Prometheus [DVD] [2012]

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... It's not a Prequel. It's a new film in the Alien universe with a separate storyline. I was disappointed it did not show a back story to Alien 1979 but also pleased that Ridley produced a sci-fi masterclass. A simple script that barely juggled big topics but it was good enough for a theatrical release. I suspect Fox had a hand with it being different from Alien, but Ridley in conferences held for Prometheus did say it is not a Prequel. That said a lot of ignorant Alien fans continued to dream stubbornly for a Alien prequel and got a big shock on June first 2012.I was shocked but ultimately pleased. i long to see it again on the big screen but time is flying. I hope the blu-ray will contain extra conetnt with a bit of more gore, action and interesting dialogue cut out for commercial or for the theatrical release. i will buy the dvd first because i suspect more content is being rallied by Scott for all our viewing necessities.I will update this Pre-Order/ post movie cinema review when i have the dvd. Do not be thrown off by negative reviews or high rated reviews like mine. a digital release will come out when dvd release is made. rent it and watch then get a feel and reconnect with a sci-fi world. switch off feelings of Alien Prequel disappointment and i hope you will enjoy it.UPDATE!!!!ok BLURAY trasnfer is great. sound is very good. picture quality if crystal clear depending on your hd tv and how clean your screen is! lol!i watched the special features on here and realised why they never made it to the full cut. however the engineers on the waterfall should have stayed in because it had sentimental values - one sacrificed to create life. maybe it was a sentence for punishment. redemption by sacrifice for a new world void of intelligent life.There are references to BLADE RUNNER inside the Weyland files. Weyland speaks of a man who implanted memories into the brains of his androids and they killed him for this silly act.another thing i find worrying is that i need a tablet or some kind of "Ipad" to watch the other special features via wi-fi connected to my blu-ray. i found that annoying. do i need to buy this contraption to enjoy the film? that is why i like Universal blu-rays for their picture in picture features all in one screen connected to my PC!i still stand by my ground and say it is not a prequel. it is a different take which concentrates on the bigger picture which was missed in the 80s - who are the space jockies? the sequel is gonna be about a planet called Paradise. maybe the sequel to the sequel will be HELL/HADES: XENOMORPH HOME WORLD and we might get to see Predators hunting everything and marines with steroid pumped muscles and trigger happy fingers and smart mouthed grunts and the usual actress with the Ripleyesque role. We know what to expect now. let's just enjoy a good sci-fi flick

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Prometheus is a true Science FICTION movie! it's gritty, it's intense, thought provoking and at times disturbing... just how science fiction should be. Although not a direct prequel to Alien... it belongs to the mythology... it is the back story of the species and what may appear to be their creators.If you have read Ian Von Danikens Chariots Of The Gods or subscribe to ancient astronaut theory(an increasingly popular subject)which the films story is influenced by you will love this movie, and no matter how ridiculous you may view those theorys they make perfect ingredients for science FICTION.To reiterate its a science FICTION MOVIE not a documentary or religious propoganda pieceThe movies own creators had hinted we would find out the answers to the questions we had originally from Alien in 1979, however we dont get many answers, which to some negative reviews is a detriment to the film, myself and many others feel this is a strong point... dont pull the curtain all the way back, just enough to get us thinking... which is the beauty of a great sci fi movie. Some answers are given with ambigous explanations and new questions arise... sadly this has confused some who are incapable of or dislike critical thinking, for me and many others this wets the appetite for part two... i am in no doubt a sequel was planned from the beginning.The movie is a visual masterpiece, having seen it four times... twice in 3d.... twice in 2d, i can say it looks just as breathtaking in either format(cant wait to see the high def blu ray version)The accompanying soundtrack is as good as any in the franchise, and the best iv heard in a movie in recent years.Like every single movie ever made though and movies yet to be made there are some flaws, but not enough to stop you enjoying what is a great science fiction film. there is minor issues with pacing and editing... and this is my only problem with the film, an extended cut on blu ray should sort out minor issues and make it more coherent for the massess...maybe.Michael fassbender is brilliant as android david8, would certainly like to see more of what he got up to in an extended cut of the film.In an age when hollywood is churning superhero movies out every other month its refreshing to get a movie like prometheus, sadly the spoon feeding fest that is superhero franchises has left many audiences frustrated at the lack of spoon in prometheus.If you are expecting a rehash of Alien... which we have seen over and over,then you will be majorly let down as this is not a xenomorph runs amok part 50, ellen ripleys story has been told... the alien mythology and universe is bigger than any one character, and i hope we continue to get to explore it.I will reiterate again this is true science FICTION, thank you Sir Ridley Scott for returning to the genre

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This is the BEST ALIEN movie. The story is super great and is something they could have worked on for a trilogy.. I still hope for a PROMETHEUS Trilogy to come.The original ALIEN movies are good but not best. I love the horror, but they lack a deep story and feels like they are all over the place when it comes to the story..

