell and I am sure glad I did.
Oh and this is NOT aimed at anyone here, after reading all the reviews I was hesitant to buy the disc but it was on sale for $19.99 at best buy so figured what the hell and I am sure glad I did.
I'm with ya Mike. I loved it. Only thing that really got me was them not running sideways as the ship was crashing down. 
madmikeee
Sr Member
I'm with ya Mike. I loved it. Only thing that really got me was them not running sideways as the ship was crashing down.
ROFLMAO the wife and I BOTH were screaming at the movie.. RUN SIDEWAYS YOU F*&#'N MORONS!!
Kit Rae
Sr Member
It's a bit hard to know which way to run with something as wide as a football field coming down above you, blotting out the sky, and pieces of a ship crashing to the ground on either side of you, but if you look close, you can actually see they did change direction, just before Shaw dropped and rolled out of the way. Still, I think everyone had that thought watching the film.
What I found more interesting is that the Juggernaut crashed back to the ground anywhere near them at all, considering how far away it was when the Prometheus hit it.
What I found more interesting is that the Juggernaut crashed back to the ground anywhere near them at all, considering how far away it was when the Prometheus hit it.
Nope. I think this is the BEST film I have seen in over a decade... in fact, I would say this is the best movie I have seen since 1999.
clancampbell
Sr Member
It's one of the most prolific films i've ever said, "HUH?" to when i left the cinema.......
Rich
Rich
Fight Club right?
Fight Club and the Matrix. '99 was epic.
ProfKSergeev
Sr Member
Ditto. I saw it four times in the cinema; was almost in tears the first time. So gorgeous and so respectful of what came before yet while blazing a new trail. Scott well ahead of the pack once more.
Wakeem
Sr Member
I wouldn't go that far. It's kind of like that old Eddie Murphy joke about eating crackers. But Prometheus finally does justice to the Alien and Aliens movies unlike those other sequels. James Cameron did see Prometheus twice in theaters so that says something too. But we need to see the sequel and how it all ties together. That is the difficult part given what we've now seen in Prometheus.
Kit Rae
Sr Member
Ridley Scott, from the end of the Blue Ray audio commentary - I do hope they don't write essays about this in thirty years time. I'd rather they got it NOW, because it's all there.
A few interesting things from the writers commentary.
Fifield and Milburn were John Spaith's characters, and he, not Lindeloff, wrote the scene where they decide to leave the expedition when the first dead Engineer is found. Spaith's said there was a cut scene right after that that does show them get lost, despite the digital mapping, and argue about it.
Spaith's talks about all the reasons why you would never take your helmet off in a hostile environment, but states the actors and directors always want to find a way to remove them.
Lindeloff talks about the scene of Milburn petting the snake, and points out that it makes no sense because the previous scene of him finding the first life form was cut out. The commentary was done prior to the film's release, so even then he knew that scene was not going to play well the way the film was cut.
Spaith's talks about writing long and elaborate scenes where Shaw and Holloway find all kinds of clues and evidence, even within human DNA, indicating humans were engineered. Apparently none of it was filmed.
A few interesting things from the writers commentary.
Fifield and Milburn were John Spaith's characters, and he, not Lindeloff, wrote the scene where they decide to leave the expedition when the first dead Engineer is found. Spaith's said there was a cut scene right after that that does show them get lost, despite the digital mapping, and argue about it.
Spaith's talks about all the reasons why you would never take your helmet off in a hostile environment, but states the actors and directors always want to find a way to remove them.
Lindeloff talks about the scene of Milburn petting the snake, and points out that it makes no sense because the previous scene of him finding the first life form was cut out. The commentary was done prior to the film's release, so even then he knew that scene was not going to play well the way the film was cut.
Spaith's talks about writing long and elaborate scenes where Shaw and Holloway find all kinds of clues and evidence, even within human DNA, indicating humans were engineered. Apparently none of it was filmed.
Kit Rae
Sr Member
I'm sure others have found this, but there are some emails from Peter Weyland in The Weyland Files on the BR. This one is from 2090.
