Prometheus - Official Full HD Trailer 1st post! EPIC Sci Fi!(WARNING: Spoilers ahead).

[Skinz4Life12]

lol i liked how Janek was just blowing those guys off when they had to spend the night in the temple. He was pretty much like "peace out, I'm gonna go bang Charlize now. Ya'll be safe until morning"

[JMS]

OMG... I'm so old... I hated this movie... I remember in seventh grade organizing a group of friends to go down to the state movie theatre and see the original Alien when it came out. I remember sitting in the balcony with a giant pack of MM's ( peanut) and when the first alien pop'ed ouf of that guys chest MM's went everywhere.. I turned around to check out my 4 buddies sitting behind me and they were covered with MM's... sure I showered a bunch of people sitting bellow me too..
I'm just to old for this genre of movie.. That sceen with the alien fetus / lasers / spatula's... OMG... I was physically recoiling.. If I had MM's they would have been everywhere again and this time not in a good way.
I was talking to my nephew who just graduated from HS, before I went who described Prometheus as "pretty good", also pretty tame.. He said movies like "OctaShark?" and "The Human Centipede" were scary... Those actually sound comical to me, sure I'm wrong... Prometheus wasn't so much as scary as it was physically repulsive... Like I said, I think I'm just too old for the genre.
I would say,, don't go, If you do go, don't buy MM's.

[Skinz4Life12]

lol that scene was pretty freaking intense. i loved it. awesome how that thing stapled her up real quick afterwards.

[RansomthePasserby]

Watched the first 3/4 of the movie in 3D. The theater had technical problems, and both of the projectors would shut down randomly. We got moved to a different theater (one that's wasn't 3D) to finish the movie. Good movie, but the 3D wasn't that impressive or worth it. After being able to compare both images back to back, the non-3d image is brighter, smoother, and crisper. The 3D was cool at certain points, but never blew me away. I'm actually disappointed I didn't see the opening scene that was shot in Iceland in the better image quality of 2D.

I saw it a second time yesterday, this one being in 3D. I feel the 2D is much crisper and the colors are vibrant.

After seeing it first in 3D, then in IMAX 3D, I agree that 3D has a lower picture quality than 2D. However, IMAX 3D is beautiful. It's just as crisp as 2D, and almost (If not just as) bright. If you want to see a movie in 3D, definitely go IMAX. It's worth the extra money.

[Metalhead]

After seeing it first in 3D, then in IMAX 3D, I agree that 3D has a lower picture quality than 2D. However, IMAX 3D is beautiful. It's just as crisp as 2D, and almost (If not just as) bright. If you want to see a movie in 3D, definitely go IMAX. It's worth the extra money.

I'm sure IMAX is way better, but I just got the regular 3D with crappy glasses that slid all over the place.

[Yusuf06]

lol that scene was pretty freaking intense. i loved it. awesome how that thing stapled her up real quick afterwards.

I've seen it done in real life and the speed at which it happened in the film made it cool as hell. Definitely one of the better scenes in the movie.

[sportjunkie07]

Saw Prometheus on Saturday night. It was pretty good but with certain weak scenes and plot lines. Very uneven between best scenes and worst scenes -- some "wow, I just saw that!" mixed with at least an equal measure of "that is just stupid filmmaking." The blog commentary posted earlier in the thread does a good job of fleshing out the notable examples of each.

The 74% on RottenTomatoes is maybe a few points on the low side, but having seen the movie I'd have been very surprised to see it come in anywhere above 85%. Judging from this thread thus far I'm expecting to get some "oh, you just didn't pick up on X, Y, and Z" or "you don't know enough about the Alien universe" etc. Nah, I get all that. The movie just has some very substantial weaknesses.

id agree with you. some weaknesses but overall i enjoyed the film, id rate it about 85% or so.

my biggest beef about this film was that i wasnt on edge of my seat as much as i should have been. i liked the religious and death/beginning talk, but they had so much to work with and i feel they didnt deliver enough.

i thought the C-section scene was very well done and was easily the best scene in the movie. very intense.

[Hitman21ST]

I liked it, the wife kinda didn't - she's not really into that kind of movie.

I wish they would have done a little more exploring in the pyramid, there was a lot of promise with that. Overall, I didn't have many complaints.