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Film injustement sous noté par la presse spécialisée se revendiquant d'être la seule a comprendre ce qu'un film se doit d'être, elle a été relayée dans son propos par une frange de fans boys aigris idiots qui n'ont cessés de clamer ci et la, que promotheus trahissait son oeuvre d'origine. FAUX!N'écoutez surtout pas ces imbecilo-reac' du cinéma qui souhaitaient que le film soit une redite du 1er. Car le résultat a pour mérite de se réinventer totalement dans on histoire, et sa contruction tout en respectant son propre univers. Avec une grammaire cinématographique au diapason, Ridley Scott nous sert un film absolument maîtrisé scénaristiquement, porté par une réalisation à son zénith et servie par des acteurs judicisieusement choisi, pour distiller un récit s'enfonçant de plus en plus, à mesure que les minutes passent, vers un discours nihiliste et destructeur qu'aucune conclusion ne viendra sauver...Fuyez les aigris qui auraient voulus un copier / coller débile des deux premiers films, ou les limités cinématographiquement qui auraient voté pour une succession de scènes d'hemoglobines: prometheus est un film froid, remarquablement pensé et réalisé pour étoffer et installer un univers imaginé il a y a 40 ans, par celui SEUL qui l'a imaginé. Et non quelques fans boys idiots perdus et frustrés derrière leur écran de smartphones

In response to mankind's three most pressing questions—Where do we come from? What is our purpose? What happens to us when we die?—the empirically minded suggest that we probably arose through abiogenesis out of a primordial ooze, that we exist to propagate our genetic code, and that death simply returns our atoms to be endlessly recycled. The faithful, meanwhile, take comfort in a supernatural creator who has a plan for their lives, culminating in an eternal heavenly reward. But what if neither camp is quite right? What if we were planted here, not by a god, but by a race of corporal beings sufficiently technologically advanced to traverse the universe, seeding the cosmos with life of their own design?This is no new idea, but it first gained cultural traction with the 1968 publication of Erick von Däniken's bestseller, Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past, a work of staggering psuedoscience and blatant anthropological chicanery. If completely bonkers and without any actual evidence, the book still makes for an imaginative flight of fancy, and its key, "ancient astronauts" concept serves well as the basis for Prometheus, director Ridley Scott's magnificent-but-flawed return to the sci-fi genre. Despite what you may have heard, the film is a prequel to Scott's 1979 classic, Alien, although not necessarily a direct one. It's better to think of Prometheus as a semi- distant relative, twice or thrice-removed. The two movies aren't immediately narratively linked, but they share much of the same DNA.And Prometheus is all about DNA. The pre-title sequence takes us over a barren, lifeless landscape, and up to the top of a turbid glacial waterfall, where an alien protohuman—who looks like a buff, living marble reproduction of Michelangelo's David—stands by the shore, holding a cup of black goo. This is an "Engineer," as they'll later come to be called, and he's here to seed what we can presume to be Earth. He downs the viscous caviar-like substance in one gulp, and immediately his cellular structure begins to break down, causing his skin to rupture, his bones to snap grotesquely, and his body to fall into the water, where it dissolves, spreading genetic material downstream. Et voilà! Life. Eons later, in 2089, we cut to a pair of anthropologist lovers—the believer Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and the atheistic Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green)—as they find a 30,000-year-old cave painting on the Isle of Skye, depicting an Engineer-ish-looking figure pointing to a cluster of stars, an image that's been found in numerous archeological sites around the globe. Shaw believes it's "an invitation," and soon enough they're aboard the spacecraft Prometheus—funded by the supposedly dead industrialist Peter Weyland (Guy Pierce)—zipping toward the distant moon LV-223, hoping to find answers to humanity's deepest existential questions.Unlike the Nostromo, Alien's dingy blue-collar mining craft, Prometheus—named after the mythological fire-stealer—is a state-of-the-art research vessel, carrying scientists from pertinent fields, including spectacled biologist Millburn (Raff Spall) and punk geologist Fifield (Sean Harris), along with a substantial crew of ancillary characters. The ship is captained by former military man Janek (Idris Elba), but the real leader of the expedition is Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron), a stone-cold Weyland Corp. employee who makes it clear to everyone—Shaw and Holloway especially— that they report to her. Also on board is David (Michael Fassbender), an 8th generation android who's obsessed with Lawrence of Arabia—he