According to The Guardian, who references a “supposed” interview with FilmFutter, director Ridley Scott spoke about connecting the Prometheus saga with his original 1979 classic sci-fi horror Alien. (I myself do not read German and so can’t speak to the credibility of this article). Prometheus of course started life as an Alien prequel, then Scott claimed that it had evolved into …

Prometheus. A silly prequel with some superb technical work done to make it such an odd film. There’s no denying that Prometheus dropped the ball in quite a few departments, but when it came to world-building, the film was actually damn good at that. So good in fact, that I’d like to see a sequel, which would be a second …

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I don’t envy director Neill Blomkamp right now. Hitting Hollywood hard with District 9, the helmer has had two flops since then in the form of Elysium and Chappie. Now, with his his plans for a fifth Alien film he’s got to juggle not only some high fan expectations, but a franchise that hasn’t seen a proper sequel for close to …

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Prometheus was a controversial movie, but there is little consensus on what people hated. Last Updated: November 21, 2014

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Although it was brilliant on a visual level, Prometheus fell short, banged its head and had to wear a safety helmet for the rest of its life in the scripting department. There are some mind-staggeringly stupid sections in the film, such as failing to run in a diagonal direction before a space donut crashes you, or attempting to make friends …