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In Reply to: RE: Promethius questions....MEGA SPOILERS. Don't look if you ain't seen it. posted by Enophile on June 16, 2012 at 15:15:32
Outright bad movies -- unanimously bad -- don't catch much thought. Movies like "Gigli" and "Sahara" don't even enter into consciousness unless the topic is 'movies that suck'.
If "Prometheus" can be judged by the amount and level of thinking it has generated, then it just may be a great movie, holes and all.
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I felt uneasy about "No Country For Old Men" till my third viewing and now consider it my top film for that decade (2000-2010), eventually catching on to all the fuss.With Prometheus the many observations and impressions, both good and bad, hold true.
I agree how the impact of the actors might have been stronger if given more leeway or time, but that's likely a constriction of the medium's budget and available resources. If all actors were as strong to suggesting development (as Dustin Hoffman is reputed to be), that strength of character created focus might have made a more emotionally fulfilling Prometheus experience. But there is only so much time in a shooting schedule to rework ideas, and I imagine that becomes an insurmountable problem with CGI. (Unless a lot of character detail scenes ended on the cutting room floor? Do I hear DIRECTORS CUT!)
As it stands Prometheus is a thought provoking Alien experience that differs from the original in emotional impact if not cerebral extrapolation (like in Sherlock Holmes). In Prometheus I felt safe throughout, knowing that there was a future "Alien" story-line, but enjoyed the conceptual mind-stretch and immersive 3D.
A compromised film? Perhaps, but it stands as a technological leap forward in the 3D film story telling arena -imo.
Classics seem to continue to grow even past many viewings - it is truly a treat when they do.
Edits: 06/27/12
cannot bail out the story line, which is a muddled, inconsistent, and at
time a completely unbelievable mess. And without a strong story line,
the film is ultimately not going to become a classic.
Prometheus is several cuts above Alien 3 and 4, but several cuts below
Alien and Aliens.
... pretty reasonable to me, though pacing could have been less pushed at times.
I saw it a THIRD time last night. (I know, glutton for CGI but noticed any head angle tilt macerated the 3D image integrity - possibly why some were having 3D woes - eyes symmetrical?).
This time around I felt that they should have allowed more time for images, some very beautiful, to linger - it has such strong visuals (IMAX 3D).
Overall it seemed a touch off pace in places due to editing, and might benefit from a carefully hewn "Director's Cut", that takes its time and fills in more back story (though that could detract from the film's messages if people are blow away by too much information).
Vickers' subtext was a mystery I'd like see cracked. Why was her Father so distant? They were so physically similar that I speculated that she may have been cloned from him, "a Son", but ended up a transsexual, which may explain Theron's absolutely mannish character choices, taking up the captain to prove that she wasn't a "robot", and Weyland's creating "David" ("better worlds" conceit).
Prometheus has so much mythology going for it that I thought Scott and ensemble couldn't help but exploit or twist Greek myths (Electra? Oedipus?).
Maybe they need a book of it after all.
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