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Just posted this in the DVD forum, but it's probably more appropriate here;
Watched a bunch of the extras over the weekend, but havent watched the making of yet.
Loving the deleted scenes to be honest. Id heard rumblings that they didnt really add much and that was probably why they were not being used to create a new cut, however, I thought some really did add to certain characters. The scene between Vickers and Janek was really good and added a more human element to Vickers, and gave a more natural feel to Janek's realisation of what was happening.The first discovery of life by Milburn was good too, and makes his actions later in the movie (when confronted with the xeno-cobra thingy) seem more plausible. The slight extension of drunk Holloway arguing with Shaw was pretty good as again, it gives a few more hints of how characters (in particular Shaw) is piecing together things. I lived the extended Vickers ad Weyland chat, and it was nice to hear her reference Holloways mutant sperm monster in the next room. The extended confrontation between Weyland and The Engineer just felt better too, and the finale as he stalks Shaw in the lifepod and her fight with him was much, much better than what was in the final cut. All things that I thought coulve improved things in the movie,it would still have had issues, but a few beats here and there wouldve helped. One alternate scene that I preferred that I didnt expect to, was the CG version of the Fifield beast. I never thought I'd be preferring CG over pravtical effects and make up, but the beast here felt much more 'Alien' and seemed to fit better with the feel of the rest creature design, and as the CG beastie bounced around it felt much stranger, more Alien-like and didnt feel like a stuntman bouncing round on wires. I was really surprised to prefer that! All in all, it's a good set of additional scenes and could help miprove things. I liked em.
Watched the film again too (in 2D) and it is a great, great transfer, it looks superb. Surely reference quality? I still have issues with the film, but as before, they're more to do with how certain characters act and are written, than with the overall plot of the film and how it fits into the Alien universe (I think it does that really, really well!). I never really had a problem with the open ending or with the number of unanswered questions that a lot of people did, I'm really glad it didnt just try to take away all that mystery of the Space Jockeys and where the Xeno we know and love comes from, and it never tries to tell the story of the derelict. That wouldve been a mistake in my opinion, so for Pronmetheus to take that universe and expand it, to give hints at where the Xeno comes from, to start to show that evolution of it and to keep those ideas reproduction, infection and fertilisation present from 'Alien' was a really good idea. Ridley Scott's explanation of how Prometheus holds 'strands of DNA' with the Alien movies was so, so accurate. Flawed, but still brilliant and, in my opinion, better than most movies released during the Summer season.
I'd still lvoe to see a Directors Cut with some of the deleted scenes re-inserted. I'd also wager that there are more alternative/deleted scenes, so it could still be a possibility. Plus, I'd love them to redo the score, it's such a pain and only works during one or two scenes. It really annoys me. They really should do a Directors/Extended Cut and redo the score as they did with Troy.
I'll have to give the deleted scenes a watch later. The Fifield thing sounds interesting. Agreed on the blu-ray quality aswell, fantastic transfer.
Adding layers to the Alien universe in the way they have is brilliant, I love all the mystery and unanswered questions, I don't need or want everything explained away in 2 hours. I like thinking about all the ideas and hints Prometheus throws at us, it's why I liked Lost (although 6 seasons of unanswered questions is taking the piss!) and theres a real sense of wonder that I don't think many other sci-fi films have managed to capture.
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