Prometheus sucks

[Glassfan]

I just saw Prometheus. I went into it expecting it to combine the worst elements of Mission to Mars and the first Alien vs. Predator, and you know what? It was even worse than I expected. Oh, sure, the cast is solid and there are some very leet grafix along the way, but the plot sucks. From the android's motivations to the monsters' lifecycles, nothing that's presented here makes any bloody sense at all.

I read the wiki article on Prometheus before I went to see the movie, and so everything did make sense. The monsters life cycles don't make sense to you because this is a prequal - they haven't evolved into the Nostromo aliens yet.

...Still, since we're listing nitpicks, I'll add one: -Why would a robot dye its hair? If you think it's thematically important for him to be a blond for some reason, could you at least properly dye the roots so that it's not glaringly obviously fake blond when you do all those shots of its disembodied head lying on the floor.

David is begining to develop a personality. He admires and styles himself after Lawrence of Arabia - remember the movie clip? Peter O'Toole had that hair in the movie.

Oh, another thing that Ridley managed to totally screw up: the things that look like chestbursters bury themselves inside people instead of bursting out, but the thing that looks like a giant facehugger comes out of a person's body? Has this guy even watched his own movie, or any of the others, ever? SRSLY WTF

EDIT: I just realized a major plot error. The Space Jockeys left maps all over our planet telling us to come and visit not their home planet, but an uninhabited rock upon which they would later build a bio-weapons lab? SRSLY WTF...

The big change is that the Aliens are not a naturally evolved species, but a designed bio-weapon. They're designed specifically to infect and spread quickly amoung an enemy population, as we indeed observed in the Ripley movies. Each generation attacks differently.

Concerning the rock-wall "maps"; If the Space Jockeys are indeed involved in a millenial war, then they certainly wouldn't leave maps around to their homeworld. Assuming - and this is my own speculation - that they seeded the Earth to evolve a soldier-species, they would want us to show up at their base - to be put to use.

Of course the Girl With the Dragon Tatoo is off to find the Space Jockey's homeworld - a sequal to the prequal - and I'm betting that's what she finds.

 

[sophie]

Ok, you've officially lost all credibility

You whine about "plot holes" and then say Battlefield Earth wasn't that bad? Really guy?

Well, this is the guy who thought "The Last Airbender" was a good movie.

 

[Azale]

Well, this is the guy who thought "The Last Airbender" was a good movie.

I should have never entered this thread.

 

[DinoDoc]

The cobra things. Where do they come from? What do they do after entering a person's mouth? Are they native to the planet, or some stage of the monsters' lifecycle?

Pretty sure they turn out to be proto-face huggers.

 

[Mise]

The butthurt is strong in this thread. Any plot hole or confused characterisation really doesn't detract from the film's good qualities. It's visually stunning and incredibly exciting to watch, and it asks questions that are really interesting to think about. What if there is a God, but he hates us? That's the overarching theme that runs frames the entire plot, and it's pretty easy to enjoy the film when you look at it as a way of asking the audience that question. If you look at it as a scientifically accurate representation of how rigorous geological/anthropological research might lead to the discovery of alien (or even Alien) life, then no, you won't really enjoy it, and you probably shouldn't have watched it.

 

[Glassfan]

I saw it in 2D. Did anyone see it in 3D?

 

[Mise]

Yes! It was amazeballs. The opening scene over the mountains/river was incredible.

 

[OrsonM]

I saw it in 3d and it was pretty cool. It wasn't flashy, very subtle and I think it aided a lot in scenes that were meant to be awe inspiring: the beginning of time sequence, the space sequences, the 2001 throwback, the Prometheus landing and the sandstorm were major highlights. Scenes that you would think that would look great in 3d didn't stand out as much, such as the dream sequences or the stellar map that David discovers.


Visit beautiful Iceland... in 3d!

It is interesting to see how divided the audience reaction is, either people love it or hate it (and in true internet fashion call each other stupid):

http://www.metacritic.com/movie/prometheus/user-reviews

I'll be damned if I can spot a logical reason for all the hate, it all seems breakdown into very nitpicky arguments. Were they expecting it to be more like Alien 2 & 3 (and 4, and AVP and AVP2)??, Prometheus certainly throws all of the Alien franchise past lore aside...


So no more of this extremely tasteful expanded Alien universe???... make it so!

 

[ELBSeattle]

G-Max is my hero. I had the EXACT SAME QUESTIONS while watching the movie yesterday. My partner and I raised some of these questions on the way home. 'Wait, so why did...' and 'What about the ...' Prometheus is a movie that has only gotten worse upon repeated reflection. It is, imho, the worst kind of movie. It has pretensions of being a movie full of significant questions but fails miserably when it comes to delivering.

 

[Lillefix]

It is, imho, the worst kind of movie. It has pretensions of being a movie full of significant questions but fails miserably when it comes to delivering.

You can't have seen many movies.

 

[_random_]

G-Max is my hero. I had the EXACT SAME QUESTIONS while watching the movie yesterday. My partner and I raised some of these questions on the way home. 'Wait, so why did...' and 'What about the ...' Prometheus is a movie that has only gotten worse upon repeated reflection. It is, imho, the worst kind of movie. It has pretensions of being a movie full of significant questions but fails miserably when it comes to delivering.

Nice try, G-Max.

 

[Mise]

I feel like the people complaining are the type of people who would watch Hitchcock's The Birds and criticise him for never explaining why the birds started to attack.

 

[Silurian]

Maybe for Hitchcock the birds are Hitchcock and Melanie is Tippi.

 

[Mise]

Poor Tippi

 

[TheDanish]

I went in expecting a successor to Alien, and I was not disappointed. The shocks, violence, and gore kept me occupied enough to forget about the gaping plotholes.

I thought the acting was pretty good, actually, and the writing was decent, but there definitely could have been more character development.

8/10, would pay theater price to see it again. Might buy it on DvD.

 

[Ozbenno]

I saw it last night in 3D, visually it was stunning and I thought the actors were very good as well.

As for the "plot holes" and questions that were rasied but not necessarily answered, I'm sure that's what the sequel is for

 

[Glassfan]

And Noomi Rapace in her futuristic undies wasn't too shabby either.

 

[classical_hero]

Link to video.

 

[OrsonM]

It was originally supposed to be more of a prequel, with the last shot of the movie ending on like a set tied directly to the original Alien (and the final scene with a bunch of hidden soldiers fighting xenomorphs or something around those lines).

So in that way it would had been more like the Star Wars prequels, with everything being directly tied in this not to subtle way, which is what fans of Aliens would had probably liked more.

Look it's tiny Ash and Lambert, what a freakishly small universe!, oh and it's baby Bishop... and he is building the Xenomorph's queen, no way!

 

[Glassfan]

It was originally supposed to be more of a prequel, with the last shot of the movie ending on like a set tied directly to the original Alien (and the final scene with a bunch of hidden soldiers fighting xenomorphs or something around those lines).

So in that way it would had been more like the Star Wars prequels, with everything being directly tied in this not to subtle way, which is what fans of Aliens would had probably liked more.

Look it's tiny Ash and Lambert, what a freakishly small universe!, oh and it's baby Bishop... and he is building the Xenomorph's queen, no way!

Exactly. In the wiki article it explains that Ridley Scott had a change of heart during production and that Prometheus became more of a stand-alone in the Alien Universe.

Also, if I haven't mentioned it already, be sure to check-out the Prometheus TED Viral Clip on Youtube.