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Prometheus (2012)
- IMDb page: Prometheus (2012)
- Rate: 7.7/10 total 59,979 votes
- Genre: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi
- Release Date: 8 June 2012 (USA)
- Runtime: 124 min
- Filming Location: Toronto Film Studios, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Director: Ridley Scott
- Stars: Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green and Michael Fassbender
- Original Music By: Marc Streitenfeld
- Sound Mix: Dolby Digital | Datasat
- Plot Keyword: Alien | Future | Spaceship | Android | Sole Survivor
Writing Credits By:
- Jon Spaihts (written by) and
- Damon Lindelof (written by)
Known Trivia
- Gemma Arterton, Carey Mulligan, Olivia Wilde, Anne Hathaway, Abbie Cornish and Natalie Portman were considered for the role of Elizabeth Shaw.
- James Franco was considered for the role of Holloway.
- Was originally conceived as a prequel to Ridley Scott’s Alien, but Scott announced his decision to turn it into an original film with Noomi Rapace (who was already set to star) still in the cast as one of five main characters. Some time later it was confirmed that while the movie would take place in the same universe as Alien and greatly reference that movie, it would mostly be an original movie and not a direct prequel.
- Michelle Yeoh was originally considered for the role of Meredith Vickers.
- Ben Foster was rumored for a role.
- Designer H.R. Giger, who worked on the original design of the Xenomorph Alien, was brought in to assist in reverse-engineering the design of the Aliens in the film.
- To prepare for his role as the android David, Michael Fassbender watched Blade Runner (a Ridley Scott film), The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Servant and Lawrence of Arabia (mentioned by Peter Weyland). Fassbender also studied Olympic diver Greg Louganis, drawing inspiration from Louganis’s physicality.
- Ridley Scott instructed Charlize Theron to stand in corners and move in lurking movements, in order to accentuate Vickers’s distant, enigmatic nature.
- Director Ridley Scott named the film “Prometheus”, seeing the name aptly fit the film’s themes: “It’s the story of creation; the gods and the man who stood against them.” In Greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus was a servant of the gods, who stole and gave to mankind the gift of fire, an immeasurable benefit that changed the human race forever (for better AND worse).
- Ridley Scott decided against featuring Xenomorphs (the titular Alien of the film series) in the film, as “the sequels squeezed him dry, he did very well… and no way am I going back there.” Instead, this being an indirect prequel to Alien, he decided to feature a Xenomorph ancestor/parent.
Goofs: Plot holes: The distance to the exo-planet they are visiting is stated to be on the order of 10^14km. Since it took them a little more than 2 years to get there, they must have been traveling at more than 10 times the speed of light.
Plot: A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race. Full summary » »
Story: A team of scientists journey through the universe on the spaceship "Prometheus" on a voyage to investigate Alien life forms. The team of scientists becomes stranded on an Alien world, and as they struggle to survive it becomes clear that the horrors they experience are not just a threat to themselves, but to all of mankind.Written by WellardRockard
Synopsis
Synopsis: Millions of years ago In the distant past, the spacecraft of an advanced humanoid alien race arrives on Earth. One of the aliens consumes a dark liquid, causing its body to disintegrate and fall into a nearby waterfall, thus seeding Earth with the building blocks of life.
In the year 2089, archaeologist couple Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and her boyfriend Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) discover a star map among the remnants of several otherwise unconnected ancient cultures. They interpret this as an invitation from humanity’s forerunners. Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce), the elderly founder and CEO of the Weyland Corporation, funds the creation of the scientific deep space research vessel called the USS Prometheus to follow the map to the distant moon of LV-223 several light years from Earth.
The ship’s crew travels in stasis at light speed while the android David (Michael Fassbender) stays awake at the pilot control to monitor their voyage. In 2093, the ship arrives in the orbit around LV-223 (note: it is not the same planet first seen in the 1979 movie ‘Alien’ as confirmed by Ridley Scott in an interview with Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode on Friday June 1st on BBC radio 5 live. Hello to Jason Isaacs!. Alien is set on LV-426, or Acheron source: See wikipedia page on "Planets in science fiction movies".). After being awakened from hibernation, the crew are informed of their mission to find the ancient aliens, called "Engineers" whom may be the original humans. They also view a holographic message from Weyland himself, who tells them about his funding for the mission and that he has since died.
Mission director Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron) orders them to avoid any direct contact and to return if the aliens are found. The Prometheus lands near an alien structure (resembling a large temple-like pyramid) and a team including Shaw, Holloway, and David explores it, while Vickers and Captain Janek (Idris Elba) remain aboard the ship and monitor their progress.
They find several ampoule-like artifacts, a monolithic statue of a humanoid head, and the decapitated corpse of a giant alien, thought to be one of the Engineers. Other bodies are later found, and the species is presumed to be extinct. David secretly returns an ampoule to the ship, while the remaining ampoules begin leaking dark liquid. A rapidly approaching storm forces the crew to return to Prometheus, leaving crew members Milburn (Rafe Spall) and Fifield (Sean Harris) stranded in the pyramid structure after becoming lost trying to find the way out. Shaw insists they take the Engineer’s head back to the ship with them and they barely make it back alive.
In the ship, Shaw and medic Ford (Kate Dickie) analyze the Engineer’s head, and discover that its DNA is identical to that of the human race. Meanwhile, David investigates the ampoule and discovers a vial containing a black liquid. He intentionally infects Holloway with the substance, hiding it in a drop of liquid on his finger and briefly tapping it into his glass of champagne Holloway drinks from to celebrate their discovery. Later, Shaw and the infected Holloway have sex. Holloway later looks in a mirror & sees his eyes are changing.
Back inside the structure, Fifield and Milburn are attacked by snake-like creatures. Milburn is killed, and a corrosive fluid (yellow acid blood) from one of the creatures melts Fifield’s helmet, exposing him to the dark liquid leaking from the ampoules. The crew returns to the structure and finds Milburn’s corpse. David discovers a room containing a living Engineer in stasis and a holographic star map highlighting Earth. Holloway’s infection rapidly ravages his body, and he is rushed back to the ship. As he visibly deteriorates, Vickers refuses to let him aboard, and immolates him at his own request.
A medical scan reveals that Shaw, despite being sterile, is pregnant. David subdues her, to return her to Earth in stasis, but she escapes and uses an automated surgery pod to cut a cephalopod-like creature from her abdomen. Weyland is found to have been in stasis aboard the ship; he explains to Shaw that he intends to ask the Engineers to help him avoid his impending death.
A mutated Fifield attacks the hangar bay and kills several crew members before being killed himself. Janek theorizes that the planet was used as an Engineer military base until they lost control of their biological weapons; the ampoules and the black fluid they contain. The remaining crew return to the structure and awaken the Engineer, who is occupying what is discovered to be a space ship (the same design as the crashed alien space ship seen in ‘Alien’ and ‘Aliens’). David speaks to the Engineer, who responds by decapitating him and killing Weyland and Ford. Shaw escapes the alien ship as it is activated by the Engineer. The still-active David reveals it is going to release the ampoules on Earth. Vickers orders Janek to return to Earth, but Shaw convinces him to stop the Engineer’s ship - he crashes the Prometheus into it while Vickers flees in an escape pod. The disabled Engineer ship crashes onto the planet, falling onto Vickers, crushing her. The ship continues to tumble and nearly crushes Shaw, but she escapes.
Shaw goes to the escape pod to retrieve supplies and finds her alien offspring has grown to gigantic size. The Engineer survives the crash, enters the escape pod and attacks Shaw, who releases the tentacled creature. It subdues the Engineer by thrusting a tentacle down its throat. Shaw recovers David’s remains from the alien ship, and together they activate another Engineer ship. Shaw and the remains of android David then take off to travel to the Engineers’ homeworld in an attempt to understand why they created humanity and why they attempted to destroy it.
In the final shot, in the Prometheus escape pod, an alien (very similar but not the same as seen in later movies) creature bursts out of the dying Engineer’s chest.