"As fate would have it, Shaw and Halloway's interest in Zeta 2 Reticuli has proven to be mutually beneficial. While the good doctors rely on ancient carvings and primitive cave paintings, my science division's own long range scans have recently detected a faint, almost imperceptibel signal eminating from one of the lesser moons in that system. And contrary to the findings of Shaw and Halloway, which target LV-223 as our primary site of interest, our findings suggest the point of interest could actually be the moon LV-426.
Per standard procedure, we will embed a David 8 unit with the crew. And he will be programmed with multiple contingency plans to address and exploit whatever assets we secure on 223. But only David will know about 426 and will ensure that the rest of the crew - including Meredith - learn nothing about the transmission we've recently discovered until the time is right.
For if the Yutani's new ECIU software is to be trusted, there might be great risk awaiting us on the path to an even greater reward."
ECIU is the same database that was used by Ripley in Alien to decifer the warning signal from the derelict ship.
"As fate would have it, Shaw and Halloway's interest in Zeta 2 Reticuli has proven to be mutually beneficial. While the good doctors rely on ancient carvings and primitive cave paintings, my science division's own long range scans have recently detected a faint, almost imperceptibel signal eminating from one of the lesser moons in that system. And contrary to the findings of Shaw and Halloway, which target LV-223 as our primary site of interest, our findings suggest the point of interest could actually be the moon LV-426.
Per standard procedure, we will embed a David 8 unit with the crew. And he will be programmed with multiple contingency plans to address and exploit whatever assets we secure on 223. But only David will know about 426 and will ensure that the rest of the crew - including Meredith - learn nothing about the transmission we've recently discovered until the time is right.
For if the Yutani's new ECIU software is to be trusted, there might be great risk awaiting us on the path to an even greater reward."
ECIU is the same database that was used by Ripley in Alien to decifer the warning signal from the derelict ship.
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Jedi2016
Sr Member
I'm fairly certain that's all just BS, made up by the Blu-ray production crew for filler. Trying to push the prequel angle, and implying that the creatures on LV-426 are somehow more important than discovering an entire alien civilization and the origins of the human species.
I will be highly disappointed if they even attempt to follow that line of thought. SRS just made a whole damn movie explaining how insignificant that one ship is, and, by extension, the entire Alien franchise from the second film on. It sounds like a fanboy's childish and pathetic attempt to make the later movies the "real" ones while Prometheus was just a side journey with no significance to the later stories.
I will be highly disappointed if they even attempt to follow that line of thought. SRS just made a whole damn movie explaining how insignificant that one ship is, and, by extension, the entire Alien franchise from the second film on. It sounds like a fanboy's childish and pathetic attempt to make the later movies the "real" ones while Prometheus was just a side journey with no significance to the later stories.
Kit Rae
Sr Member
Are you suggesting that is the direction of the sequel? Not even a chance at that. Ridley has made it clear the story will not go the direction of Alien, but will be about the Engineers, Shaw and David. He makes that clear in the BR commentary too.
I'm sure this was just some additional info from the script drafts or created for the online marketing by Lindeloff.
I'm sure this was just some additional info from the script drafts or created for the online marketing by Lindeloff.
Kit Rae
Sr Member
Ridley Scott 'turned down Prometheus director's cut'
http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/ne...rce=twt&utm_medium=snets&utm_campaign=twitter
http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/ne...rce=twt&utm_medium=snets&utm_campaign=twitter
Don't want to get us too far off track, but I would be interested to know the truly great movies that have come out in the past 10 years. I would say there have been a lot of good movies but no truly great ones, but then, maybe I am not remembering them all.
matt black
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I have a quick question that I can't quite work out. In Alien they find the space jocky sitting in the chair on the crashed ship but in Prometheus he has left the crashed ship to try and kill Elizabeth. Is it a different ship that they find in Alien?
Sorry if this is a really stupid question.
Sorry if this is a really stupid question.
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