POLL: What Did You Think Of PROMETHEUS?

It was ok. Fassbender was great

This poll needs more choices. It needs something like:

"It was a really good movie that unfortunately left me feeling unsatisfied at the end."

great movie, dont understand the hate

Troll2rocks wrote:

"I am going to make a brief list of mistakes/plot holes/ and narrative inconsistencies.

Before I do this, be aware I love movies that leave things to your imagination. That is where terror in cinema works most effectively, and I am also aware that with gore you do not create fear, just repulsion. So with this in mind, know that I am coming at this from a standpoint basic story telling employed within motion pictures.

Okay so with this in mind. Here are my problems with Prometheus.

8. Avoid the obvious. Fan service is never a way to go. Nobody wanted to have the final scene end with a inferior bastardized version of the original alien bursting out of an engineer. In a flat close up. It reeked of additional shooting. (tagged on ending)."

7. Yes everything that is made these days with a budget is made to be a franchise. Yet most movies at least try to contain a story within each instalment. Prometheus is nothing but a set up for a movie that may never come. It does not contain a story, but a chapter of one. That is unsatisfying and basically unfair to the viewer. At least give it a story with a beginning, middle, and end. Prometheus has a beginning, but that is all, and even that can be debated.

6. Do not switch character motivation in a split second. In one scene two Prometheus crew members are scared shitless trying to frantically leave the citadel complex, after being told that there is a blip of life being picked up by one of the probes. In the next scene they are used for comic relief (where they decide to stroke a vagina snake that looks like one of Earths deadliest creatures.) this was in direct opposition to their previous scene, as this was the exact scenario they were frantically trying to avoid. Yet in the next scene they willingly initiate it. In a comedic scene that tries to go from funny to scary in a split second. Neither of which work at all. Also it is impossible to make a gear shift like that work on film.

5. Do you think that the android David's torn off head would stay in the same position on that derelict ship, after it is blown up in mid air and smashes to the ground ?. Yet it does not.

4. I seriously doubt that any advanced god like alien technology would be operated by a wooden flute.

3. Do not treat the audience like they are stupid. Do not place plot exposition in the mouths of characters simply because it needs explaining. Cinema is a visual art form, the moto is show don't tell. Example: Idris Elba's character suddenly walking into a room with all of the answers as to what that complex is on the planet and what the engineers were up too there.


2. Try to make a script work before you start shooting. Example: The opening scene. Long scrawling shots of fields of some planet before the engineer shows up drinks sewage from a thermal flask, starts to disintegrate and falls over a fountain and rots in the water. The reason, to seed life on the planet. Now that is fair enough if thats what they want to do. However the must have missed all the grass and plant life. Hint. That is life too. Right ?

1. You never show the big reveal monster in full close up in the opening shots of the movie. It kills suspense. Also if this big reveal monster is part of an already established cinematic universe, then make it fit in continuity with the universe. Keep the style the same. Do not mix StarTrek humanoid Aliens -(Aliens that look like humans)- with a cinematic universe that is iconic for its creature design.




http://www.disclose.tv/forum/troll2rocks-prometheus-in-depth-review-spoilers-ahead-t73069-30.html

Keldor's the man. Perfectly put.

Couldn't talk the missis into it this weekend. Maybe one of these days!

Might see this movie at some point too.

I agree with a lot of Keldor's points.
I thought it started off great, but there was just so many character developments seeds planted with no payoff. It felt contrived. Visually it looks great. The acting was good. I was right on board when they were excavating the ruins and discover a little history about the engineers. Then it all starts to go downhill. If it didn't look so fantastic, I would had hated the movie.

Nice keldor.

These are my comments, respond only if you are going to be helpful or constructive, I am already arguing with one condescending douche on another thread. :P

SPOILER ALERT!!!




The timeline of 2093 was not far enough in the future for the space travel tech and the android tech that they had. I know they were supposedly working pre-Alien, and Alien took place in 2122 so they did not have a choice. But today we are a little more sophisticated as audiences than in 1979, and I don't think that in 80 years from now we will have that level of space travel or robotics.

And, if this was only 30 years before Alien, and that was the beginning of the "Aliens" how do they advance so far in 30 years?

In Alien when the android's head gets ripped off they have to hook it up to wires to get it working. 30 years before that an android gets his head ripped off and it works fine?

Why did they have Guy Pearce playing an old man in obviously fake make-up when they never show him as a young man? Are there no older age actors left they could have used?

I found it hard to believe that the Prometheus could have taken down the Engineer's ship, that thing was massive and looked pretty strong. Something about ion explosion maybe?

Why did Vickers not just run/roll sideways like Shaw instead of being crushed by the ship in the age-old "bad guy gets killed in a horrible way" scene.

What was with the cheesy Star Trek sounding score in what was supposed to be a dark and disturbing film?

And yeah I agree, these "scientists" were a shit show. It is no surprise that none of them made it, Jesus.

I did not get the DNA thing, what was the "match" to human DNA all about? If it was a match, the Engineer alien should have been a human, not a 10 foot tall albino with black eyes. Did I miss something?

As afore-mentioned douche was kind enough to point out, Alien and Prometheus take plase on 2 different worlds, planets/moons whatever.

So how did the Xeno aliens develop to the point that they could travel to a different planet so quickly?

I know there was a picture of a xeno-like thing in the big head sculpture room, so apparently they already existed, but then where? And how?

Damn you Lindelof.

TankD - That article was great. Now there's something interesting in what Ridley said about humans killing a Engineer, then pissing the Gods off. Now humans are developing androids who gets people kill as well. There's something there that should had been explored.

laugh at you all! i am loving this movie more and more for it's polarizing effect on cbm! i really want to watch it again so i can be told just how wrong i am again and again and again!!!

wish every release was is fun as this one is turning out to be! the marvel vs dc was so tired, long live the
prometheus debate!!!!

@Ror: I see your point, and it was not a terrible film.

I think that Lindelof is just pushing his luck after Lost, he seems to think he can just throw "cool" sci-fi ideas together by linking them in one overall story and never go back to them or fully explain them and that we will just lap it up like the good little geeks we are.

It is getting a bit old.

@Intruder: If it is an Alien movie then why did they suck so bad at it?

First it's a full-on Alien prequel, then its a stand alone story, then it's a stan-alone story in the same "universe", then it's a sort-of prequel with a xenomorph wall sculpture and a xenomorph birth thrown in at the end.

F*ck me it's been 30 years, you think they could have gotten their shit together when they finally decide to make it.

@Ror I hate it because I expected so much out of it, there was no way it ever could have lived up to my expectations. It wasn't a terrible movie, I could even argue that it was a great movie, but I think I hate that it disappointed me, so it sort of morphed into a hatred of the movie.

If that made any sense at all...

IM53: She made sure to take David in case she gets lonely, he has three speeds lol.

Yeah def not as scary as the trailer made it out to be.

@Greengo: Still with the moons?? lol

Catch ya later folks.