FullCast & Crew
Produced By:
- Michael Costigan known as executive producer
- Michael Ellenberg known as executive producer
- David Giler known as producer
- Walter Hill known as producer
- Mark Huffam known as executive producer
- Teresa Kelly known as associate producer
- Nikolas Korda known as co-producer
- Damon Lindelof known as executive producer
- Ridley Scott known as producer
- Tony Scott known as producer
FullCast & Crew:
- Noomi Rapace known as Elizabeth Shaw
- Michael Fassbender known as David
- Charlize Theron known as Meredith Vickers
- Idris Elba known as Janek
- Guy Pearce known as Peter Weyland
- Logan Marshall-Green known as Charlie Holloway
- Sean Harris known as Fifield
- Rafe Spall known as Millburn
- Emun Elliott known as Chance
- Benedict Wong known as Ravel
- Kate Dickie known as Ford
- Patrick Wilson known as Shaw's Father
- Lucy Hutchinson known as Young Shaw
- Anil Biltoo known as Linguist Teacher
- Matthew Burgess known as Mechanic 3
- Rhona Croker known as Archaeological Assistant
- Charalambos Dendrinos known as Automated Voice (Greek) (voice)
- Branwell Donaghey known as Mercenary 1
- Robin Atkin Downes known as Ship Computer Voice (voice)
- Sonam Dugdak known as Automated Voice (Tibetan) (voice)
- Reynir Thor Eggertsson known as Automated Voice (Icelandic) (voice)
- James Embree known as Mechanic 1
- Giannina Facio known as Shaw's Mother
- Vladimir 'Furdo' Furdik known as Mercenary 2
- Daniel James known as Sacrifice Engineer
- John Lebar known as Ghost Engineer
- Philip McGinley known as Archaeological Assistant
- Eugene O'Hare known as Mechanic 4
- Shin-Ichiro Okajima known as Automated Voice (Japanese) (voice)
- Annie Penn known as Ship Computer Voice (voice)
- Jenny Rainsford known as Archaeological Assistant
- Wannaporn Rienjang known as Automated Voice (Thai) (voice)
- Florian Robin known as Mechanic 2
- Zed Sevcikova known as Automated Voice (Chech) (voice)
- C.C. Smiff known as Mercenary 3
- Louisa Staples known as Greeting Message Violinist
- Shane Steyn known as Mercenary 4
- Richard Thomson known as Archaeological Assistant
- Wambui Wa-Ngatho known as Automated Voice (Swahili) (voice)
- Ian Whyte known as Last Engineer
- Berhane Woldegabriel known as Automated Voice (Amharic) (voice)
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Supporting Department
Makeup Department:- Claire Cameron known as prosthetics trainee
- Jana Carboni known as makeup artist
- Valter Casotto known as prosthetic makeup artist
- Helen Christie known as prosthetics fabrication
- Gemma De Vecchi known as prosthetics fabrication supervisor
- Peta Dunstall known as hair stylist
- Tina Earnshaw known as makeup designer
- John Eldred-Tooby known as prosthetics modeller
- Nana Fischer known as hair designer
- Claire Folkard known as prosthetics key painter
- Dan Frye known as prosthetics moulder
- Richard Glass known as standby optician
- Jo Grover known as special makeup effects artist
- Peter Hawkins known as prosthetic effects technician
- Nicky Knowles known as hair stylist
- Chris Lyons known as special effects teeth
- Aisling Nairn known as key makeup artist
- Conor O'Sullivan known as prosthetics supervisor
- Susie O'Sullivan known as prosthetic makeup artist
- Jane Oginsky known as make-up trainee
- Tom Packwood known as prosthetics moulder
- Dhruve Patel known as optometrist
- Martin Rezard known as creature designer & sculptor
- Colin Shulver known as supervising sculptor
- Áslaug Dröfn Sigurðardóttir known as prosthetic makeup artist
- Jack Slack known as prosthetics trainee
- Laura Stevens known as junior hair stylist
- Henrik Svensson known as prosthetic painting supervisor
- Robert Trenton known as key prosthetic makeup
- Valentina Visintin known as prosthetic makeup artist
- Josh Weston known as special makeup effects artist
- Kate Laura Woodhead known as prosthetics modeller
Art Department:
- Douglas Allam known as hod plasterer
- John Allen known as carpenter
- Davíð Örn Arnarson known as stand by props: Iceland
- Ray Barrett known as construction manager
- Graham Bishop known as production buyer
- Matt Boyton known as prop modeller
- Dan Burke known as graphic artist
- Julian Caldow known as concept illustrator
- Claudio Campana known as assistant art director
- Martin Campbell known as prop modeller
- Archie Campbell-Baldwin known as art department assistant
- Paul Catling known as prop concept artist
- James Collins known as draughtsman
- Alan Cooch known as hod painter
- James Corker known as art department assistant
- Laura Davison known as construction coordinator/buyer
- Gary Dawson known as dressing props
- Wayne Day known as hod carpenter
- Gina De Ferrer known as researcher
- Stephen Doyle known as dressing props
- Steve Dring known as prop modeler
- Paul Duff known as construction CAD engineer
- Jack Dyer known as construction buyer
- Luke Edwards known as assistant set decorator
- Philip Elton known as assistant art director
- Teri Fairhurst known as draughtsperson
- Stefano Ferrara known as prop maker
- Jordana Finkel known as draughtsman
- Richard Funston known as art intern
- Leigh Gilbert known as construction manager
- Simon Gosling known as prop modeller
- Guðni R. Gunnarsson known as greens
- Shane Harford known as dressing prop
- Rochelle Harvey known as art dept. asset coordinator
- Nicholas Henderson known as assistant art director
- Lucy Hope-Smith known as set decorating coordinator
- Luke Hull known as set dec assistant
- Josh Jones known as stand-by carpenter
- Thomas Jones known as props mould-maker
- David Ned Kelly known as carpenter
- Ben Kendall known as carpenter trainee
- Jody King known as hod sculptor
- David Vyle Levy known as senior concept artist
- Ingela Lordsdotter known as prop maker
- Brian Maslin known as head greensman
- James McKeown known as senior prop modeller
- Steven Messing known as concept designer
- Sophy Millington known as art department assistant
- Laura Morrison known as assistant to production designer
- Ben Munro known as standby art director
- William Overstall known as mould shop leading hand
- Andrew Palmer known as assistant art director
- Warren Parkinson known as stand-by & dressing props
- Helen Player known as assistant buyer
- Ben Procter known as senior concept artist
- Kurtis Richmond known as concept artist
- Mark Rocca known as prop modeller
- Alex Rutherford known as prop modeller
- Matthew Savage known as concept artist
- George Simons known as screen graphics designer
- Mark Smith known as dressing props
- Mike Smith known as assistant construction manager
- Gavin Snell known as art department assistant
- James Staples known as painter
- Dorothy Sullivan known as location buyer
- Daniel Thompson known as carpenter
- Atli Thor known as greens
- Tim Timmington known as painter
- Richard Usher known as junior draughtsman
- Tom Weaving known as assistant art director
- Ivan Weightman known as conceptual artist
- Steve Westley known as dressing props
- Mark White known as model maker
- Michael White known as chargehand console technician
- Rebecca White known as art department assistant
- Craig Whiteford known as greensman
- Ian Whiteford known as greensman
- Tom Whitehead known as assistant art director
- Luke Whitelock known as junior draftsman
- Terry Woods known as property master
- Christopher Wyatt known as draughtsman
- Helen Xenopoulos known as assistant art director
- Dorrie Young known as draughtsman
- Schwerthelm Ziehfreund known as sfx props
- Simon Duric known as storyboard artist (uncredited)
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Company
Production Companies:
- Brandywine Productions
- Dune Entertainment
- Scott Free Productions
Other Companies:
- Audiolink Radio Communications cell phone rentals
- Audiolink Radio Communications walkie talkies
- Camadeus Film Technologies cmotion 3D lens control systems
- Casting Collective extras casting
- Company 3 digital intermediate
- Compuhire computer playback
- De Lane Lea ADR recording
- Digital Vortechs Avid HD Editing Equipment Provided By
- Dolby Laboratories sound mix
- Eurosafety (DDA Fire) fire and safety
- Fluent Image film data management
- Flying Pictures aerial filming services provided by
- Goldcrest Post Production London sound post-production
- Helicopter Film Services pursuit arm & tracking car
- Intelligent Media international monitoring agency
- Mediacom 24-7 travel agent
- Molinare Studio post-production facilities
- Motion Picture Merchandise (MPM) stunt crew merchandise
- Ocean Video 3d video assist equipment
- Panavision Grips dollies and cranes
- Panavision UK camera equipment provided by
- Pictorvision Eclipse aerial camera system
- Pinewood Shepperton sound stages
- Pursuit Europe pursuit arm & tracking car
- Scallywag Travel travel agent
- Scarlet Letters end titles
- Sixteen19 post production services
- Sony Classical soundtrack
- Soundelux post-production sound services
Distributors:
- 20th Century Fox Australia (2012) (Australia) (theatrical)
- 20th Century Fox Film de Mexico (2012) (Mexico) (theatrical) (as Twentieth Century Fox Film de Mexico S.A.)
- 20th Century Fox Netherlands (2012) (Netherlands) (theatrical) (through Warner Bros.)
- 20th Century Fox (2012) (Belgium) (theatrical)
- 20th Century Fox (2012) (Canada) (theatrical)
- 20th Century Fox (2012) (France) (theatrical)
- 20th Century Fox (2012) (UK) (theatrical)
- 20th Century Fox (2012) (Japan) (theatrical)
- 20th Century Fox (2012) (Singapore) (theatrical)
- 20th Century Fox of Germany (2012) (Germany) (theatrical)
- Forum Cinemas (2012) (Lithuania) (theatrical)
- Hispano Foxfilms S.A.E. (2012) (Spain) (theatrical) (as Hispano Foxfilm S.A.E.)
