Well, as for the Colonial Marines game, I suppose that confirms no acid blood. Looks awful repetitive.

I just read acid blood is a feature of the latest build. Marines will lose health if they get too close to an actively spraying xeno corpse.

Even big things have small beginnings ...


More images up at:
http://www.prometheusforum.net/discussion/533

And a well written essay on the ALIEN (I) movie. 2, in my book, was more akin to an extraterrestrial bughunt with the Level boss addition, and had little to the effect of the original movie in capturing the desolate despair of the chasm the Nostromo crew found itself in, which was supported by believable acting. Not to take away from Cameron, i liked Avatar, and Aliens is a entertaining movie in it's own right. Just less prone to provoce the sort of emotions and thoughts the original movie did. It´s not horror but more of an action movie.
http://www.prometheus-movie.com/articles/9

“[The] extreme end of science lies in the abyss: the Alien….Ash, the robot science officer, is ‘misrecognized’ as being human, that his ‘desire to know—the desire of science—is responsible for the entry of the Alien into the spacecraft,’ and that the ‘pure quest for knowledge results in evil’” (Schwartz 30). Dismembered for his subterfuge, Ash describes the threat they face as, “a perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility…a survivor, unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.” He admires what he sees as its purity. This assessment reflects his own identity and that of his superiors as the perfect organism he envisions. They become in their evolutionary eloquence that pure, unclouded survivor - an aggregate of faceless cogs in a Company that is as much a monster as the alien which stalks the crew of the Nostromo. “[The Alien] is in all respects a superior product of competitive evolution and resembles nothing so much as that other superorganism, itself victor in an evolutionary struggle: the multinational (soon to be interstellar) corporation. In the system of the narrative, the Alien is the double, we might say the biological analogue, of the Company”).

I have a feeling Prometheus will be along these lines, and i guess this is what Ridley ment by "scents of ALIEN DNA", and I like it.

Just to let you guys know, on Saturday night at 10 EST, Cinemax is showing Alien: The Directors Cut.

The strength of going from Alien to Aliens was that, unlike most movie franchises, both movies were very well made, they were completely different approaches and still managed to stay in the same universe perfectly. Most movies just rewrite the original, which doesn't do as much for the franchise as developing it with a different approach. Plus, you can be in different movie "moods" and enjoy one or the other.
I think that's how Prometheus will add to it all--by being different and not just a copy of any of the other movies in the universe.

Agreed. I think that's why the focus changed during production. Initially it was going to be a straight prequel and tie-in to "Alien" but along the way Scott made the creative decision to make Prometheus stand on its own and be more unique while still having the connection to Alien. Anyway, I am eagerly awaiting release day!

I wish I could be back to my 11 year old mindset, and be scared s***less again like that night in '79 when I first watched the original Alien. (Even though I could not understand all that happened until I was "brave" enough to watch it again in '86, before watching Aliens)

All I remember from the first time I watched it is Ripley in those tiny panties

+1

Best line ever in a movie.