Prometheus

plus the opening scene was a complete waste of time and crap

Haven’t we established that the opening scene was the Engineers “seeding” earth with their DNA and creating (human) life on earth?

Kind of important…

I understand what was happening but it was a poor scene.

Have you watched masterchef? They make fake caviar by dripping globules of stuff into a bowl of cold water. It’s the height of modern cooking.

That’s what he was eating, fake caviar.

If we transpose this to our society, we can see Ridley is merely commentating on the rise and fall of human achievement and is prophesising the explosion of our own egocentricity into a festing pile of worm juice.

i would have like to see the meeting where they decided who got to die to seed a planet.

Obviously the guy who plays the jazz flute to fly the space ship has got a cast iron excuse not to eat some black spunk like stuff and then rot into a waterfall.

I bet it’s always the guy on work experience.

What if the spaceship flies off and he realises he’s left the pot of caviar on his bedside table?

they ring the school to say he wasn’t listening and the head teacher gives him a written warning which goes in his permanent record.

plus the opening scene was a complete waste of time and crap

😯 a good scene that!

I thought it was cheesey and contrived. Plus no one like to see the work experience boy crumble up after eating rancid caviar. Obviously wasn’t from a beluga fish.

I was quite pleased to leave the cinema and go for a beer when it finished

7/10 as it’s Friday and I’m happy

what’s weird is, I knew all along it wouldn’t live up to (my) expectations, i’m not surprised at all by the general feeling of ‘meh’ about the movie, yet i’m still compelled to go and watch it.. which is exactly what i’m doing this evening.

I’m even going to watch it in 3D despite being told it’s a waste of time.

What is it about the clever marketing that brainwashes me so?..

^
Me too…

4 out of 10 for me. A little disappointed.

thought start was good misen

whole film yes coulda been better deffo.

but knew miself it werent gonna be what i hoped for,but it turned out ok,and i enjoyed it,and had me thinking after which i like in a film,

it was awful, bar the opening scene which was very good.

Lots of little clips which weren’t particularly well thought out. Nothing of consequence seemed to happen and it was all a bit “meh”.

Plus it was the first film I’ve watched in 3d and that was as underwhelmimg as I expected.

different film this

but Moon was better…acting the works..

It was my first 3D movie too,
Compared to the ‘kids birthday card 3D effects in the Spiderman trailer’ that proceeded it I thought it’s ‘use’ of 3D was vastly superior – though I did spend allot of time taking the glasses on and off to see if I was getting ‘it’ / judging parallax angle 🙂

Watching alien now with the kids in preparation for us all seeing it tomorrow. Yes the geek gene lives on.

Funny how alien has dated, I shat myself watching it at their age but they are all a bit meh.

On the other hand all their mates are raving about prometheus.

As long as its better that avatar i’ll be happy.

Just seen it – thoroughly enjoyable, but sci fi in general requires a bit of suspension of disbelief, and this was no different.

Biggest plot hole for me was to wonder why the constellation depicted in the cave paintings etc didn’t direct them to the home world of the space jockeys, rather than some desolate holding base for pots of DNA goo.

FWIW, my interpretation was that the individual SJ at the start was seeding earth Promethean style – ie unauthorised, the results (humans) are seen as a problem and the mission of the ship at the end was to wipe the slate clean. Unfortunately, they local worms (which we see) had got into the goo, with rather unfortunate results for the SJs on the base.

Some cracking scenes though – the bit in the medipod thing was fantastically nightmarish. Definitely worth the admission money.

Biggest plot hole for me was to wonder why the constellation depicted in the cave paintings etc didn’t direct them to the home world of the space jockeys, rather than some desolate holding base for pots of DNA goo.

The cave paintings were a warning not an invitation

if the sj that seeded earth was a maverick/rogue then why was he dropped off by a space ship?

His mum dropped him off. She thought he was just going to play by the stream.

Are we nearly there yet?

“5 more millenia”

anyone rember the star trek tng episode, where alll the huminoid’s find a map in their joint dna, then goto a planet where they find a message from they’re creators. that was a million times better than this crap.

why are new films so crap. please, can the new batman be as good as the 2nd.

why are new films so crap. please, can the new batman be as good as the 2nd.

