Out of Pod Experience

lol fair enough...your gonna force me to watch something there tonight. Maybe I can catch that Thor movie OMG lol.

I agree. There was a time when Sci Fi was something to watch, not this syfy stuff. They had good shows and series at the time, now the focus more on the c-level movies.

I finally got around to watch Prometheus. It was OK, as far as new movies goes. But I think it tired to do too much, in too little time. I never really got a feel for the characters, and the different alien things did not really make a whole lot of sense. I think it could have been better if they used 3-4 hours with the same content, but actually fletched out the details a bit. I mean, they land on an alien world, and the first thing they do is rampage through some ruins and touch and open everything they find? What are these people, idiots? Simply not believable characters.

Also, I could not stand the focus on religion in the ending there. Scientists in 2089 still believing in religion? Too far fetched :)

Read more Arthur C. Clarke. He makes some interesting cases for the survival of religion into the far future.

Pretty much covers it, Cube and Event Horizon are vastly underrated, I would add the original Star Wars trilogy and The Black Hole.

I watched Capt. America and Thor. Once was quite enough for me. Just an average run of the mil action move kind of thing. However, I have watched the original SW movies quite a few times :)

I have seen Alien a few times as well, no new movie really manages to capture that same essence. But The Man from Earth was quite good, seen it two times I think.

It after a while starts to look as if Arnold was a Sci Fi mainstay. Terminator series, Predator, Total Recall, Running Man, The 6th Day...

That's what Jon Spaihts's original script was about (nicknamed Alien 'Zero'), then Scott brought in Lindelof for a re-write. Scott wanted Prometheus to be more about the "guy in the big chair", i.e. the Space Jockey/Engineers.
For those who are fans of the film:

Prometheus deleted scenes 1: http://www.novamov.com/video/r6p9rl56le7n0
Prometheus deleted scenes 2: http://www.sockshare.com/file/B0B569A1F19AF2DB
Much extended Ted 2023 talk: http://vimeo.com/50383392#at=0

Summary: Engineer converses w/David, Shaw fights Engineer w/axe, David tells Shaw Engineers are from "Paradise", she wants to go, crew finds worm on first trip to temple and bottles it, alternate Fifield attack scene, Janek conversation w/Vickers in her quarters.

Highly recommend anybody interested in Spaihts's work to check out the scripts for Passengers and Shadow 19.

First is about a man who wakes up out of stasis on a colonist ship on an 80-year voyage, wakes up a beautiful woman, and...

Second is about a soldier who is teleported by scientists from a location on Earth to an incredibly biodiverse planet with extremely deadly wildlife to fix what goes wrong with a failed colonizing effort, in a process that actually clones him there while leaving his original behind.

Passengers: http://www.whoaisnotme.net/scripts/PSG_xx_UD.pdf
Shadow 19: http://www.whoaisnotme.net/scripts/S19_2006_3D.pdf

Sadly, the script for Alien 'Zero' isn't yet publicly available.

And those deleted scenes would have made the movie much more cohesive to the Alien series.

I'm gonna shout out in agreement with this guy right here, but will say the only science-fiction film I see as being better / equal to Brazil is 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Also to all the people throwing out miscellaneous B-movies, where the **** is Spacehunter???