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I just re-listened to the Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection commentaries this week. I REALLY hope you commentate all over Prometheus, and I hope you bring Eddie and Matt in for it. You guys were all hopeful about the potential of the prequel(s) when you were doing Resurrection, and now I want Eddie to hate-rape the squandering of that potential.
I don't know Eddie's feelings on it, but I am definitely calling dibs on a seat during the PROMETHEUS comm. All sorts of new ones shall be torn.
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Oh gods, can the Prometheus commentary be on a Saturday US time? I want to hate fuck that movie from the chat room.
I suppose I should post an update for the purposes of intellectual honesty, and let everyone know that the day after we recorded this (about a month ago), I got a gig that I'm still at for the next week or so. So it's not exactly the dregs, as Paulou said, if you're VFXin.'
As for Prometheus, ugh. I hate DIFing movies I liked that everyone else hated. I'll just sit there quietly. Which might be necessary anyway, if there's gonna be eight people on mic.
maybe put Prometheus on the calendar for March 16,2013. That's just before my birthday. 
Ya, Prometheus has to be done. The Phantom Menace comparisons are almost accurate, except that Prometheus actually has some extremely strong visual and directorial choices, which just makes the discontinuity with how awful the screenplay is even stronger. My hate for that movie has been growing exponentially with time.
I wouldn't have thought this initially, but it's probably actually worse than Alien 3, which while being a terrible sequel, is at least a consistent and successful genre movie if you ignore the Aliens connection.
With Prometheus being the first movie in a trilogy (according to a 1min google) could the hate be premature if/when the following parts turn all the 
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You mean the way the rest of the prequel trilogy totally redeemed Phantom Menace? Ya, I'm not holding my breath (although they're dumping Lindelof from the sequel, so maybe they realized how much he fucked up and will get someone to fix it)
^^ I guarantee you that was not a major reason anyone disliked Menace. If it was a good movie people wouldn't give much of a shit about that continuity flaw, and the sequels sure as shit didn't make people retro-actively like the first one. Similarly, Prometheus hate has nothing to do with series continuity, but with the standalone quality of the film.
Scott shares some blame, but the vagueness of the script (which is what Lindelof tries to pin on Ridley in that interview) isn't why the script sucks, in fact it's probably a good choice given the huge unanswerable questions being dealt with. The problems are completely disconnected scenes, with really obviously bizarro character continuity and decisions, that any half-decent screenwriter would have spotted and fixed.
Anyhow, I digress, don't know why we're even on this tangent in this thread.
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And honestly, just for discussions sake, it's good to have at least one person defending the movie being done
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