Prometheus Review Thread (Spoilers)

[CoopFilm]

Originally Posted by wormraper

+1

+2 ... I have got to agree with him, I'm surprised so many people disagree with it. I gave it a 4/5 because I enjoyed it, but I do think most of those points (about how much sense it makes) are valid.

[SirMontyPython]

Originally Posted by ObiWanShinobi

Lol thats great. He probably thought that sounded SUPER-DUPER INTELLIGENT when he was tyinpg it but...no, no it wasn't...not at all.

You can't read sarcasm...it has to be heard

[ObiWanShinobi]

Originally Posted by bluearth

Lengthy review, I did not like it.

[Show spoiler]Why even watch this movie? It doesnt ask any questions nor does it answer any questions, the action is light, the horror is light. None of the characters are likeable. A total mess of a film.

Unlike Alien and Aliens and even Alien 3 which had a very thick sense of dread and fear hanging over the entire film, Prometheus features a very safe spaceship that is barely intruded upon. Alien had a xenomorph on the loose that could pop up at any time. Aliens had xenomorphs everywhere and the threat of an imminent nuclear meltdown. There is no threat to the crew of Prometheus, they are safe and sound in the ship.

The creatures in the film were awful. The uninspired snake in the beginning? And the guy walks up to it and talks to it like it's a dog? I refuse to believe anybody is that stupid.

The squid thing inside shaw. It was more "eww" then scary. I was cringing more then feeling an actual sense of horror or fear in the film.

The climatic scene when they talk to the space jockey. How disappointing! This is suppose to be the zenith of the film, we are suppose to learn something new, this is what we waited for. Instead we get NOTHING. The engineer just kills everyone and tries to fly off. Stupid! Watch the whole move for that garbage. What a let down! Lazy script writing at it's finest. Instead of attempting to write a thought provoking scene between the engineer and Weyland lets just have him go ape and bust everything up. What a cop out!

Its obvious they dont want to give out any secrets on their paper thin plot so they can milk the audience dry for a sequel I positively will not be seeing.

And the guys who crash the ship into the alien craft? How many people do you need to screw in a light bulb? How many people do you need to ram something? Hopefully the answer is ONE. Janek told them to get to a lifeboat but they agreed to stay and help...apparently theyve a strong relationship/friendship/sense of comraderie with their captain...that AND what would getting to a lifeboat really mean anyway? Theyd have been screwed either way.

So this movie was not scary, and it didnt answer or ask any questions worth a dime.

There were way too many characters, many of which were killed off in droves to make room for the main character.

The set pieces were terrible. Oooooh! Theres a big human head! Why is the head even there? As a symbol of worship perhaps? Humans are known to put religious symbols in unlikely places. What is the point of it? Why would they build a statue of a head there??? And somebody left some vases around it that are leaking out some crap the film doesnt explain because the answer is completely unsatisfying. When they opened the door and went inside that particular room it was mentioned they changed the temperature of the room by doing so...and that apparently created a reaction with "the goo". Remember the vase David stole?...he sprayed it with something that obviously froze it and kept it from melting so he could return to the ship with it

And how is the drawings in the caves "star maps" It looked like 5 dots to me. but to someone with knowledge of such things it might look like a system of planets or perhaps stars...probably wouldnt take THAT long to figure out How you make sense of that to find a star system trillions of miles away makes no sense to me. Why would ancient people make such maps? Why did the engineers leave them a map to an abandoned military installation? Once again we dont get the answer because the answer is a joke and completely unsatisfying. If you didn't get an answer then how is it a joke and completely unsatisfying?...the movie is meant to make you think about certain ideas and concepts which the film DOES give you just not in a way thats laid out all nice and neat

The whole movie is a joke and I dont get how anybody thinks this is great science fiction. This is a B movie with a huge special effects budget. Replace all the famous actors and actresses with SyFy channel stars and give it a SyFy channel budget and you have a made for TV SyFy channel movie. But no, Ridley Scott directed it! It must be science fiction gold!

