Aside from everything else wrong with Promethius, it also contradicts Alien (and Aliens) by introducing the space jockey, its chamber and the entire “croissant,” ugh, appearing as is - with all of the ribbony, gooey Geiger-esque environment appearing as it must have been first designed, as machinery. Alien hinted (and…

The Engineer is the worst possible retcon of the Space Jockey. The Space Jockey is biomechanical and one with the ship and totally alien; however, the Engineer is a big humanoid alien—aliens seeding earth that look like humans—OH YEAH I’VE SEEN THAT ON TNG: The Chase.

Devil’s advocate: there are plenty of real animals that grow until they die, with older specimens being twice as large or larger than other sexually mature adults. Just because the Engineers look humanoid doesn’t mean they have a mamillian life cycle.

Yeah I always thought they were peaceful explorers who got unlucky and picked up the parasite.

Several of the alien novels featured the Engineers as 20 foot tall ish elephant-like humanoids. I think of Prometheus as being....a completely unrelated universe, honestly

The whole reason why The Sinister Six movie is even a figment of anyone’s imagination is because of the desperation that is Sony. These guys would kill to get a “tentpole franchise” other than Spider-Man.

The theater doesn’t make any money off of the movie tickets (very little anyway). Movie theaters make their money on the concessions. Most of the money you spend on the tickets goes to the studios. So yes, asking for a refund on your ticket is perfectly acceptable if you're looking to stick it to the studios.

Yeah that was an ALIEN, biomechanically fused to his chair and they even mention that there’s some kind of biomechanical process going on with the aliens. Before they introduced the queen in Aliens, some tought that the ship might be producing the eggs (the lower chamber is full of holes along the walls).

A copyright holder could indeed sue “every mom and dad who decides to make a Halloween costume of a copyrighted character for their child instead of buying it from the store” if it so chose. The Halloween costume situation would, in fact, be a pretty good example of a noncommercial use that is probably not protected…

Yeah, I was going to say, not only did Scott never say anything prior to Prometheus along the lines of “I always thought of the Alien as kind of a piece of bacterial warfare,” he also never thought of the Space Jockey as anything but a giant, petrified alien. It’s what the screenplay said, it’s what he’s always said…

That shot was so creepy and weird and fascinating. I waited YEARS to find out what the story behind that strange alien was, and the finished result was so stupid and disappointing. Forget retconning Alien, I want Prometheus 2 to retcon Prometheus 1.

Under copyright law, there is room allowed for “Fair Use”. That is where all the non-profit, personal use comes in, including fan fiction.

That seems plausible. If DC/WB already entered into an exclusive license with another party for making replicas, it could easily be a breach of the license agreement for them to allow any other sellers to operate in the licensed territory.

Yes he was selling the replicas. If you go to his website now all you can look at is the replica Munster car he built. Compared to a few days ago when you could email them to built a Batmobile.

Definitely not just you. This article is the first time I’ve seen anyone express excitement or even desire for a Sinister Six film.

Between the “anticipated for years” and “Marvel loves Goddard” this feels like it was written by Goddards PR team.

When I took my oral exam, a member of the committee’s wife was involved in studying this... definitely a founder effect.

Oh ffs. You’re completely right. I really wish they’d just cast an up-and-coming Native actor as Tonto. :(

I did laugh at the this line

...up until the moment they’re all slaughtered in movie that’s otherwise a comedy.