God I hope not. The dark knight was the best one by far, not because of batman but because of the joker. Heath was awesome.

yeah just got back from watching.

i now understand that:

a) my hunches on over hyped movies are ALWAYS correct.

b) Ridley seems to have gotten lucky a couple of times in the past, and appears to be losing the plot, Lucas style

c) Blade Runner 2 will cause mass suicides amongst Sci-Fi freaks if he rapes the original story as much as he no doubt will.

d) many of you formulate some very daft ideas when left facing gaping plot holes

e) many of you are easily pleased (this is probably a good thing)

f) Fassbender is ace, and will be regarded one of the greats in the near future

g) great movies are so few and far between now, but that’s why we should embrace them when they come along. Without the sour the sweet would never taste so good.. etc

In summary, visually, its a great movie. That’s where the great ends. If you think of it in ‘ripping yarn action buster’ terms, and switch your brain off, you’ll probably have a good time.
Paradoxically, It also seems to be trying too hard to be a thinking mans movie, but the magic just isn’t there.
I blame the **** from Lost. Him and a slightly senile Ridley.

5/10 I’m feeling generous.

good summary slimjim

slimjim +10 !

one of the lines from the film i almost laughed out at was also in the trailer
?”If you don’t stop it, there won’t be any home to go back to!”
..umm why?? the film didnt make us think the SJ’s were a threat due to the unexplained goo, the unexplained ‘running SJs videos’, the unexplained Theron characters ‘agenda’ , the unexplained reason for the them to destroy us all and actively seek out the last human alive to try and kill her and (as said above) the unexplained reason why they must have come back over generations on earth and left diagrams of where they were…..

a good read here– even if you dodnt like the film….

heres my fav quote for a taster…

Yeah. The reason the Engineers don’t like us any more is that they made us a Space Jesus, and we broke him. Reader, that’s not me pulling wild ideas out of my arse. That’s RIDLEY SCOTT.

The FX are good, the operation scene was great but the movie was ok.

Just seen it. Huge disappointment, ‘drivel’ would be my summary. Joe Abercrombie’s review is spot on.

http://www.joeabercrombie.com/2012/06/04/prometheus/

That Sottish bird was Catelyn Stark’s mad sister. That’s all I have to add.

Other than the whole cave painting still makes no sense. If it was an invitation then why not drop off a death capsule instead. If it was a warning why not slap put a big scull & crossbones next to the map.

Joe Abercrombie’s review is spot on.

Hmm, I agreed with a reasonable amount of what he was saying, but then in the comments he said….

I know a lot of people don’t think much of Avatar but, boy, I thought that was vastly superior. At least it hit what it was aiming at.

😯

He is probably right – I expected nothing from Avatar therefore wasn’t disappointed, whereas I expected so much more from Ridley Scott – like a cohesive plot, decent dialogue, etc etc

Haven’t yet seen it…but still want to.

Moon was a massive surprise, it reminded me very much of the sci-fi films of the 70s and early 80s, most notably Outland and in a very good way too. I wrote it off as having a tired plot and wasn’t keen to entertain Bowie’s son as a director but I was forced to eat my words. Excellent stuff and I hope Duncan Jones continues to turn out intelligent and well executed stuff like Moon.

roady_tony post and monkeyboyjc – have ‘ruined it’ for me.

May I suggest we now all watch ‘Iron Sky’ to readdress the scifi balance.

🙂

Well, I’m going to see it during the week, and as I’m treating all the ‘reviewers’ on here the same way that I treat all the reviewers in the papers, like Tookey in the Mail, I’ll make my own mind up, thank you very much. I go to be entertained, not to have the meaning of life presented to me. That way I’m very rarely disappointed.

i still have yet to see the film,but i hope it will come to my local cinema (devizes palace cinema).it’s been ages since i last went to the cinema.

roady_tony & Slimjim – excellent comments & questions – thank you.

?”If you don’t stop it, there won’t be any home to go back to!”

This nods it’s head to Jaws “If you son’t close the beaches you won’t have a fourth of July”. (or similar)

This guy has managed to make sense of Scotts original interperatations the film are all about, and put it together in a good read – don’t read it if you havent seen it though as it has MAJOR spoilers, basically running you through the storyline of the entire film.

it does explain Scott’s explaination of my second flaw with the film though….. (although not lightspeed travel).