Bingowings said:

Cutting the extended Vickers/Weyland scene was nuts, it completely scuppers a large portion of the final act.

By the looks of things there are more unused material out there (the shot of the Engineer reading a book looked very Mary Shelley).

So anyone else think Fox is double dipping on us?

I agree about the Vickers/Weyland scene. I also felt the more you understood him as a character and saw performance like that, the less distracting the makeup seemed. Between that and the extended Engineer awakening scene, Weyland develops as a character a lot more. I wish they kept at least some of that.

Not having the release yet, is that still shot of the Engineer reading from the book not in the deleted scene? I saw that still and thought what a brilliant moment, would be disappointing if it wasn't at least in the alternate ending.

It seems like half the deleted material is forgetable--no wonder they refilmed and cut so much of Holloway's scenes, he's just enough of an asshole in the final film to prove one of the films points, but he just comes across a complete jerkoff in the original material--while the other half would have likely improved the film if at least part of it was included. With the run-time of the theatrical cut being very, very close to two hours exactly, I'm sure that was a studio thing of "you can make it how you want, just make it two hours." Another ten minutes of breathing room would probably add a little bit more to the film.