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Nice catch and good pics- I need to re watch BR and look forward to the new one.

'Just Ordered Prometheus in 4K' - Awesome! :)

One of my favorite scenes in the hissstory of cinema!

Just Ordered Prometheus in 4K.

I Moon Girl - Thank you for your ideas.

daliens - Thank you! :D

Ingeniero - 'I provide an empty canvas for Ati to make worthy.'

You are a treasure! :D :D

Ingeniero - I'm glad you included the stills which reveal that the computer shows the lines and the domes first. :)

I have to say though, that would be one unpleasant way to die inhaling melting plastic covered in acid. Burning and suffocating across your eyes, throat + the horror of it.

Take it from someone who works with concentrated acids on a daily basis it, the shit is nasty, slower burning that you think (to start) but incredibly painful - like a cold frostbite kind of burn around it + sharp stinging on the exposure site.   

So it is, thank you Ati :) Must just be lighting in some spots that is throwing me off. 

I didn't think Ridley would let something like that slip, hes very particular about continuity errors.

IRaptus - His helmet is broken:

Super hero kid movies are like a bad laxative- they just don't move me.

Thank you IRaptus and Ati. Yes, I thought the deleted scene was great too and the CGI was nice (better mutation) dk. This, to myself, was much more impressive than what went into the theater cut with the burnt face.

I watched GoTG 1 and it was ok as popcorn flick but agreed its marketed for kids/teens. Much like the Transformers and Avengers films they are appealing for their bombastic special effects, sounds and quirky silly characters and two dimensions antagonists.

Fun to watch but only skin-deep. Pure entertainment films. Much like the AVPs minus the entertainment rofl. 

IRaptus - I did not see your comment, but you got the answer. :D

I actually enjoyed that deleted scene and thought the CGI was great!

Ingeniero - Brilliant short story! :D

Let me add my favourite Fifield image, the CGI Fifield. It's a huge mistake that this version appears only in the deleted files.

Prometheus - Fifield Xenomorph Mutation (Deleted Scene):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ireq92-7Kk8

Ingeniero good stuff mate! One thing that bugged me with the theatrical release was that Fifield's helmet is in tact again when he returns to Prometheus.

At least in the deleted scene the face shield appeared to cling to his face/head like a transparent second skin??

Who would I hug goodbye? Captian Branson. I (for some reason) am a pretty big James Franco fan, so a send-off before his cameo death in Covenant seems right to me.

Yeah- I know nothing about the movie and really don't care. Just looking at the dvd box, it looks like super hero kid's movie. A Dog's Life seems infinitely more interesting to me.

Slipping in blood is pretty realistic as blood is actually very slick.

I think it's just... different eras. What we saw in Alien wasn't necessarily what Scott saw when he imagined the future and spaceships. He did work out that aesthetic and thought it was a good one, but Alien was one of those movies that were made ahead of it's time. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't trade anything in the world for Alien as it is (my favorite film!) I just think that Scott had so much he wanted to do visually with the story, that one of the reasons he went back into it with the prequels, is to realize that vision. He obviously wanted to do something very different and give it a different gravitas or meaning. Or, add to the meaning as well. 

The main reason I love Alien is the set design, so I love how it is, but I just feel like Scott had a lot of ideas in his mind that he could not do back then (like, a LOT). That is why we see so many recycled and reworked ideas either considered, or actually put into Prometheus and Covenant. 

I think when the prequels began, a lot of us thought that he would go back to those designs and just make it, somehow BETTER. Updated, but still like what we first saw, mostly. Instead, he went more what he wanted to do originally. 

Timmy the ultramorph - 'will cut out the part were ferris slips in blood'

No problem with that scene, anybody can produce similar and way much more ridiculous actions in emergency situations.

dk - I'm bashing gotg 2 - it's unwatchable. To be more precise, it's a movie for children...

That sounds very ambitious and interesting. You might want to PM admin on that regarding posting it here.

dk - Good idea! It exists!

You can watch Final Destination 3 this way:

on a seperate topic, I am currently making a fan edit of alien covenant and when I was done, i was wondering if i could show it on this forum. would it be considered copyright?

it will include every deleted and extended scene on the blue ray, will cut out the part were ferris slips in blood, will add the last supper clip, the lunar audi quatro clip edited together with some of the she won't go quietly footage during the xenomorph hunt at the end, have the crossing included in the david flashback, cut out the neomorph entering the engineer temple before it kills that lady, slow down the opening title a bit for dramatic effect, use some of the vr footage of alien covenant in utero so we can get some inside of body shots with he backburster, replace on of the xenomorph Pov shots with the leaping xenomorph shot in red light, have most the meet walter footage right before the opening david scene, exept when he says that his name is walter providing the illusion that it is david that is being built, not walter,  and have the advent video as a post credits scene. its runtime will be around 2 hours and 25 minutes.

