Prometheus - Collector's Edition (Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + Digital Copy) [Region Free]

Good watch

This is the best thing to see.

Amended & consolidated review on 24/10/12-I always hold review of the product (before it is actually sold to the masses) with a grain of salt as this forum is for reviewing products you actually buy, and not of the film itself. I feel proper film reviews are better provided by critics or aggregating sites such as IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes. My opinion of the film is personal, it is your duty to form your own ideas, therefore I am only reviewing the product I received.Disc one is the 3D theatrical release. The depth is stunning, there is also a bit of pop-out, but it is exactly the same as the cinema release. You will not get gimmicky pop-til-you-vomit 3D content here. It is more of a layered & deep effect with a few scenes that do have some 'pop'. The 3D you experience will also depend on what television you watch it on, but I was quite impressed on mine. It is a dark film, but it looks amazing on my LG telly, though I do suffer from some weak blacks (LG 42LM620T is what I watched it on), somehow the polarized glasses do make the blacks a bit deeper - though you could tinker in the settings menu for weeks to achieve the picture you want - that is on you. I was happy with what I experienced on my equipment (and yes, I tinkered forever to get the right balance before watching the film).Disc two is where you find the 2D version, the extras, the extended bits and deleted scenes. Some of them help, some were a bit unnecessary. This is in 2D of course, but it explained some of the questions I had. No spoilers going here though, you will have to see it for yourself.Disc three is the documentaries, production stuff etc. I found it to be very helpful in getting you to understand the film, it wasn't just a bunch of filler as I suspected it would be. There are many movies that add more, and rarely does this add much to the film - in this case it actually helped a lot!The sound in all versions is great; DTS HD Master Audio sounds fantastic and immersive on my home cinema system - you can feel the Prometheus landing from the rumbling bass! Dialogue was clear, and the underlying soundtrack/score was more ethereal than overwhelming. The sound is output in 7.1 surround; I have a 5.1 system (the surround effects were accurately localised in the sound field, even with the extra 2 channels missing in my system). I am doubtful the movie would be as audibly immersive on just inbuilt TV speakers.Unfortunately, the disc booting times are quite long (close to 60 seconds plus in my case), this could be my player (I have Samsung BD-E6100 Samsung BD-E6100 3D Smart Blu-ray Player with Built-in Wi-Fi (New for 2012)) - however I think it is due to the massive menus you get when loading the disc up. I also had an error in the BD-Live feature, though when it did work, it was only advertisements for future/past releases by Fox - not worth the wait or download in my opinion.There is an app called Prometheus Second Screen (both iPad & Android versions are available - the disc cover only says there is the Apple version). It is a bit tedious to get working properly and it is a rather large download for an Android app (I have an Advent Vega with custom ROM) at 50ish MB. In all honesty, I could have gone without the app; I experienced a rather large amount of frustration getting it to link to my tablet & phone to see the extra stuff. I still am not sure if it worked correctly, as I gave up with the ordeal after a few hrs, though when it did link up, a few more options became available - they didn't appear to be critical to the movie plot. However, I have read that the original Spaights script was included in the app but sadly I was unable to find it - this was the main reason I downloaded the app in the first place. If someone could figure this out, I would be grateful for a few pointers, though I have now placed the script on the rumour and unconfirmed shelf; there are conflicting stories of the existence of the script on this app, disc or internet right now so I am skeptical of the veracity of the script rumour. You will have to watch the documentaries on the third disc to hear what was omitted from his (J. Spaights) script for the original story before Lindelof had his way with it, or you can ask Uncle Google for some answers via the many forums dedicated to the film.Packaging is so-so. It looks much nicer in the pictures on Amazon than how it arrived. It's 'dull' - not as flashy as you would hope for a special edition, the outer box has a shiny 'foil' effect, but this was mimicked in the plastic blu-ray sleeve to disappointing effect, it was basically a non-shiny version of the outside box with rather dull and boring colouring. The internal box was shrink-wrapped in plastic - though on this occasion I didn't have too much of a struggle removing it. You also get the serial number to download the film for your portable devices, though I hope I can gift this to a mate rather than keep it for myself - I will have to figure out if this is allowed or not. A few of the discs (the 3D one in particular) were difficult to pop out of the holder and I was worried I would accidentally scratch the disc in the process. After I got all the discs out, I arranged them in the order I felt they should be and with ease and minimal damage in mind. Shipping was quick of course with Amazon Prime; my disc arrived on the delivery date with my regular post.If you liked this film but had loads of questions as I did, disc 2 helps a bit more - after watching the documentary disc, then you really start to understand the film. The extended/deleted scenes could be helpful in explaining the plot and offering a different perspective, though this is your own opinion to form. The documentary/production extras did a vast amount to improve the film in my opinion. I would consider this to be a must-see for the Alien franchise fan, all 6ish hours of it!After seeing the extra features, and the film several times now in both the 3D version & 2D (with extras) I would say you should go for it, that is if you're a fan of the Alien - Weyland universe. My original disappointment with the film I saw in the cinema has subsided a little bit with this extra content. I still wish for a slightly better plot, but again this is my own opinion. I do have a sneaking suspicion that there will be a price drop quite soon, or a super-extended ultra mega edition some point in the near future, but I'm happy with what I got. As the advert states, "Questions will be answered".

A future classic. I was glued.

