Welcome back to Part 2 of Living up to the Hype, and in this installment I’ll be taking a look at the prequel to one of the most popular Science-Fiction franchises of all time: Prometheus The Hype The Alien Franchise has seen better days, taking hits in the form of Alien 3, Alien Resurrection and the less said [...]
This is a list of the most soul-destroying cinematic disappointments to befall multiplexes in recent memory. The kind of movies that were eagerly anticipated, yet ended up being massive let-downs… 10. Reign Of Fire (2002) Back in 2002, all me and my friends could talk about was this post-apocalyptic action adventure about dragons taking [...]
Saturday July 30th 2011 is a day we’ll always remember. It’s the day we started our relationship and the day we saw our first film together. So, what better way to celebrate our anniversary than to divulge to literally tens of people what that film means to us? The film was James Cameron’s sci-fi masterpiece, [...]
The latest Prometheus viral video has just been released, and this time Noomi Rapace’s Elizabeth Shaw is the focus. So what have we learned? Aside from the impending feeling of doom and the end of all things, we discover Shaw has been desperate to get in touch with Weyland (Guy Pearce) and after a month [...]
The US opening weekend for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus was a solid $50m, going up against family friendly sequel Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted was always going to be tough so sadly no number one spot for the sort of (but really not, or is it?) prequel to Alien. For an ‘R’ rated movie that’s marketed [...]
