Prometheus

[silenthunterstudios]

I am a fan of Ridley Scott's. He has put some masterpieces out there, some blockbusters, some snoozers. Blade Runner is one of my favorite movies, as is Alien. As you get older, the rock em sock em military cool factor of Aliens is replaced by the "dread" of Alien. You still know what's going to happen, but you still kinda flinch. He's also made some crappy movies, at least in my opinion, like the Duelists. Gladiator and Blackhawk Down were pretty good action flicks. Looking at his Director credits on IMDB, I don't recall seeing most of his other movies.

I don't know if I'll be in the theater for Prometheus on opening day, but I will see it in theaters. From what I've read and seen, it looks like it will be really good. The history of the Alien universe (if they wanted to make an AVP movie, they should have stuck to the first comic book, not those two abominations they made). I was always intrigued by the space jockey alien from the first movie, and wondered who left that distress signal (not alien in origin). Also, how did the robot from the first one know that there was an alien life form out there?

Even though this isn't part of the actual xenomorph Alien storyline, it happens in the same universe. I am a little dismayed to see that there is a Bladerunner prequel in the works, but if Ridley Scott can pull this one off, I will hold out some hope for the Blade Runner movie.

[PropThePolecat]

I've seen Prometheus, just last weekend actually. I saw it in 3D and it was great.

I'm not going to tell you anything about the plot, but it wasn't exactly the Alien prequel I expected. Don't go in expecting all the answers that the Alien series left. The movie stands on it's own just fine and is still a good movie in my opinion. The effects are excellent too, so watch it in 3D if you can.

[sniperofbuffalo]

I've waited for Prometheus to come out since I saw the trailer for it when I went to The Avengers. I'm probably going to see it Tuesday, provided I am not previously occupied on that day. The review of it that was printed in today's paper further reinforced my desire to see it, preferably in 3D, if available.

[zuluninja]

I saw the non-3D on saturday night and it was great...so good I might go again and watch it on 3D. It is a prequel in a kinda twisted way, but there are more questions than answers when it ends, and it's obvious that a 2nd one will follow soon.

[silenthunterstudios]

I saw it on Friday, it was pretty good. Ridley Scott clearly thought he was making a masterpiece, and treats it like one. It's not. Still pretty good, on par with Aliens for the franchise. There wil definitely be a sequel.

[PropThePolecat]

The emergency c-section scene, that Elizabeth Shaw underwent was intense!

[silenthunterstudios]

The emergency c-section scene, that Elizabeth Shaw underwent was intense!

Spoilers

A little far fetched, but very intense. No repercussions either, I guess they were excited to go wake up the Engineer.

[not2sharp]

I was able to see the movie yesterday at Imax on 70mm 3-D. It fills in much of the backstory to the original Alien, although it is not a perfect fit, just a nice large cunk in the jigsaw puzzle. The special effects and art are excellent. The actors are convincing, even if the script is less then perfect. The whole however looks and feels as though it has been heavily edited and rushed; as if 3-1/2 to 4 hour of film content had been scaled down to a 2 hour running length. It is still a very good B+ movie; but if they had expanded this by a couple of hours the story would have better covered the material. It would have surely been worthy of another admission price, and it would have been lauded as an epic landmark film.

Nice and worth seeing - and the special effects are worth the extra price of Imax ticket premium.

n2s

[Monofletch]

Saw it last night...I'd rather sit through the 3 Stoges 10 more times than have to watch that movie again!!!!! Terrible!!

[powernoodle]

I saw Prometheus at 12:01 a.m. on Friday when it was first released. My 14y old begged to see it, being into Alien, et al., 2001 and that whole genre. I was the oldest guy there, and my son was the youngest. Most were unemployed 20-something dudes who could stay up all night and not have to miss work.

I enjoyed the movie, and found it to be much like an updated Alien albeit with a different plot. Space, aliens, gore, scare, hot chicks. You get it. Good movie though and I would see it again.

