Prometheus Review Thread (Spoilers)

[Monkey]

Haha, that is awesome. Arnold's is practically identical. They have creatures in the game that resemble the face huggers but they don't hug on to the face. Plenty of other parts as well.

[raygendreau]

Originally Posted by Monkey

Are people assuming

[Show spoiler]that shot at the waterfall is supposed to be Earth and that the figure there is an alien on Earth? The figure has some kind of vein thing going on as well which also happens to one of the crew members in the trailer on his neck.

That flying shadow doesn't look like the Derelict either but I supposed it could be.

Scott confirmed in the taped 2011 Comicon interview that that shot of the waterfall (actually in Iceland) was of "Earth at the beginning of time" and is the first scene in the movie. No supposing required.

[nelly_platinum]

so showed the new trailer to my stepdad and he jized hes practically the biggest alien fan in the world...he told me when its released we doing imax afternoon get out eat dinner as soon as dinner is done go back and see it a second time in imax back to back -_- gonna be a tiring day

[Chordata]

Originally Posted by nelly_platinum

so showed the new trailer to my stepdad and he jized hes practically the biggest alien fan in the world...he told me when its released we doing imax afternoon get out eat dinner as soon as dinner is done go back and see it a second time in imax back to back -_- gonna be a tiring day

I'm just glad your stepdad seems like a good guy to his stepson!

[Duffy12]

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Finally!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm4zYq8DW5o

[nelly_platinum]

Originally Posted by Chordata

I'm just glad your stepdad seems like a good guy to his stepson!

sad part is im 24 -_-" he gets like a kid when its anything alien related...he already wants me to request off that day

[GORT]

Originally Posted by Duffy12

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Finally!!!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm4zYq8DW5o

Best trailer yet IMO it gives nothing away unlike the others

[Trekkie313]

Seems like the 2001 of this generation, but with kickass action sequences.

[raygendreau]

Originally Posted by Duffy12

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Finally!!!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm4zYq8DW5o

Actually, that's the IMAX trailer mislabeled. The trailer shown at Wondercon was the full 2:30 min trailer in 3D. I think this 720P version of the IMAX was posted several pages back.

[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by raygendreau

Actually, that's the IMAX trailer mislabeled. The trailer shown at Wondercon was the full 2:30 min trailer in 3D. I think this 720P version of the IMAX was posted several pages back.

But...what's interesting...


is that the

[Show spoiler]2nd Earth ship Magellan at the :16 and :37 (lower right corner) mark???

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[ScarredLungs]

That is an awesome trailer. I'm getting more and more excited!

[Monkey]

Originally Posted by Duffy12

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Finally!!!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm4zYq8DW5o

I'd love to see this one in slow motion.

[Monkey]

Originally Posted by raygendreau

Scott confirmed in the taped 2011 Comicon interview that that shot of the waterfall (actually in Iceland) was of "Earth at the beginning of time" and is the first scene in the movie. No supposing required.

Oh, gotcha. Thanks.

[raygendreau]

Originally Posted by Duffy12

But...what's interesting...


is that the

[Show spoiler]2nd Earth ship Magellan at the :16 and :37 (lower right corner) mark???

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You're talking about this issue, right? http://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?topic=41375.0

[Show spoiler]Magellan is the Prometheus drop ship. That's how I have been referring to it from time to time.

I assume Prometheus is is in orbit. What may be confusing is the statement "The Prometheus has landed" in the trailer. That is common practice in the Navy as well. Auxillary craft bear the same name as the 'mother' ship.

Have you noticed the use of MUTHUR on some of the display panels on some of the screencaps. ID of the shipboard computer is the same as used in Alien.

[Monkey]

Viral Video, notice the white substance from Alien.

Prometheus Viral Video David 8 Our Family is Growing - YouTube

[Mandalorian]

Sorry I haven't been keeping up in this thread to avoid too much info, but

[Show spoiler]it looks to me like one of the Prometheus crew members gets infected and becomes some sort of extra-strong creature. You can see his deformed face, etc, numerous times throughout the trailer. Including what looks like him jumping off of a ship and onto one of his crewmates, then throwing said crewmate several feet in the air.

I'm excited.

[Eye Candy]

Great News ! !

Back in the day, when Alien came out, before the Web and i-phones.... you just knew you had to go and see Alien, by the fantastic "word-of mouth" recommendations.

Few movies prior to that had created the kind of buzz on the street that Alien had.

The Exorcist did. Jaws did. 2001:A Space Odyssey did. Star Wars did.

I remember seeing Alien at one of the few large single screen theaters left in Dallas, The Medallion, where it was shown as an exclusive engagment in the summer of 1979.

The Saturday night crowd packed the theater. There were no cell phones then, but what I do recall is that everyone in the audience sat spellbound, watching Alien. There was no looking down or filddling with things or "chatting" with their friends.... And because it was a night show, there were no crying babies, or really any children in the theater. Very few people got up and left for a bathroom break.

It was one of those rare, magical times when seeing a movie was an "experience".

Perhaps this Ridley Scott presentation will indeed live up to that high expectation.

The music played with the Prometheus trailers made me think of the group, The Crystal Method, that had it's music used in several Sc-Fi films...

The Crystal Method - Busy Child - YouTube

[FunkJames]

"Now Is The Time" song comes to mind

[srinivas1015]

POTENTIAL SPOILERS BELOW:
I think the Mohawk military guy is the one who gets mutated and starts attacking the rest. He might be the guy who gets his face melted off as well. I was watching the first teaser yesterday and I noticed that the mutated guy has a mohawk and a beard!

[Show spoiler]

Looking at it again, the guy with the burning face in this shot only has a stubble and not a beard. He also has another helmet made of cloth over his head inside the helmet.

[Show spoiler]

In this shot, something is happening to this person's face but notice that he has a mohawk and that there is no cloth helmet inside the glass helmet :

[Show spoiler]

So this must be the mohawk guy getting transformed by the goo whereas the picture before where the helmet is off might be Holloway suffering some sort of effect due to the parasite inside him.

[TheWildWhelk]

Is anyone else hacked off that Prometheus is going to knock James Cameron's Aliens out of canon? Think about what Weyalnd Corp 'missed' when they looked at building the colony: Crashed Space Jockey ship. Space Jockey pyramid. Space Jockey underground hanger! Possible remenants of the Prometheus (if it too crashed). I mean, LV426 is going to be the equivalent of a planetary scrapyard!

The main thing that winds me up is the fact that Scott seems to be willing to dismiss Aliens as 'Not my film so don't worry about continuity, Damon." That is why i thought (or perhaps didn't want to believe) that the planet seen in Prometheus is LV426. I thought that Not with the inclusion of the Pyramid and Hanger.