The movie was an incredibly pain to watch. The characters were mind-boggingly stupid, every single one of them, from start to finish. The story was extremely shallow. No interest in a sequel whatsoever.
Prometheus 2: Apparently it's happening
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I enjoyed Prometheus, but agree that (most of) the characters were too stupid for their own good and that it changed too quickly to generic horror flick from mystery movie. That being said, I definitely want to see a follow-up as long as the writers know what they want the movie to say and drop this whole "it is but it isn't a a prequel to Alien" idea.
Of course, with only David and Elizabeth left alive, the two smartest characters remain and hopefully don't show the stupidity of the other characters from the original going forward.
Of course, with only David and Elizabeth left alive, the two smartest characters remain and hopefully don't show the stupidity of the other characters from the original going forward.
I adored Prometheus and I'm really excited for a sequel.
The first one was useless unless they have a sequel.
^^^ Interesting...the flask ship that was originally designed by H.R. Giger (RIP) as the derelict in the first movie is in the general shape of a horseshoe, which is also reminiscent of the last letter in the Greek alphabet, Omega (Ω), that also has been historically symbolic for "the end" or death in the Christian religion, when Jesus refers to himself as "I am the Alpha and the Omega" - the beginning and the end.
Cool poster - looking forward to the new movie.
Since Scott mentioned in Prometheus-related interviews a couple years back that Jesus himself was an Engineer ("What happened 2000 years ago?!?") and was killed by humanity and causing the Engineers to hate us, I suspect there is likely more than just a passing association there.
Cool poster - looking forward to the new movie.
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I got a feeling its gonna be huge.
TerraNovan
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That is because no one bothered to follow the prerelease promotional campaign.
If you did youd realize three core things to understand the movie..
1) this film is about creator-god complexs, not just the engineers but Weyland himself sees himself as a god. The entire promotional compaign is about how amazing his ideas and creations are.
2) This film is more closely connected to blade runner than Alien, that may throw you through a loop for a while, but if you understand the two films its almost obvious. David represents a truly new entity not burdened by human emotions.
3) David is the main cast of the movie, the crew are not at all relevant which is why they are intentionally under developed. The focus is all on david, and the extremes he will go to fulfill his masters wishes. Hence if you dont understand how he is programmed or the premises hes working under you will not get the movie..
Shaw is there to be representative victim of the human race. Weyland considers himself a god, David is basically a truly neutral party fulfilling his masters wishes, and the engineers representing yet a third faction that cannot be seen as mere mortal nor as a true god.
Regarding the first one:
^ Accurate.
^ Accurate.
As much as I enjoyed Prometheus, if you need to watch a bunch of trailers and viral videos in order to make sense of a film, then the problem is with the film, not the audience.
Me neither. Seemed pretty straight forward to me, actually. Sure there were problems with some idiotic characters (but hey, they died as they lived - stupidly, right?) and questionable editing choices, but I never saw it as the massive abortion that all the post-op hyperbole of hysterical Aliens fans said it was.
No issues whatsoever following the film. And I really did like it actually. Some problems I might get, some I don't see why people fuss over. For example, the stuff about the scientists taking their helmets off. They've got atmospheric scanners, which tell them the air is fine to breath. We as the viewers know what happens in movies like this when people take their helmets off, but in real life, if you have reliable tech that tells you you can breath the air, you take your helmet off. So I never got why people got all pissed of about that....
But other then that, it entertaint me, it had a plot I liked and a theme I appraciated. Sure, the characters weren't that well developed, but the characters weren't what this movie was about anyway.
But other then that, it entertaint me, it had a plot I liked and a theme I appraciated. Sure, the characters weren't that well developed, but the characters weren't what this movie was about anyway.
I finally saw it upon the "premium" channels and had no problems following the narrative. My only regret, and it's purely a personal thing, was that the Engineers were not the Snuffleluphiguss creatures the earliest Dark Horse Comics depicted. (These were the comics published after "Aliens" but before "Alien 3", which presented the survivors from Cameron's sequel actually made it back to Earth. That storyline started with Newt as a young woman plagued with nightmares much like Ripley had suffered. She and others eventually meet a living member of the "space jockey's" species, and it looked something like a bipedal elephant. Alas, I never learned what happened afterwards since the shop that had offered the earlier issues did not supply later issues!) True, later the "Alien" films "invalidated' that comic series and others, but I liked where it was going.)
Sincerely,
Bill
Sincerely,
Bill
Ridley Scott confirms Prometheus 2 is his next movie
http://www.slashfilm.com/ridley-scott-confirms-prometheus-2/
http://www.slashfilm.com/ridley-scott-confirms-prometheus-2/
Regarding the first one:
^ Accurate.
Along with the idiots taking helmets off and playing with space snakes.
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