I'd say the uncropped version stirs the mind. Let's count the tanks he stopped, wow! Also, why didn't they all just drive around him? Whereas the famous (cropped) version stirs the heart. It's much more a personal encounter, a showdown. Cuts away the extraneous, distracting details, and distills the image to the State…

After reading your post, I have to admit, I'm still a little miffed about the helmets-off business. My complaint rests on the fact removal of the helmets in no way furthered the plot. In fact, the one death that involved a helmet at all was the one where the alien somehow melted through it. Scott could have given a…

Very astute, thanks.

If the Engineer's DNA is human, how come he is so different? Is he like a Liger or a Tigon? An Enginuman?

Aliens from the other films take on some physical features of their hosts (bipedal humanoid in Alien/ Aliens, quadrupedal and dog-like in Alien 3, and then that human/alien hybrid thing in 4). So, why wasn't the alien extracted from Dr. Shaw in Prometheus humanoid, but squid-like with tentacles instead?

Here's a question: Why should I have to buy the DVD to watch the entirety of the film, including the 20-30min that the director felt should never have been cut? Did somebody think fans wouldn't want to sit in a theater for 2.5hrs to see a Ridley Scott Alien prequel?

I get goosebumps thinking about how, one day in the distant future, children will visit a museum with their parents and look on Curiosity with awe - maybe on Earth, maybe on Mars. I'm 30 years old now, and I remember how I felt visiting the Air and Space Museum in DC as a child with my mother; and how I felt just a…

Welcome. Great book, btw, worth a read.

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Shooting myself out of a giant railgun is just about as terrifying to me as strapping myself to a liquid fuel rocket.

If we had found fossil fuels on the moon, you'd better believed that NASA would have sent a team of astrobiologists already.

SpaceEx

Orbital freight elevators.

This one, too.

Awesome. Reminds me of this fantastic scene from Jeunet's "Delicatessen".

The issue of objectifying women is a serious issue. The rest of this "I have to stand and meet people, so difficult!"-business is a big joke. To add insult to injury, they interview a model who gets paid 2-3x more than her colleagues for this grueling 30min:10min standing/sitting ratio. Most of all, IT World would…

Definitely one of the franchise's strengths. And even after events inform us that the shit has really hit the fan, some 45min into the film, the suspense is perpetuated by receiving only fleeting glimpses of the source of terror, the alien(s). Scott and Cameron really harnessed an understanding of high-brow…

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I appreciate Tim's thoughtful review, although I'm surprised that, for all it's praise, the film garnered nothing more than a 'B'.

Okay, you're right; I apologize.