- Twentieth Century Fox C.I.S. (2012) (Azerbaijan) (theatrical)
- Twentieth Century Fox C.I.S. (2012) (Belarus) (theatrical)
- Twentieth Century Fox C.I.S. (2012) (Kazakhstan) (theatrical)
- Twentieth Century Fox C.I.S. (2012) (Russia) (theatrical)
- Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (2011) (USA) (theatrical)
- Warner Bros. (2012) (Netherlands) (theatrical) (through)
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Other Stuff
Special Effects:
- Plowman Craven & Associates
- FB-FX (Life Support Units)
- Fuel International
- Fuel VFX
- Halon Entertainment
- Lifecast
- Lola Visual Effects (visual effects)
- Luma Pictures (additional visual effects)
- Moving Picture Company (MPC)
- ReelEye Company (special effects contact lenses)
- Rising Sun Pictures (visual effects)
- Special Eye Effects (contact lenses)
- Visual Effects Company, The (motion control)
- Weta Digital (roto)
Visual Effects by:
- Shaun Friedberg 'Pyrokinesis' known as animation technical director: Weta Digital
- David Abbott known as shader writer: Weta Digital
- Rehan Abdulovski known as paint artist: fx3x
- Tony Abejuro known as matchmove lead: MPC
- Michael Aerni known as senior animator
- Nidhi Agarwal known as matchmove artist
- Kieran Ahern known as witness camera operator
- Holly Aldersley known as roto/prep artist
- Stephen Allison known as render wrangler: Weta Digital
- Ohkba Ameziane-Hassani known as lighting/look development artist: MPC
- Malcolm Angell known as visual effects production manager: FuelVFX
- Charise E. Angone known as visual effects coordinator
- Samir Ansari known as lighting td: MPC
- Georgy Arevshatov known as senior texture artist: Weta Digital
- Paul Arion known as lead layout artist: MPC
- Paul Arion known as previs artist: MPC
- Spencer Armajo known as flame artist
- Vanessa Armitage known as vfx production coordinator
- Vanessa Armitage known as visual effects coordinator
- Ruth Asensio known as layout artist: MPC
- Nicole Ashford known as matchmove artist
- Joel Ashman known as senior compositor: Prologue
- K.H. Aslam known as senior matchmove artist
- Derrick Auyoung known as senior animation technical director: Weta Digital
- Patrice Avery known as previs producer: HALON
- Nithin Babu known as roto artist: MPC
- Thai Bach known as lighting artist: MPC
- Dorothy Ballarini known as texture artist: MPC
- Andrzej Bandurski known as senior effects technical director: MPC
- Marco Barbati known as creature facial technical director
- Jason Bath known as visual effects executive producer: Fuel VFX
- Erwann Baudet known as senior effects technical director: Weta Digital
- Hamish Beachman known as digital modeler: Weta Digital
- Brittany Bell known as visual effects
- Gregory Bellis known as camera td: Weta Digital
- Steven Benjamin known as roto/paint artist: Luma Pictures
- Sam Berry known as lead rigger: MPC
- Alex Berson known as digital paint artist: Weta Digital
- Daniele Bigi known as lighting supervisor
- Aevar Bjarnason known as look development artist: Fuel VFX
- Gerald Blaise known as digital modeler: MPC
- Christopher Blazick known as visual effects artist
- Vincent Blin known as flame artist
- Julien Bolbach known as environment lead: MPC
- Sudeepto Bose known as compositor: The Moving Picture Company, London
- David A.T. Bowman known as lead compositor
- Adam Bradley known as senior digital paint artist: Weta Digital
- Benjamin Bratt known as roto/prep artist
- Jared Brient known as lead lighting td: MPC
- Ryan Brooks known as rotoscope artist
- Amy Brunolli known as digital coordinator: Luma Pictures
- Julian Bryant known as digital compositor
- Daniel Bryce known as cg modeler
- Rob Bryson known as lead roto/prep artist: MPC
- Bruce Buckley known as digital artist
- Izet Buco known as digital compositor
- Romain Buignet known as visual effects artist
- Joerg W. Bungert known as digital colourist: weta digital
- Andy Burmeister known as camera technical director: Weta Digital
- Everett Burrell known as visual effects supervisor: on-set, Weta Digital
- Paul Butterworth known as visual effects supervisor: Fuelvfx
- Sam Buys known as digital asset manager: Weta Digital
- Tom Buys known as visual effects production assistant
- Unjoo Lee Byars known as vfx producer: Prologue Films
- Nicolas Caillier known as digital compositor
- Djordje Cakovan known as digital modeler: Weta Digital
- Taylor Carrasco known as animation technical director
- Remi Cauzid known as rigger: previz
- Joe Censoplano known as digital compositor: Luma Pictures
- Arthur Chan known as rotoscope artist: Weta Digital
- Johnny Chan known as rotoscope artist
- Malavika Chandrakanth known as roto/prep artist
- Erik Charlebois known as visual effects artist: Fuel VFX
- Jason K.S. Cheung known as production engineer: Weta Digital
- Charles Chorein known as lighting td
- Ria-Bella Chua known as rotoscope artist: Weta Digital
- Vincent Cirelli known as visual effects supervisor: Luma Pictures
- Oli Clarke known as layout artist: MPC
- Trent Claus known as visual effects supervisor: Lola Visual Effects
- Adam Coglan known as visual effects artist
- Luke Cole known as software engineer: Fuel VFX
- Sam Cole known as compositing supervisor: Fuel VFX
- Chad E. Collier known as digital intermediate data technician: Company 3
- Peter Connelly known as lighting td
- Benjamin Conner known as roto/paint artist: Luma Pictures
- Traian Constantinescu known as digital compositor: MPC
- Ian Cope known as visual effects producer: Rising Sun Pictures
- Dan Copping known as previs artist: MPC
- Michael Corcoran known as lead creature technical director
- Juan Francisco Correa Diaz known as rigging td
- Paul Cousins known as post visualisation artist
- Louis Cox known as camera technical director
- Christine Cram known as digital paint artist
- Felix Crawshaw known as visual effects producer: Fuel VFX
- Jim Croasdale known as senior paint artist
- Nicholas Cross known as sequence supervisor: Fuel VFX
- Alexia Cui known as lighting technical director
- Robert Cvengros known as tracking and matchmoving
- Anthony D'Agostino known as lead compositor
- Nicola Danese known as lead effects technical director: MPC
- Ana Mestre de Almeida Pereira known as digital compositor: Weta Digital
- Aurore de Blois known as digital compositor
- Stefania De Santis known as digital matter painter: MPC
- Krystal Delany known as visual effects production assistant: Rising Sun Pictures
- Caroline Delen known as lead texture artist
- Ruy Delgado known as matchmove artist: Luma Pictures
- Stanley A. Dellimore known as head of layout: MPC
- Justin Denton known as virtual stage operator: HALON
- Giancarlo Derchie known as digital compositor: Fuel VFX
- Julien Dias known as digital compositor
- Ben Dickson known as 2d technical director: Rising Sun Pictures
- Thai Son Doan known as digital compositor: Fuel VFX
- Ferran Domenech known as animation supervisor: MPC
- Kim Doyle known as digital effects producer
- Lucy Drewett known as fx department coordinator: MPC
- Julien Ducenne known as digital compositor: MPC
- Georgia Dumergue known as visual effects
- Rob Dunbar known as visual effects
- Sudip Dutta known as matchmove artist: The Moving Picture Company
- Austin Eddy known as lead animator: Weta Digital
- Dick Edwards known as visual effects supervisor: Invisible Effects
- Michelle Eisenreich known as visual effects producer: Hammerhead
- Kane Elferink known as sequence supervisor: Fuel VFX
- Harry Ellard known as junior effects technical director
- Joe Engelke known as senior paint artist
- Jenn Epstein known as senior digital compositor: The Moving Picture Company
- Alexander Eriksson known as digital compositor: MPC
- Ana Laura Esperón known as digital compositor: MPC
- Timothy Eustace known as cg modeler: Fuel VFX
- Stephen Evans known as lighting / technical director
- Audrey Ferrara known as environment artist: MPC
- Matthew Fogarty known as camera technical director: Weta Digital
- Lucien Fostier known as digital compositor
- Ludovic Fouche known as camera td
- Boominathan Frances known as matchmove artist
- Guillaume François known as shader writer
- Richard Frazer known as digital compositor
- Moa Frithiofsson known as digital compositor
- David Frylund Otzen known as modeler
- Raphaël Gadot known as 3D artist: Fuel VFX
- Ales Gargulak known as digital compositor
- Demitre Garza known as flame artist
- Brad Gayo known as visual effects
- Mark Gelfuso known as senior technical director: lighting
- Marco Genovesi known as head of matte painting: MPC
- Jack George known as visual effects coordinator
- Joel Gerlach known as paint artist: Luma Pictures
- Abhishek Ghorui known as digital artist
- Bill Gilman known as digital artist: Prologue
- Mitchell J. Glaser known as visual effects editor
- Brandon Gonzales known as concept artist: Hammerhead
- Brandon Gonzales known as matte painter: Hammerhead
- Lisa Gonzalez known as lead modeller
- Josh Gotto known as digital compositor
- James Grummitt known as production assistant
- Signy Bjorg Gudlaugsdottir known as digital modeler: Weta Digital
- Diego Guerrero known as lead lighting artist
- Mark Haenga known as facial modeler: Weta Digital
- Michael Hall known as senior effects technical director: MPC
- Lindsay Hallett known as director of business development: Luma Pictures
- H Haden Hammond known as sequence supervisor: Luma Pictures
