Not pumped, interested and surely getting it through a cheap DVD in a supermarket someday, comments I've seen seem to indicate a huge buzz for little content beside visual quality.

Seems that the French critics have panned it, but then again the French have never been big on producing/watching sci-fi films.

The UK critics seem to be giving rather favorable reviews.

It has a big setup but weak payoff.

I'm not sure who this movie is for tbh, or even why it was made.

Only thing going for it is the Direction and production values - script is fuckin' weak and the trailers give pretty much everything away.

I'll watch it, even though I do not need to.

Just hope Ridley Scott doesn't screw up bladerunner, because this'll get panned.

AK

Guess I'll wait for blu ray

I prefer to take the comments of others with a grain of salt and experience things for myself. Because of this I've found that 9 times out of 10 I am the opposite of every forum poster on here.

Yes, we're all different. Take a look at this - I thought this was really funny/good.

More interested in the new James Bond movie, personally. Ever since David Craig started playing Bond, I've left the movie feeling like there was blood, grit, and bone fragments that I needed to sweep off of me. It will be awesome.

I preferred Sean Connery.

Yesh, you will have sex with me!

Just saw it this evening, great FX but the scenario is terribad and full of incoherences.


Visual 10/10
Story 2/10

Since it is Ridley Scott, yes there will be sex. Or more accurate term would be "Surprise Sex". I watched prometheus and I can say that I am rather impressed.



SPOILERS BELOW














There is "Surprise Sex" and Immaculate conception, Peter Weyland playing a large part in the film. This predates the "Weyland Mittani" corporation, in this timeline the Mittani corp that has the predator tech from AVP is hinted at but not in a huge way.

Oh did I mention there is a Autistic Guy called David? Yeah he is really cool, he follows orders and dosent afraid of anything. I think he might be a robot and not actually autistic, maybe both. SpaceJockeys make an appearance and they are all evil and ****, Or are they?....

Since it is Ridley Scott, yes there will be sex. Or more accurate term would be "Surprise Sex". I watched prometheus and I can say that I am rather impressed.

SPOILERS BELOW

There is "Surprise Sex" and Immaculate conception, Peter Weyland playing a large part in the film. This predates the "Weyland Mittani" corporation, in this timeline the Mittani corp that has the predator tech from AVP is hinted at but not in a huge way.

Oh did I mention there is a Autistic Guy called David? Yeah he is really cool, he follows orders and dosent afraid of anything. I think he might be a robot and not actually autistic, maybe both. SpaceJockeys make an appearance and they are all evil and ****, Or are they?....

One thing that I am honestly not very happy with modern film is that effects take up more and more than story and Prometheus seem to be no exception.

Implying effects can't be used to tell a story...

Well, I think overall Alien was a better film with a more organic feel to it whereas Prometheus was more of a special effects demonstrator, like Avatar.

Well, I think overall Alien was a better film with a more organic feel to it whereas Prometheus was more of a special effects demonstrator, like Avatar.

In all honesty, Avatar felt like the better film. It was actually more cohesive.

Prometheus has a lot of stuff that didn't need to be there. The 3D was good, but completely unnecessary and never actually used when it might matter. However, the main story thread just didn't make sense - Contradictions and logical fallacies galore.

Somehow it felt like i wasted my money :/

I was left with lots of questions after seeing this film. Imo this was intentional because they will obviously be making a sequel. Ridley Scott said that it would take 2 or 3 more films before the story caught up to the original Alien.

In all honesty, Avatar felt like the better film. It was actually more cohesive.

P.S I never ever listen to those stupid movie critics, their opinions are invalid the best of time and usually extremely bias

Those damn movie critics... Everybody has an opinion.

I, too, shall be seeing it regardless.

CAPTAIN
"Hey, we've got a lifeform moving towards you - see you in the morning, I'm off to **** Oscar winning actress Charlize Theron"

RED-SHIRT
"Wait! What?!?"

CAPTAIN
"It's gone now, 'probably' just a glitch, nite!"

RED-SHIRT
"Hey, maybe you should confirm that, seeing how we are on a desolate remote planet that has no breathable atmosphere"

CAPTAIN
"Nah, I'm just going to assume everything will be okay in the morning, which goes completely against my character traits as later on, on the basis of what one person says and with no evidence, I'm going to slam this ship into another ship killing everyone on board"

RED-SHIRT
"What?"

CAPTAIN
"Wrap up warm gentlemen, hahaha!"
(off screen)
"Hey! Git yo boney white ass into my cabin"

(this is literally the dialogue of the entire film)

I actually sort of want to see it now just for the lolz.

Seems like a frustrating experience on the whole. Like they had masters of their craft and incompetent baboons in the same team making the film. You get a taste of a masterpiece and what the movie could have been, but the bad is too strong to ignore and turns the overall experience sour.

95% of the people in this thread are complete idiots.

Also, they play EVE Online (Eww!).

This movie is incredible, and you should see it in 3D if at all possible.

People expecting to have all the answers delivered to them on a silver plate are the reason good movies don't get made anymore.