even dyes his hair to look like Peter O'Toole—and ironically becomes the very soul of the film, a grown-up Pinocchio who can never become a real boy. Not to demean the rest of the cast, who are generally decent-to-excellent, but Theron and Fassbender are the two acting powerhouses here, the former all icy secrecy and the latter effete and guarded—think a more refined C3PO crossed with Hal from 2001: A Space Odyssey.In a way, Prometheus is a more pop, "genre"-oriented version of 2001, both concerned with evolution, artificial intelligence, and the notion that something out there gave the fire of human consciousness its first spark. Where Kubrick's film is a slow-burning intellectual exercise, Prometheus becomes a tension-ratcheting affair where the big ideas are couched in stylish big-budget sci-fi/horror action. When the ship lands on LV-223, which is not the moon from Alien, the crew quickly—too quickly to believe actually—spots and enters an enormous pyramid complex with reniform subterranean tunnels and a chamber that houses a monolithic human head and dozens of cylinders filled with that DNA-altering black goop. Nearby are the piled up bodies of several long-dead "engineers," who were obviously trying to escape something but didn't make it. Without getting into spoilers, it's safe to assume to that one or more team members become "infected," and you can also expect to see some aggressive lifeforms that have never before appeared in the Alien franchise, although they share the phallic/yonic, H.R. Giger-inspired qualities of the facehuggers and xenomorphs of yore. There are grotesque mutations, frantic firefights—one involving an actual flamethrower—and even an emergency alien fetus c-section, the film's most white-knuckle, squirm-inducing scene.Does the original xenomorph monster show up? Well, sort of. Let's just say it has a fan-appeasing cameo. Written by Jon Spaihts and Lost's Damon Lindelof, Prometheus expands the universe of the series and unravels a few mysteries from the first film—yes, the "space jockey" in that pilot's chair was an "engineer"—but it also raises a host of other questions that it doesn't have time to answer. (Why do the engineers suddenly want us dead? Why leave us a star map guiding us to what's essentially a biological weapons depot? If the engineers created us, who created them?) With a sequel already in the works, I don't consider the lingering ambiguities a problem—and I love the post-viewing discussions that naturally arise because of them—but Prometheus does have other shortcomings. There are small potential plot holes, and a few scenes that feel forced—inserted for narrative convenience or just to ramp up the action—but the most noticeable issue is that characters sometimes simply don't act in believably human ways. They contradict earlier established behaviors. They make choices only a soon-to-be-slaughtered teenager in a slasher movie would make. They don't express nearly enough awe at the fact that they're not just on another world, but making discoveries that dramatically alter humanity's assumptions about its own origins.Prometheus probably could've used another script revision to tighten everything up, but the pacing flows well—even when some of the events don't exactly make sense in retrospect—and there's no doubt that the film is an experience, the kind of grand-scale, high-concept science fiction that's unfortunately rare. (Although, between Looper and Cloud Atlas this year, sci-fi seems to be making a comeback.) I don't really get the small but rabid cult of haters that's sprung up to deride the film, but I blame the internet hype machine, which skews expectations impossibly. If you're anticipating the be-all-end-all Alien movie, with mind-melting twists and non-stop horror, then yes, Prometheus might be a bit of a let-down. But this prequel really is its own entity and deserves to be seen and evaluated on its own terms. Personally, I think it's a terrific reboot of a franchise that had grown ridiculous long before the dopey Alien vs. Predator movies. Ridley Scott directs the hell out of this thing, the scope is immense—check out those real, predominately non-CGI sets—and call me a heretic, but damn if Michael Fassbender doesn't make a better android that Ian Holm or Lance Henriksen ever did. Onto the sequel, I say, and if Scott isn't going to do it—he's only listed as producer, and he'll probably be busy revisiting the world of Blade Runner—I nominate David Fincher, whose Alien 3 got bungled by the studio, and who definitely deserves another shot at the series. Anyone second that motion?Gorgeous. And that's about all you really need to know. But for the sake of completeness, let's get into what makes Prometheus' 1080p/AVC- encoded Blu-ray transfer so stunning. Using Red Epic digital cameras mounted to 3ality Technica Atom 3D rigs, the film was shot almost entirely on Pinewood Studio's famed—and enormous—007 lot, allowing Ridley Scott and cinematographer Dariusz Wolski complete control over the lighting of the magnificently detailed sets. The