Not sure whether it was the intention but its arguable that the only character worth our sympathy was the engineer at the start o the film.

Regarding why Pearce was only apparently in the old age make up and not seen younger (except for the TED viral video) that was because his younger scenes were either deleted or unfilmed. Even Peace has conceded, given the resulting film, that they probably should have cast an older actor for the part. Just a by-product of the ever changing nature of this film from script through to finished product. The scenes with the you younger Weyland may be in the deleted scenes.

Disciple wrote: Intergalactic Ponce wrote: Finally somewhere that sells cheap and high stuff.

And what is it with 'jerseys?' anyway. NFL or otherwise? They go on about them as if they're the second coming. And why would you spend money to walk around as a human billboard, advertising & promoting multi-million dollar organisations. They should pay the wearer to walk around in their guff.What?

Btw, in regards to your more decipherable comment: I'd really like to know what you consider to be a 10/10 film. I'm pretty sure my 10/10 films won't match yours as we all have a different opinions and taste.

You're quite right. My comment on the jerseys now lacks context as I was commenting on one of those ridiculous spam posts for cheap NFL jerseys that crop up on here every few days. The original spam post was removed, leaving only my response which then made little sense.

Ugh...not again! Stick with the original artwork. The new stuff totally blows.

Absolutely love the revised artwork (really hated that old 3D cover), can't wait to get my 4-disc edition!

Finally somewhere that sells cheap and high stuff.

And what is it with 'jerseys?' anyway. NFL or otherwise? They go on about them as if they're the second coming. And why would you spend money to walk around as a human billboard, advertising & promoting multi-million dollar organisations. They should pay the wearer to walk around in their guff.

It's funny how attitudes change. With regard to commenting on people's opinions. More and more I'm seeing it across a whole range of internet forums. It now seems to be unacceptable to challenge people when they spout guff or are just wrong about a subject. They argue 'What IS wrong or right? What is true or what is fact and who are you to say I'm wrong about such and such?' These people would, I think, like to see argument, in it's pure form (ie, not being abusive and shouty) a thing of the past. That their opinion is just as valid as multi-sourced, verifiable established fact and anyone 'calling' them on it is infringing their basic human need to apparently talk out of their arses.

We can all, from time to time, be ill informed on a subject and talk nonsense (guilty) but I would expect to be told I'm talking rubbish, if indeed I am.

Yes, 2001 was treated rather coldly on it's release, but to draw parallels with Prometheus is wrong headed. The only aspect common to both is that they had mixed reviews. End of.

Some films (and I stress SOME) do age better with time. You forget how the film was received on it's release and view the film without any negative taint. Also, younger audiences, who weren't around at the time of release, generally, will only ever see the film in question on it's own merits. There may (by way of example) be kids in their teens who have enjoyed films like Battlefield Earth, The Avengers and Wild Wild West without the 'benefit' of knowing how much they stank up the box office back in the day.

I'm not saying Prometheus is of the same calibre as those films, it's reasonably above them, but 2001, it ain't or will be. If Prometheus came away with mixed reviews it's because of script problems and unexplained inconsistent character motivations. Not because, like 2001, it was deliberately constructed to be ambiguous from the get go.

Prometheus was underdeveloped (in parts), not thought through (again in parts) and threw in some unnecessary guff for Alien fans to chew on. My own theory is that these things were thrown in more for fans of AvP though. I'm sure appreciators of Alien could have stood for some ambiguity as far as the ending of Prometheus goes without the point being so obviously laboured as it turned out to be.

I can only echo Chris Gould's comments. The only thing I would add is the great lesson everybody needs to learn about the Internet. It's this: taste =/= quality.

Even if you liked Prometheus, you have to admit that the script is atrocious, the plot holes gigantic, the characters acting out of character, and the "themes" muddled and practically incoherent.

One's taste is not a measure of the quality of the film. Despite what many would have you believe, film like any other medium of art, has objective quality markers. Not everything is subjective.

whats with them going out of their way to say its the theatrical edition? i've seen that in all the websites listing this in the last 2 days. is there a longer cut coming soon or something? and i see its another case of "you want the extras...then buy the 3D edition". i had a feeling this would become a trend.

anyway never saw this so i'll probably rent it off the PSN and then see if i wanna own it or not.  lol

The revised artworks look incredible. Glad they changed it, the previous artworks were bland and poorly done. With a movie like this, full of interesting visuals, it was only right to use that as an advantage.

Croweyes1121 wrote: Again, it's your site and I'm not saying all of this to be intentionally argumentative, but it does seem to me that you create more of a combative atmosphere in these talk-backs than is really necessary.  As a prior poster said more succinctly, to each their own.
It's not my site, I'm merely a contributor (an unpaid one at that). Does that preclude me from offering my opinion or disagreeing with anyone else who posts? It's no different from commenting on any other website and people are free to offer their opinions. I don't censor anyone (unless they start attacking people on a personal level).

There's a big difference between leaving things to the audience's imagination and intentionally leaving plot points open for a sequel, and while it's good that Prometheus doesn't spoon feed everything it's also shamelessly guilty of the latter.

Prometheus is my favorite film of the year so far. Sure, it doesn't answer every question it asks, but that's not the point. It's significantly more interesting to have discussions after the film about what the answers could be. Who knows? There is a possibility of two more sequels, which I really want to see. The film has got to be one of the most intense viewing experiences I've had in a loooong time. Really, I think it outdoes all the Alien films. It's an incredibly ambitious film, but, apparently, people just want their damn answers fed to them.