2/5

Touched upon a few things.

[ObiWanShinobi]

Originally Posted by SirMontyPython

You can't read sarcasm...it has to be heard

I was referring to the comment HE was commenting on. What 42041 said was hilarious and spot on.

[GORT]

Originally Posted by Joeinar

it really took the audience for idiots.

I'm still shocked by the two ladies running away and not having the intelligence to run sideways.

Here is the simple explanation
you run in a straight line untill the object is about to stop THEN you move in the opposite direction it is falling. Why would you want to zig zag right into the path of it.

[philzilla]

I think I'm going to have to see this again, still a bit ambivalent about it right now.

[SirMontyPython]

Originally Posted by philzilla

I think I'm going to have to see this again, still a bit ambivalent about it right now.

Go right on ahead I'd like to go see that movie again!

[Col. Zombie]

Originally Posted by philzilla

I think I'm going to have to see this again, still a bit ambivalent about it right now.

I loved it even more the second time!! (And I really loved it the first time.)

[KilloWertz]

Originally Posted by bluearth

Lengthy review, I did not like it.

[Show spoiler]Why even watch this movie? It doesnt ask any questions nor does it answer any questions, the action is light, the horror is light. None of the characters are likeable. A total mess of a film.

Unlike Alien and Aliens and even Alien 3 which had a very thick sense of dread and fear hanging over the entire film, Prometheus features a very safe spaceship that is barely intruded upon. Alien had a xenomorph on the loose that could pop up at any time. Aliens had xenomorphs everywhere and the threat of an imminent nuclear meltdown. There is no threat to the crew of Prometheus, they are safe and sound in the ship.

The creatures in the film were awful. The uninspired snake in the beginning? And the guy walks up to it and talks to it like it's a dog? I refuse to believe anybody is that stupid.

The squid thing inside shaw. It was more "eww" then scary. I was cringing more then feeling an actual sense of horror or fear in the film.

The climatic scene when they talk to the space jockey. How disappointing! This is suppose to be the zenith of the film, we are suppose to learn something new, this is what we waited for. Instead we get NOTHING. The engineer just kills everyone and tries to fly off. Stupid! Watch the whole move for that garbage. What a let down! Lazy script writing at it's finest. Instead of attempting to write a thought provoking scene between the engineer and Weyland lets just have him go ape and bust everything up. What a cop out!

Its obvious they dont want to give out any secrets on their paper thin plot so they can milk the audience dry for a sequel I positively will not be seeing.

And the guys who crash the ship into the alien craft? How many people do you need to screw in a light bulb? How many people do you need to ram something? Hopefully the answer is ONE.

So this movie was not scary, and it didnt answer or ask any questions worth a dime.

There were way too many characters, many of which were killed off in droves to make room for the main character.

The set pieces were terrible. Oooooh! Theres a big human head! Why is the head even there? What is the point of it? Why would they build a statue of a head there??? And somebody left some vases around it that are leaking out some crap the film doesnt explain because the answer is completely unsatisfying.

And how is the drawings in the caves "star maps" It looked like 5 dots to me. How you make sense of that to find a star system trillions of miles away makes no sense to me. Why would ancient people make such maps? Why did the engineers leave them a map to an abandoned military installation? Once again we dont get the answer because the answer is a joke and completely unsatisfying.

The whole movie is a joke and I dont get how anybody thinks this is great science fiction. This is a B movie with a huge special effects budget. Replace all the famous actors and actresses with SyFy channel stars and give it a SyFy channel budget and you have a made for TV SyFy channel movie. But no, Ridley Scott directed it! It must be science fiction gold!

2/5

Just because Ridley Scott's name went up as the director isn't why I loved the movie. You just have a difference of opinion. Simple as that.

[Adam.C]

Originally Posted by Col. Zombie

I loved it even more the second time!! (And I really loved it the first time.)

same here.

