See, that's where I think it shows such promise as this is the start of its own storyline arc.

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same here. There's a couple of things I need to pay closer attention to.

Just got out, incredible.

Imax 3D was WELL worth it.

How the **** do you do spoiler tags?

Holy shit. Great film.

If this movie doesn't win an Academy Award for visuals, there shouldn't BE an award for visuals.

Like so - just surround the text with [ spoiler ] and [ /spoiler ]. Just don't have a space between the [ and ].

And this is an actual spoiler, here -

Saw it earlier...makes me want to see it in imax 3d. Some cool visual shit for sure...and def. leaves you with more questions than answers

haven't seen it yet but the trailer reminds me of mass effect.

Really surprised at all the 3D love here. The general consensus here has always been don't waste your money on 3D. Is it really that good?

Most times it's just gimmicky shit - I saw MIB3 in 2D it was obvious what the 3D shots were. Seeing that in 3D would have been a waste of money.

From everything I've heard, this is more in the Avatar range. That was a shitty movie, but the 3D was breathtaking.

We watched MiB3 in 3D because we didn't really have a choice and I didn't really have a problem with it. Got a real kick out of seeing the scenes on top of the Empire State Building.

Well, if your cheap ass ponied up for 3D on that, you should definitely watch Prometheus in 3D! :D

I better go see this movie before i get sick of it.

These Coors Light tie-in commercials are killing it for me.

I probably will now with all these glowing reviews. I just wish we had a damn Imax in topeka.

I am doing the IMAX3D in Olathe later tonight.....can't wait.

Agreed on all points. Best use of 3D since Avatar, IMO.


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I don't really care about 3D, but the only way to see this on the big IMAX screen was to see it in 3D.

Far and away the best 3D film I've seen.

I think I've only seen 3 (Up, The Avengers, and Prometheus).

They were all very good in 3D, but this time I literally felt like Michael Fassbender's face was within reaching distance...

That being said, as long as you take the "Alien" element out of this movie, it's a really good sci-fi thriller. I guess it sets up for a sequel, but who knows...

Okay here's some things I'm thinking about in spoiler tags.

Ummm, why not Charlize Theron's face?

Did you see the movie yet?

Nope. I'm just giving you shit. heh

I know what you mean though. I went to see U23D in Imax a couple years ago and it felt like I could just reach out and grab the mic from Bono.

You will hate it because some stuff isn't explained fully, or doesn't appear to make sense, and likely wasn't intended to. ROFL

Yes,

Okay. I haven't watched this movie or really followed its creation despite loving the Aliens franchise. All that being said, the ideas put forth in it really really remind me of a book called The Sparrow

Check it out. Seriously. Wonderful book about First Contact and what it all means if that contact isn't benevolent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sparrow_(novel)

Damn, I need to watch the movie again. I completely forgot about the stuff you brought up in #2.

As for #1, I just read something interesting on FO that

The fact that people are still wondering about all this shit is pissing a lot of people off. LMAO

Everything is not supposed to be fully explained.

But to me it was pretty obvious that was a "planet seeding" ritual.

I think I like Clay's argument better.

Every good story should leave some doubt.

Especially when you can make money off of a sequel...

In fact, according to some early drafts of Prometheus, Scott wanted Jesus to be an Engineer, which sounds really stupid.

That is really ****ing stupid.

He already put too much religion into the movie as it was.

It's not that they thought we were "bad."

This is part of the point the movie is trying to make.

David is a human creation, and yet Vickers

Have you ever made something, decided it was shit, and then gotten rid of it? Like, perhaps a dish of food, or a painting, or an essay?

Ridley Scott is not infallible.

He's had some really stupid ideas. ROFL

In fact, at the end of the original Alien, he wanted the Xenomorph to survive, eat Ripley's head, and record the final log in her voice.

I'm going to rewatch the movie next week.

:spock:

Why Ridley Scott is still awesome:

I will likely see this again after reading some of this stuff. I like that it makes me think...stoked for another

The main actress chick is cute too and shes the dragon tattoo chick in the foreign flicks

Great reading right here:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/sho...r=170#lastpost

Holy shit, Ridley Scott, you loveable arse:

I had a dream last night that

Prometheus was one of the biggest steaming piles I have ever seen. Had such high hopes for it and it basically went dumbnuts from the opening frame. Can't believe some of the stuff that made it into the final cut - just awful from beginning to end and a great waste of a concept that could have been done much better.

Lol, I'm so glad you didn't like it.

Have you guys seen the viral Peter Weyland video at the 2023 TED conference? I didn't even know it existed until today. They should've put it at the end of the credits or something.

I also thought they should have had that vignette in there somewhere. Same with the David-in-a-bag commercial. It will probably all be in the Director's Cut though.

