Prometheus (2012)

[fstevens]

Originally Posted by Jutty

I'm watching the 2D version, 1hr18.55 there's pretty bad pixelation on the screen,this continues for the rest of the film,,looks like it wasn't properly coded or something.
Anyone else have this problem?

Watched it first time today and there was pixelation part way through. Stopped it and started it over. It was fine until it got to the end of the movie and it started pixelating again. Also it would not access the main menu or the top menu. I am using an updated Sony 560. Noted that some others with Sony machines were experiencing similar problems.

[Duffy12]

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"Dr.Shaw? We are here to put you in an anti contamination suit. Take you back to cryo deck. Go to beddy-byes."

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[Bill Clay]

I watched it again last night and I kind of want to watch it again tonight.

One tiny thing that makes no sense though: Holloway has a tattoo of a cross on his shoulder. Why would an athiest (or just non-catholic) have a cross? I know it's something Logan Marshall Green has, not Holloway, but given his character, they should have covered it up.

[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by Bill Clay

I watched it again last night and I kind of want to watch it again tonight.

One tiny thing that makes no sense though: Holloway has a tattoo of a cross on his shoulder. Why would an athiest (or just non-catholic) have a cross? I know it's something Logan Marshall Green has, not Holloway, but given his character, they should have covered it up.

I was wondering that also as Scott could have easily shot around that shoulder.

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[Dead By Shaun]

Originally Posted by Bill Clay

I watched it again last night and I kind of want to watch it again tonight.

Now why'd you have to go and put that idea in my head ? I watched this last night, as well as the night before, and I still feel inclined to give it another go again tonight . Perhaps I'll just sit down and watch the enhancement pods since I haven't viewed those yet. Maybe that'll satiate my desire to watch it again...or perhaps fuel it

[besi]

DIY "black goo" at home.

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[V400]

Originally Posted by raygendreau

Before the BDs of Prometheus were released, there were reports that Spaights original script would be included, just as Dan O'Bannon's script was included on the Alien release. Spaights okayed it, but some legal issue prevented it from being included:

Jon Spaihts‏@jonspaihts

@RiseDarthVader | I'm hearing that, due to legal issues, the script plan did not go through. I'm still there in commentary and interviews.

Just read this interview with Jon Spaihts and it made me want to read the original script. Would've been a different movie, that's for sure.

[jjbsn5192]

Originally Posted by V400

Just read this interview with Jon Spaihts and it made me want to read the original script. Would've been a different movie, that's for sure.

i actually liked the direction he was going other wise both versions of this film would of been much different at the same time i do like that they stayed away from Xenomorphs for Prometheus.
we've seen it all before this was definitely fresh and new!

[movie]

Just curious, but I could not stand Bladerunner and was wondering if Prometheus has that sort of vibe going on?

[jjbsn5192]

Originally Posted by movie

Just curious, but I could not stand Bladerunner and was wondering if Prometheus has that sort of vibe going on?

to be quite honest with you i wouldn't even put both films on the same plate. i think your gonna be far from BR even though as of recently it being announced in the same Universe! which is cool for Ridley but your not gonna have to worry about getting confused Prometheus stands on its own very well

[raygendreau]

Originally Posted by V400

Just read this interview with Jon Spaihts and it made me want to read the original script. Would've been a different movie, that's for sure.

The legal issue may have to do with disclosure. Given all the evidence that we are probably looking at a Prometheus Trilogy, with the third installment being a true prequel of Alien, there are probably elements in Spaiht's script that will be used in Prometheus 3. Perhaps he will be asked back for more work, just as Hampton Fancher is back for Blade Runner 2.

[movie]

Originally Posted by jjbsn5192

to be quite honest with you i wouldn't even put both films on the same plate. i think your gonna be far from BR even though as of recently it being announced in the same Universe! which is cool for Ridley but your not gonna have to worry about getting confused Prometheus stands on its own very well

That's nice to hear, thanks! Guess I'll have to just rent it and give it a look see then.

