Topic: "Prometheus" review by Teague [Spoilers Marked]

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Re: "Prometheus" review by Teague [Spoilers Marked]

Sure, if you're going to watch it in the same mindset as you'd watch THE ROOM, I can see how you could have a good time.

"YOU ARE TEARING ME APART LISA!" = "I FUCKING LOVE ROCKS!"

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In a strange way, The Room is one of my favourite films....

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Re: "Prometheus" review by Teague [Spoilers Marked]

You pretty much summed up how I felt about it

Re: "Prometheus" review by Teague [Spoilers Marked]

Now my expectations are just a little bit higher than before. I really need to watch it.

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Yay!  Someone else is out there in the world that loved it as much as I did.  Fuck you, everybody else!

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Re: "Prometheus" review by Teague [Spoilers Marked]

Opinion of movie = Reality - Expectation

not long to go now...

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Re: "Prometheus" review by Teague [Spoilers Marked]

Just need a few weighting scalars on there:

Opinion of movie = (Blood Alcohol Content * Reality) - (Fanboy Level * Expectation)

Normalize that and you're good.

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not long to go now...

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Re: "Prometheus" review by Teague [Spoilers Marked]

I don't think it works like that. If a movie is totally shit, no amount of lowered expectations are going to save it. It's more that movies you have no expectations for or have heard nothing about, that are actually pretty decent or watchable, end up being really pleasant surprises, pushing your personal opinion higher than it otherwise would be.

That was my experience watching Pandorum, where I was like "woa, this is actually a pretty interestingly thought out sci-fi story, and the production design is awesome". Objectively, it's still not a very good movie because of the stupid monsters and terrible camera-work, but if you were channel surfing and stumbled onto it without hearing anything beforehand (like I did), you end up being really impressed.

Prometheus would absolutely fit that category I think, especially because of the gorgeous visuals.

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Re: "Prometheus" review by Teague [Spoilers Marked]

I had a similar experience watching Prometheus as I had with Mission Impossible 4. It's a thoroughly enjoyable movie (most of the time, I'd argue Prometheus completely falls over itself in the second half) as you're there in the darkened cinema. You're entranced by the lights and sounds. But the moment you exit and start to apply thought to what you've seen, warts and all start to show and you realised that you've been had.

So rather like a great Chinese takeout that later gives you a bout of food poisoning.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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Re: "Prometheus" review by Teague [Spoilers Marked]

I give you one clap.

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