- Nick Hanks known as layout artist
- Michael Harden known as vfx edit assistant
- Mark Harmon known as digital compositor: Fuel VFX
- Serena Hastie known as rotoscope artist: Weta Digital
- Arnaud Havart known as environment artist: MPC
- Michael Havart known as environment artist
- John R. Hazzard known as pipeline technical director: Luma Pictures
- Oliver Heinrich known as digital compositor: MPC
- Quentin Hema known as digital paint supervisor: weta digital
- Charley Henley known as visual effects supervisor: MPC
- Simon Herden known as stereo compositor: Rising Sun Pictures
- David Hicks known as screen graphics
- Matthew Hicks known as lighting technical director: Weta Digital
- John C. Hill known as screen graphics
- Martin Hill known as visual effects supervisor: Weta Digital
- Peter Hillman known as digital compositor: Weta Digital
- David Hochstadter known as stereoscopic compositor
- Finlay Hogg known as digital compositor: MPC
- Teresa Hooper known as layout technical director: Weta Digital
- Bastian Hopfgarten known as visual effects lead data wrangler
- Paul Hopkins known as matchmove/layout
- Sandy Houston known as roto supervisor: Weta Digital
- Jason Howden known as rotoscope artist: Weta Digital
- Levon Hudson known as render wrangler
- Jack Hughes known as visual effects data wrangler
- Michael Hunault known as visual effects artist
- Matthew Hunt known as visual effects artist
- Ben Hutchings known as visual effects artist
- Susan Immonen known as stereo compositor: Rising Sun Pictures
- Giuseppe Improta known as key lighting artist
- Chris Ingersoll known as digital compositor
- Chris Jestico known as vfx department manager
- Olivier Jezequel known as visual effects artist
- Carolina Jiménez known as layout artist: MPC
- Zhi Jin known as visual effects artist
- Bryan Jones known as compositor: MPC
- Danny Jones known as senior roto/paint artist
- Keith Jones known as digital compositor
- Marc Jones known as matchmove artist: MPC
- Owen Jones known as matchmove supervisor
- Dinesh K. Bishnoi known as matchmove artist: The Moving Picture Company
- Barry Kane known as rendering supervisor
- Andreas Bravin Karlsson known as digital compositor
- Alban Kasikci known as digital compositor
- Peter Kasim known as motion editor: The Moving Picture Company
- Ruslanova Katya known as digital compositor
- James D. Kelly known as visual effects photographer: MPC
- Kevin Kelm known as creature technical director: Weta
- Taskin Kenan known as junior visual effects data wrangler
- Annabelle Kent known as stereoscopic compositor
- Alex Khan known as compositor: Luma Pictures
- Ben Kilgore known as creature technical director
- Lucy Killick known as visual effects shoot producer
- Adam King known as lighting technical director: Weta Digital
- Naoko Kinoshita known as cg artist: Fuel VFX
- John Kitching known as digital compositor
- Ciril Koshyk known as 3D matchmove consultant
- Makoto Koyama known as senior animator: Weta Digital
- Manfred Kraemer known as lighting technical director: weta digital
- Lars Kramer known as camera technical director
- Dinesh Kumar Bishnoi known as matchmove artist: The Moving Picture Company
- Sujay Kumar G. known as matchmove artist: The Moving Picture Company
- Sendil Kumar known as visual effects artist
- Kosta Lagis known as visual effects artist
- Leandre Lagrange known as digital artist
- Sean Lahiff known as visual effects editor: Rising Sun Pictures
- Juan Pablo Lampe known as digital compositor: Weta Digital
- Lorenzo Lavatelli known as senior effects technical director: MPC
- Alex Lay known as digital compositor
- Nha Hoan Le known as tracking and matchmoving: Luma Pictures
- Nicolas Leblanc known as modeler
- Dongho Lee known as visual effects art director
- Jane Kyung Lee known as visual effects coordinator: Luma Pictures
- Max Leonard known as associate visual effects producer: Lola Visual Effects
- Phillip Leonhardt known as cg supervisor: Weta Digital
- Fabio Leporelli known as fur look dev
- Julian Levi known as visual effects executive producer: MPC
- Dave Levine known as flame artist: Lola VFX
- Dan Levitan known as compositing supervisor: Hammerhead Productions
- Dean Lewandowski known as layout technical director: Weta Digital
- Anu Liikkanen known as lead roto/prep artist
- Isaac Lipstadt known as visual effects coordinator: Hammerhead
- Clementine Lo known as effects technical director: MPC
- Thomas Sing Wai Lo known as modeler: weta digital
- Jason Locke known as camera td
- Lara Lom known as visual effects coordinator: MPC
- Owen Longstaff known as digital compositor: Fuel VFX
- Jade Lorier known as visual effects artist
- Gregory Louden known as visual effects technical director
- Steven Lovell known as visual effects artist
- Ruth-Anne Loveridge known as modeler
- Demis Lyall-Wilson known as digital compositor: Fuel VFX
- Natalie MacDonald known as senior compositor: MPC
- Jessica Madsen known as digital artist: Luma Pictures
- Brian Magner known as post visualisation artist
- Tytus Majerski known as digital compositor
- Suraj Makhija known as matchmove artist: The Moving Picture Company
- Jay Mallet known as motion control cameraman
- Thomas Mansencal known as digital artist
- Giorgio Marino known as digital compositor: MPC
- Allen Maris known as visual effects producer
- Jason Marlow known as camera technical director
- Filipe Marques known as digital compositor: Fuel VFX
- Kindra Marra known as visual effects assistant editor
- Fran Martinez known as digital compositor
- Jérôme Martinez known as environment artist: MPC
- Mario Maruska known as effects technical director: MPC
- Abner Marín known as visual effects artist
- Shawn Mason known as senior compositor: MPC
- Javad Matoorian-Pour known as compositor: MPC
- Marian Mavrovic known as compositing supervisor
- Kirk Mawhinney known as facial modeler
- Jason McDonald known as previsualization supervisor: MPC
- Ben McEwan known as stereo compositor: Rising Sun Pictures
- Steve McGee known as visual effects artist
- Fiona McLean known as vfx production manager: MPC
- Donal McMullan known as production engineer
- Louise McNicholl known as layout department manager: Weta Digital
- Alex Meddick known as visual effects editor: Rising Sun Pictures
- Jignesh Mehta known as visual effects coordinator
- Abigail Mendoza known as visual effects coordinator: MPC
- Steven Messing known as visual effects art director
- Károly Mesterházy known as environment technical director: MPC
- Miklós Mesterházy known as lighting technical director: Weta
- Matt Middleton known as cg supervisor
- Seth F. Miller known as digital paint artist: Weta Digital
- Danielle Millington-Peck known as visual effects editorial assistant
- Jambunatha Mn known as matchmove artist: The Moving Picture Company
- Mo Mohamoud known as digital paint artist: Weta Digital
- Jason Mohan known as visual effects artist
- Stephen Molyneaux known as digital artist MPC
- Ray Moody known as motion control operator
- Christophe Moreau known as senior environment artist: MPC
- Simon Dean Morley known as production engineer
- Dafydd Morris known as layout artist: MPC
- Bryn Morrow known as senior lighting lead
- Darren Mortillaro known as creature technical director: weta digital
- Daniel Moy known as digital artist
- Matt Mueller known as senior camera technical director
- Jack Mullins known as visual effects
- Vanessa Mylchreest known as visual effects artist
- Dominica Myles known as stereo matchmove artist
- Alfred Mürrle known as lead compositor: Weta Digital
- Paul Nelson known as lead texture artist: MPC
- Peter Nemec known as senior compositor: MPC
- Stephen Newbold known as compositing sequence lead: MPC
- Christopher Newman known as stereo matchmove artist
- Jesse Nicodemus known as visual effects artist: Luma Pictures
- Wolfgang Niedermeier known as camera lead: Weta Digital
- John Niforos known as technical animator
- Emelie Nilsson known as digital compositor
- Thomas Nittmann known as visual effects producer: Lola Visual Effects
- Stephen Nixon known as effects department manager: MPC
- Victor Norberg known as digital compositor
- Greg O'Connor known as lead modeler/texturer: Fuel VFX
- James Ogle known as lead digital modeler
- Pawel Olas known as pipeline research and development: Fuel VFX
- Robert Olsson known as digital matte painter
- Arturo Orgaz Casado known as visual effects artist
- Daniele Orsetti known as texture artist
- Ben Outerbridge known as digital compositor
- Nitheesh P.C. known as matchmove artist: The Moving Picture Company
- Andrew Palmer known as stereo camera tracker
- Andrew Palmer known as stereo compositor
- Eugene Paluso known as matchmove/layout
- Joan Panis known as lead effects technical director
- Gurpreet Singh Pannu known as matchmove artist: MPC
- Clark Parkhurst known as flame artist
- Robbie Payne known as visual effects assistant
- Tony Peck known as digital compositor: MPC
- Dylan Penhale known as chief technical officer: Fuel VFX
- Michael Perdew known as digital production manager: Luma Pictures
- Joep Peters known as texture artist: MPC
- Dennis Petkov known as texture & modeling artist
- Valentin Petrov known as digital matte painter: MPC
- Hieu Phan known as paint/roto artist: Luma Pictures
- Michael Phan known as visual effects artist: Luma Pictures
- Rémi Pierre known as visual effects
