Prometheus – Special Edition

I watched this edit again recently and felt I had to add another review.
Agent 9 has done some fantastic work adding in deleted scenes even going so far as completing the SFX on some which still required wire removal etc. The video quality is excellent.
I too felt that Fifield and Milburn receive more cuts than they deserved, their leaving the exploration team was so abrupt I actually said "What?" out loud.
I still feel the musical score was very overwhelming in some places, occasionally drowning out the characters or effects, but other than that there are no obvious audio flaws,
These gripes aside, I still enjoyed the edit far more than the original, and enjoyed it as a fanedit even more the second time around.

Keep up the great work Agent 9 ^_^

Being a big Alien fan the theatrical release of Prometheus was a disappointment, on second viewing I enjoyed it more, probably due to my expectations being somewhat lowered.

This edit improves on the theatrical release for me and I certainly enjoyed watching it.

The movie flows better and the inclusion or removal of certain scenes make more sense. I liked the color correction and the excellent work on bringing the deleted scenes up to release quality. The use of original Alien theme music was also welcome although overall I found the music soundtrack to overwhelm the vocals in several places.

Just finished watching the edit.
The technical side of it was certainly very strong. The cuts, the integration of the deleted scenes (save for Vickers/Janek intercutting with Shaw/David), the colour correction, the cleaned up FX were all flawless. The audio was pretty good as well, even if there were some mixing problems from time to time (dialogue mixed in the front channels, the score turned up too loud). All in all, brilliant work.

The only problem was that the movie felt a bit disorganised. I can't quite put my finger on it but I think the film flowed a bit better when I last watched the theatrical version. That said, I remember feeling the same way when I first watched it at the cinema, so perhaps it's just a question of repeated viewings.

This is what the original version of the movie should have been. The edit does all what it sets out to do, within the limits of the source material.

This is the same movie but its tone is darker now. Agent 9 reintegrated the scenes that provide context to certain actions of the characters - actions that seem out of character or out of place given the situation in the original cut. Now it all falls into place and improves the overall narrative, narrowing the focus. The characters are stronger now and more believable.

This is a more powerful Prometheus than the one we have seen at the theatre. One can only guess why Sir Scott decided to downgrade his own creation, leaving us guessing not about the mystery left unanswered but about the plotholes it left. Agent 9's version fixes all of this.

It's a not a tale about a mystery found in the cave anymore. This is the proper prequel to Alien. It doesn't want to give you the same action as Alien did, it wants to show you why and how it came into being. And this version is more focused on it than the theatrical cut.

Agent 9 handles everything with a great respect for the source material and love for its roots. And it shows in the care with which he restores the scenes that have been originally cut out. The video quality is top notch, audio is good but has some problems with fade ins and outs here and there. While it's still good it is the least impressive element of this edit, which doesn't mean it's bad at all. It's just because everything else is so good that small problems with audio simply stand out.

Although I appreciated the use of the Alien score in some place (while it was subtle), it's not so subtle it should have been in couple of other places. I don't mind the score itself but the volume of it is to loud in the scenes that would benefit from more silence instead. As Alien movie itself teaches us, silence is scarier than a score with a volume trying to terrify you. The scene where Weyland confronts the Engineer or the scene where the Engineer chases Shaw are supported by a very loud score that ends up being distracting, and it actually removes the tension or pathos it should provide or enhance.

Thankfully this is the only criticism I have, other than that I wish this was the theatrical version. Maybe someday Sir Scott will decide to restore Prometheus to the glory it never had, but in the meantime Agent 9's version is the next best thing.

I really dug this version of the movie. A lot of the idiotic plot holes in the original theatrical cut were thankfully corrected here, and most of the extended scenes that really never should have been cut (since in cutting some of them it makes the character's actions/dialogue not make much sense in the theatrical version) being restored was great. The editing and re-ordering of sequences was incredibly seamless and well done. Video quality overall was excellent.

That said, I had a couple of issues with this edit that held back more scores in some categories.

The first, and this was big one for me, was the lack of a surround track really hurt this edit. Prometheus has one of the best sounding audio tracks available on the market today, and hearing it compressed (both in number of channels and bitrate) into a stereo track hurt.

I enjoyed the use of some musical selections from the previous Alien films, but what I didn't like was the rather sloppily overlayed alien shrieking and hissing sound effects lifted from Aliens and inserted over top of the scene with the Fifield monster and the Deacon at the end. Those scenes already had their own sound effects, and overlaying it just came off really awkward.

I missed the opening with the Engineer. I liked the Weyland speech, but I would've liked to see both the extended opening (with the Elder Engineers) and the speech following directly after.

I wish the deleted scene with the subtitles for the Engineer had been used. It bugs me that you don't really know what he says in the original version and this cut since David doesn't translate it all (and if I remember correctly from the subtitled version he doesn't even translate accurately, though I believe that has something to do with his own agenda).

All that aside, this is still an excellent fanedit and in many ways is superior to the theatrical cut. Definitely recommended!!