[jjbsn5192]

Originally Posted by movie

That's nice to hear, thanks! Guess I'll have to just rent it and give it a look see then.

its definitely gonna be one of the better movie's you've seen of 2012! your not gonna regret paying 5.00 for a rental if i were you id just purchase it.. its a great enough film for the visual eye candy effects! and alot of really great thrills enjoy the film dude

[movie]

Originally Posted by jjbsn5192

its definitely gonna be one of the better movie's you've seen of 2012! your not gonna regret paying 5.00 for a rental if i were you id just purchase it.. its a great enough film for the visual eye candy effects! and alot of really great thrills enjoy the film dude

Yeah, I was just thinking the same thing since I have my big plasma and love good visuals, why would I waist my time renting, so it's a buy for me, thanks man, looking real forward to it.

[BouCoupDinkyDau]

Originally Posted by raygendreau

The legal issue may have to do with disclosure. Given all the evidence that we are probably looking at a Prometheus Trilogy, with the third installment being a true prequel of Alien, there are probably elements in Spaiht's script that will be used in Prometheus 3. Perhaps he will be asked back for more work, just as Hampton Fancher is back for Blade Runner 2.

Given how some of O'Bannon's work was recycled for this film, I would not be surprised. Too bad he wasn't around to see his pyramid ideas and the idea that the xenomorph eventually matures into an intelligent, civil form (in this case, his "intelligent xenomorph" was written as the Engineers, separating his original idea into two separate, yet related species) come to fruition.

[TheBlayman]

Originally Posted by Wingman1977

Happened to mine (I still don't get why all studios don't use the sticker that doesn't go over the blu-ray logo) but I won't lose sleep over it since the slipcover is over it.

I just rubbed the rest of the logo off with my thumb. They might as well not even bother putting it on the case.

[Bill Clay]

I loved the movie, and the blu ray is fantastic. But I saw this review back in June when the movie came out and it made me laugh like hell.

From "Weyland Smithers" on Darkhorizons.com:

[Show spoiler]Prometheus is a hilarious comedy in the tradition of "Spaceballs" and "Men in Black" about a motley crew of forgetful, scaredy-cat scientists who go into space and try to find their alien creator. They find maps in caves that are their invitation, but this turns out to be a hilarious trick, like a mousetrap for retards.

The first scene is a giant, german-looking albino steroid guy who drinks some coffee out of an ashtray and gets sick and falls in the waterfall. Special effects reveal that he has little, tiny ladders in his blood called D&A. This guy looks like a member of the Blue Man Group, except White. There is a UFO flying overhead that is never seen or mentioned ever again in the movie. Just one of the many pranks that the writers and director have put in the movie to trick you with.

Next we meet these two very forgetful and silly scientists and they get to go into space on a beautiful ship. It is taken care of by a gay robot who does stuff like dye his hair and dress up like Robocop with a colander on his head to entertain himself. If C3PO had a human face, he would be this guy. All of the silly bungling scientists wake up from hyper-sleep in time to watch a hilarious hologram of a guy in an "old man" mask that looks like the Emperor from Return of the Jedi. I think he is wearing the old guy mask to get some laughs from the wacky scientists, but no one notices it. There is another funny guy with unconventional hair and tattoos who is really mean to everyone - that's so true! Guys that look like that are always dicks!

The spaceship starts to land on the planet, and as luck would have it, lands exactly near the alien castle on the very first try without even looking around too much - another hilarious example of serendipity! These guys are so lucky and fun to watch! The crazy scientists go into the alien castle and two of the guys get so scared that they decide to go back to the ship and get lost, even though they have flying superballs that make 3D maps of everything. Those two bungling doofuses! They are like "Dumb & Dumber" or "Abott & Costello". The rest of the gang finds more poisonous coffee and somehow the gay robot steals a whole pot of it without anyone noticing. He's such a Sneaky-Pete!

Everyone has to go back to the ship at the last minute because the Captian pranks them and waits until a violent storm is nearby before telling them about it! Haha! This guy is great! The two bungling idiot scientists get stuck in the castle and decide to goof-off all night. They try to pet a space cobra that lives in the poisonous coffee, but it kills them, which I think is what ALL cobras wish to do, space or no. Meanwhile, back on the ship, the gay robot does a HILARIOUS prank on the whiny scientist who wears a hipster scarf. He puts a little poisonous coffee in this jerk's drink and gives him pink eye and diarrhea (probably). Haha! That's like a whoopee cushion x100! Luckily the scientist has enough health left to hump his forgetful girlfriend one last time before he is all the way super-sick from the bad coffee. As one last prank to his fellow scientists, he suits up and goes back to the castle with them, even though he secretly knows he is very, very sick. Haha. What an inconvenience to the rest of the group - the ulimate prank!