[doc trinidad]

wasn't my cup of tea at all. if you wanted to make this movie it should have been made as a stand alone movie as it really did not fit the franchise

[James Y]

I saw it and have mixed feelings about it. I felt like I could predict almost exactly what was going to happen before it did. As a stand-alone movie I think it was decent. I don't feel that it fit as a prequel to the Alien films (I only count the first two). The problem I see with futuristic technology in movies is that it quickly becomes obsolete, so that later prequels have the more advanced tech. But suspension of disbelief and all that...

I did not like any of the characters. The only character I found even half-interesting was Michael Fassbender's.
Jim

[silenthunterstudios]

Spoilers ahead




The technology aspect is something the scifi movie industry will have to deal with for a long time. The technology in the Star Wars movies looks antiquated, but they're flying giant spaceships. Alien and Star Wars still work, other movies do not.

I'm interested to see what the engineers had in mind for those "vases". Why were the vases different from the eggs used by the other engineer in Alien, but it had the same basic xenomorph result? Also, wasn't that engineer a lot bigger than the ones in Prometheus? Is it the same species? Was that the Andre the Giant of the engineers in Alien? The ships look the same inside and out, the creatures look the same, except the engineer in Alien looks like a giant alien with a long snout, while it turns out the engineers/space jockeys are actually in an astronaut suit. What did David say? I think the engineer was actually thankful for whatever David told him. Maybe he told him "I think these guys are here to kill you."

I'm guessing the technology used by the engineers in this movie, with the vases, was from a different time period than the one used by the one in the movie Alien. The vases are either older or newer than the eggs in Alien. Maybe, the black goo, filled with the small aliens, that impregnated Shaw after she had sex with her boyfriend/husband/fiancee, was the refined version of the aliens. The alien came out fully grown from the engineer at the end of Prometheus, not a little chest burster like in Alien.

[yablanowitz]

My guesses, and I have nothing to back them up but imagination, would be: The planet visited in Prometheus is a military installation developing bioweapons. The Enigineer they encounter was a soldier assigned to deploy those weapons on Earth. He's hostile because he is following his orders, and may also see us as an abomination, a failed experiment. What we see in Alien is a similar weapon designed for another destination. The scale of the Space Jockey in Alien and the Engineers in Prometheus is simply a typical Hollywood screwup.

[sniperofbuffalo]

I saw it Wednesday in 3D, I thought it was pretty good. My only complaint was the difference between the final Alien metamorphosis in Prometheus and the original Alien in the first movie, like Yablanowitz said.

[AussieKnifeNut]

I am a little dismayed to see that there is a Bladerunner prequel in the works, but if Ridley Scott can pull this one off, I will hold out some hope for the Blade Runner movie.

It always worries me when they decide to do prequels or sequels. Sometimes it works as there are unanswered questions from the first which need to be answered, other times its just because they have run out of ideas and is usually trash (note mad max 3, although not a prequel).

[arch-stanton]

Sounds like its worth a look. You didn't like; The Duellists?

[silenthunterstudios]

It always worries me when they decide to do prequels or sequels. Sometimes it works as there are unanswered questions from the first which need to be answered, other times its just because they have run out of ideas and is usually trash (note mad max 3, although not a prequel).

Mad Max 2 was a horrible movie. I like the first one (heard they're going to remake that one too ). Take away all of the Mad Max 3 campiness like "Who run Bartertown" etc. How did Australia get that bad in a couple years? I remember a scene at the beginning of Mad Max that showed a nuclear war, or at least pictures of an atom bomb explosion, and basically Australia was a no man's land (well, more than the northern desert). Didn't see that on the dvd I bought a couple years ago. Maybe the first one was just so low budget, they couldn't afford to tell a backstory, let alone show it.

Anyway, I like the Bartertown/Tina Turner one over the 2nd one.

Sounds like its worth a look. You didn't like; The Duellists?

Nope, hated it. I was just waiting for them to kill each other and get it over and done with. Not a good movie IMHO.