Anchorhead said:
If I may; When Alien was released, I became an instant fan. A huge nerd, in fact. I went to see it weekly, as I had Star Wars a couple of years earlier. I bought a book that told the story in screencaps, wore out the soundtrack (one of only two pieces of vinyl I still have). I still listen regularly to the CD conversion of that very album, pops and all. I also keep a full audio rip of the film in my car and on my iPod for long trips and commutes. I would estimate that I listen to that audio rip 5 or 6 times a year. Like I said, lifetime Alien nerd.
When the sequel was announced several years later, I was uninterested. Alien was a complete story and I had no desire to see it being expanded into a franchise. To this day, I've not seen any of the sequels, nor will I ever.
Fast forward to now. I've been keeping up with Prometheus peripherally. The more I see, the more I know I'll be there opening week. I love the idea of having completely unrelated stories taking place in the same location, separated by many years. I may not dig it, but at this point I'm looking forward to it. Scott has made two of my all-time favorites (Alien and Blade Runner), and a couple of others that I enjoy. I feel like the story is in good hands.
I'm constantly intrigued by your film watching habits when it comes to sequels and your comments in recent days about BTTF and it's sequels made me think of Ridley Scott and Prometheus, which led me to here to see if you had posted on the matter
I assumed you'd be a fan of Alien (I didn't know you were the Alien uber nerd) and wanted to know if you'd watch Prometheus, that question is answered.
While I'm not a fan of directors revisiting worlds they've created on film 30 years later, I'm cautiously optimistic, and will go into Prometheus treating it as a stand alone movie.
Since you're such a fan, I'm curious to know if you've seen the pretty harmless and not Scott's preferred version, Fox marketed "Director's Cut" and what you think of it?
And since you brought up Blade Runner being one of your favorites I'm also curious to know which version that is and if you've seen the other cuts?