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One of the tragic ironies of formula screenwriting is that the most annoying characters end up on deep space flights who have no business there. Who hires these people? No personality profiles?
Outside of my own personal irritation in the beginning I must say this IS an excellent prequel. All the necessary pieces were there and the opening sequence is a bit startling for our earthbound experiences. Not only does the prequel help us understand but it asks more questions we want to know the answers to also.
I hope Scott lives to be 110 as 'Prometheus' can stand alone or it can be sequel-ized in a heart beat.
Great cast, new highs in CGI.
4 outta 5
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...I saw it Tuesday.
I thought the acting and special effects/CGI were quite good. Noomi played a better--and more-sympathetic--hero than I thought her capable of.
I agree that some plot points were silly...the scientist trying to pet the 'snake', the ship having NO weapons, the presense of flamethrowers (on a science ship? What were they going to do with them--trim weeds and brush?).
BUT...overall highly entertaining. I can, indeed, appreciate these jillion-dollar CGI'd space operas, just as I appreciate and enjoy the little films about 'normal' people and their problems--'Around the Bend' and 'Off the Map', anyone?
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Tin-eared audiofool, former fotografer, and terrible competitive-pistol shootist.
"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted." Albert Einstein.
I got up and asked to have it turned down a bit but no dice.
If you go to 'Prometheus' expecting to be entertained by a Saturday afternoon SciFi film then you will be, but if one expects anything deeper or richer then disapointment awaits.
I've always thought Theron was over rated as an actor and this role confirms it, mind you with the acting in this film it wouldn't take much for one of the cast to deliver a stellar performance.
The best part of 'Prometheus' for me was that it set up films to come in this series, much like the new StarTrek series...except the new StarTrek film was far superior to 'Prometheus'.
J.B.
the FX were awesome but the story was just an excuse to display the creatures and action imo
it could have been so much better
I am still glad I saw it but,
if only...
that he KNEW his fledgling career was finished. Little did he know he became a cult figure among many, many Alienophiles.
I just think that both movies had such potential it highlights the deficient script/storyline that much more
SPOILER
how dumb was the idiot that wanted to pet the space snake like it was a kitty? how could that possibly get into the script?
I missed the agenda of the android, it seemed he wanted to sabotage the mission (much like Ian Holms in Alien)
how can they repeat that storyline?
maybe I am wrong about this and just missed the android's intent.
and die first. Since there were no dumb. large breasted bimbos on board we had to get a thug and a wacko out of the way according to the rules.
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... or of their offspring, androids included?
"David" (like Michelangelo's David or HAL) was a work of art AND a frankenstein monster, as anything that is added to the cosmic soup creates consequences and ripples throughout time, for all time. Things without souls may be an "unknown quantity" and better left off the time line lest lives buckle from discontinuity.
In "Blade Runner" the subject of an engineered son (and every bit as capable as its creator plus some) questioning its creator was most clearly resolved - by summary execution.
The lives of soul beings have purpose that is extra dimensional. The consequence of "creating" soulless lives bound by artificial dimensional imprisonment is terminal/null.
Perhaps R. Scott will develop this theme to a new height?
or will in the future (of course I hope to be proven wrong) the android was merely a prop to move the story forward and it served it's purpose which was to display action and graphics.
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So have you seen it or are you just throwing stones at "epics"?
thing. These aren't serious characterizations, they're 1-dimensional action figures.
The overall problem was weak casting. Guy Pearce's elderly makeup didn't look real. His mannerisms weren't "right," either. A waste of a good actor. Rapace's boyfriend was so flimsy he seems like a special effect in himself. Who was that guy?
They didn't appear to have enough emotion between them to even be friends: no establishing context.
And that brings up a serious problem: No humor in this film, none! NO banter between the characters, nada. It takes itself WAY too seriously.
The story? Purposefully (let's hope so, no one consciously write so unclearly) disconnected, vague, and pointless.
For the Game Boy lovers: you'll simply adore this. Lots of explosions, FX, quick camera movements and LEGENDARY noise levels.
The trailer of the next James Bond, otoh, looked very interesting.
... but perhaps the film's conceptual open ended strengths will reveal themselves sometime, as well?Humor? "...my room in ten minutes." from one wound up Weyland isn't funny? The original "Alien" also had few banter chuckles. Maybe persons from the future have a much wryer sense of humor than we, and Scott lets us in on the joke by keeping his script sanitized of obligatory "cuteness".
You are so right about the flaws, though the optimist in me seeks out the potential in the unsaid and not overtly revealed.
"Prometheus" builds as much on classical mythologies as the ones speculative in nature. As such it is indeed incomplete to a degree.
Remember the book 'Chariots of the Gods'?
Ever ponder the place that the Nephilim (legendary giant/gods) play in human mythology?
Were the "space jockeys" clones (they looked identical)? Who engineered THEM, and why was their mission to erase an experiment gone horribly wrong (humans introduced artificially upon the Earth)?
That is what enchanted me in "Prometheus" (as much as "2001") - seeking the answers/truths to unknowable questions, or ones that have yet to be asked.
That is the very best of "speculative fiction" (sci-fi) from my point of view - and in "Prometheus", all rendered in the most visually splendid immersive atmosphere laden movie experience to date (IMAX 3D).
Well worth $16.50 to become an astronaut for a few hours, AND be able to return safely home - imo.
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remember Elba making the "are you a robot" comment and she agreed to sex to prove she wasn't? She was the daughter of the creator of Fassbinder's robot and not particularly crazy about daddy but herself with her obsession with self preservation.
least 10 others are alive.
Now, some also may say it's poor form to criticize a film in which a robot w/only vocal chords can go on speaking for hours, but I think it's a fair point. No lungs, no air to give power to vocalizations. And that's only one rip-off of a previous film.
Here's the situation in a nutshell: this film had NO NO NO suspense. It was all action. But sic-fi isn't action, unless it's the Terminator series. Hell, Predator had more suspense than this and was, in its modest way, FAR more intelligent. A complicated story isn't anything to get excited about, any 8-year old kid can weave one. And it would make as much sense as this one did.
Confusing the audience isn't difficult with a poorly written script. What makes this doubly irritating is that it PURPOSEFULLY was made so, to pass itself off as "intelligent" by making viewers feel it must be very smart if they cannot "get it."
The creature at the end that resembles the creature at the beginning w/out a helmet... why does the octopus-like victor's spawn look like the muscle-guy at the beginning when he put on a helmet?
See? Just dumb complexity to disguise a paucity of thought, a paucity of inventiveness.
Who wrote this drivel?
She got an Oscar for proving that. Streep and few others can be "leading ladies" but Theron is "another person entirely". She is scary and condemned to playing strong character leads not herself reciting a script.
Perhaps Ridley didn't want too much distraction from his story line....much the same as Kubrick's selection of O'Neal in "Barry Lyndon". Let the cattle be props as the audience expects humans to walk and talk.
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So many dumb people with smart phones...
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Maybe.
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