Well, to be fair the film Aliens wasn't exactly top notch for its plot either and had major plot-holes in it and inconsistent characters...

CARTER BURKE enters a small office, occupied by an under-paid and overworked INTERN, who looks like they were born with grey bags under their eyes.

CARTER
(pacing like crazy)
"You're not going to believe this!"

INTERN
"What?"

CARTER
"Remember that plannetoid we're terra-forming?"

INTERN
"LV-42...6?"

CARTER
"Well, hold onto your hat, because I just got out of a meeting where it turns out there is an Alien Spaceship on that planet!"

INTERN
"No...Fuckin'...way!"

CARTER
"That's not the best part!"

INTERN
"Go on..."

CARTER
"Apparently, they is a hostile Alien presence on the ship that has the ability to kill lots of people and they even have acid for blood! How cool is that...I mean...Acid! Imagine how much that would be worth for the bio-tech division!"

INTERN
"Huh? What about the spaceship?"

CARTER
"What do you mean?"

INTERN
"You're not interested in the spaceship itself? The way it flys, its method of moving from one planet to another? Its propulsion systems alone could change the very nature of space travel for the entire human race and usher in the dawn of a new existence - not to mention any medical knowledge and technology they might have on board"

CARTER
"Screw that, I want to take the most dangerous and illogical path with the narrowest of outcomes to gain a short term profit with an unpredictable and unknown hostile Alien that took out an entire crew of another ship in less than 24 hours!"

INTERN
"Right...so, ignore the intern again?"

CARTER
"Ignore the intern again...and get me on a secure channel to LV426 so I can send them to the ship for no reason, and potentially get a nuclear chain reaction started due to lack of maintenance on the atmospheric processor"

INTERN
"You sure you don't want to attempt a military intervention and send lots of disposable grunts by the thousands to wipe everything out and take the potentially-human-history-changing-alien-technology and become immortalized?"

CARTER
"No. Stop asking me completely logical questions!"

INTERN
"ok"

CARTER
"And stop looking at those medical facility photos of Lt. Ripley"


(so needed that scene in the final film)

They're already terraforming other planets so he can derive a different means of propulsion that no one will care for because they can take a frozen nap and wake up wherever they wanted to go

They freeze themselves because of the ridiculous travel times. 2 Lightyears a day.

Faster speed means planets can be resupplied quickly instead of long supply chains that can't adapt to sudden need. Speeds up communication between colonies as well.

Makes defense against threats like I don't know a possibly faster ship with maybe better weapons definitely filled with Aliens that can murder entire ships at the age of immediately. Literally born killing stuff. That is the kind of threadtyou might want someone to look into and gear up for sooner rather then later. Sure study the Aliens but 10 to 1 the ship is a hundred times more valuable and you'll want to secure it like yesterday...

Or like 6 months from now because you know the travel thing... Just gotta hop a 5 LY a minute alien fleet doesn't cut the human empire in half in 2 days while your waiting. Even if the ship isn't that great the amount of intel on a race humanity will be meeting would be invaluable to a mega-corporation in so many ways.

It's a derelic ship... meaning the aliens have a few centuries better tech than the **** in there so it won't make a difference.

Think Japanese Zero vs. F-22.

sure, if the Zero is upgraded to a Mig 15 it's better but not enough to make a difference. Screw people, get rich and have your own harem. That's the way to go

It really depends on how fast technology advances and how effective it is. You could be looking at a single shot rifle rifle vs an Assault Rifle which would be a big improvement over swords... F-22 could ether be a bad example or a great example depending on how much new technology they discover instead of how much they innovate on current designs.

Ether way I think you would get pretty rich if you were the only one with alien super nukes. Possibly rule the human race depending on how advance they are.

Wait, I thought the aliens were the nuke

Didn't take that long for the U.S.S. Sulaco, think it took 3 weeks and...they could expect to be rescued within 17 days?

U.S.S Sulaco was not only a military ship but also at least 90 years more advanced.

The main writer from the tv show Lost was the main writer of this movie.

I saw the CCP subliminal advertising on the captains shirt... *golf clap*

http://s3.amazonaws.com/coolproduction/ckeditor_assets/pictures/7317/original/wey.jpg?1338330841

Was discussing this with a friend the other day. I think audiences for movies tv etc. Expect everything to be wrapped up and explained. Take stories in novels, comic books etc, and they can leave you hanging or not answer all questions. Why is it allowed in one medium, but not the other? Furthermore where is it written that "

ALL QUESTIONS MUST BE ANSWERED OR EASILY DERIVED?" I don't recall signing that form. Granted it would be **** poor authoring to allow major gaps. But the major question/plot point was answered in the film...Rather bluntly too might I add. (WTF is going on on this here planet, and we're we made?)

This isn't so much a criticism rather an observation. But most people I see with anger in their bellies at this film are nit picking small points, such as (Why did aliens run into the container room?) (Was the goo a weapon or...mutagen, birth giver...XYZ theory.) (Why are those guys so jacked? I saw no signs of a gym anywhere on that ******* planet!!!)

