Prometheus

[AR]

Is it necessary to see this in 3D?

Wife and daughter are going to see Madagascar 3 and the times don't mesh but I can see non 3D version.

[brandonx76]

would be fine for non-3d - as far as I'm concerned, if the film makers do not use the Avatar / Cameron rigs for 3D - it's just not that impressive from a 3D perspective...btw, the new Hobbit movie looks incredible for 3D

[The_Noble_Cause]

Saw it twice. Ridley Scott doesn't make bad movies. Even his version of Robin Hood with fat Russell Crowe was a good flick. Prometheus is a movie of big questions, less than satisfying answers, but it's pure spectacle in an old fashioned Hollywood sense ("they sure don't make 'em like they used to"). It's also immersive entertainment. I don't want to compare it to Avatar, but Scott, like Cameron, has fleshed out a vision of the future that makes you want to revisit it and go over the finer points. Some viewers may be turned off by the film's philosophical/theological naval gazing and ponderous overtones, but the movie also functions using creaky 1950's monster movie conventions. The end battle between the engineer and the tentacled alien fetus monster made me feel like I was watching a Ray Harryhausen flick as a kid at the drive-in. What can I say? Faults and all (and there are quite a few), I had a blast. Out of the Alien series, this is probably the best since Part 2.

[The_Noble_Cause]

Is it necessary to see this in 3D?

Wife and daughter are going to see Madagascar 3 and the times don't mesh but I can see non 3D version.

See it in IMAX. Saw it on a regular screen afterwards and there was no comparison, in fact some of the coolest scenes looked dim and poorly lit.

[verslibre]

Saw it twice. Ridley Scott doesn't make bad movies. Even his version of Robin Hood with fat Russell Crowe was a good flick. Prometheus is a movie of big questions, less than satisfying answers, but it's pure spectacle in an old fashioned Hollywood sense ("they sure don't make 'em like they used to"). It's also immersive entertainment. I don't want to compare it to Avatar, but Scott, like Cameron, has fleshed out a vision of the future that makes you want to revisit it and go over the finer points. Some viewers may be turned off by the film's philosophical/theological naval gazing and ponderous overtones, but the movie also functions using creaky 1950's monster movie conventions. The end battle between the engineer and the tentacled alien fetus monster made me feel like I was watching a Ray Harryhausen flick as a kid at the drive-in. What can I say? Faults and all (and there are quite a few), I had a blast. Out of the Alien series, this is probably the best since Part 2.

Scott said the DVD version will feature a director's cut that is longer by twenty minutes, and up to thirty minutes of deleted scenes will be included.

I think the longer cut will help parts of the film have less of a rushed feel.

Btw, you might want to put a spoiler warning for that engineer-monster encounter, in case people who haven't "scene" it read this thread. I thought the surgery sequence was more intense, myself. Oh, whoops. I didn't put a spoiler alert.

[brandonx76]

Btw, you might want to put a spoiler warning for that engineer-monster encounter, in case people who haven't "scene" it read this thread. I thought the surgery sequence was more intense, myself. Oh, whoops. I didn't put a spoiler alert.

THAT was over the top - holy shit!

[The_Noble_Cause]

I think the longer cut will help parts of the film have less of a rushed feel.

At 2 hours, it didn't feel rushed to me. Flowed at a good clip. Some moviegoers seem to think that an extended dvd will help explain certain plot holes. Given that the movie is from one of the writer's of LOST, I think parts of the script are intentionally vague in an attempt to seem ponderous. In some ways, the film almost reminded me of a foreign film. Especially toward the third act, where the movie goes a little wacko, and the script takes big liberties and leaps of logic.

Btw, you might want to put a spoiler warning for that engineer-monster encounter, in case people who haven't "scene" it read this thread. I thought the surgery sequence was more intense, myself. Oh, whoops. I didn't put a spoiler alert.

Surgery sequence is def a new horror classic.