combination of a great camera system, high-quality Zeiss lenses, and precise manipulation of the direction and degree of light makes for an image that's often terrifically sharp and nearly noiseless at times. Camera noise does spike a bit during the darkest scenes, but it has a granular quality that looks almost filmic up close, with no digital harshness or chroma artifacts, and it isn't really noticeable from a normal viewing distance. It should also go without saying that there are no compression issues or encode errors on this top-tier release; even scenes where you might expect to see some banding or splotchiness—flashlights cutting through darkness, volumetric clouds of dust rising into the air, fine color gradients—hold up under pixel-peeping scrutiny. The level of clarity is exemplary for a live-action film. Fine detail is ever-present in the textures of the actors' faces, the fabric of their clothing, and the intricacies of the props and set design. The film's distinct color palette is handled with ease too. The inky depths of the pyramid, the yellow LED lights inside the explorers' helmets, the cool fluorescence inside Prometheus, the spatters of blood, the skin tones—everything has a satisfying density and presence.And then we come to the film's use of 3D, which is some of the best I've seen outside of all-CGI movies. If you saw the 3D version of Prometheus in theaters, you'll already have a good idea of what to expect on Blu-ray, namely, lots of depth and little-to-no projection. That is, you'll spend a lot of time looking into your screen—which becomes a kind of portal through which to view a 3D diorama—but you won't find any leap-out-of-the-TV-and-jab-you-in-the-eye gimmickry, which may work in horror films or cartoons, but would only cheapen the experience here. And because there are no objects jutting out towards you, you don't have to worry about the roughly 2.39:1 frame cutting anything off. (No, there's no 1.78:1 "open-matte" version available.) There are a few longer landscape shots where no dimensionality is apparent, but most of the time there's a clear and natural-looking distinction between foreground objects and their backgrounds. There are definitely some "showpiece" 3D shots, like the landing sequence, the silica dust storm, and the engineer holograms, but the 3D effect is most impressively used to add a degree of realism to some of the more mundane scenes, like when Holloway stares into the mirror of his cabin, noticing there's something unusual in his eye. Or Shaw lying on the all-white operating table. Clarity and color both hold-up well, and there are no unusual 3D anomalies to report. Of course, the effect will be better on bigger screens—and the amount of ghosting/doubling you experience will depend on the quality of your TV/projector/glasses—but in general, Prometheus' 3D Blu-ray replicates the theatrical experience rather well. Do note that all screenshots are from the included 2D Blu-ray.Turn off the lights, crank up your receiver, and settle in—Prometheus's lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 surround track is one to savor, particularly if you've got a home theater setup capable of bringing the aural goods. This mix just doesn't quit; from start to finish it delivers room- quaking dynamics, pristine clarity, and polished, realistic, puts-you-right-in-the-middle-of-the-action sound design. From the opening scene on the barren planet Earth we get deep sub-woofer engagement, the lapping, crashing, and bubbling of a massive waterfall, and the thunderous rumble of an alien ship overhead. The sense of all-surrounding immersion is near-constant from here forward. Bleeps and bloops and the hush of processed air aboard the Prometheus. Sirens wailing in the rears. Dripping rain. Convincing cavernous reverb. The whipping of a monster's tendrils. Debris from an explosion rocketing through the soundscape. Silica dust clinking furiously as a storm blows across LV-223. Fifield's mapping "pups" as they zoom off through underground corridors. There's not a scene where the audio isn't lushly and thoughtfully arranged. Just take the actors' voices, which—besides being well-balanced and easily understood—always reflect the acoustics of their surroundings, flatter aboard the ship, slightly muffled inside their helmets, echoing and wet inside the pyramid. All this is backed up by Marc Streitenfeld's enormous-sounding orchestral score, which alternates between quiet uneasiness and sheer bombast.Note that the 3D disc and the 2D disc have slightly different dub and subtitle options.3D: Includes descriptive audio, and Spanish, French, Portuguese, Hindi, Urdu, and Tamil dubs—in Dolby Digital 5.1—along with English SDH, Span, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Port, and Swedish subtitles.2D: Includes descriptive audio, and Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Telegu, and Ukranian dubs—in Dolby Digital 5.1, except for the Russian DTS 5.1 track—and English SDH, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian subtitles.