the directors cut of alien was on hbo saturday night. with an interview with scott afterwards.

i hadn't watched the first one in ages, so i gave it a go... and yes ^ is pretty spot on... the 2nd hour smokes the first.

i did notice a couple of pretty obvious continuity issues in the directors cut i hadn't picked up on though.

4/16/2012 10:46:33 AM

I watched it too on Saturday night, which is why it was so fresh in my mind. My wife was complaining about why they kept going back to the two guys bitching about their bonuses.

4/16/2012 11:00:03 AM

I watched alien again yesterday. I forgot how much I hate that damn cat.

4/16/2012 11:13:12 AM

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"It suffered from that 70s and early 80s motif of a shit-ton of pointless dialog to set up the characters. Also, because space travel was kind of a big deal during that time, they spent forever on landing the spacecraft with all the radio chatter of the different systems and checks. It took 10 damned minutes to land the ship."

I agree kind of. I think one of the great things about the movie isn't just the action but the atmosphere. When there are too few details it's much more difficult to suspend your disbelief. Too many are needed not only to help with that suspension but also so when the action kicks in it makes that much better.

4/16/2012 12:52:23 PM

New David viral campaign video for Prometheus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOOJl5lWNfM&feature=player_embedded

[Edited on April 17, 2012 at 4:08 PM. Reason : asdf]

4/17/2012 4:07:13 PM

Creepy.

4/17/2012 5:13:51 PM

^^I love stuff like this. It really helps think of think of the movies as a glimpse into a universe rather a completed story.

4/18/2012 9:15:44 AM

awesome

4/18/2012 9:33:02 AM

New "featurette" up at http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox/prometheus/

Has a couple new clips, but also spends about half the time talking about how great Ridley Scott is.

4/28/2012 2:28:55 PM

^^^^^

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"This video contains content from Comcast Entertainment Group, who has blocked it on copyright grounds. "

What was it?

4/30/2012 1:41:43 PM

^
http://youtu.be/tvXKN5Fz_OE

4/30/2012 2:17:11 PM

Did anyone catch the creature (that resembles a tentacle) going into someone's suit through the arm? It was real quick. If you go frame by frame from 1:18-1:24, an image of someone's face with what appears to be a creature UNDER the skin, then some kind of tentacle like thing entering the arm of someone's suit and then an image of someone's face melting as if acid had been thrown on it.

[Edited on April 30, 2012 at 5:05 PM. Reason : pics coming]

4/30/2012 4:59:20 PM

4/30/2012 5:30:57 PM

New trailer (contains some possible plot spoilers):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iIJeQNyZ6VE#

5/1/2012 10:17:21 AM

I am so amped for this movie

5/1/2012 10:24:11 AM

^^ YES

5/1/2012 11:01:40 AM

WOAH, now the sequence makes sense



the creature's bone structure in the top part of it's body vaguely resembles the facehugger hand-like body

















[Edited on May 1, 2012 at 11:08 AM. Reason : .]

5/1/2012 11:04:37 AM

Wicked! On a side note I haven't seen the actor that played Stringer Bell in The Wire in anything since the show ended, kind of an odd casting imo.

[Edited on May 1, 2012 at 11:30 AM. Reason : ]

5/1/2012 11:29:25 AM

that last image I posted is absolutely disgusting in the video

5/1/2012 11:30:16 AM

that's pretty damn crazy

5/1/2012 11:30:26 AM

If any of you have ever melted plastic, then you know that if it touched skin, its going to decimate whatever it touches so I am really not sure what melted fiberglass (or whatever the material is that makes up the helmet) would do to a person but I'm pretty sure whatever is left is not going to be alive.

If the movie does not follow logic in this scene, I'm going to be very frustrated.

5/1/2012 11:33:48 AM

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"Wicked! On a side note I haven't seen the actor that played Stringer Bell in The Wire in anything since the show ended, kind of an odd casting imo."

What makes it odd?

5/1/2012 11:35:28 AM

Idris Elba has been a ton of shit. Where have you been?

Thor, The Losers, The Office, Takers, RocknRolla, Ghost Rider: SoV, just to name a few.

5/1/2012 11:39:32 AM

that last trailer was the bees knees

5/1/2012 1:32:05 PM

t is looking more like they are rebooting Alien and calling it Prometheus.

5/1/2012 1:46:44 PM

hardly

5/1/2012 1:50:41 PM

Can you even call it a reboot when it's the same director? Why would anyone think that Ridley Scott isn't going to treat this masterfully?

5/1/2012 2:06:32 PM

I'm still hoping for a crossover where we see Maximus fight a xenomorph.

5/1/2012 2:24:24 PM

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"hardly"

How can you not see overlaps between the structure of the two movies?

-The crew in prometheus and in Alien seem to be exactly the same, person to person, even down to the token black dude.

-Both movies feature two strong female characters and an android.

- The plot seems based upon one flawed decision by a crew member to open up Pandora's box.

5/1/2012 5:21:19 PM

There was an android in the crew of the first two films (maybe the 3rd and 4th too, I can't remember), and it was explained that an android always accompanies the crew

I can't imagine a likely scenario where this movie will be anything less than epic.

5/1/2012 7:21:08 PM

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"I can't imagine a likely scenario where this movie will be anything less than epic."

5/1/2012 9:47:42 PM

I hate to be negative, but that cobra looking thing looks really fucking lame compared to other creatures we have seen in the alien universe.

