Prometheus (Page 3 of 6)

Well, I just saw half of Prometheus - the theater was evacuated an hour into the movie because there was a bomb threat at the FedEx next door.    Fun.

Got a come-back-anytime ticket that I might use tonight... but I have to say that although the movie is pretty as hell, I'm not exactly dying to find out what happens next.   Nor am I eager to sit through the first half again  - as I said, nice visuals, but every time a character tried to talk all sciencey things got painful.   

In fact, at the point the movie stopped, several sets of characters were doing supposedly sciencey things that made no damn sense at all - gee, I wonder if they're gonna trigger something bad happening?   Wait, don't tell me...

Now that I'm reading these reactions, I'm thinking I don't have to run out and see it before I leave for DC. Do any of you think I shouldn't wait a week and should catch it now?

Just saw Prometheus. And... that was interesting. Certainly better than The Thing prequel...

OK, I just got back.

Fuck Damon Lindelof.

Who the fuck is this guy and what has he done with Ridley Scott?

This movie is terrible. Every five minutes I wanted to scream "WHO THE FUCK WRITES THAT AND WHY DID YOU FUCKING FILM IT!? WHAT THE FUCK!?" This is one of the most poorly written things I've ever - EVER - fucking seen, but I have to wonder how Scott could have possibly thought that this was even a serviceable script.

Though I guess it's not quite as bad as Alien: Resurrection.

My review:

End of review.

As a big fan of Sunshine, I sort of take issue with this. Yes, Sunshine has that third act shift that so many hate, though I myself personally do not. But Sunshine also has consistently good acting. Prometheus does not (except from Fassbender and Rapace). Sunshine has dialogue that human beings would actually say. Prometheus does not. Sunshine tells a self-contained story with a beginning, middle, and end, leaving no loose ends floating around. Prometheus does not. And Sunshine was Danny Boyle's first foray into science fiction and was just a movie that came out. Prometheus was Ridley Scott's return to the genre after two classics thirty years ago, and was being touted as the master's homecoming.

Potential spoilers, maybe. The thing that really gets me about this movie... Scott kept going on about how it wasn't really an Alien prequel, and was merely telling a new story in the same universe. And yes, it wasn't a typical prequel, in that it barely explained a damn thing about Alien. But nevertheless they used the Alien universe as a total crutch. Give Guy Pearce's character a different name, don't give the planet the LV prefix, sub in some original spaceship on the planet, with corridors that don't reference Giger, and don't put your big translucent humans in Space Jockey armor. And now I have no idea why you're telling me this story.

The Alien trappings were so nonessential to the story the movie was telling, and yet if you remove them you've just taken away the very thing that made me stick with the movie for the full run-time. It's a cheat, it's like they had this lousy script in the vault that they knew nobody would ever want to watch, and then they said, "Hey, what if the ship is one of those horseshoe things from Alien?"
"That's brilliant, let's see if Ridley Scott is available. Isn't he doing the Monopoly movie? He must be crazy hard up for cash right now."

Sigh, I hate this summer. Just depressing.

No, you guys were right. Fucking hell.

I haven't seen it yet, but it sounds like this applies.

Did the film critics all get together and agree to punk everyone by pretending this movie is a near masterpiece of sci-fi brilliance, or are 74% of the people getting paid to write film reviews just out of their god damn minds?

Ya, this is the most flagrant case of director bias I've ever seen from the critical community. If anyone else's name was on the director credit, the movie would be 10-20% lower on Rotten Tomatoes.

And jesus, 4 stars ebert, really man?!

I still would say the film isn't bad, like I said, I have no big issues with it until everyone decides to take their helmets off, and it's actually building to something amazing until that point. Ultimately it's just a disappointing middle-of-the-road failure of a movie, with some cool parts. Like if this was a movie you knew nothing about and caught on cable, I think it's totally watchable, I would put it in the same camp as something like Leviathan (actually these two movies are amazingly similar, down to the premise, out-of-place score, and stupid ending). But a good successful movie it is fucking not.

What? The score was terrible. It didn't fit the movie at all.

Last edited by Xtroid (2012-06-09 18:05:28)