Advanced screening reaction tweets - discussion w/ only links to **SPOILERS**

I honestly can't see how anyone thinks this is legit

You're all just trying to trick yourselves into being surprised on opening day now that you've read the spoiler and ruined it.

***POSSIBLE SPOILERS*** If anyone's interested, Guillermo Del Toro is apparently coming to grips with the fact that his film version of H.P. Lovecraft's 'At The Mountains Of Madness' may never come to pass. Why? Because PROMETHEUS is "Same premise. Scenes that would be almost identical.". Read it here: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=89939 Put the actual H.P. Lovecraft story itself ( synopsis here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_Madness#Plot_summary )together with what we already know about PROMETHEUS from the trailers and speculation and, well, you can piece it all together for yourself. What I got from it all is that this flick is going to be extremely cool and justifying my anticipation for it! And from what I can tell, it sounds very very similar to a rathe rlengthy plot summary I read earlier on this site. Anyway, hope this is of interest to someone....

thanks for your opinions, I can hear that. However, don't get me wrong, but no one has yet brought up any factual element that would play against her tweets. I find it quite reassuring that her story is made up of everything we see in the trailers, cause I'm pretty sure that in the end, the stuff we see in the trailers also happens to be what the movie is made of ;) Seriously, I'm really after hearing as much opinions as we can get for it gives us a temperature of people's feelings. But saying 'FAKE!' or even 'I think it's fake' won't do much to change anyone's mind. As I sayed, I'm tempted to believe it for after starting to gather all the latest info over last 10 days and reading the bits of info spread in the holly magazine i keep telling about but still don't have with me, her version exactly matches the theory I was coming up with. Moreover, it's false that she's not introducing novel elements - or at least not-so-frequently-mentioned ones **SPOILERS** as in Vickers who wants her father Weyland out of the way [in line with what I have posted Theron said about her character] ; Weyland kicking David's butt [haven't read that elsewhere] etc etc... In the end, her version adds a bit of stuff to mine which makes sense with it ; and my version and info adds a bit of stuff where hers lacks details/depth/perspective... So I promise I'll do my best to post my stuff soon, as to me this all make a coherent, well supported whole. But even had she not seen the movie, let's say some of us like her theory and some don't, but nothing has yet come to prove it false...

I am calling B.S. on the Twitter spoilers. Back in the 90's, my girlfriend and I were invited to a test screening (NOT an "Advance Screening") of a movie. We didn't know what movie it was until we got to the theater and were seated. It was for a film called "Wings of the Dove." And yes, we were given cards with boxes to check off, and there was a Q&A afterwards inside the theater with the people who (I assume) were there from the production company or whoever. We were basically a focus group. The film we saw had no musical score yet, and the opening credits were basically crude title cards. I do not remember there being any closing credits. Interestingly, I remember that some of our negative reactions to certain scenes turned out to be exactly the reaction that the filmmakers must have been looking for, because I saw the final version of the film much later and they hadn't changed those scenes. But I digress... The point is this: that test screening took place MONTHS before the film was released - in fact it was far in advance of even the first trailers. If "Prometheus" already has its final rating (the R) then that means the final cut of the film has already been submitted to the Rating Board. They are the ones who would have theoretically said "OK if you want a PG/G/X/whatever, you'll need to cut this and this and this," and then Ridley could go back and edit it and present it again for whatever rating he was trying to get... or to get the R, or whatever. But they're not going to submit the film for its rating, GET a rating, and [i]then[/i] go back and do more test screenings to get audience reactions & see what they should cut, or change, or reshoot. That's not how it works. Now, it's possible that this person was at some kind of industry insider screening, or maybe at some kind of preview for the marketing department to come up with ideas on how to promote the film now that it has its final rating, but think about it: what industry insider is going to go Tweeting about the film's plot almost immediately after such a screening? It would be an insanely bad move for any number of reasons. So, yeah, I call B.S. The person posting that stuff on Twitter did not just see a test screening of Prometheus, and nobody anywhere has heard even a whisper of a rumor of any advance screenings being held. It's just another oddball looking for attention on the interwebs. Don't believe a word of it.

ok 4AM in Paris, end of posting and working altogether for today... Thanks for your inpue John D., interesting and balanced point you make. I'm not letting it go until I hear people's argument once I posted more info and my attempt at a plot outline, but what you say does make sense indeed. For those interested, Viscal just posted 2 more small screenshots of bits messages he later exchanged with the 'twiter-ess' about relations and action going on between David and Weyland... **SPOILERS** [url=http://i.imgur.com/gAyvn.png]here[/url] and [url=http://i.imgur.com/P7i79.jpg]here[/url] It's all on [url=http://www.prometheusforum.net/discussion/825/advance-prometheus-screening-reaction-spoilers/p21]page 21 of his thread[/url] Also, even if we're not all on the same wavelength, I'm glad to see my first thread seems to have caught some momentum, so thanks everyone for your feedback! see you guys later