It is interesting to note how the alien holograms are the same shade of cyan as the laser in the egg chamber in 1979.

If you look at the Prometheus bridge design it's pretty much the same as Nostromo concept designs which they couldn't afford to do back then :

CP3S said:

ray_afraid said:

Johnny Ringo said:

 

We just don't know how things will play out yet, maybe humanity is plunged into a sort of technological dark age?

Riddley has stated that the difference in tech is there because he didn't want to make a movie that looks like it's from the 70's. Simple as that.

I think this is perfectly reasonable.

In TOS Klingon's had smooth heads. Then once the movies and TNG came along they stepped it up with the alien makeup and they had ridged foreheads. I liked the ridged foreheads and am glad they decided to make one of the more prominent alien species in the series more alien looking than they were in TOS. Having Klingons forever be brown people with goatees would have been kind of lame. Unfortunately, this made overly anal Trek fans spend years sitting around with wrinkled brows trying to come up with the most reasonable in universe explanation for this discrepancy. To me, it always felt that the real life explanation of different time periods the series were made in, along with tech and budget restraints, should have been more than reasonable enough for anyone. But fans continued to agonize over this issue until Enterprise wrote a really dumb explanation that soothed their aching sphincters.

 

With all due respect, Deep Space Nine opened that can of worms the minute Koloth, Kang, and Kor showed up with ridges. I was perfectly happy to overlook the issue until the Tribble episode made a big deal of it. So don't go blaming Enterprise for trying to clean up that mess. ;)

Saw that bestbuy had a smattering of 20th Fox BDs for $10 that includes $10 movie cash to see Prometheus.

All X-Men movies (except First Class)

All Alien movies (single disc).

And more!

New Viral Thingy.

notice who is intercepting the call?

timdiggerm said:

Wait wait wait, BDs are $10 now?

Man, I am really out of the loop.

Yep.  These are even the 4 Disc versions of the X-Men movies.  (Though I'd be just as happy with the 2 Disc).

BBy had some BD for $5 this week.  I didn't buy any of them.

CP3S said:

Unfortunately, this made overly anal Trek fans spend years sitting around with wrinkled brows trying to come up with the most reasonable in universe explanation for this discrepancy

Bingowings said:

New Viral Thingy.

notice who is intercepting the call?

Love it!

Interesting indeed, I'd just been wondering if the plot of this film had anything to do with the merger of Weyland and Yutani - a lot of props are clearly branded with the Weyland Industries logo..

Bingowings said:

That's awesome.

Mark Kermode on Prometheus. (minor spoilers) he gives it a 7.5/10 though you wouldn't believe it listening to him talk about it.

I will see it over the weekend and post my spoiler free reaction to it.

I've seen other people say how the reviews they have been reading don't match up with the scores they give, for good or bad. Very strange. We don't get it until next week.

I won't go into any spoilerish specifics for the time being, but having now seen this, I was surprised to find that I'd rather some fan-editing was done to a couple of scenes...

I read the plot synopsis on Wikipedia, and frankly it sounds rather meh to me.

I'm going to see it with a bunch of friends on the 6th of june. I'll post a review or something to that effect on here after I see it.

I've been trying now not to see any spolier-y kind of stuff. Like Trailers or other stuff.

greenpenguino said:

I've been trying now not to see any spolier-y kind of stuff. Like Trailers or other stuff.

Went with the better half and a pal.

Ridley Scott managed to make a B-Movie plot into one of the most significant genre films ever so even if it wasn't as good he couldn't screw it up that badly....

We were wrong, we were so wrong.

Some amazing visual set pieces and a few mildly nasty moments does not make up a choppy inconsistent tone and a lackluster story.

The acting is top notch which makes it all so much sadder.

Those performances and those amazing sets deserve to be in a much better film than this.

It's worth seeing (on dvd or blu-ray one day) but it wasn't worth the wait.

Alien 3 is a much better film (I imagine Aliens fans will even agree with me here).

Avoiding the trailers would probably have helped as what little the film has to offer looks and feels better in the trailers.

Urgent note to Ridley, old people should be portrayed by old actors not middle aged actors in really bad halloween masks.

I'd give it 6 out of 10 for the bits that worked.

Bingowings said:

Urgent note to Ridley, old people should be portrayed by old actors not middle aged actors in really bad halloween masks.

^Joke would have worked better with Frink.

bkev said:

^Joke would have worked better with Frink.

Bingowings said:

Urgent note to Ridley, old people should be portrayed by old actors not middle aged actors in really bad halloween masks.

Couldn't agree more.

Is Prometheus worth all the hype? No, not at all. Is it worth watching? I would say yes.

Calling this film an Alien prequel does it something of a disservice in my opinion. It works better if you forget about the Alien films and take it in as a stand alone story that just so happens to be set within the same "universe".

It wasn't what I expected but it was an enjoyable enough sci-fi/monster flick. All the actors put in great performances and the visuals are breath taking. The opening sequence is a visual treat.