Wow

Yea, I remember reading about that too, some time ago.

Trivia: remember the scene where Ripley did the reverse basketball shot in [Alien Resurrection] movie? She actually DID it.

Depends on whether it covers the budget or not, as they say and FOX Studios too...

Right now, 2nd place for USD 50 million box-office is not so bad...

I think it will cover the budget. Just not sure if it'll be convincingly enough for them to be willing to bank roll another.

What's the price for IMAX 2D at TGV?

It seems this last and final Viral Video was played AFTER the end credits of Prometheus



Anyone knows what it means?

Interview with Prometheus writer, Damon Lindelof, where he "answers" a few questions regarding the movie.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1687022/p...-lindelof.jhtml


So in the original script, the film was suppose to be more "Alieny" with facehuggers, old school xenemorphs and all.

The Bluray/DVD is a must buy for sure







Looks like never gonna tell us the answer to those...

This post has been edited by Claire Farron: Jun 12 2012, 10:26 PM

Ridley feels the (better) audience needs the challenges; the question, debate about the movie; not to be spoon fed while watching a movie. Little wonder why there are those who need everything to in B&W for them

yup. it's clearly targeted for mature audiences. and in ripley's book, it doesnt refer to age maturity.

Do you guys think Prometheus is an ambiguous film OR film that avoided answers?

A lot of people are debating this and said Prometheus shouldn't be compared to something like 2001: A Space Odyssey, because Prometheus avoided answers while 2001 is a legit ambiguous film.

This is what they said:

Thoughts that a movie should raise:
>Imagine if x was y.
>What do you think x really means?
(2001- ambiguous)

Thoughts that a movie should not raise:
>Why did he do x?
>If that was x, then why did y....
>How does x do y?
>What was the point of x if y was...
(Prometheus- avoided answers)

Clearly Prometheus is the latter.

I even read somewhere that Ridley approached making this with a sequel in mind. That explains why he got the writer of LOST I guess.

Personally, I'm not really a fan of LOST series or its writers. Nevertheless, I do enjoy the exposure to different style of writers and directors. Prometheus is downright entertaining and sparks lots of discussions and debates. Eventually, these questions will irate more than pique our judgement one what actually happened. I'm sure fans and avid moviegoers such as I can be looking forward to the bluray edition@ Director's cut@ extended version or whatever spinoffs they can make money of. But lets just hope they don't answer those questions with more questions. This is what I felt from watching a few series of Lost. When the writer wrote Lost, they really meant for the viewers to get LOST in their thoughts.

Prometheus managed to be the 10th highest opening weekend of all time for a R-rated movie in US box office.
I guess it's not a box-office flop, but how much the budget for the sequel? I imagine would have much more visual effects since it'll be even more 'alieny' world.

I thought I read somewhere that Lindelof was brought in to provide his 'Lost' writing style ... ambiguity; he advised and expanded on the opening 'creation' scenes and aspect of Engineers, whereas Ridley if follow the original script, would do a direct two-part prequel to Alien with more straightforward take on the creation part.

I'm glad they didn't do a direct prequel, it'll be too restrictive and might have to follow Alien canon (which has 'morphed' throughout the 4 series, not including the AvP 'prequels'). This way, it's like a re-make of Alien (hence the similar plots) akin to the new Star Trek reboot but still got plenty of space for them to link back to the 1st Alien movie, if they decided to.

One thing Ridley had decided to not do in Prometheus, that is to show Shaw straightaway would know the reasons of the Engineers actions.

http://collider.com/ridley-scott-prometheu...terview/172202/
http://collider.com/prometheus-2-sequel/172444/


... see the MTV interview link provided by Claire.

I've got a question!

LOST is great for its earlier seasons (the flashback parts) ... but it got too muddled after the flashforward season, and quite confusing (without googling for discussions) during the flashsideway ending seasons. But overall, it's unique and enjoyable when in the mood to watch ambiguous story.
As mentioned in a link in the previous post, there'll be deleted extra scenes (extra 27 mins), but if they're just action scenes and not character development scenes like in Kingdom of Heaven's 3-hours Director Cut, then no need to edit them into extended version.
One thing I adjust myself when viewing 'Lost' kind of ambiguous series or abstract movies ... don't look for the logical explanations while viewing, feel the emotional aspect instead ... this kind of writers/directors usually want viewers to 'watch' with their hearts and not their mind ... or maybe they themselves don't have the complete answers, heheh. But I think Ridley Scott (and sequel writers) won't leave audience hanging without clear explanations (at least explainable reasonings, no need direct spoon feeding) at the end of sequels ... he knows he has to balance the commercial aspect of film-making.

Here, straight out of Damon Lindelof himself, word of god,




http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1687022/p...-lindelof.jhtml

This is neat




This post has been edited by Claire Farron: Jun 13 2012, 11:17 AM

RS had already talked about this in an interview, but I'm not sure if this is still canon with the film or not.



http://www.prometheusforum.net/discussion/...are-dark-angels

This post has been edited by Claire Farron: Jun 13 2012, 11:13 AM

in a way, i love how ridley interspersed his science mythology with religion.

but i'm disappointed that i had to learn it OUTSIDE of the film itself. it would make a great twist if it were put in the sequel.

When did the first equation happen though?