I think CGI is great, really. I agree with the sentiment that it needs to be done by the right people and it should be used mostly as additions to practical creatures/sets/effects when possible (because Covenant's creatures could have been better. They are good, but not great). 

Oddly enough though, the only shot I have a problem with in Covenant is when the Xeno goes down that ladder. I can nitpick the CGI slime that drips off of it as well, but that didn't kill me. I always thought that the Resurection CGI is even effective (for it's time) and I enjoy it! Alien 3, while it's a good film, is worse though. I know it wasn't CGI, it was some new technology they did with a puppet and what not, but for me, it takes me out of the movie everytime I see it, which isn't good for an Alien film. It is subjective though. Evidenced by the fact that I like the Covenant CGI Aliens! 

I welcome the CGI, but I do agree going more practical would be cool as well. It's funny with Ridley Scott, Alien seems like an outlier at this point. We know that Alien was spooky because of the limited technology and the Alien had to hide in the shadows. I get the feeling (from watching Covenant) that if he could have, the Alien encounters would have been more animamlistic and out in the open in Alien, as they were in Covenant. I almost feel like I give them TOO much credit for working with what they had back then. I mean, in reality they deserve that credit, but you know. 

AC might be a word of mouth creeper. I was just at a grocery store and it was stocked with GOTG discs and zero AC discs. I am not bashing GOTG but I think it may not be long before I can get a less than $10 copy at a Wal Mart bargain bin soon just because so many copies were made.

Thank you dk. I love this stuff.

Thank you for the kind words contributors. I bet watching Prometheus after Alien: Covenant was a real treat Farlander. My thoughts too regarding the lines drucea.

Yes drucea. A few of us were very excited when the gold-topped structures showed up in the trailers and we discussed the significance earlier in the year. Thank you for citing it again. 

BigDave, chli, and I (and others) discussed this a while back in regards to the gold structures and what they were (energy source, weapon, artwork).

BigDave wrote:

"I think the City has a Ancient look, that may be modernized in some areas.

A bit like Yazd in Iran, or even Ancient Quarter of Jerusalem"

Thank you BigDave for every comment.

@dk

"Personally, questions like this invite some interesting discussions at times imo."

Ok, ok, dk I admit you're right. Actually 99% of the stuff I say is meta and introspective. I just like griping.

Sorry, ScorpioStar. Good topic. Upvoted.

Nice narrative and pics.

@dk well thank you very much.

And yes there is indeed an alien reference from Shrek 2 when Puss attacks Shrek.

@dk, once again, perfect :)

Personally, questions like this invite some interesting discussions at times imo.

Is this what we're gonna do? We're gonna get all meta and introspective?

dk pretty much hit the nail on the head.

Why do we care so much? Because it's fun to! :)

@red0guy@gmail.com

"It seems that I would fail a reverse Voigt-Kampff test."

Well, I guess that's because you're a human being...and I'm a robot.

[My husband has speculated that David probably said this (a reversal of what Shaw said to him at the end of Prometheus) to Shaw while he was medically torturing her. :) ]

Again, though, it's just for the viewer's benefit. An actual Terminator wouldn't want or need to see rasterised Latin script assembly language instructions or words like 'Match' written in front of his eyes, any more than your alarm clock would need to read the time on its display before it wakes you up!

It's nicely done, though.

MonsterZero I'd love to see Alien3 with new CGI! Even A L I E N would be cool..

I am not sure about that. I remember being thoroughly disappointed when Lucas "updated" Star Wars and Empire. I don't think one can even find a dvd of the unedited versions. I will never forgive him for that.

I agree that it is an absolutly perfect movie. however there is ONE shot in the movie that is not perfect to me. it is when the xenomogph gets blown out of the ship. you can just tell it is a person in a suit. other than that, probably the best sci fi film of all time. if your wondering, here is my list of greatest sci fi films ever.

1: alien

2: blade runner

3: Alien 3

4: 2001. a space oddessy.

5: terminator 2 judgment day

6: inception

7: empire strikes back

8: the matrix

9: jurrsic park

10: aliens.

(honerable mentions include: prometheous, mad max fury road, the terminator, district 9, robocop, wall-e, alien covenant, akira, and ghost in the shell 1995.