All of the extra scenes coming out with the dvd are looking pretty cool, I think the film will be stronger with them. Very first movie I decided was worth the hour & a half long trip to see at Imax 3D, was not disapointed!

Also now that I got my mind on it I'm wondering just what Prometheus might play for that new Alien game coming out. I read they were very interested in seeing where Scott was going with the movie & they even met with the film makers. Maybe we'll be meeting more Engineers soon if not in another movie... I do think its awesome they got the Alien, & I mean The Alien from the first movie with the Human skull & everything, pretty cool seeing them being that faithful.

I liked it, though I was not a huge fan of the portrayal of the Engineers personally. Also, I don't see any Christian allegory.

The movie aside, I found the viral marketing campaign utterly brilliant! Those shorts were little masterpieces in its own right.

I finally watched Prometheus after purchasing the Blu-ray. I was reminded why I still buy DVD's and watch them upconverted instead of Blu-ray with the bullshit updates. If there's some online feature or a pretty newfangled way of navigating the movie, just disable it instead of not even allowing the movie to play. But that's why I only purchase Blu-ray editions that come with a DVD the few times I buy Blu-ray. The DVD doesn't have any of the extras though. This is why I wish HD-DVD would have won the format war or there was some other Hi-def option available.

Other than that, I enjoyed the movie. It's too bad that this kind of DRM crap that has nothing to do with the movie can put such a bad taste in people's mouths. It only takes one time for it to not work for people to give up on it.

I've never read fan comments about the Alien universe so I don't know what their interpretation is. I've been watching the Alien collector's edition movies and all the featurettes and extras to get ready for Prometheus (I even watched Resurrection again hoping that it wasn't as bad as I remembered it being, but it's even worse than I originally thought), and while watching them my thought process was that the Alien species is not sustainable. They're purely hostile.

I don't know their lifespan, but all they do is either kill or capture other species to cocoon them for hosts for more Xenomorphs, thus turning a species population against itself. The Xenomorphs population can't grow greater than the amount of life already present either. If they are successful, what happens then? They just die but leave eggs behind for anything that would enter the devastated area again. They must be a weapon.

I wasn't sure that the Space Jockey species was responsible for creating them though. In the first script for Alien, there was a pyramid on LB-426. The message from the derelict ship was translated as being a warning that LB-426 was a trap (It's a trap!) in the first script.

It's nothing official (other than some comments that the Xenomorphs must be killed instead of captured for the company's weapons department), but that's the way I saw it when watching the films again without knowing much about the Prometheus plot.

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Also David speculated the amount of time the last Engineer had been in cryo sleep on the ship as roughly 2,000 years.

Has he confirmed a sequel?

Even better: a prequel. It's like all the other Jesus movies except he's 8 feet tall and super-powered!

(Actually, I do think a sequel was confirmed.)

That was a case for an early draft. Scott commented that "then we thought it was a little too on the nose".

But...the engineers are 18 feet tall and alien...Jeaus was a jewish carpenter....

To the guy rewatching the Alien films to pre for Prometheus, everything after Alien is non-canonical. Alien is the "final" movie, we now get the prequels.

On a side note, how did they get the rights to include the Aliens and facehuggers?

That's just what the aliens want you to think!

Look what I found! Enjoy. ;) I know it's not new, but I just stumbled upon these parody shorts via random browsing. They made some pretty entertaining stuff. Be sure to check out the Terminator one.

As I said in the Bladerunner topic, I fear that Ridley lost it. Prometheus had a lot of good ideas but the execution sucked and many elements were just really badly thought out.

The whole part where she got infected and made pregnant could have been cut from the movie and it would have made a lot more sense. The only use it had, was to show that David was ruthless and would go over corpses and there were better ways to show this without having to glue a dozen scenes together that made no sense.

Almost every answer given about the flaws of the movie, raises several more questions.

I liked it. Granted, it could have been much better, but it was a solid film.