- Jacquelyn 'Jac' Piette known as lighting artist: MPC
- Joseph Vincent Pike known as stereoscopic compositor
- Melvin Polayah known as layout artist
- Jason Pomerantz known as production supervisor (IMAX Version)
- Jessica Ponte known as textures manager: Weta Digital
- Christian Poullay known as camera td: Weta Digital
- Donna Poynton known as roto/prep lead: MPC
- Rajasekar Prince known as senior matchmove artist: MPC
- Richard Pritchard known as senior lighting artist
- Eddy Purnomo known as effects technical director: Weta Digital
- Michael Queen known as digital compositor: Fuel VFX
- Ula Rademeyer known as senior texture artist: Weta Digital
- Kade Ramsey known as rotoscope artist: Weta Digital
- Troy Ramsey known as senior paint artist: Weta digital
- Mayec Rancel known as effects technical director
- Ambrish Rangan known as matchmove artist: MPC
- Jennah Rasmussen known as department manager
- Clint G. Reagan known as pre-visualization supervisor: Halon
- Markus Reithoffer known as lead compositor: MPC
- Maryam Riahi known as roto/paint artist: Luma Pictures
- Martin Riedel known as sequence lead/compositor: MPC
- Miso Ristov known as 2D supervisor: FX3X
- James Roberts known as witness camera operator
- Samantha Rocca known as visual effects production assistant: MPC
- Chris Rockwell known as visual effects accountant
- Marco Rolandi known as environment lead: MPC
- Carl Leon Ross known as visual effects artist
- Isabelle Rousselle known as senior digital matte painter: MPC
- Sam Rowan known as character modeller
- Garry Runke known as effects technical director: weta digital
- Nathan Rusch known as pipeline technical director: Luma Pictures
- Johannes Saam known as CG supervisor: Fuel VFX
- Sajeev Sadanandan known as matchmove artist: The Moving Picture Company
- Diganta Saha known as systems administrator: Prologue
- Stephanie Saillard known as digital compositor: MPC
- Matthew Sakata known as assistant visual effects coordinator
- Peter Salter known as stereo matchmove artist: MPC
- Sean Samuels known as digital matte painting artist: MPC
- Jim Sandys known as senior animatronic model designer
- B.S. Rajkumar Sapate known as matchmove artist: The Moving Picture Company
- Craig Saunders known as visual effects coordinator
- Brendan Savage known as visual effects artist: Fuel VFX
- Tom Schwarz known as rendering technical director
- Julian Schädler known as digital compositor: MPC
- Denis Scolan known as lead compositor: Fuel VFX
- Carsten Seller known as animator
- Vijay Selvam known as digital compositor: MPC
- Paul Seyb known as visual effects
- Cameron Sharp known as visual effects editor: Fuel VFX
- Sam Sharplin known as digital modeler: Weta Digital
- Aurynn Shaw known as production engineer: weta digital
- Kieran Shepherd known as compositor: Rising Sun Pictures
- Davide Sibilia known as effects technical director: MPC
- Joey Sila known as digital compositor: Luma Pictures
- Bruno Simões known as previs artist: MPC
- Chrystia Siolkowsky known as roto artist
- Anna Sitjà known as texture artist: Weta Digital
- Lori Smallwood known as senior animation technical director
- Dan Smiczek known as CG supervisor: Hammerhead
- Katherine Smith known as vfx production manager: MPC
- Marc Smith known as camera technical director: Weta Digital
- Eric So known as digital compositor
- Perry Hyunwoo Sohn known as camera technical director: Weta Digital
- Sepp Sonntag known as modelling: MPC
- John C. Sparks known as senior visual effects artist: MPC
- Marianne Speight known as visual effects producer: MPC
- Richard Stammers known as visual effects supervisor
- Albrecht Steinmetz known as camera lead: Weta Digital
- Justin Stockton known as layout technical director: Weta Digital
- Sheldon Stopsack known as lighting supervisor: MPC
- Stéphane Stradella known as digital compositor
- Rosalind Stratton known as layout technical director: Weta Digital
- Valentin Struklec known as compositor: MPC
- Thomas Stölzle known as lighting td: MPC
- Althea Suarez Gata known as previs animator
- Francois Sugny known as effects technical director: weta digital
- Richard Sutherland known as CG supervisor: Luma Pictures
- Masaya Suzuki known as senior texture artist/look dev artist: Weta Digital
- Jeremiah Sweeney known as compositor: Lola Visual Effects
- Ben Swinbanks known as stereoscopic artist
- Ben Swinbanks known as stereoscopic motion tracker
- Marc Taganas known as roto/prep artist: MPC
- Hirofumi Takeda known as digital compositor: Weta Digital
- Sahil Tandial known as matchmove artist: MPC
- Eric Tang known as lead creature technical director: Weta Digital
- Biljana Temelkova known as roto artist
- Chris Templeman known as rotoscope artist
- Joseph Thomas M. known as matchmove artist: The Moving Picture Company
- Vincent Thomas known as senior lighting artist & digital matte painter
- Kim Tobin known as digital compositor
- Mathilde Tollec known as lighting technical director: MPC
- Ruggero Tomasino known as digital compositor: MPC
- Mark Tompkins known as concept artist
- Audrea Topps Harjo known as creatures production manager: WETA Digital
- Brian A. Torres known as pipeline technical director: Luma Pictures
- Jérémie Touzery known as environment artist: MPC
- Diego Trazzi known as lead vfx: Weta Digital
- Linda Tremblay known as digital compositor
- Ryan Trenhaile known as senior compositor
- James Turner known as vfx coordinator: MPC
- Mauricio Valderrama known as stereo compositor
- Gerard Van Ommen Kloeke known as character rigging supervisor
- Duarte Victorino known as effects technical director: MPC
- Douglas Peter Viljoen known as rotoscope artist
- Andreja Vuckovic known as modeler: Weta Digital
- Reed Wade known as production engineer
- Ben Walker known as digital matte painter
- Tim Walker known as compositor: MPC
- Brenda R. Wallace known as production engineer: weta digital
- Colin Ware known as modeler and texture artist
- James Waterson known as digital compositor: Luma Pictures
- Chase Watson known as systems administrator
- Imery Watson known as previs artist
- Mark Wendell known as dfx supervisor: rising sun pictures
- Ruth Wiegand known as rigging artist: MPC
- Edson Williams known as visual effects supervisor: Lola Visual Effects
- Chris Wilson known as 3D lighting artist: MPC
- Stephen Wilson known as digital compositor: Weta Digital
- Blake Winder known as digital compositor: MPC
- Oliver Winwood known as effects technical director: MPC
- Rory Woodford known as digital modeler: MPC
- Clare Woodford-Robinson known as digital modeler: Weta Digital
- Kai Woytke known as senior digital compositor: MPC
- Joe Tsung-Yu Wu known as cg modeler: Fuel VFX
- Terry Wu known as compositor
- Garrett Wycoff known as roto/paint artist: Luma Pictures
- Piotr Fox Wysocki known as senior texture r&d and look dev artist
- Jason Yanofsky known as senior lighting and compositing artist
- Travis Yee known as previs artist
- Viki Yeo known as texture artist: Weta digital
- Kenny Yong known as stereo matchmove artist
- Kristen Young known as visual effects assistant editor
- Matthias Zeller known as lead creature technical director: Weta Digital
- Mohand Zennadi known as senior lighting technical director
- Paolo Joel Ziemba known as previs artist: Halon
- Ed Coy known as digital artist (uncredited)
- Les Hunter known as visual effect producer: Hammerhead Productions (uncredited)
- Andrei Sidyakin known as digital compositor (uncredited)
- Nicholas Wilson known as digital modeler: Weta Digital (uncredited)
Release Date:
- Belgium 30 May 2012
- France 30 May 2012
- Switzerland 30 May 2012 (French speaking region)
- Azerbaijan 31 May 2012
- Belarus 31 May 2012
- Bulgaria 31 May 2012 (limited)
- Chile 31 May 2012
- Denmark 31 May 2012
- Kazakhstan 31 May 2012
- Netherlands 31 May 2012
- Russia 31 May 2012
- UK 31 May 2012 (London) (premiere)
- Ukraine 31 May 2012
- Armenia 1 June 2012
- Bulgaria 1 June 2012
- Finland 1 June 2012
- Ireland 1 June 2012
- Latvia 1 June 2012
- Norway 1 June 2012
- Sweden 1 June 2012
- Turkey 1 June 2012
- UK 1 June 2012
- Greece 5 June 2012
- Hong Kong 6 June 2012
- Iceland 6 June 2012
- Indonesia 6 June 2012
- Philippines 6 June 2012
- Serbia 6 June 2012 (3D Version)
- South Korea 6 June 2012
- Taiwan 6 June 2012
- Australia 7 June 2012
- Brazil 7 June 2012 (limited)
- Croatia 7 June 2012
- Hungary 7 June 2012
- Kuwait 7 June 2012
- New Zealand 7 June 2012
- Portugal 7 June 2012
- Singapore 7 June 2012
- Slovenia 7 June 2012
- Thailand 7 June 2012
- Canada 8 June 2012
- Egypt 8 June 2012
- Estonia 8 June 2012
- India 8 June 2012
- Lithuania 8 June 2012
- Pakistan 8 June 2012
- Republic of Macedonia 8 June 2012
- Romania 8 June 2012
- USA 8 June 2012
- Argentina 14 June 2012
- Israel 14 June 2012
- Peru 14 June 2012
- Brazil 15 June 2012
- Colombia 15 June 2012
- Mexico 15 June 2012
- Panama 15 June 2012
- Paraguay 15 June 2012
- Cambodia 21 June 2012
- Vietnam 22 June 2012
- Poland 20 July 2012
- Spain 3 August 2012
- Austria 8 August 2012
- Germany 9 August 2012
- Switzerland 9 August 2012 (German speaking region)
- Japan 24 August 2012
- Italy 19 October 2012
- Switzerland 19 October 2012 (Italian speaking region)
MPAA: Rated R for sci-fi violence including some intense images, and brief language
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14 Jun 2012, 2:00 pm
I'm really sorry, but this a major disappointment.