The mean lady burns him later. The forgetful scientist gets pregnant with a white octopus and has to take it out using Michael Jackson's special oxygen bed. Now here is where the movie gets really hialrious, because she TOTALLY forgets that the alien squid is in there and just leaves to go do some errands! HAHAHA! It turns out that the funny guy in the old man mask is really hiding on the ship and he does some funny slapstick "old man walking" with a cane! I love it!

Everyone goes back to the alien castle for yet a THIRD time, this time to prank the space jockey who lives there. This guy is trying to take a nap, but they keep buggin him! Man, I hate that too! Anyway, they wake him up and start yelling at him, but he is SUPER cranky and kills everybody really fast, exactly the way I would have done it. The funny guy in the old man mask gets a GIANT bump on his head, just like on Bugs Bunny when someone gets an anvil dropped on them! Just another hilarious example of the comedy stylings of Ridley Scott. Luckily, without too much trouble the forgetful scientist sneaks away and easily convinces the funny captain to crash his ship into the space jockey's ship so he can't prank everyone on earth with the old "poison coffee routine." The mean lady gets crushed because the alien ship starts to roll like a big wagon wheel and she runs DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF ITS PATH for big laughs from the audience. Classic slapstick.

Now here is where the set-up with the very, very forgetful scientist girl really pays off with BIG LAUGHS. She goes back to Michael Jackson's bed area and it turns out that the alien squid that she forget to throw in the garbage is now HUGE! This part reminded me of the hilarious movie "Men in Black" where Will Smith gets alien tentacles wrapped around him and screams in a high-pitched voice! Classic Sci-Fi comedy moments all around! Anyway, the forgetful scientist tricks the cranky nap-albino to go near the giant squid, and guess what? It gets him good so she can get away once again with plenty of luck on her side. Amazing!

The movie ends when the forgetful scientist makes friends with the gay robot head that killed her boyfriend and wanted to do the same to her, but hey - let bygones be bygones. Forgive and forget. They sail off together in another ship to go have more zany, whacky space-comedy adventures together! Hooray!

Oh, but wait! At the very, very, very end, an alien hatches out of the cranky nap-guy's belly and spits out its dentures! I wish the funny guy in the old man mask had done that too! I can't wait to see this one again this weekend. I think there are many, many, many other jokes and riddles that were never explained or that I missed while I was laughing at the other stuff. Intentional plot holes are the ultimate prank on the audience. It's like the whole movie just gave you two middle fingers with simultaneous fart noises.

Ten out of ten stars! See this one with your little kids!

[Hawkguy]

Originally Posted by Bill Clay

From "Weyland Smithers" on Darkhorizons.com:

[Show spoiler]Prometheus is a hilarious comedy in the tradition of "Spaceballs" and "Men in Black" about a motley crew of forgetful, scaredy-cat scientists who go into space and try to find their alien creator. They find maps in caves that are their invitation, but this turns out to be a hilarious trick, like a mousetrap for retards.

The first scene is a giant, german-looking albino steroid guy who drinks some coffee out of an ashtray and gets sick and falls in the waterfall. Special effects reveal that he has little, tiny ladders in his blood called D&A. This guy looks like a member of the Blue Man Group, except White. There is a UFO flying overhead that is never seen or mentioned ever again in the movie. Just one of the many pranks that the writers and director have put in the movie to trick you with.

Next we meet these two very forgetful and silly scientists and they get to go into space on a beautiful ship. It is taken care of by a gay robot who does stuff like dye his hair and dress up like Robocop with a colander on his head to entertain himself. If C3PO had a human face, he would be this guy. All of the silly bungling scientists wake up from hyper-sleep in time to watch a hilarious hologram of a guy in an "old man" mask that looks like the Emperor from Return of the Jedi. I think he is wearing the old guy mask to get some laughs from the wacky scientists, but no one notices it. There is another funny guy with unconventional hair and tattoos who is really mean to everyone - that's so true! Guys that look like that are always dicks!

