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  • Biohazard
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    Originally posted by Signal30 View Post
    The script was shit. No amount of CGI sprinkles can cover that.
    Amen.

    Can't believe garbage writing like this gets made. Where is quality control when you need it?

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  • Signal30
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    Originally posted by CthulhuRises View Post
    There are definitely issues with the film, but I think the hate is a little over the top (and has to be in large part due to inflated expectations).
    I had no inflated expectations. I'm not a huge fan of the franchise, or of Scott, but I expected competent narrative. I didn't get that. Now, the chassis looked great, but the motor sucked. A lot of great questions, but absolutely no interest in answering any of them.

    Sad thing is that Scott spent $130,000,000 to continue cribbing from a low budget Italian movie made in the sixties. With a worse script. Which took some energy.

    The script was shit. No amount of CGI sprinkles can cover that.

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  • Biohazard
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    My issues:

    -The movie takes a while to get rolling. In ALIEN, the movie pretty much started with the crew waking up. In this film, that happens about 15 minutes in, violating the 'arrive late, leave early' rule.

    -What was the point of Fassbender poisoning the one scientist dude? That subplot wasn't really explored at all.

    -Also not sure of the purpose of having the alien baby. Rapace runs from everyone and nobody follows her. She cuts it out and is sore a bit afterward. What were the consequences of that entire sequence? Seemed pretty extraneous to me.

    -Why would anyone run along the path of a giant rolling object instead of simply stepping aside? That was the dumbest thing I've seen in a movie in ages.

    -There are a few interesting ideas about life and creation and purpose being tossed around, but they are never explored in any way. Characters just ask questions and then die. Like snuffing a match before it reaches the candle.

    -Despite the movie's lofty ambitions, it feels very small. Not only geographically, but in a sense that not a whole lot happened...and what did happen usually had no significant consequence, which made it feel - ironically - pointless.

    It looked cool, the cast was good, and the music was effective. Otherwise, it didn't accomplish much. I know the movie wanted me to think, but not about how it could have been better.

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  • CthulhuRises
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    Wow...this is strange. At first my expectations for "Prometheus" were incredibly high. Then I read this thread (and a lot of other hate) and my expectations subsequently plummeted. Tonight I saw "Prometheus" and ended up being pleasantly surprised. It wasn't great, but I enjoyed it (I'd give it a B-). Fassbender was incredible (I find myself saying that a lot lately), and there were some genuine tense moments.

    The biggest issues for me were...

    - The Biologist being so eager to touch the snake-creature.
    - David "infecting" Charlie. (I suppose this could be chalked up to evolving emotions of bitterness, curiosity of what would happen to him, or a combination of both.)
    - Shaw knocking out the guard and the woman, then them subsequently forgetting about her for 5 minutes (this one was pretty egregious).
    - Having Guy Pearce play Weyland instead of an older actor (the makeup really was bad).
    - The Hologram thing...still a little confused on how that worked.
    - The squid creatures...why do they yield more squid creatures (albeit giant ones) when they enter/incubate in a human, but turn into an alien after entering the engineer?

    There are definitely issues with the film, but I think the hate is a little over the top (and has to be in large part due to inflated expectations). I think it's enjoyable enough if for no other reasons than Fassbender's performance, the amazing visuals, and just enough scenes of interest.

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  • Takeshiro
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    Originally posted by TwoBrad Bradley View Post

    A thought: The engineers were "stopped" about 2,000 years ago (isn't that the carbon date of the head?) from going back to Earth. Events on Earth about 2,000 years ago might be a clue to the reason why.




    Scott confirmed that.

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  • TwoBrad Bradley
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    The Great Movie Ride at Disney World is better than this.

    A thought: The engineers were "stopped" about 2,000 years ago (isn't that the carbon date of the head?) from going back to Earth. Events on Earth about 2,000 years ago might be a clue to the reason why.

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  • Mortal_Remains
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    We are also led to believe that none of the crew knew each other prior to the mission.

    The geologist guy not wanting to make friends was literally the only amount of character building we got out of him.

