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- Squiggly_P
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I've never done a star wars prequel review.
Unless you count posting "It sucked" on a forum. In that case, never mind.
- redxavier
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I almost saw this on the weekend but thought better of it after reading all the negative comments here. I'm not surprised the writing is nonsensical and awful, as Damon Lindelof did after all write the atrocious LOST.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan
- Squiggly_P
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That video could have been an hour long and they still wouldn't have asked all the questions you could ask about the things that don't make sense in that film.
- Squiggly_P
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So apparently there's a new Prometheus-related viral going on that came from the film. At the end there's a Weyland logo with a date and a timeline url. 10-11-12. In the timeline, that represents the date that Weyland Industries was officially incorporated. I'm trying to relate that to Jesus somehow, but I can't...
Some people seem to think it's the date that the DVD is going to come out. I dunno if that's true or not. I haven't heard anything at work about when they expect to release the thing. That date lands on a thursday, tho, which isn't your typical DVD release day. So I dunno. Right now the only thing that would make me care at all is if the REAL movie comes out on that date, and that this movie was just some expensive, elaborate practical joke or something.
- Squiggly_P
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Whose decision was it to have Lindelhof go over the script? Also, what are the odds of being able to find Spaiht's script floating around on the interwebs somewhere?
- redxavier
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I suspect, though, that some of the problems stem from Ridley Scott as well as any script doctoring from Lindelhof. I've not seen Prometheus yet, but Robin Hood was a clusterfuck of a film (and some of what I've been hearing seem to echo that film's problems).
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan
- Squiggly_P
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"If there is anybody who is known for inevitable disappointment, it’s me. I’m Mr. Inevitable Disappointment!"
- Damon Lindelhof.
- Doctor Submarine
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I saw it last night. It didn't piss me off as much as it did some other people. It's a very pretty, often exciting movie that is full of plot holes.
"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague
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Just saw it in London - in IMAX 3D. Cinema was full of 40 year old nerds that grew up with Alien/s.
The first act was full of cliches - ship's crew wakes up and don't know what's happening. They all have asbergers and hang shit on each other. The scientists act like truckers.
One biologist is swigging nonchalantly on a bottle of vodka while they examine the first ever alien head ever. Whatever.
The geologist character was awful.
Mr Enlightened UberMensh wakes up at the end (the big finale that'll answer all the questions) and just goes 'rrraaa' and kills everyone, like he's got the IQ of a WWF wrestler.
Who filmed and projected the holograms? What was it all about? Huh?
The positives: it looked great, the Prometheus ship was highly detailed, the 3D was fine, the score was okay (although I had prepped myself first with the score). Fassbender's acting was good. Production design was good.
The negatives: the dumb dialogue, all the cliches, the unresolved character motivation, the low-brow action (raa), the lack of originality in creature effects, etc.
Alien+Aliens is so good as a one-two combination, that this hasn't a hope to compare.
It felt like half a movie. I hope they have the Prometheus 2 greenlit and in the can soon to resolve this - that would be the only saving grace.
How does Shaw know the uber-race will greet her and her pet head? What if she steps out of the ship on the home planet, and the same thing happens again i.e. Mr Uberrace goes 'rrraaa' and tears her head off?
not long to go now...
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I suppose the one recurring theme that runs through all ALIENS movies is that "bioweapons will blow-back on you". Bioweapons Blowback is the two-word term that sums up the entire franchise most succinctly.
not long to go now...
118 2012-06-13 09:55:50 (edited by Doctor Submarine 2012-06-13 09:56:11)
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Vickers is one of the most bizarre characters. We get these scenes early on where she's all "cold calculating corporate woman" who doesn't care about the lives of her crew, but later on she sleeps with the captain like it ain't no thing.
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any way to get ahold of the Prometheus script? It appears that the studios have sent out a lot of cease and desist letters to websites hosting scripts... This is sad from an educational standpoint, at least a little... 
- Doctor Submarine
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Is there anything more frustrating than trying to have a conversation with Prometheus fanboys? They are completely convinced that the movie is brilliant if you bother to "look deeper" into it.
"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague
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