No, I didn't expect miracles or something close to the original Alien.I've been following Scott for 30 years - and it's clear that he hasbeen on the decline since Gladiator and Black Hawk Down.
I liked a few of his later movies like A Good Year - but most have beenrather flat and uninspired.
One thing I've noticed, is that he's gotten increasingly complacentwith his own "point of view" in terms of historical facts and howthings work in reality. It's like he has a complete disregard forplausible motivations or factual information about how things work.
Case in point - there's a scene in the movie where a certain characterhas to have an operation performed on her body - and it involvesslicing directly through the skin and muscle-tissue of her abdomen.After the procedure, she's simply "stitched together" by metal clips inlike 3 seconds - and with a bit of local anesthetic, she continues tomove and jump about with some moaning. Ehm, you CAN'T have any kind ofnormal movement with your muscle tissue completely severed - and therewas absolutely no healing involved. Just one of a series of ridiculousevents.
The plot is entirely juvenile and cliché stuff with "profound"questions like who created us. For some reason, the beings who createdus also want to kill us - and it seems to involve incredibly elaborategenetic engineering that also happened to kill most of them in theirremote "lab facility". They're CLEARLY much more powerful than we are -and they could just bomb the hell out of us, or do it in a thousandsimpler ways. But no, they seem to want to utilize excessivelyelaborate and dangerous genetic modification or infestation - that theycan't even control.
They also like to record recent events with some kind of holographicrecorder device that is unable to render clear images, only some coolghostly images that I bet Scott loved to play with. But they're quiteflexible in how they let you play recordings of their securityprocedure - so you can access their systems without effort.
Characters are void of personality and growth, they're REALLY stupid -and they like to freak out for no reason, and they like to stay calmand playful when there IS a reason - like when encountering a nastylooking cobra-worm - an alien - for the first time in history.
Among these faceless people - we have some willing to gleefully commitsuicide by ramming an alien ship, because they like their captain, andthey're required to do so because he "can't fly worth a damn" - despitehim being the primary pilot hired by a billionaire to do nothing butfly the ship.
We have a religious scientist who concludes that she's found ourcreators, based on: "It's what I choose to believe".
Then we have the very same religious scientist look at an alien "head"they brought back - and she notices some strange growth on it. She thenspends 2 seconds thinking and concludes that this is obviously somekind of "foreign cells" (impressive deduction, I must say) - and shedecides to stimulate the cells with electricity - just to see whathappens. No research - no caution - no nothing.
We have people who decide to open the door to their ship, seeminglywith no thought process, despite having just faced complete chaos byextremely hostile alien forces - because one of their crew mates seemsto be lying in front of the door. This while other crew mates have justbeen taken over by some kind of alien infestation.
Then we have the boyfriend of said religious scientist (a douche) whodecides that the air in an alien environment is safe to breathe becausehis device tells him it is - and he immediately removes his helmet. Aclassic Hollywood scientist moment, and clearly there's no need toworry about biological contaminants in a place like that.
This movie is FULL of this kind of utterly implausible behavior andrandom decisions.
It has a couple of "for effect" gore scenes - but Scott manages toinclude ZERO tension along with them. As a result, they're mildlydisgusting - but they have no lasting effect whatsoever.
The "aliens" that are a part of this movie all look like plastic -because of overly smooth and pale skin. They look like Lovecraftcreatures without a much-needed paint-job.
We have a horribly predictable, pointless and wasted twist involvingGuy Pearce and a certain other cast member.
We have an android, well-acted by Fassbender, who seems to be fullyrandom in his decisions and motivations. Few actions made sense in anycontext - not to me anyway.
The music was overwrought and didn't fit with the mood of the film, andit seemed like one theme being repeated endlessly. A surprise, givenScott's usual flair for good music.
I think Lindelof is a complete and total hack - who only got the jobbecause he was the "yes-man" who could match Scott's ego. This ispretty obvious in interviews - where Lindelof always manages topublicly kiss Scott's behind.
1 Star for Fassbender's performance.
1 Star for the amazingly detailed visuals.
1 Star for how the above combine to form the excellent beginning.
Now, it's just a matter of leaning back - musing over a thousanddifferent people coming up with a thousand different explanations -each being the "correct" interpretation of this deep andthought-provoking masterpiece.
Going by the IMDb rating, I can do nothing but stay mesmerized by howefficient it is to rely on the "Emperor's New Clothes" effect and lethype do the rest. Stay real Scott, Lindelof and Hollywood.
14 Jun 2012, 2:00 pm
Lindelhoffed /'LinDelHôfd/
Verb:
1 a : Similar to a "Rick Roll", when one is conned into viewing aseries of moving pictures with no conclusive finale, despite the viewerinvesting a lot of emotion and time in the story.
b (1) : a bottom feeder (2) : to Lindelhoff, much like a cock tease,when a sexual partner brings the other to the point of climax but thenbails just before reaching orgasm.
PROMETHEUS Plot holes AND IRRITATIONS ***SPOILERS***
1. The dreams sequence. David can watch Shaw's dreams. Amazingly thistechnology also cuts from scene to scene like a movie camera…Please.No one dreams like that.
2. How did they randomly find the temple so quick? This is an entireplanet surface!
3. Why was the landing so soft and easy?
4. Why does Fifield start screaming at Shaw like that? Calm downmate..jeez..And later on with an Alien cobra he is cool as ice.
5. Why does that moron Buddy Holly scientist try and touch the cobraalien? not once….not twice…but 3 TIMES!!!
6. Why on earth would a scientist remove their helmets in a possiblyinfected temple? I am just a civilian and even I understand the conceptof VIRUS CONTAMINATION ON AN ALIEN FRIGGIN PLANET. They then have thecheek to talk about Shaw's strict quarantine fail-safeprocedures…please
7. What does this Black Goo do exactly? Accelerate worm growth? Infectcrew members? Cause pregnancies? Create life? Pick one and stick to itplease
8. Why does Ford straight away start giving the head electricity forkicks? Do they not have procedures? What is this fun with Frankenstein?
9. Why does the head explode?
10. Why are the medical staff so damn careless with a possibly diseaseridden and bacteria infested decapitated head? I swear they didn't evenwear plastic gloves.
11. How did Shaw know the Jockey was heading to Earth to destroy it?Pretty big assumption from a couple of punches thrown.
12. How does David know the Space Jockey is heading to kill Shaw on theMedical Bay?
13. How does Shaw know her baby will attack the Jockey?
14. i was really amazed that Shaw has this 'baby' but fails to mentionthe horrific and super extraordinary situation she had just beenthrough. ''oh hey guys, ha ha, nearly forgot. FYI, you won't believewhat just happened to me on the way here''….''i just gave birth to analien..'' ''yeah, i know CRAZY right, considering i had sex only 10BLOODY HRS AGO!!''
15. -The whole Vickers' Star Wars 'Father' line…
16. -The 'bet' between the co-pilots was cringe-worthy
17. HUGE ONE…How the hell does Shaw walk after abdominal surgery? Ifabdominal muscle is cut you can NOT walk, the muscle needs to be sewnback…But no, a few staples and she is good to go…
18. Why does the tentacle creature have tentacles from the evil PlanetX?
19. Why do the space jockeys allow any old tramp to walk in an usetheir security systems?
20. Why does the space jockey want to kill, kill and kill…You'd thinkan advanced race would be a little civilised?
21. What was the point of Guy Pearce as Weyland? Why was he even there?So he just assumed this temple would contain a fountain oflife…..right….I guess he 'chose to believe' too…f**k me…
Honestly there are so many more I can't even write them all…But thismovie has more plot-holes than the Iraqi Navy
14 Jun 2012, 2:00 pm
Prometheus is the story of a trillion-dollar mission to discover theorigins of human life on a distant planet. Basically, this is supposedto be the greatest exploration undertaken in the history of mankind.
So who do they send? A gaggle of fractious goons whose collectivescientific nous is rivalled only by that of the Three Stooges. Withinminutes of touching down (conveniently beside the only 'man-made'structures on the planet, a'la 1960s Star Trek) the 'scientists' areyanking off their helmets, on the basis of 'it seems fine to me',dipping their fingers into strange organic ooze, and lugging a severedalien head back to an unquarantined spaceship in a sandwich bag.
Once there, they speedily discover the meaning of life. Then, while oneof them gets a bit drunk, his two female companions decide it would beuseful to stimulate the head electrically to reanimate it. They don'tsay why. They give it a bit too much juice, then too little,then ditherover too much or too little like a couple of schoolgirls fiddling witha dicky bunsen burner, while the most important scientific discovery inhuman history waggles its ears and rolls its eyes - before eventuallyblowing up like a frog in a microwave.
Are the scientists abashed? Is the man angry? Do they all calm down andremember they have degrees in clever things, not diplomas in macramé?Do they heck.
