Getting hyped usually is a bad idea for anything.

>Will it live up to the hype?
Most likely not (seeing as that a new Alien film with Ridley Scott in charge of it is the same thing as millions upon millions of tiny hardons), but hopefully we'll finally get a canon explanation for the relationship between the space jockeys, xenomorphs, and humans.

More excited about the blade runner sequel

>>180
Blade Runner? SNORE. Talk about a profoundly overrated movie. And I say that even as a huge Ridley Scott fan.

>>184

That film. I respected it because it was based off a Philip K. Dick novel, but otherwise I don't think it was particularly well made.

SAGE has been used.

Prometheus was quite good but it was quite confusing. Most of the plot holes you can hand-wave, but there were too many plot holes. You're going through the film thinking, "Why did that happen?" and "Why did they do this?" and "How did he know that was going to happen?" and so on.

I mean, okay, the film looks pretty slick, but this is 2012. Everything looks slick. The themes were quite interesting, but it was just conveyed in a ham-fisted, all-over-the-place manner.

Still a good film though, worth watching.

>>193
Sounds like an average film, 7/10. I'm still going to torrent a cam of it in the next few days though

OP here. I just got back from Prometheus, opening night. Honestly, I loved it. I'm also a huge Alien fan and I thought Prometheus was not quite at that level, but still a worthy successor. The minor plot holes bothered me a bit but didn't really detract from the overall experience.

One other minor complaint: what was that creature at the end? They were clearly implying that it was related to the creatures from Alien, but why not just show the damn thing?

Prometheus sucked, I expected it to be an odyssey in a world of alien gods and almost say something profound
but it was just a stupid thriller

>>213
What the fuck are you talking about?

>>213
Agreed. It sucked.

I really did not like how The Engineers were just green humans... I guess animating something with cool looking bio technology grafted to its skin was too difficult or something.

Kind of felt like it was Avatar for people who don't like Avatar. It was enjoyable enough to sit through, however.

I'm hoping the director's cut will plug up some of the many plotholes...

I really didn't understand the actions of David throughout the film at all. I felt like if it was meant to have something really profound to reveal at the end, something tying together all the characters and events, and it just didn't reveal anything. It was so caught up with being cryptic that it forgot to tell a moving story. I also found most of the characters to be pretty bland and unrealistic, even for a thriller. I guess my girlfriend, with whom I saw it, kind of poisoned me against it, because she says she "usually doesn't go to these kinds of movies" and that it wasn't "relevant to her life at all" because it wasn't really about people. I really saw her point about it though. Although I thought the part where she gives herself a c-section to remove a wriggling octopusish foetus from her own womb was pretty badass and she found it to be painful to watch and without any meaning or reward for her.

They should've opened with the scene where she births an octopus.

I hated how even a kid with highschool knowledge of biology could point out the errors in the films logic.

turns out we're 100% genetic match to aliens. really? you sure about that number or that fact that something (other then twins) is a 100% genetic match to anything else?

also hated how they were supposed to be these really smart scientists but kept making all these dumb as fuck decisions.

[spoiler]whats that? an autopsy on an alien head? sure ima just chill with a bottle of booze and watch that shit go down. yup fuck sterility.

or, look a new life form that looks pissed off, let's poke the shit out of it.[spoiler]

everything was just so fast paced in that film. too fast paced like the c-section bit. it reminded me of that episodes of the simpsons where moe gets a deep fryer and says how it can deepfry a buffalo in 60 seconds but homer is all like 'but i want it nowwwww'. and then after having MAJOR abdominal surgery she's all like 'yup gonna go exploren sum more.'

bad film is bad.

>>210
>I'm still going to torrent a cam of it in the next few days though

People seriously still do that?

SAGE has been used.

>>193
>You're going through the film thinking, "Why did that happen?" and "Why did they do this?" and "How did he know that was going to happen?" and so on.

This is how I felt about the movie. I was entertained for the entire duration, but there was so much shit left unanswered and it really bothered me after it was over.

David in particular, as another person ITT mentioned, did no end of bizarre things with absolutely no explanation as to why he did them.

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x1YuvUQFJ0

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Anyway, the one thing that bothered me the most out of everything in this film was the Alien at the end. That was obviously supposed to be a precursor to the Aliens in Alien, right? So how did it survive and reproduce? I guess it could've eaten the corpse of the Engineer and the weird tentacle monster thing, but then what? There were no other food sources on the planet, the air was completely unbreathable (speaking of which, how did the Engineer make it to the life pod thing to kill Shaw?) and there was only one Alien so it couldn't have reproduced. Realistically, it could've lived for maybe a week and then starved to death or died of dehydration.