    I would have loved a scene where someone opens up about taking the mission because they love the great unknown... They have no family ties back home... etc... Maybe another guy has a picture of their child back home... And keeps it on him at all times... etc... Maybe some of this sounds cliched... but anything would have been better than what we got.

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  • jdef75
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    Originally posted by Jules View Post
    ....unable to understand (or refuse to) a decision outside of what they themselves would of done, or how they would of acted. Or they say, that character wouldn't of done that. That's a movie, someone doing something they never would of done before.
    This is not about what we'd do, but what's believable given the character portrayed and the situation. Two great examples are:

    Aliens - The Lieutenant freezes and f**ks up big time when the Marines are attacked in the Alien hive. This is totally believable because Cameron has set up the Lieutenant's character adequately. We know that the guy has practically no experience, is making questionable calls and has issues projecting authority. So when he falls to pieces it makes complete sense. In fact we're prepped for it.

    Alien - Ripley wants to enforce quarantine but is over ridden and abused for doing so. Again this reaction to Ripley's reasonable action makes sense because O'Bannon has prepped the characters well. We know these guys are just blue collar Joes. We know their primary concern is getting home and paid. We don't expect them to be self sacrificing heroes. We also know that Ripley has issues establishing her authority. So when Ripley makes her call we know she's gonna cop some crap over it.

    The other thing is that the Characters in both Alien and Aliens make complete sense given the mission, the job, the plot. That helps lend authenticity to the films, especially critical in a genre that strays so far from reality.

    Then there's Prometheus, where a trillion dollar ship, going where no dude has gone before, is crewed by rejects from Walmart.

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  • Left Hand
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    Originally posted by Mortal_Remains View Post

    Weylan: His make-up was fookin horrible... Get an old actor to play an old man. Why would that be so hard?
    THANK YOU!

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  • Left Hand
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    SPOILERS

    So let me get this straight...

    The superhumans, they made the black ooze to kill off mankind, but something went wrong and it killed them.

    But one of them intentionally drank the stuff in the opening scene because... why? ("Hey look, our poison bio weapon, om nom nom.")

    And this black ooze... It disintigrates the superhumans who made it... but it turns normal humans into homicidal, flame-retardant zombies who, if they have sex, will impregnate a woman with... a baby squid... and then, if the squid eats one of the superhumans... you get an alien? What is this, anime?

    And why did Fassbender drug the male scientist? If he was Weylan's, didn't Weylan's like him? Then he pulls a very creepy villain routine to Shaw during the decontamination... and then he's her buddy again at the end?

    And this movie really did build to a point where it promised answers. I don't ask for answers in all films, but when you spend the entire movie with this huge setup, then you deny us the payoff...
    Last edited by Left Hand; 06-09-2012, 06:56 PM.

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  • Signal30
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    It's the filmmaker's obligation to make a character's actions understandable to the audience. You can't have a character running around the catacombs acting all girly in fear, then [SPOILER] stop all the sudden to try and pet a slimy space snake.[END SPOILER]

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  • Jules
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    One of the things I've always found frustrating about people complaining about character choices/motivations, is how so many people are absolutely unable to understand (or refuse to) a decision outside of what they themselves would of done, or how they would of acted. Or they say, that character wouldn't of done that. That's a movie, someone doing something they never would of done before.

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  • Dr. Gonzo
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    Originally posted by Paul Striver View Post
    I didn't care one iota about any of the characters. Their deaths meant nothing to me...

    ...It's chockful of things that are implausible or flatly impossible...

    But it did look pretty, and I wasn't bored.
    This.

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  • 60WordsPerHour
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    All that needs to be said about Prometheus is that Comic Book Guy would have worn out about three keyboards over it by now.

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  • SNAFU
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    Originally posted by Mortal_Remains View Post
    Have it so that the Engineers who made human life ended up creating a synthetic being... Much like how the humans created David... But these Synthetic beings turned on their masters and decided to wipe out all intelligent organic life in the galaxy because they deem them to be flawed. To do that they use their own biological weapons against them.

    When David learns of what the synthetics plan to do he sides with them, only to be thwarted by Elizabeth in the end.
    I like it! Shades of BLADE RUNNER also--how ironic.

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