The WHOLE MOVIE is a litany of ludicrous so-called science, schoolboyerrors, and pseudo-profundity about the origin of species. Ironicreally, when none of the crew would have a chance in hell in any sortof contest governed by Darwinian rules.
Crass stupidity is rampant in every department. Hi-tech helmets recordevery heartbeat - apparently until anything worth recording happens;stranded crewmates are abandoned to their fate in favour of a quickshag, and the spaceship door is opened to anyone who comes a-knocking.Although, after hitting the 'welcome' button, Idris Alba does do adouble take and go 'Hold on a second!' but that might have just been aninvoluntary ad lib at his own character's baffling idiocy.
There is spectacular cinematography and effects, but not one iota oforiginality has been squandered on plot, subtext, tension or characters- which are as shallow as the Prometheus's muddy little gene pool.
Ridley Scott is a hero of mine, but Prometheus is not the intelligent,emotionally satisfying prequel that Alien deserves. It's a derisory,empty experience - and anyone who loved Alien is surely too old and toosmart to be fobbed off with something this bad just because it's shiny.
14 Jun 2012, 2:00 pm
Oh the hype. I cannot recall anticipating a movie so much. MatrixReloaded may have come close, and the feeling of disappointment is alltoo familiar.
This is the first time I have been compelled to write a review on thissite, mainly because most of my friends haven't seen it yet and I justhave to vent my feelings somewhere. But before I begin that catharticrelease let me say that this is no way a bad movie. I never once hadthe urge to walk out and I expect I will watch it again some monthsdown the line. I don't feel the anger I experienced after Matrix 2 orIndy 4 but I certainly don't have the buzz of having just watched atruly great movie.
Lets start with the storyline. I think anyone going to watch this isfully aware by now that this is q prequel to Alien, and trust me,you'll have been slapped so hard in the face with this fact by the endof the film that your cheeks will be stinging. Time spent on plotbackground is over in a matter of seconds. If you've seen the trailersthen you've pretty much seen the reason they're off to another planet.From there the storyline follows the usual tried and tested Alien(s)method, i.e. They find stuff, it ain't good and people start dying.What's wrong with that? You cry. Nothing is wrong with that but fromthen on in in you can't help yourself comparing it to the other twofilms. And that's where the wheels start falling off.
The first two Alien movies were filled with strong characters who actedand behaved as you felt they should when their friends and colleaguesstart dying around them. In Prometheus however they may well have allbeen androids as Rapace apart, they were all taking death anddestruction remarkably in their stride. Even one of the best scenes inthe whole movie (Rapace's DIY Cesarean) is just glossed over like itdidn't happen when . She escapes quarantine, removes a baby squid fromher stomach and then runs into the others covered in blood only to bemocked for lacking scientific fibre. Theron may just have well not beenthere for all she adds and will someone please tell me why they felt itnecessary to employ Guy Pearce to play an old man? Here's an idea, justhire an old man to do it instead!
Even the characters taken as a whole are a rather strange bunch. InAlien they were a mining vessel (believable). In Aliens they took somehard asses because they were expecting trouble (believable). However onthis occasion a billionaire thinks he'll take himself half way acrossthe universe fully expecting to meet another civilisation who may ormay not be hostile and who does he take with him? A couple ofscientists, his daughter and a bunch of misfits. Oh but its OK, theyhave flamethrowers and a few pistols.
Moving on to the bad guys and here we have something which I thoughtwas rather good, as an idea. The concept of humans having evolved froman alien race is a good one, and one of the more believable parts ofthe film. It was a good idea tackled well. Now if we'd just stayed withthat idea and made a film about it I may have been a much happier man.However Scott had decided from the outset that this would be an alienprequel and we were subjected to this absurd notion that they weresinply created by a squid impregnating a super human. Bingo! Quite whythis hadn't already happened on the planet before is a mystery, as iswhy the Alien's don't come out looking more human every time one popsout of our stomachs. And so to the final scene which I suspect Scottsaw in a ream one night and built an entire film around it. I can onlycompare it to Darth Vader's unavailing in Star Wars 3. Laughable.
As a rule I don't like prequels and sequels. They all too often lead tofeelings of anger and dismay. But I thought if anyone is going to do itright it would be Ridley Scott. Alien was his baby and there's no wayhe'd make a mess of it. Well now I feel its time for a public appeal.Will somebody please make a decent ORIGINAL sci-fi movie. PLEASE!
14 Jun 2012, 2:00 pm
I saw this at a midnight preview and I was really looking forward toit. I'm a big fan of Alien, but I was really disappointed; this is abloated mess.
In Alien, the creature presented an abstract threat to earth but theplot centered on the immediate, physical threat to the crew. InPrometheus, the threat is purely abstract and while SOME bad stuffhappens to the characters, they are all unsympathetic so it isdifficult to care. Characters are established with simplistic dialog;this is the cool black guy, this is the incautious explorer, this isthe obnoxious mercenary cyberpunk (who, for no reason, is also ascientist), this is the uptight corporate type.
The scientists don't behave like scientists, they don't talk likescientists. The nerdy biologist (who has to walk off to be monsterfodder later), walks away from an alien corpse because it's not hisfield of interest. Huh? Archeologists suddenly turn into medicalexperts and people exploring an alien ecosystem for the first timeremove helmets without regard for contamination of the environment orthemselves. Often, the only justification for character actions seemsto be to set up later plot points.
Alien worked because it focused on believable characters stuck in aterrible situation, without that believability the film would begreatly lessened. Prometheus, lacking that, is uninteresting.
Prometheus puts me in mind of Avatar. The use of 3D is excellent andthe art direction is amazing. However, as with Avatar, technicalexcellence cannot make up for a terrible plot, sub-standardcharacterisation and meaningless dialogue.
14 Jun 2012, 2:00 pm
WARNING: LOTS OF SPOILERS.
Synopsis: Two archaeologists find some old drawings of an alien and astar map. They "choose to believe" that the aliens created human life.So they travel to the planet identified in the drawings. When theyarrive at the planet, the members of the expedition all work againsteach other even though they all want the same thing. Each member thenrepeated does really stupid things until most of them are dead. Thefilm ends before we see the final stupid decision actually kill thelast surviving members.
Nothing the characters did made any sense:
> The robot without feelings falls in love with a woman.
> The robot then risks her life because he wants to preserve theparasite inside her. Why? No reason.
> The expedition is searching for life, but the biologist wants toreturn to the ship when they find a 2000 year old corpse.
> The geologist also wants to return to the ship rather than look atrocks.
> The geologist then gets lost despite being in charge of the mappingdevice.
> The top boss pays for the expedition, but pretends he's dead andhides on the ship. Why? No reason.
> The leader of the expedition refuses to cooperate with either therobot or the archaeologists - even though they all want the same thing.
> The alien tries to kill everyone, so the surviving characters decideto go to the alien's home planet to talk to them.
Another issue that kept annoying me was the inaccurate terminologyused. There was no reason for it - it was just wrong. For example, atone point the archaeologists talk about abiogenesis and the biologistweirdly starts talking about evolution. Later on, a head exploded (likein Scanners) and the scientist says "Why did that head combust?". Idon't expect screenwriters to have degrees, but they should at leastlook up words in the dictionary.
The CGI is good and the acting would be fine if the actors had beengiven something worthwhile to do. But every other aspect of the filmwas a disappointing waste of time.
1/10
14 Jun 2012, 2:00 pm
I must admit that the special effects and overall scale of the film isepic. But for crying out loud the plot is thin as paper and the writingis very very bad. None of the characters are acting in a logical way.There is no explainable motivations behind their actions and the storybehind the alien race contradicts itself. After watching it I have afeeling it's just a collection of cool ideas put together without anylogic to link them. The film pretends to raise some philosophicalquestions but it's done in a very childish way and in the end you can"choose to believe" whatever you want despite the evidence to thecontrary.
