Better late than never...
The many questions that were spat at Prometheus by frustrated cinemagoers following the movie's release this summer will soon be answered... this according to the official trailer for the Prometheus Blu-ray (due out Oct. 9)...
A new beginning, a new ending, and extra scenes in-between... could this mean we're finally getting the movie we were originally hoping for?
Here's the rest of what to expect:
PROMETHEUS 4-Disc Collector's Edition Blu-ray Special Features
Disc 1
● Theatrical Cut
● Commentary by Director/Producer Ridley Scott
● Commentary by Writer Jon Spaihts and Writer/Executive Producer Damon Lindelof
● The Peter Weyland Files
● Deleted and Alternate Scenes that include an Alternate Opening / Ending
● Prometheus - Weyland Corp Archive Second Screen App
Disc 2
● The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus
● Enhancement Pods
● Weyland Corp Archive
● Pre-Vis
● Screen Tests
Disc 3
● 3D Theatrical Cut of Movie
Disc 4
● DVD / Digital Copy
PROMETHEUS 2-Disc Blu-ray Special Features
Disc 1
● Theatrical Cut
● Commentary by Director/Producer Ridley Scott
● Commentary by Writer Jon Spaihts and Writer/Executive Producer Damon Lindelof
● The Peter Weyland Files
● Deleted and Alternate Scenes that include an Alternate Opening / Ending
● Prometheus - Weyland Corp Archive Second Screen App
Disc 2
● DVD / Digital Copy
I've seen some of the leaked bonus features @ Blaster and other sites. The scene where Weyland tries to explain to the Engineer why he's worthy of immortality should have been kept.
ReplyDeleteBut even with the bonus material, the film lacks that mythical je ne sais quoi that would have granted it cinematic relevance.
Prometheus will answer questions, but that's no guarantee the answers will be any good.
Actually, I feel it has that "mythical je ne sais quoi" in abundance thanks to Ridley Scott's gift for creating an almost tangible mise en scene in every movie he makes. 'Prometheus' oozed with atmosphere, but the script - though brimming with ideas - was utterly devoid of internal logic. And that's the film's biggest failing.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to seeing it on DVD, flaws and all, with or without new footage. It ain't a masterpiece by any means, but I'd rather watch Prometheus 100 times than suffer through even five minutes of the likes of Transformers or Battleship. Sign me up for the Prometheus sequel!
Agreed. In a world full of unwanted sequels and reboots, I'd rather view the work of film makers with enough balls to risk exploring a fascinating new mythology.
DeleteI agree! Loved Prometheus! I didn't feel the confusion many others felt...for some reason I was able to make sense of a lot of it, even the many different types of infection by the alien DNA.
Delete'...utterly devoid of internal logic.'
ReplyDeleteThat was my impression too. From a cave in the Orkneys to an unidentified location in deep space was a leap I could just about manage. The conclusion that the aliens had a weapons lab and were planning to eradicate the Earth of humans was lost on me.
Given the evidence in the film, it could just have well been the creators falling victim to the *alien* life-form and isolating themselves in the hope of designing a way to exterminate it. Likewise, if it was their intention to eradicate people, the scheme seems a little OTT when we're talking about a palaeolithic world. Zap them! Introduce TB, plague or choke the atmosphere of oxygen! Set up a lab on our moon instead of some moon gazillions of miles away.
All the same, I did enjoy it and it was one of the best SF films in a while. Lucas has set the standard for fracking every last penny out of movies and I'll resentfully look forward (oxymoron?) to the extra scenes. It's like the medium of film is no longer static and has become a shifting, incomplete work in progress. Endings and scenes get revised or elaborated in a way that bothers me; not for the financial exploitation, but for the values of Art. Great literature and classic movies wouldn't have attained *Art* status if they were released with various extras to keep the audience happy.
I sometimes imagined that, if the Engineers liked to make biological weaponry, that perhaps the reason they wanted to return to Earth was to put an end to their most deadly creation of all: Us ;)
ReplyDeleteWait a minute . . . we have to spend yet more money to have an unsatisfying and confusing movie that we already paid a hefty price to see explained to us? What's wrong with this picture (pun intended)?
ReplyDeleteMy respect for Ridley Scott has dropped below the floorboards. Won't be shelling out for the DVD or any more sequels.