Ridley Scott's Prometheus

Originally posted by BackFire
I thought the movie was pretty decent. Some great visuals and cinematography. Very good acting as well. The movie thought it was much more thought provoking and deep than it actually was.

My biggest complaint is that I think the movie would have been stronger had they not shoehorned it into the alien mythology. For me there was no real reason for this other than because of the commercial aspect and to add to the hype. I found myself often too distracted by being curious how this would add up with the rest of the Alien movies, than actually sitting there enjoying what is otherwise a good movie. That whole aspect just felt unnecessary to me.

I personally was all for the alien mythology.
But I was against, in retrospect, the way the trailers marketed it based so over-heavily on that one aspect..

Spoiler:
We saw the Space Jockey in armour, the ship and lots of the imagery that would be associated with the Xeno aspect early on, and it kinda set the wrong impression of focus on people right from the get go, IMHO. Most of that stuff occurred, as you know in the last 20 mins or so, and people were probably sitting around for the entire movie wating for Tom Skerritt and Sigourney Weaver to turn up at the end, based on the marketing. If they had marketed it as "This shit is like District 9, in the "its it's own thang" stakes, there would have likely been no confusion...! But noooooooooooo. And thats why I feel that mainstream folks were walking out with that Scratching heads/heads held low WTF just happened expression at like a 2:1 ratio! Along with the mentioning of only the differing planet number LV426 vs LV 233/223 whatever as being the delineating line between Alien/Prometheus in people's minds. For people who's heads that went over, that must have been a cluster**** of disappointment for most of them. I mean the only other clear denoter was the terrain being different....but that could have been a local regionality thing for all we knew, outside of the easily missed differing planet number thing.

That f#cking rocked. I loved it. Ridley Scott shows clowns like James Cameron how it's done... cannot f#ckiing wait for part 2.

Cameron's Aliens is one of my favorite movies, along side Scott's Alien. They were made as two different genres. Just as Prometheus was different to Alien in itself. And the Cameron directed Terminators were waaayyyyyy better than the subsequent sequels.

Glad you liked it.

Originally posted by Kazenji

Awesome..! 😄

Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
I personally was all for the alien mythology.
But I was against, in retrospect, the way the trailers marketed it based so over-heavily on that one aspect..

Spoiler:
We saw the Space Jockey in armour, the ship and lots of the imagery that would be associated with the Xeno aspect early on, and it kinda set the wrong impression of focus on people right from the get go, IMHO. Most of that stuff occurred, as you know in the last 20 mins or so, and people were probably sitting around for the entire movie wating for Tom Skerritt and Sigourney Weaver to turn up at the end, based on the marketing. If they had marketed it as "This shit is like District 9, in the "its it's own thang" stakes, there would have likely been no confusion...! But noooooooooooo. And thats why I feel that mainstream folks were walking out with that Scratching heads/heads held low WTF just happened expression at like a 2:1 ratio! Along with the mentioning of only the differing planet number LV426 vs LV 233/223 whatever as being the delineating line between Alien/Prometheus in people's minds. For people who's heads that went over, that must have been a cluster**** of disappointment for most of them. I mean the only other clear denoter was the terrain being different....but that could have been a local regionality thing for all we knew, outside of the easily missed differing planet number thing.

I haven't seen the movie yet but from everything I've read & talking to people who've seen it...no one was led astray by the marketing OR expected Sigourney to pop up. The more intelligent folk also knew NOT to expect aliens to turn up either.

Really liked about the first half, second half seemed to turn into stuff just happening cos, which left me feeling cheated. At least until the sequel comes out and they bother with answering all the little why did they do that/why did that happen.

Originally posted by jaden101

3.

Spoiler:
Why the need for the massively oversized face hugger near the end? What kind of prey does it usually lay its eggs in?

That part bothered me, seemed to be just a "because we need it for a scene we want to do, who cares if it doesn't make much sense" and nothing more.

Originally posted by Patient_Leech
Ridley Scott shows clowns like James Cameron how it's done...

The creators of SpongeBob SquarePants should sue for character design theft.

Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Cameron's Aliens is one of my favorite movies, along side Scott's Alien. They were made as two different genres.

Can't believe some folks out there haven't worked that out still.

One clear continuity error, look at the size difference from Alien 1979. That SJ looks to be at least 40 feet tall. But that could be explained in later films, I suppose.

Originally posted by Patient_Leech
That f#cking rocked. I loved it. Ridley Scott shows clowns like James Cameron how it's done... cannot f#ckiing wait for part 2.

absolutly the worst movie i ever saw.

No suspense.

film was very hard to understand.

couldnt relate to any of the characters whatso ever.

not scary at all. Very dissapointed in this movie i saw it friday night and my buddy that went to the movie with me fell asleep. this was as bad as the Thing prequel, i fear it is going to tank just like the thing did. This didnt remind me at all of alien, or aliens at all. There was almost no action at all in the movie.

when we left the theater me and my buddy looked at the reaction of the audience and it was basically the look of dissapointment. But to each his own.

Originally posted by Esau Cairn
I haven't seen the movie yet but from everything I've read & talking to people who've seen it...no one was led astray by the marketing OR expected Sigourney to pop up. The more intelligent folk also knew NOT to expect aliens to turn up either.

Fair play: And good for them.

None though? Seriously? Wow. They did over here.
Especially with the words 'Alien Prequel' having been banded around since the movie's inception.

The Sigourney thing of course was merely me personally being hyperbolic. My apologies if that was not made obvious enough.

Originally posted by Robtard

The creators of SpongeBob SquarePants should sue for character design theft.

lol

Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Fair play: And good for them.

None though? Seriously? Wow. They did over here.
Especially with the words 'Alien Prequel' having been banded around since the movie's inception.

The Sigourney thing of course was merely me personally being hyperbolic. My apologies if that was not made obvious enough.

the only people whom branded this an Alien prequel were the people whom didn't bother to type letters into the intramanet or read an article about the goddamn thing. It was clearly stated from the very start...,The horses mouth...,Ridley scott himself always said, after abandoning the Alien prequel, Prometheus was going to be something entirely different. only things to tie them together are Weyland, Space jockey and the ship

Originally posted by zeel
absolutly the worst movie i ever saw.

No suspense.

film was very hard to understand.

couldnt relate to any of the characters whatso ever.

not scary at all. Very dissapointed in this movie i saw it friday night and my buddy that went to the movie with me fell asleep. this was as bad as the Thing prequel, i fear it is going to tank just like the thing did. This didnt remind me at all of alien, or aliens at all. There was almost no action at all in the movie

when we left the theater me and my buddy looked at the reaction of the audience and it was basically the look of dissapointment. But to each his own.

You must have no interest in science fiction then. if you took nothing away from the film. Let me guess, though. ..,you think Transformers is a badass movie...,am i right? lol hard to understand? 😂

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
the only people whom branded this an Alien prequel were the people whom didn't bother to type letters into the intramanet or read an article about the goddamn thing. It was clearly stated from the very start...,The horses mouth...,Ridley scott himself always said, after abandoning the Alien prequel, Prometheus was going to be something entirely different. only things to tie them together are Weyland, Space jockey and the ship

Well not everyone is as proactive on the net as we.

Yep and those ties were plastered all over the trailer ads shown on TV for it...(pissed me off, in retrospect as it was a bit too spoilertastic in my opinion.)
Those imagerys was used in an attempt to draw in crowds along with the name Ridley Scott.
People make those connections is very very understandable.

But there are some Easter eggs in it if you've seen 'Alien' you'll notice them.