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Ditto. Mine arrived today but take it yours is from US as mine lacks the DVD copy and has a different colour sticker on the slipcase? When you planning on rewatching it?

(Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 11:47 PM)

This is one of the best looking movies I have ever put on my TV. It makes a great demo for my home theater. The special features disc is great, and the commentaries clarify a lot of the confusing elements of the movie.

It's a shame the movie itself isn't better (it's not bad, though).

(Posted on Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 3:00 AM)

Re: Robert:

"...the commentaries clarify a lot of the confusing elements of the movie."

This must be one hell of an informative commentary to make sense of that script :)

I'm really looking forward to hearing the Scott track as his are always great but I'm very interested to hear script writers Spaihts and Lindelof clarify just what the hell they were thinking: especially in light of the fact several aspects of Spaihts first script (pre-Lindelof) tinkering) sounded superior in bringing about several of the films key developments.

(Posted on Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 7:15 AM)

Yes, the commentaries are very informative, and tell us exactly what the writers' intentions were at the time. They tell us which plot elements are supposed to be ambiguous, and which ones aren't. In fact, the commentaries made me warm up to this movie a bit more, even though viewers shouldn't have to rely on a commentary to make sense of a movie.

But yeah, as far as extras go, this is one of the best Blu Ray sets you will find.

(Posted on Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 6:02 PM)

I haven't seen the film but i wonder if we will see an extended cut, so much left out, it's made $400 million worldwide and a sequel is in the works, this one was specifically filmed in 3D and i'd like to see it in that format, please let me know how well it works when watching in 2D.

(Posted on Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 6:51 PM)

Regarding the 2D/3D differences, i was thinking more along the lines that since Mr Scott shot this for 3D that some of the camera angles and certain shots might not work as well when viewed in 2D, having said that i did watch Avatar in 2D and had no problem with it.

(Posted on Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 8:39 PM)

I was thinking you could probably watch in 2D and check out some of the camera angles, maybe tell from the 2D edition if shots aren't looking so good when viewed in 2D, i think Ridley probably shot it with depth in mind, i personally prefer depth with some pop out moments to my 3D films.

(Posted on Friday, October 12, 2012 at 7:28 PM)

It looks great but there is a lot sharpening/edge-enhancement which I noticed in a lot of scenes - hope that isn't creeping back in to disc production. It must be more noticeable on big screens.

(Posted on Saturday, October 13, 2012 at 8:44 AM)

I didn't see this in the theatre and hired the disc for a night so don't have a copy to hand, but as I recall it looked like edge-enhancement around David's head during the early scenes where he is alone and walking among the sleeping crew. As usual, if edge-enhancement is present it can be seen when a figure is high-lighted against bright overhead lighting. If it is indeed something in the photography it would be a relief.

(Posted on Saturday, October 13, 2012 at 2:00 PM)

I doubt it's in the photography, more likely applied to the digital intermediate as i doubt Fox sharpened it for the home.

(Posted on Saturday, October 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM)

I confess my set is not calibrated but until now I believed it did not add sharpening effects to image, good transfers usually look good on my display. But if you cannot see it on your display I will take it that it probably is mine which is in some way faulty.

(Posted on Saturday, October 13, 2012 at 8:20 PM)

I can't honestly believe there is any sharpening in the picture. Although this movie was finished in 2K, it was shot on the RED Epic camera. That's 5K and a hell of a lot of MTF resolution. There would be no need to edge enhance anything.

(Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2012 at 6:32 AM)

Watched the 2D Blu-ray of this last night and the image transfer looked nothing short of spectacular: more vivid and defined than I remember the projected image of the film being when I saw it at the cinema.

(Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2012 at 7:40 AM)

I watched the entire FURIOUS GODS documentary the other night... aside from the hour or so of every part of the cast and crew stopping to fellate Ridley Scott and see how many times they could use the word "vision", I thought it was pretty good. :P

Fascinating to see the cliff-notes version of it having, indeed, been conceived from the start as ALIEN 01 (as written by Spaiths), but that it was quickly marginalized into a new species entirely by Lindelof. Having read some interviews with the former where he talks about many of the things dropped from the finished film, I feel like a lot of the beats in the finished PROMETHEUS had their genesis in a context that would lead right back into Alien almost seamlessly, but the higher-ups at Fox decided a new franchise with just enough fanservice to Xenomorph fans could be milked even better.

Don't get me wrong, when PROMETHEUS is actually carving its own path as a psuedo-religious symbolic Science Fiction story, it's actually pretty cool. It's just too bad it keeps reminding fans of the franchise that spawned it how painfully close it was to actually explaining the Xenomorphs existence, instead of merely teasing us with further questions that actually make the original film make even less sense for it.

(Posted on Monday, October 15, 2012 at 3:29 AM)