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In Reply to: RE: strange posted by Jazz Inmate on November 11, 2012 at 22:05:11:
"If we take Prometheus at face value, scientists are the retards. Faith in God is the saving grace of humanity."
If we take Prometheus at face value, we get a botched screenplay with nary a trace of intelligence, wonder, discovery or even basic continuity, written by a couple of hacks (Lindelof, in particular) with unbelievably rushed and disjointed pacing, two-dimensional placeholder characters and a few pretty (mostly recycled) set and effect designs.
The "scientists" showed no hint of their calling because the writers were dumbing-down (assuming they had anywhere else to go) to a juvenile, instant-gratification, generation-video-game audience. Hint: actual scientists employ the rigorous painstaking discipline known as scientific methodology; so "retarded." On the other hand, shoehorning in a smattering of phony Bronze Age spiritual hokum fit this train wreck of a story perfectly, as it was a transparently forced attempt to add the illusion of depth where none existed.
If anything, the message I took away was that blind selfish grovelling to fantasy thunder gods--recall the enraged reaction of the giant gray bodybuilder when asked for a boon--continues to plunge an unenlightened mankind into darkness and ignorance; a failed experiment and time to sterilize the Terran petri dish and start over. IOW, we can take away anything we choose from a story that has nothing to offer in the way of narrative substance.
I loved the original "Alien"--that was a study in deliberate pacing and the slow buildup of tension--but the rest of the franchise provided varying degrees of awful. Has Ridley Scott done anything of value beyond "Alien" and "Blade Runner"? If so, it eludes me.
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- RE: strange - Fretless 19:54:54 11/12/12 (1)
- RE: strange - Jazz Inmate 21:52:59 11/12/12 (0)
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