Great film and start to the Alien Franchise.

When Alien fans first heard in 2009 that Ridley Scott was making an "Alien prequel or sequel" many of them almost wet their pants in anticipation. The next two years or so of deliberate "leaks" from the set, teaser trailers, and constant comments on social media sites brought the excitement felt by fans to very near fever pitch. I know this because I was one of them.However the result of all that anticipation was a poor film that left a lot of fans scratching their heads and in some instances asking for their money back. It is generally accepted that Prometheus promised much and delivered little. Whereas Alien was mean and lean supremely efficient filmmaking complete with believable characters, stunning imagery, claustrophobic realistic sets, fabulous model work, a truly terrifying Alien, a simple but effective screenplay (people trapped somewhere with a monster picking them off one by one)and convincing scant dialogue peppered with profanity, Prometheus is none of these things.It is however very wordy, people talk a lot, Roomi Rapace is no Ripley, the huge script is often juvenile, a screenplay full of people standing around talking, Charlie Theron and Guy Pearce are completely wasted in silly unnecessary roles. The film takes an age to get going but you do have to listen to all that family angst trotted out by Waylan first. Mr Scott's direction is at best pedestrian and at worst on autopilot. The finesse often apparent seems in short supply here; perhaps he was less than optimistic about the project after reading that leaden script and slow screenplay.If you do get to the second and much better half of the film, you then have to accept generic seen before movie scientists, not only being incredibly unscientific but bloody stupid to boot. Remember those Star Trek landing parties where the guys at the back in the red shirts always got themselves killed so the main characters can carry on in the show, well you can watch this old fashioned technique all over again in a modern mult-imillion Dollar movie today. Not only that but you can see it coming a MILE off. Bad decisions after even worse decisions are made by this incompetent bunch and only David the Android seems to know what is happening or has a real agenda. Played well by Michael Fassbender, the Android was, for me, the only real character in the whole film, oddly enough.The final 20 minutes are easily the best with the film actually at last coming alive. The family angst, the endless talking, and predictable story, finally takes a back step and the action ramps up. The last 10 minutes are very satisfying with at least some answers to why we have watched for the last two hours. The possibility of a sequel has once again whetted fans appetites for Prometheus 2, but Mr Scott needs to dump all the stuff fans don't want and concentrate on what they do. He's done it before he can do it again.Finally after a year or so to think on it, I think Prometheus is a poor and regarded by many fans as a missed opportunity.Edit.Just watched all the extra content on the 3D three disc version and am now even more disappointed than previously. It's now quite clear that Scott never intended to make an Alien prequel, as he says "it's been rung dry" but he was interested in the Space Jockey back story. Who they were, were they came from, what was their purpose, and most importantly what were they doing on that small planet. The story originally submitted was a straightforward adventure story that Scott was unhappy with, so in comes Lost and Into Darkness "writer" Damon Lindelof.Scott comes across as a frustrated writer, shoving ideas under Lindelof's nose and Lindelof, who has said he does not like to write alone, was more than happy to insert any idea that Scott had off the top of his head (the silly rolling spaceship being a prime example). With Scott not really knowing what he wanted and a writer happy to include any idea floated by the director we of course ended up with the car-crash that Prometheus became.It's also clear that the script was even more wordy and leaden than the released film, at least two fairly long "telling stories" scenes were dumped after being filmed at great cost. Why were they in the script in the first place. And great stuff like the TED conference showing Weylans true character as a young man in his 30's were left out. This at the beginning of the film would have explained Weylans character and we would have understood his motives. The character would then have made at least some sense.A fully CGI Fifield was shot and dumped even though it was far superior to the scene that ended up in the film. Characters just vanished never to be seen again. Seventeen crew members and only one Android, if they are so good why not dozens of them to do all the dangerous stuff. Why does Weylan hide away like a naughty schoolboy. Why does Vickers come at all, years in space so she can just bark orders at people, she could do that at home in comfort with no danger. The character does nothing except kill a main crew member with a Flame Thrower, that she knew how to operate, that just happened to be lying around fully fuelled and ready to go, and shortly afterwards dies in the most stupid way I've seen in a long time. Holloway finds extra terrestrial life for the first time ever, but still decides it's not good enough and gets hammered in the bar wallowing in self pity. He should be euphoric and pumped up. Duh.Shaw has major, and I mean major abdominal surgery and within minutes is, running and climbing, jumping, carrying heavy bags, fighting aliens with an axe, all with her abdominal muscles cut right through and some staples holding her skin together. Beyond belief even in Sci Fi. And in the end why are the Engineers so pissed of with us? They made us, we are genetically identical to them, but as soon as they see us they start ripping heads off and going ballistic for no obvious reason. Did they engineer the Alien, did they engineer the Black Goo, why was a representation of the Alien queen from Aliens in the Head room if they hadn't been created yet. What were they going to do with the thousands of goo vases found. Who were all those dead engineers running from?After watching all the bonus extras it is my opinion that Scott is 80% and Lindelof 20% to blame for the mess that Prometheus is. Neither appears to have had a clear idea of what they wanted and fed of each other until all there respective bits and pieces seemed to fit together. Being purposely enigmatic and leaving the story open to interpretation is one thing, but just shoving in things that look good on screen but make no sense is just plain lazy.

A great movie from Ridley Scott

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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.