Prometheus

[DarkAngel]

Tickets booked, cant wait

Already? Must admit this looks damn awesome!

[Tutonic]

I've got my tickets booked for Friday the 1st at the Arthouse in Cambridge. Looking forward to this immensely.

[Luminance]

... but because cinema audiences are generally scum of the earth.

Me and Marduk can be found there almost every week.

So thank you Smilo o.O got anymore feelings that you want to share with us?



Anyhow, Prometheus cinema trailer looked intriguing enough to go and see, so I'll probably will

[smilodon]

I did say 'mostly scum' specifically so it would not include such decent and fine fellows as yourself and Marduk. Oh and those two girls from then last time I went to the cinema who kept dropping popcorn down their spectacular cleavages and giggling. Ahh fond memories. But apart from that definitely all scum of the earth!

[Luminance]

Did you get there numbers by any chance? i'm interested, even if they only wanna go to twilight-ish movies

[Tutonic]

So I went to see Prometheus last Friday, and it's a superb movie. I don't think anyone in the world makes movies which look as good as Ridley Scott's.

Looking forward to the inevitable sequel

[ArithonUK]

Saw it yesterday. Not an Alien prequel, more a clever story at an earlier point in Alien universe timeline.

Recommended. Top cinema. See it in 2D if you can - colour adds so much and I hate watching films in monochrome.

[Milli]

I was actually quite disappointed watching it. Yeah it's a good film in its own right but so many questions left unanswered.

[RizZy]

I can't make up my mind whether I liked it or not. I think it could've been alot better & it would've been alot better if it had nothing to do with the Alien universe, the story just seemed like 3 or 4 ideas smashed together & whatever was left standing was the plot.

Looked pretty though.

[ArithonUK]

I was actually quite disappointed watching it. Yeah it's a good film in its own right but so many questions left unanswered.

I think the idea was to leave you questioning.

Why were you disappointed?

** SPOILER film plotline - don't read unless you've seen the film
Shaw and David's departure in the other ship leaves the film ended, but open enough for a follow on story. The cow-sized face-hugger's hatchling from the the engineer/space jockey was most likely the 1st generation alien queen. This took place on LV226, so most likely a engineer ship visiting later was overrun and crashed on the nearby LV426 to be discovered centuries later by the Ripley & the Nostromo crew.
Why didn't earth send another ship? The destination of the fated Prometheus was "undisclosed" and Weyland was officially dead. Nobody was looking for them.
**

[Tutonic]

You might want to snip those spoilers out Arithon - they show up on the homepage despite the spoiler tags....

Yeah it's a good film in its own right but so many questions left unanswered.                   

Isn't that the point? If it was a film that didn't leave anything open, it wouldn't be half as interesting in my view.

One of the greatest qualities the original 'Alien' had, is that the film didn't give you much background. It's never explained what the Alien actually is or where it comes from. It's left up to your imagination to try and fill in the blanks, which makes it an altogether scarier creature.

Prometheus (sort of) answers some of Alien's mysteries, but it also throws a few more out there for you to think about. That's what intelligent sci-fi should be all about in my opinion, making you think

[TheDvEight]

Must admit having seen the trailer in the cinema i'm looking forward to go and see this at some point.

[Milli]

Won't post on here as don't want to ruin the film for others but they said the film didn't need anyone to see the alien films. So looking it from that view "as a standalone film" - there were many things that didn't add up in my eyes during the course of the film.
I totally agree that some things should e left to the imagination but there were too many imho - maybe being pernickety and maybe was expecting too much from the film.

Overall as I said it was a good film though and worth going to see.

[TeaLeaf]

** SPOILER film plotline - don't read unless you've seen the film

Spoiler tags need an attribute, like {spoiler=Prometheus plotline}your text here{/spoiler}

And use the [] not {}

[Padding]

Great effects, great cast but disappointing story. It was definately worth seeing but i expected so much that the movie couldnt live up to, next up is Dark Knight Rising