The spaceship starts to land on the planet, and as luck would have it, lands exactly near the alien castle on the very first try without even looking around too much - another hilarious example of serendipity! These guys are so lucky and fun to watch! The crazy scientists go into the alien castle and two of the guys get so scared that they decide to go back to the ship and get lost, even though they have flying superballs that make 3D maps of everything. Those two bungling doofuses! They are like "Dumb & Dumber" or "Abott & Costello". The rest of the gang finds more poisonous coffee and somehow the gay robot steals a whole pot of it without anyone noticing. He's such a Sneaky-Pete!

Everyone has to go back to the ship at the last minute because the Captian pranks them and waits until a violent storm is nearby before telling them about it! Haha! This guy is great! The two bungling idiot scientists get stuck in the castle and decide to goof-off all night. They try to pet a space cobra that lives in the poisonous coffee, but it kills them, which I think is what ALL cobras wish to do, space or no. Meanwhile, back on the ship, the gay robot does a HILARIOUS prank on the whiny scientist who wears a hipster scarf. He puts a little poisonous coffee in this jerk's drink and gives him pink eye and diarrhea (probably). Haha! That's like a whoopee cushion x100! Luckily the scientist has enough health left to hump his forgetful girlfriend one last time before he is all the way super-sick from the bad coffee. As one last prank to his fellow scientists, he suits up and goes back to the castle with them, even though he secretly knows he is very, very sick. Haha. What an inconvenience to the rest of the group - the ulimate prank!

The mean lady burns him later. The forgetful scientist gets pregnant with a white octopus and has to take it out using Michael Jackson's special oxygen bed. Now here is where the movie gets really hialrious, because she TOTALLY forgets that the alien squid is in there and just leaves to go do some errands! HAHAHA! It turns out that the funny guy in the old man mask is really hiding on the ship and he does some funny slapstick "old man walking" with a cane! I love it!

Everyone goes back to the alien castle for yet a THIRD time, this time to prank the space jockey who lives there. This guy is trying to take a nap, but they keep buggin him! Man, I hate that too! Anyway, they wake him up and start yelling at him, but he is SUPER cranky and kills everybody really fast, exactly the way I would have done it. The funny guy in the old man mask gets a GIANT bump on his head, just like on Bugs Bunny when someone gets an anvil dropped on them! Just another hilarious example of the comedy stylings of Ridley Scott. Luckily, without too much trouble the forgetful scientist sneaks away and easily convinces the funny captain to crash his ship into the space jockey's ship so he can't prank everyone on earth with the old "poison coffee routine." The mean lady gets crushed because the alien ship starts to roll like a big wagon wheel and she runs DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF ITS PATH for big laughs from the audience. Classic slapstick.

Now here is where the set-up with the very, very forgetful scientist girl really pays off with BIG LAUGHS. She goes back to Michael Jackson's bed area and it turns out that the alien squid that she forget to throw in the garbage is now HUGE! This part reminded me of the hilarious movie "Men in Black" where Will Smith gets alien tentacles wrapped around him and screams in a high-pitched voice! Classic Sci-Fi comedy moments all around! Anyway, the forgetful scientist tricks the cranky nap-albino to go near the giant squid, and guess what? It gets him good so she can get away once again with plenty of luck on her side. Amazing!

The movie ends when the forgetful scientist makes friends with the gay robot head that killed her boyfriend and wanted to do the same to her, but hey - let bygones be bygones. Forgive and forget. They sail off together in another ship to go have more zany, whacky space-comedy adventures together! Hooray!

Oh, but wait! At the very, very, very end, an alien hatches out of the cranky nap-guy's belly and spits out its dentures! I wish the funny guy in the old man mask had done that too! I can't wait to see this one again this weekend. I think there are many, many, many other jokes and riddles that were never explained or that I missed while I was laughing at the other stuff. Intentional plot holes are the ultimate prank on the audience. It's like the whole movie just gave you two middle fingers with simultaneous fart noises.

Ten out of ten stars! See this one with your little kids!

Do you have a link to that?

[Bill Clay]

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/241...theus-spoilers

It's the first review posted.

[Hawkguy]

Originally Posted by Bill Clay

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/241...theus-spoilers

It's the first review posted.

Thanks!