Girish’s Galactic Goulash #7

Movie News:

Madagascar 3 tops US Bok office with $60.5 mil and Prometheus in second with $50mil

Bill Murray has teased that he may do Ghostbusters 3.

The Inbetweeners is finally getting a US release date, 7th September.

Dirty Dancing, has been delayed for a year.

Abbie Cornish may be connected to Robocop re-make.

Some new footage from ‘Return of the Jedi‘ behind-the-scenes. Here it is:

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter  gets a 15 certificate and will run for 105 mins.

Phillip Seymor Hoffman may be connected to Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

New TV Promo spot for The Dark Knight Rises:

Hasbro announces Super Helicarrier as a comic.

Disney has made a pitch for ‘Stuff of Legend’ movie. It would be directed by Pete Candleland.

‘Gone With the Wind’ actress Ann Rutherford dies as 94.

Ray Winstone offered a villain role in Darren Arnofsky’s ‘Noah’.

Spider-man may be in The Avengers 2.

Penelope Cruz confirmed for Ridley Scott‘s  “The Counselor”.

Anton yelchin joins Vampire movie ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’.

Disney’s new movie Frozen, based on Christian Anderson’s ‘The Snow Queen’. It’s being directed by Chris Buck and will feature the voices of Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel. It hits theaters November 2013.

Bad Robot producing Nazi-Hunting Thriller Wunderkind.

Paramount and Bad Robot pick-up Sci-fi movie ‘God Particle’.

Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Costner may join Tom Cruise in ‘Magnificent Seven’ remake.

Bill Paxton may join Mark Walberg and Danzel Washington in 2 Guns.

Will Smith may not appear in ‘I am Legend 2‘.

Pedro Almodovar’s ‘The Standby Lovers’ will team Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz.

Charlize Theron in talks to star in John Madden’s ‘Murder Mystery’.

Amy Rand and Dane NeHaan up for Devil’s Knot.

Hugh Laurie has joined Robocop as new villain.

Warner Bros gets Puss in boots writer to re-write Mandrake the Magician.

Steven Speilbergs E.T. Sequel to feature carnivorous aliens.

Joe Cornish to direct Snow Crash adaptation.

New image from Prometheus shows previously unseen picture of Engineers.

Full trailer for Resident Evil: Retribution:

Jonah Hill joins Tarentino’s Django Unchained.

Scorcese’s ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ looks to add Jean Dujardin.

New TV Spot for The Mazing Spider-Man:

Noah Openhiem hired to scrip new ‘1984’

TV News:

A new Doctor Who image:

New trailer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 5:

New Promo for Fringe Season 5:

30 Rock is back October 4th.

Jenny Jordan will join Smash for the second season.

HBO picks up new spy drama called ‘The Missionary’

First picture from Marilyn Munster from  Mockingbird Lane:

Weeds season 8 will be its last season.

British Cult Comedy ‘The Comic Strip’ to return.

Jeanna Triplehorn joins Criminal Minds  as series regular.

New on Galactica:

Light Sabers vs Phasers.

Answering the Unanswered: A Prometheus Inititive.

Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1

Spider-Men Issue #1

Tron: Uprising S01E03

Movie Review: Shanghai

Movie Review: Prometheus (3D)

Meredith: Son of a Bitch! They were right!

I’ve added two posters as I couldn’t decide which was better!

Director:

Ridley Scott

Producer:

Ridley Scott, David Giler & Walter Hill

Writer:

Jon Spaihts & Damon Lindelof

Cast:

Noomi Rapace as Elizabeth Shaw

Michael Fassbender as David

Guy Pearce as Peter Weyland

Charlize Theron as Meredith Vickers

Idris Elba as Janek

Logan Marshall-Green as Charlie Holloway

Rafe Spall as Milburn

Sean Harris as Fifield

Music:

Marc Streitenfeld

Story:

A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

Review:

Ridley Scott, in 1979, changed the meaning of monster. In the dictionary, you’d see a picture of a Xenomorph against the word Scary. He took haunted house genre to a whole new dimension (and solar system). Here Ellen Ripley was hunted by an Alien. This movie spawned 3 sequels (Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection). And now, 33 years later, Ridley returns to sci-fi and to the Alien Universe with Prometheus.

Prometheus starts of with a prologue, showing us a scene of a beautiful landscape, which I think is ancient earth. A large humanoid thing drinks something from a cup and dives in to the waterfall. This, I feel, was an awesome start to the movie. We then flash forward to 2089, where Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Hollaway are discovering the pictograms.

On Prometheus, we see the whole crew in hypersleep and David, the android, is watching Lawrence of Arabia. Then as we reach LV 223, Charlize Theron’s character has woken up and she instructs David to wake the others up. Then when we reach the planet, the fun starts. They see a large pyramid kind of structure. Its origins is unknown but it’s hollow on the inside. So, the team ventures into it, to find the makers of mankind.  But what they find could just be their end.

David finds a mysterious pane, which on activation shows a hologram of large aliens running and one getting decapitated. As they follow the hologram, they find the body of the alien, and when David opens the door, they find the head. Along with the head they find a large statue has features resembling that of Humans. They also find some canisters. Shaw then takes the head back to Prometheus. Where, they realize that the alien is wearing a helmet. Which on removing, reveals a human like face. And it is then that they realize that they have found their makers!

The whole pyramid thing, reminded me of the one in AVP, and this was so beautifully constructed. The canisters with the black liquid oozing out and the large head, was amazing. The later we see two crew members being attacked by what I’m assuming is a pre-face hugger, or what I’d like to cal finger hugger. The whole movie, gets interesting from there on out.

Charlize Theron acts so well. She carried out the role of Meredith. She was so cold and mean, that I actually thought she was a robot. But Fassbender does an AWESOME job as David the android. He and Meredith, have ulterior motives. We find out later in the movie that Peter Weyland is still alive and in hypersleep. He has actually come here to see mankind’s makers.

The large humanoid aliens, our makers, were so awesome. They were large and looked scary too. The SFX in the movie were too good. And Noomi Rapace acted nicely for her first lead role post-millennium series. The 3D effect just enhances your experience of the movie. And the insta-pregnancy of Elizabeth Shaw, and her removing the alien out was an awesome scene too. But then, the alien that she removes, turns out to be alive.

When David reveals that there is actually an Alien still alive, Peter is killed when they open it and then it turns out that they were standing in the ship of the alien, which is on a course to earth to destroy it. After crashing the aliens space craft, it still is alive and hunts Elizabeth Shaw. And in the end Elizabeths baby, which is now fully grown, crushes it.

Then David, whose head was ripped off by the alien, tells Shaw that there are other ships as well, which he can pilot. She then asks if he can pilot them to the planet of the makers. I found only one problem in this movie. This takes place before Alien right? So how does Prometheus have more advanced technology than the ship in Aliens?

The end of the movie where a baby Xenomorph, rips through the aliens chest, after it was planted by large Octopus-alien thing.

Other than that it is a very good movie!

 

Final Verdict:

8.5/10