[Spoiler Zone] Prometheus (Page 3 of 5)

He could go on for ages asking questions. So many questions that one could do a taxonomy of them, dividing them up into:

1. Problems with the science: DNA & evolution, scientists don't behave like that, FTL travel just 80 years into the future, action-hero with a stapled abdomen, David knowing an alien language, rapid biomass contravening the law of conservation of mass-energy, etc.
2. Problems with movie grammar: ill-defined character motivations, inconsistent behaviour, a storm that leave everything the same, struggling to escape from a crashing ship only to be crushed by it, redundant characters that should have been rolled into one, endless stupid dialogue, no subtitles on David's question, characters disappearing, David's sinister behaviour not explained, etc.
3. Problems with the plot: Engineer motivation to destroy Earth? Engineer reason to kill the humans upon waking, what's with the holograms? Worms? Getting lost despite having 3D maps? Relationship of LV-223 to LV-426, morphology of xenomorphs, 35,000 year old cave paintings that point to a weapons facility, secrecy of Weyland, why would Shaw trust David at the end, why would Shaw trust another Engineer, and dozens of other things.

It's the sheer quantity that's the problem. Every sci-fi movie has a couple of problems of this nature that we're prepared to forgive (e.g. magic bean), but rarely do A-list movies commit so many errors.

Sunshine had a scientific consultant: Brian Cox. I thought it's now de rigour for most science-fiction movies and TV shows to hire a scientific consultant. Prometheus obviously didn't have one.
How much can it cost to hire a science PhD from Caltech or UCLA? Sit him down with a red highlighter and go through the script for a couple of hours, and highlight the blatantly unscientific bits. $1000 max? Out of a budget of well over $100M? That tattoo make-up on the geologist probably cost more. Idiots.

And thus we have the Conspiracy theory!

The idea of people deriving joy from imagining depth where there is none is not a new thing. It's just we're not the kind of people that stand around water coolers going, oh wow, your right man, that's so cool. We go, fuck you and your bullshit ideas.

I believe this is called talking down to your audience or something to that effect.

I don't like Lindeloff.

Last edited by BigDamnArtist (2012-06-17 23:50:27)

Pretty sure that's how every dialogue scene in the MATRIX sequels came about.

Was I the only person who understood everything the Architect said the first time I watched it? Hell, that was one of the few bits in the second flick that actually felt like it fit in with the first movie.

Highbrow critics fall for it...                       

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/20 … e-horrors/

Man, I have been screwing them up ever since they announced the remake for the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Noomara Rapooney.

I think we were trying to think of what the alien races in this movie would be called if it were directed by George Lucas.

http://www.the-editing-room.com/prometheus.html

In Blade Runner, the conversation between Batty and Tyrell in the top-floor apartment ("I want more life") was one of the highlights of the movie.

So in Prometheus, the same conversation is given as an un-subtitled question in an alien language, and the answer is 'rrraaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!' that you'd expect off a cave-man, not an enlightenment advanced being.

If, as the article suggests there is MORE to the conversation, all in un-subtitled alien-speak, I don't want it. What's the point of that?

Ridley Scott to direct Transformers 5. That's his level now.

DAVID
He gave me a recipe for egg salad.

NOOMI
We traveled thirty light years and lost fifteen people... for that?

DAVID
Apparently it's really good egg salad.

Later:

NOOMI
Mmmm, sooo worth it.  You gonna finish that?