Ate Outbacks, saw Prometheus, Epic Movie!
Setting up for a potential sequel is not an excuse for a weak story.
Sorry, I really wanted to come out of the theater raving about a great movie, but it didn't happen, and scenes like this are the reason. As with Star Trek and other popular franchises, fans will try every argument to justify the bad decisions of the film makers, but in the end it's still a poor decision.
And Da Vinci Code is hardly an example of a well-done film. It was merely okay at best.
Obviously, but which audience? Given the films lofty aspirations, and Scott's often stated admiration for the philosophical power of sci-fi, thinking sci-fi fans are right to be a little annoyed - even whilst excepting the limitations of such an endeavour as a commercial project.
There is a dissonance which runs through this whole project between the film as a work of art and the film as a commodity, between what a film maker might like to do, and what a studio will permit him to. The result is a film which can be at once far-reaching and disappointing.
This is the first Scott movie I recall which didn't knock me out. Bladerunner, Blackhawk Down, Alien, all excellent. I'm surprised he botched this one. The little promo videos going around youtube were very well-made, expecially the one about David (who turns out to be the best thing in this film).
Oh, she's cute, don't get me wrong But she's a little short in the upper department, if you know what I mean:lol:Noomi Rapace not sexy?
Oh, she's cute, don't get me wrong But she's a little short in the upper department, if you know what I mean:lol:
It wouldn't have bothered me if she hadn't spent a long portion of the movie nearly naked, like they were trying to say "Hey, look how hot this woman is!" I was thinking, "Um, try this scene with Charleze Theron, and you might get my attention"
I loved David and the Engineer characters, and the scenes with David activating the alien spaceship's hologram controls, and the Engineer getting ready to fly away were my favorites - these had some of the awe and wonder I was wanting to experience.
The sophisticated alien computer has a sort of flute-like control mechanism, apparently used exclusively to turn the system on, at which point it’s operated by buttons. Which is like having a remote control for your TV, except for the power button, which takes the form of a flute. Why don’t they just have an on button? Or an entirely flute-based control system?
This list of the film's plot-holes is pretty funny:
http://www.juliansanchez.com/2012/06/11/whats-wrong-with-prometheus-a-partial-list/
This list of the film's plot-holes is pretty funny:
http://www.juliansanchez.com/2012/06/11/whats-wrong-with-prometheus-a-partial-list/
Any highly advanced race would be by it nature a benign one.
-I liked the whole benevolent alien creators thing being completely turned on it's head, even though there was no final justification for their desire to genocide us. It puts us on the other end of the "created something bad and want to put it back in the box" equation of countless other movies.
No kidding! I've always argued that with people that think aliens would be our "space brothers". Heck, I read an article not too long ago that said we should start solving global climate change because any advanced aliens that come here would be more "one with nature and earth" because of the advanced tech and might not take kindly to our fracking up our planet. Which also was the whole idea behind the recent "The day the Earth Stood Still" movie.Why should it be so? Historically, the most advanced civilizations on Earth have never been benign, they have been quite violent but just more methodical and organized in their viciousness. There is absolutely no logical reason a "highly advanced" (in what?) race should be "benign", especially towards creatures they have absolutely nothing in common with.
They claim stories of torture, invasive procedures and pretty much a lack of caring how we feel from aliens.
I have friends that would love to have aliens land in front of them while I said I'd run the other way as fast as I could.
Well mainly based on the stories from people that claim abduction.