Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" (2012)

[Proofpoochie]

Actually kinda excited for this. I ordered the Blu on Amazon so I get a free ticket to see it Friday. Also ordered the Alien Anthology Blu-ray on Amazon when it was $29.99. Great Deal.

[Giga Kaiju]

The movie will be shown this friday where i live. Cant wait for it! Lets see if the hype its true.

[Mitchal]

Watched it last night. Very dissapointed.

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The jockey plays a flute to start up the ship. This is what put the movie over the edge for me.

[XxComablack1937xX]

Biggest Disappointment of the Summer so far..... (unless spiderman is worse) who knows

Decent Acting, GREAT effects i will give it that, same atmosphere as Alien but that's were it ends.... It had not 1 freaking tie in to Alien.... Not 1 other then the weird looking creature which looked more like Hellraiser an something else that looked like a giant hand blob.

Way to long, you honestly could just watch the trailer an the last 25 minutes an know exactly what happens.....No surprises, No suspense, No thrills (besides 1 minor scene) no drama, Ridley Scott said he wanted to scare you? With what?????? I jumped more in ''Deep blue sea'' then this.

I know it was not exactly meant to be an ''Alien'' movie but a prequels ages before an i expected a lot more element's an creatures in the early form before they evolved. The only difference between this an Alien Resurrection is this had better effects an much better actors..... Otherwise just as bad...

3 out of 10.... Major Major Disappointment..... Just make Alien 5.... Can't be any worse then Resurrection, AVP's an this.....

[Shazam14]

And I was so pumped to see this movie, too...

[Terrier]

Prometheus is not supossed to be a straight Alien prequel, just a movie that takes place in the same universe. That's why Ridley Scott was so insistent in that it wasn't an Alien prequel, yet everybody just kept looking for ways to assume it was, indeed, just an Alien prequel, and calling BS on his statements... and now people complain because it wasn't too tied up with Alien... ugh.

I'll see what the movie wants to offer and has to offer, having avoided all the spoilers and knowing it's not a straight alien prequel, and expecting possibilities instead of direct answers, and then I will form an opinion.

[Hellspawn28]

I'm seeing the movie tomorrow. I have been avoiding spoilers for the past week and my friends said the movie was great. The critics seem to enjoy the movie since it had a 80% on RT the last time I check.

[ゴジラ]

Prometheus is not supossed to be a straight Alien prequel, just a movie that takes place in the same universe. That's why Ridley Scott was so insistent in that it wasn't an Alien prequel, yet everybody just kept looking for ways to assume it was, indeed, just an Alien prequel, and calling BS on his statements... and now people complain because it wasn't too tied up with Alien... ugh.

I'll see what the movie wants to offer and has to offer, having avoided all the spoilers and knowing it's not a straight alien prequel, and expecting possibilities instead of direct answers, and then I will form an opinion.

This....This 100 Skreeeonking percent!
Honestly I've been starting to see these related complaints rise up here and there, did people actually pay attention to the interviews and what Ridley Scott said repeatedly?

[wataru]

Umm.... so they flood TV and trailers with the Space Jockey and "Everything has a beginning..." and Ridley expected people NOT to think it was an Alien prequel?

It's the story involving the events before Alien. In the ALIEN(s) universe. Best case scenario, it's a side-quel.

[Blackout286]

Umm.... so they flood TV and trailers with the Space Jockey and "Everything has a beginning..." and Ridley expected people NOT to think it was an Alien prequel?

Well when you have hundreds of interviews and video interviews, you would expect people to educate themselves. But this is modern society, educating oneself and learning things isn't top priority anymore.

[wataru]

Umm.... so they flood TV and trailers with the Space Jockey and "Everything has a beginning..." and Ridley expected people NOT to think it was an Alien prequel?

Well when you have hundreds of interviews and video interviews, you would expect people to educate themselves. But this is modern society, educating oneself and learning things isn't top priority anymore.

Im sorry you do NOT have hundreds of interviews and video reviews. You DO have hundreds (per day) of commercials saying "Everything has a beginning..." showing the Space Jockey, showing some HG Greiger type alien stuff and the same lighting as ALIEN.

[Terrier]

Umm.... so they flood TV and trailers with the Space Jockey and "Everything has a beginning..." and Ridley expected people NOT to think it was an Alien prequel?

Maybe that was because the movie is allegedly about the origin of life or humanity. The tagline is "The Search for our Beginning Could Lead to our End" or some variation of it, for Space Jockey's sake.

It's the story involving the events before Alien. In the ALIEN(s) universe. Best case scenario, it's a side-quel.

Events that won't necessarily be directly connected to Alien, Alien being just a part of the universe presented by Prometheus.


People shouldn't limit this movie, it's its own thing.

[wataru]

^^ hence side-quel.

[GojiFan]

What Terrier said. It may be in the same universe, but this movie was never intended to be anything but it's own series. I believe Ridley Scott said something along the lines of this in an interview:

Saying it is a prequel implies the next movie would be Alien. That isn't what Prometheus is. Prometheus will be its own movie, and if we have any sequels they will be Prometheus 2, not another Alien movie.

[wataru]

Oh that's crap. It doesnt have to be a direct jump to Alien to be a prequel blah.

To use an accepted term - it's a spin-off. Or as I call them, side-quels. Same universe.

[Blackout286]

You DO have hundreds (per day) of commercials saying "Everything has a beginning..." showing the Space Jockey, showing some HG Greiger type alien stuff and the same lighting as ALIEN.

And that's a excuse to not look into things and clarify things before investing your time into it?

[wataru]

Why should a casual movie viewer rearch a movie before going to see it? Why should ANYONE have to do research on a film before going to see it? How many of yall knew Dark Shadows was a soap opera from 1966-1971 ? ALOT of people didnt.

You shouldnt.

The trailer is supposed to entice you. And they constantly put out more. But the movie is being toted as a prequel to Alien by the actions of the trailers. Ridley can do or say whatever he wants in interviews, but it's a movie. Not a test.

[Blackout286]

[quote="wataru"]Why should a casual movie viewer rearch a movie before going to see it? Why should ANYONE have to do research on a film before going to see it? How many of yall knew Dark Shadows was a soap opera from 1966-1971 ? ALOT of people didnt.

You shouldnt./quote]

Why would a casual movie viewer research a movie before going to see it? Why would anyone do it?

Why else?

To make sure that it's worth your money, and to make sure that you know what your getting yourself into. Asking why anyone should do research on a movie before seeing it, is like asking why anyone would want to buy a game before playing it(unless there's a demo out) and learning about it. You learn about what your investing yourself into, even when your being visually presented something, you still research and see what things really are before putting yourself out there. I've seen multiple casual movie viewers do this with other movies that they were about to see, why? Because they wanted to make sure that it was worth it.

Dark Shadows, I'm not even going to acknowledge because I'm talking about the HERE and the NOW. Modern day, technology, multiple sources of information to educate yourself with.

Its not a test, correct, but that still doesn't excuse anything when you have so many chances to save yourself from disappointment.

[Shazam14]

Ugh... skreeonk errbody. I'm gonna watch this movie. Judge it for myself.

[wataru]

...um Blackout. Dark Shadows came out a week after The Avengers. The soap came out in 1966.