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Bite me, douche. I loved it. nlm

Just got back from seeing it. Not bad. Kinda drug out.

Question...

They didn't say that at all, dude.

My bad I thought I read that then after I posted this I scrolled down and read stuff that made sense of it.

I've never seen any of the Alien movies, and I lived Prometheus.

:facepalm:

Off to see it again - this time IMAX 3D.

Hell yeah, enjoy it. So visually stunning.

As far as that Peter Weyland TED video, I think it should have been in the movie, right after the first Engineer part.

I hope it makes it into the Director's cut. Cant wait for that to come out on Blu-Ray.

Going in a bit to see in imax3d...caught it in 2d and loved the visuals.

Stoked.

Just saw it. Leaning somewhere in the area of 'okay' to 'mildly disappointing'. Visually stunning with some really cool sequences, and the main concept of a progenitor race is a theory I've always liked, but the storytelling in a general sense just wasn't very good. The only way I can think of to characterize it is ham-fisted. There was no finesse, no style or elegance to it. No meaningful reveals because everything that happened was obvious from very early in the film (although I will say they did a surprisingly good job with the trailers; didn't give away nearly as much there as I thought). It wasn't bad per se. Just sort of like hoping you're going to get a Chimay and somebody hands you a Coors light. Drinkable, but disappointing. Oddly enough, while I was watching, the movie that it reminded me of was Event Horizon. Cool concept in theory, not quite all it should have been in execution.

(note: I'm relating the thoughts and reactions I had while watching both films, not saying Prometheus = Event Horizon; Prometheus was much better than that...)

I'm surprised by this - I obviously loved it. Made me want to watch Lawrence of Arabia again, too.

Didn't really pick up more from the first time, except

I thought that seemed pretty clearly to be the case.

The one thing that may be holding you up from thinking it was a "great" film might be the way they left it wide open for a sequel,and possibly, all of this talk about it being a prequel. It was, but not in a way that would give definite relationship to the Alien movies, therefore not living up to preconceived notions?

Yeah, I just didn't notice it first time around. Sometimes I get so lost in the visuals that I miss things. I've probably seen Watchmen five or six times and I still notice little things I hadn't caught before.

I didn't even really think of that.

How did you like the IMAX 3D?

It was pretty bad ass. I sat right in front, too.

Nah, it doesn't have anything to do with that. They've said from the beginning it wasn't a direct prequel and I believed them.

What I didn't like was basically lazy storytelling. Coincidences and convenient setups, poorly done foreshadowing and reveals, and particularly people doing things people wouldn't ever do facing the situation in 'real life' (this is important - you want to suspend disbelief but people still have to react in a believable way).

Beef number 1: taking off their damn helmets. That was just dumb. And when I say it was dumb, I mean the writing. That's like bad horror movie level stuff.

There was a lot more, to go into any details would be serious spoiler territory, but the short list would be splitting up the group the way they did, introducing infertility when and how they did, basically everything David did, basically all of Vickers and finally the way that for the entire movie, nearly every character was a cliche, there was no real development for anybody but Shaw (and hers wasn't done very well; not organic at all, stuff just kept getting introduced in nonsensical leaps), everyone else was a cardboard cutout that was there only to set up their death scene.

You and me both. I was front and center, feet propped up on the railing. Favorite spot in the house.

Alright, I'm done with spoiler tags. The movie has been out 3 days.

Are we to assume that each of the other ship bases (I think we saw 3 or 4) didn't have a hibernating engineer in them? Also it seemed like the one ship had 3 or 4 hibernation pods, and there was only 1 engineer in that one.

I don't see why each base/ship wouldn't have at least 1 hibernating engineer (along with all the jars) in it. So do you think that Shaw and David had to take care of an Engineer before they got the ship airborn or do you think that there was only 1 engineer left on the planet?

I'm still going to use the spoiler tags for another couple of days.

There will definitely be a sequel.

Can't ****ing wait. No one makes movies like Ridley Scott. Even when they suck, I'm in a trance. That includes Kingdom of Heaven and Robin Hood.

God damn so many things just popped in my head right now. I need to see this movie again next weekend.

I'm not quite understanding why the Engineers left markings on Earth leading them to LV-223, if it was just some kind of military instillation.

I enjoyed it, but can't argue much with your criticisms. That's what held me back from really loving it, despite my desire to do just that. Another one : the biologist reaction when that snake-like creature reared up in front of him. He reacts as if it's friendly, but it looked like a cobra. Would you really get that close and try to interact when just moments earlier you were frightened with every noise and shadow?

I don't really think it's important. It's just a plot device. Ridley Scott makes movies where every little detail isn't fully explained.