That or many are feeling childhood nostalgia over the first 1 which btw everything seems more awesome when you were a kid... It's called being a kid.

hmm I really didn't like it...

Was discussing this with a friend the other day. I think audiences for movies tv etc. Expect everything to be wrapped up and explained. Take stories in novels, comic books etc, and they can leave you hanging or not answer all questions. Why is it allowed in one medium, but not the other? Furthermore where is it written that "

ALL QUESTIONS MUST BE ANSWERED OR EASILY DERIVED?" I don't recall signing that form. Granted it would be **** poor authoring to allow major gaps. But the major question/plot point was answered in the film...Rather bluntly too might I add. (WTF is going on on this here planet, and we're we made?)

This isn't so much a criticism rather an observation. But most people I see with anger in their bellies at this film are nit picking small points, such as (Why did aliens run into the container room?) (Was the goo a weapon or...mutagen, birth giver...XYZ theory.) (Why are those guys so jacked? I saw no signs of a gym anywhere on that ******* planet!!!)

That or many are feeling childhood nostalgia over the first 1 which btw everything seems more awesome when you were a kid... It's called being a kid.

ALL QUESTIONS MUST BE ANSWERED OR EASILY DERIVED?

I'm convinced that some directors just can't conceptualize the way normal humans act or react. Sure, not every person will react the same way in a situation, but there is a range of normal human reactions that make sense.

For example, if you are on a hostile alien world and there is an almost cobra-like hissing creature snaking up from a pool of creepy black ooze, the normal human response, especially if you're a scientist, is probably not to poke it with your ******* hand and giggle like a god damned idiot.

Also, why was the crew of the Magellan so carefree about losing their own lives? I can understand the captain sacrificing himself. You can even make an argument for one of the other crew members staying - the one who said the captain is a bad pilot. But even then, is the captain such a bad pilot that he can't ram the ship into another, massive ship on his own? But, fine, let's assume he was. So why did the third guy stick around? He literally just decided for no good reason "Well I might as well die with these two."

It's a military concept, that kind of survivor's guilt isn't something you want

*Edit: also where the hell was he supposed to go? Live on the exhaust pipe planet till his air supply runs out?

Oh wait, go with the crazy chick to the planet populated by the things that tried to kill you!

I'm convinced that some directors just can't conceptualize the way normal humans act or react. Sure, not every person will react the same way in a situation, but there is a range of normal human reactions that make sense.

For example, if you are on a hostile alien world and there is an almost cobra-like hissing creature snaking up from a pool of creepy black ooze, the normal human response, especially if you're a scientist, is probably not to poke it with your ******* hand and giggle like a god damned idiot.

Also, why was the crew of the Magellan so carefree about losing their own lives? I can understand the captain sacrificing himself. You can even make an argument for one of the other crew members staying - the one who said the captain is a bad pilot. But even then, is the captain such a bad pilot that he can't ram the ship into another, massive ship on his own? But, fine, let's assume he was. So why did the third guy stick around? He literally just decided for no good reason "Well I might as well die with these two."

I actually sort of want to see it now just for the lolz.

Seems like a frustrating experience on the whole. Like they had masters of their craft and incompetent baboons in the same team making the film. You get a taste of a masterpiece and what the movie could have been, but the bad is too strong to ignore and turns the overall experience sour.

This isn't so much a criticism rather an observation. But most people I see with anger in their bellies at this film are nit picking small points, such as (Why did aliens run into the container room?) (Was the goo a weapon or...mutagen, birth giver...XYZ theory.) (Why are those guys so jacked? I saw no signs of a gym anywhere on that ******* planet!!!)

I don't know man, most reviews of the film that I read ask why this trillion-dollar first contact mission was staffed by some of the most boring idiots in the movie history before nitpicking about holograms and alien conniving.

Most reviews musta forgot it was privately funded.

NASA it was not.

Because a CEO of a large and powerful corporation would hire obvious idiots to accompany him on a mission that may cost him his life?

Erm, you must be trolling.

Questionable CEO's have existed since the beginning of time, or at least, CEO's have admitted they have made mistakes - Hilmar included.

Just another mistake by a CEO....I have no issue with this being in the movie.

"Inception" springs immediately to mind, when the two most powerful energy company chairmen are:

a) in the same aeroplane together
b) In 3 dream sequences together

And one of them (Robert Fischer) does not recognise the other (Saito), analogous to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates being on the same aeroplane together and Steve not recognising Bill.

In the case of Inception, it breaks the wall; in the case of Prometheus, it doesn't.

AK

If you think mistakes or inconsistencies from another movie excuse the absolutely amateur writing for Prometheus you are an idiot.

Did I see that right? Did the captain of Prometheus wear an EVE T-shirt? It went all so fast that I might be mistaken. it seemed like the Eve on-line logo. and under the three big letters something like - I fly "bla-bla" -

It's a Weyland corp logo. The logo looks very similar to the EVE logo, so it's an easy mistake to make.