It was okay, visually beautiful, but weak on story.

The part where they discover an atmosphere and take off their helmets, ticked me off. They're suppose to be scientists, they should've known better. 'Hey they're air here, lets all breath it in'. No, sir - I'll pass, the safe air tanks for me.

I enjoyed Scott's "Robin Hood", it a good flick. BUT should've never been called "Robin Hood", this is the story before the legend. With a title like that you go in with an expectation. A lot of people were disappointed. Same with "Prometheus".

At least here, Scott made it clear this wasn't so much a prequel as film set in the same universe. Though even with that notice it still feels more like a set up for movie two. No real answers or motivations. Like a kid in the sandbox, 'look what I did!' Sure dude, that's interesting, but not much more.

I will own this when it comes out, true. But I'm not that pumped. It was okay. And that's sad, it should've been 'cool' or 'rocked'.

You're having a laugh right? If by slightly ahead of its time you mean poorly scripted with at least half of the film held over for the sequels (which given Ridley's age may never happen), then yeah. Prometheus looks pretty and has some interesting ideas, but it's a deeply flawed film and is in no way some misunderstood masterpiece. What is there to misunderstand? The audience might have a lot of questions when they leave the cinema, but that's not because the events depicted in the film are complex, it's because it doesn't tell a coherent story. First it's an Alien prequel and then it isn't, but they still chuck in a load of silly fanservice bits in an attempt to tie it into the same universe (the coda was the worst offender). There are loads of other moments that make little sense as well, but they're a bit too spoilery.[/quote]

To each one's own.

I didn't quite like the movie, but there's a lot of smart people that I admire out there who loved it. Their eventual defense seems to be "well yeah it is dumb but I loved it anyways". I'm fine with that. I own a lot of dumb movies that I enjoy, and will probably own Prometheus one day too. At the end of the day, I love movies like this and even a stupid one is a nice departure from the usual blockbuster lineup.

What I can't stand are those who are still trying to champion it as a brilliant sci-fi narrative full of depth and even spiritual meaning that people like me just aren't picking up on.

Then he'd have missed the point.

prometheus one of the most BORING AND LAME movie of 2012 wasted my money on this c**p ridley scott is  A JOKE Compared to James Cameron

Simon77 wrote: maybe someday Prometheus will reach the same status... it's probably slightly ahead of its time or some of the audience who wish to see aliens rip the hell out of each other... we have AVP for that, thank you.

Things that Prometheus and AVP had in common.

- Ancient Earth civilizations having contact with our alien foes? √
- Someone makes a big deal about bringing weapons on the expedition? √
- Spoiler The boss of Weyland Industries comes along for his own goals and gets killed by the alien baddie? √
- Spoiler Alien popping out of the big alien with it's inner mouth extending before it cuts to credits? √

MiseryMatt wrote: Nerds who spend all of their time on the Internet ruin movies for me. Every artwork is fine. I plan to go see the movie in the next couple days. I would sooner read reviews from credible sources than you idiots.
My irony detector has just exploded!

MASTERPISS more like.

Nerds who spend all of their time on the Internet ruin movies for me. Every artwork is fine. I plan to go see the movie in the next couple days. I would sooner read reviews from credible sources than you idiots.

The most unforgivable thing Prometheus did was taking that wonderful, awkward design of the dead Space Jockey and turning it into a suit that the "human" aliens wear.

I loved the design when I was in my single digits back in the 1900s. I wanted to see that dead corpse in the flash, but now this film is telling me it was never like that. It was us the whole time..... Seeing that stay puffed marshmallow man, I got uh.. It's uh.. $(*!#)*(! #$&%$!! UNCIPOEUBFNIPO!UB#PFIBU!!!!!!!!!

I liked it but couldn't rid myself of that nagging feeling that somehow I'd wandered into the wrong film. I wasn't expecting an Alien prequel, but I was expecting more in terms of what the film itself promised during it's run time.

Spoiler Small example: the holograms of the dead aliens piled up - what killed them? It couldn't have been a xenomorph because they weren't absorbed into the Xeno's life cycle.

I'll definitely buy this, but more for a look at any deleted scenes and for design featurettes. Hoping for an explanation of the the story would probably be a bit must as it would be an admission of failure if Sir Ridley has to explain away all the plot holes to us.

@ djblack1313: Yes. I agree. I thought the music was all wrong. They guy couldn't pull off "majestic", so it sounded to me like a high school kid trying to write a big score. I also would have preferred something more creepy. Who can forget the start of Goldsmith's score for Alien? But there I go again, comparing apples to oranges.

Saw it last night and loved it. Will definitely pick this one up.

That 3D BD artwork is horrible.  The crescent line on the left makes the big face thingee look ballooned and bloated and the astronaut woman in front, breaking the border looks like she is watching the big face on a movie screen, not in the scene with it.

I have the Aliens blu ray box set so I'll take a chance I hope there are a tons of extras on this and the cover looks kick ass cool.

Boring? I had a great time with it.

I tried to avoid as much as I could before hand, only watched the teaser and theatrical trailers. That's it.

As long as you go in not expecting a DIRECT prequel to Alien, but the beginning of it all, you'll enjoy it.

Well, that's how I went in and I thought in was pretty darn cool.