[Elandyll]

About people complaining that the alien's actions were incomprehensible or illogical from our point of view, I would like to make a point, and do so by quoting "Red Dwarf"

Rimmer: [dramatically] Somehow we've lost the last four days.
The Cat: Did you look behind the fridge? If you lose something it's nearly always there.
Rimmer: Aliens!
Lister: What?
The Cat: What are you talking about, grease stain?
Rimmer: It's a well documented phenomenon. They kidnap you, give you a mind probe, erase your memory, and put you back.
Lister: OK, aliens came aboard.
Rimmer: Without question.
Lister: They broke my leg.
Rimmer: For some reason.
The Cat: They broke MY leg.
Rimmer: Right.
Holly: And then they did a jigsaw.
Rimmer: Right.
Holly: Well, that's cleared that up then.
Rimmer: Look, you're not thinking alien. That's what aliens are: alien. They do alien things. Things that are... alien. Maybe this is the way they communicate.
The Cat: By breaking legs?
Lister: And doing jigsaws?
Rimmer: Why should they speak the way we do? They're aliens.
Lister: OK, professor, what does it mean?
Rimmer: Maybe, maybe, OK? Breaking your leg hurts like hell, OK? "Hel." They do it below the knee, "lo." "Hel-lo," gettit? They do it twice - twice, "two." "Hello two." And the jigsaw must mean "you." "Hello to you."
[pause]
The Cat: I wouldn't like to be around when one of these suckers is making a speech!

[42041]

Originally Posted by CoopFilm

+2 ... I have got to agree with him, I'm surprised so many people disagree with it. I gave it a 4/5 because I enjoyed it, but I do think most of those points (about how much sense it makes) are valid.

They may be valid, but my answer to them is.. "so?" Plot holes? I don't watch movies like I'm cross-examining a witness a a murder trial. If suspension of disbelief isn't broken, no harm done, YMMV of course. No satisfying answers? I've never understood this need some people have for everything to be explained, interpreted, and tied off with a ribbon. What sort of answers do you suppose would even be satisfying? It's not like Alien/s, it's not scary, whatever? Well, it's not many things that no one said it would be, how about we stick to what it is?

[ACMutd]

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[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by Lopan

I'm just freakin getting tired of explaining Promethues to people who didn't understand this movie at my work place. I give up,

Oh man!!!

That reminds me. Guess what I had to go through at work Monday morning.


"How did you like the movie you have been talking a lot about?"
- It was OK I guess. I can recommend it though.

"So, what's it basically about?"
- The Space Jockies from ALIEN possibly creating the aliens and maybe humans(that's all the info I divulged).

"WHAT!" "What the hell are you talking about!?" "It was shown in the other films THAT THE PREDATORS created the aliens so that they could go hunt them down!!!"
- No no no...don't pay any attention to those movies. They were just goofy NON-CANON alt universe films that don't really count.

"NO WAY MAN...NO WAY!"





*SIGH*

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[SirMontyPython]

Originally Posted by ACMutd

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Hey, that's an awesome poster!!

[Starpower67]

Just saw this today in 3d. I am so glad the people on this forum convinced me to see the 3d version. I thought the 3d in this movie was amazing! Thanks guys!

[BouCoupDinkyDau]

Yeah, the 3D is tops. I'd say the best use of the tech ever goes to:

1. Hugo
2. Prometheus
3. Avatar

It just adds another layer to the visual depth of films (when used correctly). Kinda how bump-mapping made everything in video games seem like more than just art-filled polygons.

[Starpower67]

Originally Posted by BouCoupDinkyDau

Yeah, the 3D is tops. I'd say the best use of the tech ever goes to:

1. Hugo
2. Prometheus
3. Avatar

It just adds another layer to the visual depth of films (when used correctly). Kinda how bump-mapping made everything in video games seem like more than just art-filled polygons.

I completely agree!

[SirMontyPython]

I guess I missed out on Hugo in 3D...darn...

[ACMutd]

Originally Posted by SirMontyPython

I guess I missed out on Hugo in 3D...darn...

Same here, wish I would have gone to it just to see the 3D