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Witness: The Pre-Prometheus Alien-Predator Marathon You Wish You’d Attended [Video]

by Jamie Frevele | 5:43 pm, June 13th, 2012


Since it had been over 30 years since Ridley Scott made a movie in the Alien franchise, which was later joined in unholy matrimony with the Predator franchise, a pre-Prometheus marathon of all those movies was in order, as well as an exercise in perspective. And that is just what Brad Hansen (creator of The Lion King Rises) and his fiancée Athena Stamos did. Complete with ratings and a final trip for 35 to the Hollywood Cinerama Dome, their marathon takes place in time lapse in the video above.

Impressive, but how about a Lord of the Rings/J.R.R. Tolkien marathon ahead of The Hobbit? Do you accept this challenge?

(via Crave Online)

Previously in Prometheus

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  • Anonymous

    Wait, *all* of them? Even the AvP movies? That’s hardcore.. :/

  • http://twitter.com/zenoferic Erica Throne

    The Fantasy Literature class at my university has done the LOTR marathon (extended/director’s cut versions) every.single.year since they came out. Takes them about 10 hours. They also read all three books in the LOTR series during the 3 month course, plus usually 3 or 4 other books. When I took the course we read, besides LOTR 1-3, a collection called “Tales Before Tolkien,” “The Summer Tree” by Guy Gavriel Kay, and “Spirits in the Wires” by Charles de Lint. The Silmarillion was optional reading. 

    I’m just saying, it’s not much of a challenge.

  • Anonymous

    A movie marathon in a house is one thing. Doing them in a theater is another thing.

    I recall a theater in NJ did a Star Wars trilogy marathon back in the mid-80s, well before Lucasfilm started Specialling the films.  They had the Making Of specials from TV and everything.

    And oh, the callouts were awesome.  By the third film, the whole theater was following up “A Long time ago in a galaxy far far away” with “HOW LONG WAS IT?”

  • Anonymous

    Gutsy.  My favorite part was the Just Kill Me sign. A lot of crappy sequals in there…

  • Flurty Gomez

    Complete with ratings and a final trip for 35 to the Hollywood Cinerama
    Dome, their marathon takes place in time lapse in the video above.

    http://www.lolthis.com/

  • Anonymous

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  • http://twitter.com/U2vol Logan Dalton

    Sounds like a fun marathon… except for AVP :( I was surprised that Predators got better reviews than the visually stunning, thought provoking Prometheus. Challenge accepted for the LOTR marathon. I had one last year during Labor Day with a bunch of dudes, and the inappropriate gay jokes were piling up during the Return of the King.

  • http://twitter.com/U2vol Logan Dalton

    I want to take that course… Did you guys read any Robert E. Howard?

  • http://www.facebook.com/rodimusben Ben Lundy

    What an awesome idea. Love the time lapse and the ratings after each movie. The next obvious candidate would be the Batman movies– and I’m talking about every Batman movie released theatrically– Batman 1966, Batman 1989, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.

  • http://twitter.com/Jody_Houser Jody Houser

     That was actually one of Athena and Brad’s earlier marathons (I’ve made at least a token appearance at all of them). They did the entire list you mentioned, plus Mask of the Phantasm, which was also theatrically released.

    The most hardcore marathon though was the first one, James Bond. That one took three days.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.lindberg3 Eric Lindberg

    I’ve already taken on that Tolkien challenge (more or less). I’ve reread The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, watched all three extended edition movies, and played lots of Lord of the Rings Online. Granted, this was spaced out over several months. I’m a hardcore fan but I’m not made of free time here.

  • http://twitter.com/AthenaStamos Αθηνά Στάμος

    Batathon was actually our second marathon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsnnAoKR6Xg …though now I wish we would have saved it till the weekend Dark Knight Rises comes out. BUT we were way too excited to wait. :)

  • Anonymous

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  • Anonymous

    Wow ten movie marathon is not for the feint of heart, or butt. 

    Oh god do not suggest a LOTR marathon to my husband! He’d probably pull some kind of Troy and Abed style “let’s watch the original movie, then director’s cut, then director’s cut commentary then original for cool down” for some kind of epic 48 hour spree. 

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