[nonniey]

Above average movie not really to the level of the first two Alien movies. A bit over graded by earlier posters in this thread.

[Skinz4Life12]

Above average movie not really to the level of the first two Alien movies. A bit over graded by earlier posters in this thread.

thats...just..like your opinion man

[youngchew]

Some folks are casual fans for the Alien movies, but I'm a super nerd. I watched Alien before and again after seeing Prometheus. The Alien series is up there with the Terminator series for me (first 2 anyway), and the little answers and easter eggs that Prometheus gave us had me smiling form ear to ear during the movie.

As far as many of the unanswered questions go, Ridley Scott knows what he's doing. We'll have to wait a few years until the next two films come out, but we'll get our answers.

[Skinz4Life12]

has it actually confirmed this is going to be a trilogy? If so, i'm stoked!!

[Califan007]

Saw it, liked it...didn't stick with me as being a classic, or stick with me in general, though.

Too many "Alien-cliche' scenes" as well...(spoilers ahead)

I mean, how many times are we gonna see the android get his head ripped off, then see him still talking afterwards...and with that white milk crap dripping from his mouth? lol...it's in seemingly every damn Alien movie.

The dozens (if not hundreds) of "eggs" (or egg-like "things") that the guys should NEVER EVER get near, but of course they always do...poking around and such. Come up with a different visual already!

Yes of course there's always some "other" agenda that's really behind the crew going to some unknown planet...and it's always due to the greed of some billionaire (in this case, the greed was that he wanted more life). We get it. None of this would have happened if not for the greed of corporations and/or the disgustingly wealthy.

What were misses in my opinion:

- I wasn't feeling as if Earth was in any disastrous danger...yeah, intellectually I understood what could happen, but emotionally I never felt any sense of "OMG, if that thing gets to Earth!!..."...nor did I feel like any of the characters really had that feeling, either (except for Shaw). When the captain and his two crew members all agreed to sacrifice their lives to stop the ship, it seemed a little too easy for them to make that decision. It was almost like this:

Shaw: "Stop that ship! It's going to wipe out earth!"
Captain. "Ok."
Crew members: "Yep, no problem."

- Having Theron's character die the way she did was more comical than anything lol...I half expected to see a flattened version of her after the ship kept rolling, like Wile E. Coyote after a huge bolder falls on him.

- Guy Pierce's character was one million percent unnecessary. In fact, seeing Pierce underneath all that "old person" make-up was distracting, and took me out of the movie during his scenes. They should have just hired an actual aging actor instead.

- The movie never adequately explained how Shaw and the other scientist determined that the alien beings were "engineers"...they sure didn't get that from the cave drawings lol. And it's one thing to discover there's a DNA match with humans...quite another to determine that they purposefully came to earth to engineer the human race.


What were hits in my opinion:

- Visuals were often stunning...especially at the beginning of the movie.

- A number or scenes were intense (the C-Section scene already mentioned being #1 on the list)

- Kept my attention the entire time (no boring stretches at all, at least for me)

- Acting is very good almost across the board (Theron was the weak link imo)...although I part ways with almost everyone else on this thread in that I think Noomi Rapace was definitely better than Michael Fassbender. Actually I think he was the least successful of the three actors that played androids in the Alien movies, with Ian Holm coming out on top (I never saw Alien 3). He was still good, just not as good as his predecessors.

- Loved the "fight" between that last engineer and the squid-thing that Shaw had removed during the C-Section. (sorry, I don't get into the actual names of the aliens and planets and stuff lol)...that came off as incredibly realistic.

[youngchew]

Yep, I believe somebody posted a few links in this thread that confirmed it.

Ninja:

I believe he said one film will follow the story of our alien at the end, and show how they were able to get to other planets (the planet from Alien and Aliens was different from Prometheus.

The other film of course will follow Dr. Shaw and David the Droid as they "go to where the engineers came from."

[Califan007]

Some folks are casual fans for the Alien movies, but I'm a super nerd. I watched Alien before and again after seeing Prometheus.

I imagine it would be more than a little distracting to watch Alien after watching Prometheus, mainly because the technology on the ship in Alien looks so antiquated and old fashioned...and Alien takes place after Prometheus. It's like technology took a HUGE step backwards in between the two movies lol...