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They come to this alien planet (not Alien alien, just extraterrestrial)and decide to land immediately without any surveillance from the orbit.Luckily out of the whole planet the place they happened to fly over hadalien structures so they land there. Only then the scientists learnfrom the mission director what they are allowed to do. They go to thisalien structure with their hi-tech equipment and an android. Theandroid presses all the buttons he can find like 5 year old andnobody's surprised that he doesn't explain anything. Apparently hemastered a couple of ancient earth languages but that's no explanationto why he understands alien writings. The guy operating the hi-techprobes that map the structure suddenly flips out when he sees an aliencorpse while everyone else is cool, decides to go back to the ship andgets lost in the tunnels. In the structure they decide that the air isbreathable on the basis of it's chemical composition and take off theirhelmets. Who in their right mind exposes oneself to an alienenvironment. You don't know what can be in this air especially thatyou're looking for alien life. Then out of nowhere a sand storm appearsas if triggered by their actions. So they retreat and they take thealien head with them to the ship while the geo-expert most competent onfinding his way back gets lost in the structure. In the ship they dodecontamination of the alien head but they fail to decontaminate theirown heads after the exposure to the alien environment. And now the besthappens: The paleontologist/archaeologist suddenly becomes an expert onalien physiology and just by looking at the head decides that there aresome new cell outgrowths on the forehead. They decide to reanimate a2000(?) year old head by using electroshocks after which the headexplodes. (What was the point of that scene? To show theirincompetence?) Then they examine the alien DNA under the microscope(!)and the analysis tells them it matches human DNA. (Wow really? Aftermillions of years of evolution of human species it's still the same? Ohwait, you can "choose to believe" so. Yet the opening scene of thealien committing suicide and dispersing in the water with cool particleeffects suggests that he initiated all the life on the planet. But thenagain the ancient cultures worshipped the solar system the alienstructures were on. So maybe we are their direct descendants. But it'snot where the alien race comes from. It's just a storage place forbiological weapon. Why would the aliens leave an "invitation" to theirmilitary base?) Meanwhile the android opens one of the vases they foundin the structure like he knew exactly what he's doing. All in his roomwithout any secure containment. He brakes open a vial of unidentifiedliquid which for all he knows could be kryptonite or cool-aid anddecides to roofie one of the scientist with it. Meanwhile the guys thatwere afraid of the alien corpse and got lost in the structure decide tomake friends with a snakelike life form that emerged from a puddle andget raped by it. The roofied scientist gets sick but before that hemanages to have sex with his colleague (Elizabeth) and impregnate herwith an alien life form. Then the android scans the Elizabeth on thenext day like he knew what he was looking for and tries to restrain herso she will give birth to an alien. (Why would he want to do that???)She escapes and uses automated surgical chamber to remove the alienfrom her belly. The procedure cuts through her whole abdomen and thenstaples it back together. From now on she runs around in all actionscenes with her severed abdominal muscles. (The least they could do isshow some hi-tech quick healing procedure or something.) She escapesand finds Wayland to be on the ship and he's looking for cure to oldage. No one is surprised she has a gushing wound across her abdomen andthey embark on another trip to the alien structure which turned out tobe a spaceship. They revive one of the alien crew members which goes ona killing rampage after a chat with the android (no explanation why)and decides to fly the spaceship to eradicate life on earth.Fortunately after a quick chat with the female protagonist the pilotsenthusiastically decide to go kamikaze on the alien spaceship and diewith smiles on their faces. Then there is the nerve wrecking scene ofthe doughnut spaceship rolling and chasing Elizabeth and Meredith in astraight line when all they had to do to avoid it was to step aside.The alien pilot somehow survives the crash and comes back with arevenge on his mind. It is defeated by the foetus Elizabeth gave birthto which grew to a gigantic size on absolutely nothing in a matter ofhours closed in the operation chamber. In the end Elizabeth joinsforces with the android who poisoned her lover and tried to kill her aswell and they fly off to find the home planet of the alien race.
14 Jun 2012, 2:00 pm
So let me get this straight…
In the future, two archaeologists discover a 35.000 years old cavepainting, in Scotland. Painted by humans who worshiped giant aliens,members of superior space-faring race. Similar finds were made all overthe world, of artifacts left behind by independent civilizations thatshared no contact. Apparently those ancient aliens posed as Gods, werefriendly, and yet, with such teachers and sponsors, all that thosehumans were able to leave behind were cave paintings made with charcoaland some stone tools.
This alone makes archaeologists forget all about Lucy and other famousaustralopithecines and hominids. Screw Darwin. We were Created,umm…engineered. Because one archaeologist "chose to believe so."Jesus of Nazareth was an alien hybrid, she concludes.
Oh yes, she's a devout Christian, I kid you not.
Pseudo-religious anti-science diarrhea at it's best.
On those ancient artifacts are included identical star maps that looklike an invitation. Invitation from whom, you might ask, invitation togo where? Well, invitation from our gods, umm… aliens I mean. To gowhere? WELL TO GO VISIT AN ANCIENT ALIEN BIOWEAPONS STORAGE FACILITY,OF COURSE !!! So naturally, humans go and visit.
A trillionaire named Weyland pays for a space exploratory mission, THEMission, Mission of all missions. So one would think that such aMission would be populated by crown jewels of modern science, Cream ofthe Cream, the Super Intelligentsia.
Right ? Wrong.
Weyland handpicked a bunch of retards whose intellect operates on alevel of a ten-year-old who learned science from comic books, and badcomic books at that !!! An archaeologist suddenly becomes an expert ingenetics and biochemistry, while biologist stands by and looks bored.Alien genome is identical to human genome. Scientists remove theirhelmets twenty minutes after entering a compound on a foreign planetwhich they KNOW is populated with alien biology and potentialpathogens. And when they encounter a foreign organism (afterdiscovering a bunch of mutilated corpses !!!), a sinister lookingcobra-like worm, the very first alien humans ever encountered, what dothey do ? They start laughing like drunk high school kids, you know,those retarded football types, and they start petting that god-damnedthing. Mummified corpses are twitching like they died five minutes agoand suddenly explode, spraying gallons of bodily fluids all over thelab. Yes, that's ancient mummies I'm talking about. A woman who justwent through fully open abdominal surgery is stitched like a cardboardand starts running around. They find strange organic liquid stored invessels on an industrial scale, in ancient alien temple, nobody bothersto analyze it.
Have you ever seen a NASA news conference or mission room after theylanded a new probe on Mars? Those scientists are hugging each otherwith tears in their eyes. Their voices are shaking. AND THEY DIDN'TEVEN LAND ON MARS, THEY JUST SUCCESSFULLY LANDED A ROVER!!!
Landing on an alien world is every geologist's wet dream, everygeologist masturbates to the thought of that!
And what does our Prometheus' geologist have to say when he wakes upfrom cryo-sleep? "Don't bother me with your friendship, I'm just hereto make money." It's like he just broke out of jail.
And so on and on. The idiocy of these so called scientists is beyondbelief and it just never stops.
Is Lindelof mentally retarded?
Is Scott senile?
I'm perfectly able to enjoy childish "sci-fi" like Transformers. That'sbecause Michael Bay didn't set out to cheat me. He said Transformermovie is about a sexy couple, cool giant robots, ultra-spectacularfight scenes and… that's it. That's what Michael Bay promised us andthat's EXACTLY what he delivered. I respect him for his unpretentioushonesty and I wasn't at all disappointed by his films, I enjoyed themvery much !
But this Prometheus was sold to me as a quintessential A-Movie, amasterpiece of serious, intelligent Sci-Fi. It was supposed to be anintellectual Sci-Fi film.
I feel raped.
This movie promised us something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3n2Ox4Yfk
This is what Prometheus actually delivered:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T70-HTlKRXo
You know what… I'll just stop right now.
This isn't worth my time. Just wait for the DVD, OK? This movie isretarded Christian creationist crap and is outright insulting. Andanyone who disagrees should have his/her head examined.
14 Jun 2012, 2:00 pm
OK this is a lame title for a review, but prometheus kind of deserves alame intro.
The move opens up very promising, with epic landscapes and abeautifully done intro and epilogue. Then there's a scene where we seeDavid doing his every day chores and keeping himself busy while therest of the crew is still in cryo-sleep. This scene is utterly geniusand should'v really set the tone for the rest of the movie, but allwhat comes after is really disappointing.
the films builds up quite nice, but until half of the movie it slipsaway in to unnecessary dialogs. probably to cover up the major plotholes. I was sitting in the theater just asking myself: why are theydoing that? Why is this character stereotype in the movie? How did theyfind this place so fast? Why in the hell do they have a switchboardthat turns on holograms about what happened last time and who put themthere? What is up with the zombie??? and so on.
If all these questions were compensated with raw action, or tongue incheek humor, i could have just waved it away; But the film propagatesitself as an intellectual, epic adventure about the beginning ofmankind.
For a guy who made brilliant films such as Alien, Bladerunner,Gladiator etc. You have to wonder, why is he satisfied with a lame scifi movie that any other director could have made…
and i hear he's planning a sequel to blade runner… Please, willsomebody tell him he has to stop before he destroys his name as abrilliant director…
14 Jun 2012, 2:00 pm
I'm pretty sure there's at least 30-60 minutes worth of missingfootage. It's the only explanation I have for Scott making such anaverage sci-fi. Look, I know there's debate, is it a prequel or not.That doesn't matter, what does is the quality of this movie versus therest of the Alien genre.
I remember the sheer thrill of Alien 1979 version. The highly originalXenomorph stalking its human prey throughout the dark confines of theNostromo. The incredible sequence as Ripley sets the vessel onself-destruct only to find her path to the escape boat blocked by thevicious alien. Then the mad terrifying scramble to deactivate thefusion plant followed by an even more intense attempt to reach thelifeboat for a second time. Then after all that, the Xenomorph hadsneaked on-board anyway! Weaver's utterly convincing terror as sheslips into the spacesuit and blows the airlock. Just incredible!Horror/Sci-fi at its very finest and best. True "On the edge of yourseat", stuff.
My point… Prometheus had none of this… not a shred! Sure,Prometheus was beautifully shot and visually stunning, but the moviewas full of poor editing, plot holes and flawed acting. I just can'timagine Scott allowing the film to be created this way and I'mconvinced the Editing Room and writers are responsible for thedisjointed nature of the movie. I won't delve into the many plot holesor describe the childish nature of the script/plot devices as you've nodoubt read many other reviews by now.
Despite its flaws it's still a worthwhile sci-fi and deserves the priceof a cinema ticket. You'll be blown away by Fassbender's performanceand also Raprace's to a point. The CGI really is beautiful and there'ssome pretty neat ideas about how the Xenomorph evolved. It's definitelya movie that'll find its way into my blu-ray collection in a few monthstime.