[Edited on May 2, 2012 at 2:57 AM. Reason : .]

5/2/2012 2:56:35 AM

This is what I hear

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"Every movie from this universe must contain only things that I recognize from previous movies from this universe. Anything new or different is crap and is some hack directors attempt at putting his stamp on the series."

What I would like to hear is

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"These things are completely new and are probably close to the original variant of the face hugger that has since evolved(away from this ship) over thousands of years, or its just a different weapon in the same mold as a face hugger. I also recognize that this thing could be face a hugger. Its just that the face hugger we see in Alien took traits from these humans (aka the finger legs), evolved a bit, and thats what you see in Alien. I am sure that whatever the Director chose to do will be fine and I will go into this movie with an open mind. Especially now that the trailers have basically shown the entire movie."

5/2/2012 7:54:48 AM

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"I hate to be negative, but that cobra looking thing looks really fucking lame compared to other creatures we have seen in the alien universe. "

lol yeah.

5/2/2012 9:18:35 AM

didnt work

[Edited on May 3, 2012 at 1:12 AM. Reason : .]

5/3/2012 1:10:40 AM

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"-The crew in prometheus and in Alien seem to be exactly the same, person to person, even down to the token black dude. -Both movies feature two strong female characters and an android. - The plot seems based upon one flawed decision by a crew member to open up Pandora's box."

It's called a movie. You just described 90% of them.

5/3/2012 7:34:00 AM

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"MEGA NERD BONER"

5/3/2012 10:29:43 AM

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"It's called a movie. You just described 90% of them."

Oh really, 90% of movies have two strong female leads, an overly arrogant male lead, and an omniscent android?

You know what, go fuck yourself.

5/3/2012 12:58:19 PM

Yes...you don't know it, but there are androids in every movie.

5/3/2012 12:59:12 PM

pissing contests follow jbrick everywhere he goes

dude seriously, do you enjoy arguing with everyone or do you just think your opinion is truth on every subject?

5/3/2012 1:05:13 PM

Forget all that arguing...opinions, everyone's got one and something about assholes but whatever. Anyway, sorry if this has already been posted but I read a thing on EW.com

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"Director Ridley Scott & Co. have been tight-lipped about Prometheus' plot — especially its ties to the director's visionary 1979 chest-exploding classic Alien — other than to say that the new film has strands of ''Alien DNA'' and that fans of the original will be rewarded in ''the final 12 minutes.'' Here's what we do know: The film, written by newcomer Jon Spaihts and Lost's Damon Lindelof, revolves around the crew of a spaceship that heads off to a distant planet, which is home to a civilization that visited Earth long ago and left evidence of its existence. Needless to say, the mission doesn't go according to plan. Donning the film's snug and sexy space suits are Charlize Theron as a corporate heavy, Michael Fassbender as the crew's mysterious synthetic life-form, and the original Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Noomi Rapace, as the film's top-billed star, an archaeologist who leads the gung ho voyage. Whether she'll be as badass as Sigourney Weaver's Ripley is anyone's guess. Scott certainly isn't saying. In fact, the only thing the 74-year-old director seems willing to spill is how young he feels returning to his genre roots. ''I really forgot how fun the world of science fiction is,'' he says. ''It's where anything goes. I'm already thinking about what I'm going to do for Prometheus 2.'' Just don't expect him to share what that is. —Chris Nashawaty "

5/3/2012 1:23:21 PM

^^ Big difference between "thinking" and "knowing." You've done well so far in not having an incorrect opposite opinion of mine. But don't worry, I'll let you know when it happens.

5/3/2012 1:24:55 PM

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"Oh really, 90% of movies have two strong female leads, an overly arrogant male lead, and an omniscent android?"

Who in the fuck was the 2nd strong female lead in Alien?

5/3/2012 1:52:00 PM

^ The Alien...durr.

but srsly...I think he's thinking of Lambert:



I wouldn't say she was a "lead"...but she was important. The two actresses in Prometheus look to have much bigger roles than Lambert.

[Edited on May 3, 2012 at 2:00 PM. Reason : .]

5/3/2012 1:58:16 PM

try not to troll every thread, please

it gets old

5/3/2012 2:22:28 PM

That screencap alone is why I balk at the idea that lambert was a "strong lead" in that movie. She was an ancillary body count that cried a lot. Now don't get me wrong, it was a great performance for the role.

If "has more than one actress in it" is the criteria for movies being too similar then I guess they are.

[Edited on May 3, 2012 at 2:29 PM. Reason : .]

5/3/2012 2:23:50 PM

I would definitely not consider her a lead role in that film.

Viper, Bilbo, and Ripley were lead rolls. That's it.

5/3/2012 2:24:40 PM

^^ Agreed. I felt her fear in that movie. Good distress scenes.

I really really really want to show my gf the old Alien movie. She enjoys a good scary movie...I just don't know if this one will do the trick. If not, I've got to find someone to go watch Prometheus with me.

5/3/2012 2:31:24 PM

I really hope Noomi Rapace kicks ass just like she did as Lisbeth Salander.

5/3/2012 2:59:21 PM

^ Rooney was a better lisbeth IMO FYI

That whole remake was done exceptionally better than the original, and it was a true testament to the prowess of Hollywood. And I am not trolling here.

[Edited on May 3, 2012 at 4:04 PM. Reason : h]

5/3/2012 4:03:18 PM