[Closed] Prometheus, what a film!!!!!!!!

The opening scene was simply stunning. The music, landscapes, the intrigue of the engineers self sacrifice. I was thinking this is going to be something else.

Then it all slowly turned to sh*t. It was so obvious where Ridley was arguing with the studio and they got their way. Shame as the potential was massive.

hopefully we will get a meaty directors cut, that being said I still enjoyed it a lot

I did enjoy it but there was some element of it feeling rushed in places. But the whole it wasn't an Alien prequel, pffft.

The opening scene was simply stunning. The music, landscapes, the intrigue of the engineers self sacrifice. I was thinking this is going to be something else.
Then it all slowly turned to sh*t. It was so obvious where Ridley was arguing with the studio and they got their way. Shame as the potential was massive.

+1

Absolutely shite movie, which I should have known would be shit after one of the writers of 'I woke up and it was all heaven lol' Lost was involved.

So many plot holes, mistakes, stupid/unexplained actions from the crew. Makes me angry now just thinking about it. Such a wasted chance. I mean if you put any thought into it whatsoever it falls apart.

Shite.

deserter - Member
hopefully we will get a meaty directors cut, that being said I still enjoyed it a lot
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The blu ray/ DVD has some cut scenes on the extras disc apparently

There will be no directors cut - Ridley has already said that the cinema cut is the directors cut

We just have to face up to the fact that the film is a load of old pony

Watched this for the first time t'other day

Yes, it was pants. Even after I'd lowered my expectations after reading it was pants. Lots of potential squandered.

Excellent movie, well entertaining I thought 🙂

I watched this last night. Meh! it was ok, nothing special.

I was disappointed, although if anyone puts the Benny Hill soundtrack to the bit where she's 'trying' to avoid the falling bits of ship I'd watch it...

First half was really enjoyable, very tense but from the whole bit where Noomi Rapace's character got "pregnant" it all went a bit stupid. The whole bit with the baby alien right at the end felt like it was very much shoe horned in there to create a link to the later films.

Dont know why so many people slated this film

Probably because different people have different opinions on what makes a good film

I've not seen the film, although I have been put off watching it by all the hype.

I don't know if it's just me being difficult, but the more hype something gets the less interested I am in it.

i thought the film was pants apart from the bit where she uses the surgery machine for the cesarean/abortion

+1 with JCL

still ok though.

It was so obvious where Ridley was arguing with the studio and they got their way. Shame as the potential was massive.

I thought Ridley got his way, and released the movie he wanted. The studio wanted a 'directors cut' with deleted scenes re-inserted, but Scott was against this. Course, he may change his mind, and story, in light of the reception it received...

JCL hit the nail on the head

'I woke up and it was all heaven lol'

AlexSimon - Member

That's not what happened in Lost.

It basically was but let me rephrase anyhow: 'I flashed sideways after messing about pressing a button every 108 minutes in a basically irrelevant hatch, dodging polar bears from a basically irrelevant experiment, found an irrelevant three-toed statue, found some weird shit stones in a cave, did some basically irrelevant time travel using some weird underground wheel thing then I splashed about in some weird glowing water never before mentioned and now I'm in multi-religion heaven created especially for us 'cause we spent such a magical time together on purgatory island that according to the authors is [i]definitely not purgatory[/i] lol'.

They should have shown this at the start of the first episode, then we could have known the ending would be pseudo-religious bilge.
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Agree wholeheartedly with the 'irrelevant' bits. One of the most disappointing shows ever. Basically got you thinking there was something linking everything together, when in fact they were just leading us along. Basically the island was 'special' and we should just take that as a good enough explanation. I mean - the smoke monster - wth?

retro83 - Member
Absolutely shite movie, which I should have known would be shit after one of the writers of 'I woke up and it was all heaven lol' Lost was involved.

So many plot holes, mistakes, stupid/unexplained actions from the crew. Makes me angry now just thinking about it. Such a wasted chance. I mean if you put any thought into it whatsoever it falls apart.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x1YuvUQFJ0

You probably need to watch it if only to make yourself as irritated as me.

Worth watching and looked cool but the plot and script are really very poor indeed. Very difficult to care about any of the characters.

And I blame the lost writer too.

mostly a re-writing of Alien. The opening scenes were brilliant and hugely visua,
but like someone said above - descended into franchise material, ticking boxes for the fans. Was quite into it when I saw it, but on reflection a bit dissappointing. But Ridley coming back to big sci-fi is always going to be dissappointing I suppos
e. It's very hard to top Bladerunner.

There you go

I watched it at the cinema and enjoyed it but felt the story was a bit inconsistent.

I watched it last night on Bluray on a 40" TV and was far less impressed - the lack of scale on the smaller screen just left a fragmented mess.

I liked it. I think some of you see 'classic' films through rose-tinted spectacles.
It was certainly better than Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection which are just bad films.
Visually it was incredible, just wished I'd seen it on the big screen.

Prometheus was pretty dire.

Lost was so bad it was hilarious. I wanted to like that series but they consistently cobbled together the storyline, threw in ridiculous spokes, built stories around complete nonsense and basically built a series that would appeal to critics by keeping it complex.

I liked the whole film apart from the last scene. The engineer died in the pod but in Alien was dead in the chair! Just doesn't add up for me.

I didn't get the opening scene either.

@I_Ache the chair thing confused me too but the movies are set on different planets/moons.

Alien/Aliens - LV426
Prometheus - LV223

Opening scene was seeding the Earth with engineer DNA

I rather watch Alien vs Predator ...

So so about describes it. IMO better than Alien Ressurection, not as good as Alien 3. When the ship was cartwheeling on the planets surface why didn't they run to the side? There was a segment in the middle when it all kicked off big style. I thought there was far too much going on and it was all disjointed.

Really wanted to like this, but thought it was pretty awful.
I'm more than happy to suspend disbelief, but this doesn't extend to covering up plotholes and storyline silliness.
Is spreading your dna like that really the best way to create a species in your own image? Presumably not, since we look so different despite having identical dna.

No scary stuff/shocks/jump out of your seat stuff.
Built up no empathy with any of the characters, so their deaths were pretty emotionless.
Awful acting- at first I thought that the self abort scenes were a dream sequence, it was so badly acted, and the characters actions made no sense.

Fassbender was very good though.

The opening scene was simply stunning. The music, landscapes, the intrigue of the engineers self sacrifice. I was thinking this is going to be something else.

Then it all slowly turned to sh*t.

I've seen a few like this 🙁
2001 is the one that springs instantly to mind.

he opening scene was simply stunning. The music, landscapes, the intrigue of the engineers self sacrifice. I was thinking this is going to be something else.

Then it all slowly turned to sh*t. It was so obvious where Ridley was arguing with the studio and they got their way. Shame as the potential was massive.

Sums it up for me

If you think Prometheus was not good ... try sitting through Men in Black3 or Transformers3.
I failed to get through the first half hour of Transformers3 ... Dire!!

Very difficult to care about any of the characters.

+1.

30 years on from Aliens I can probably still name most, if not all, of the characters. 30 minutes on from Prometheus, I'd have struggled to name any.

I enjoyed Prometheus, but as others have said it could've been a whole lot better.

Where does the 'Ridley arguing with the studio' come from?

I thought that all along he's said he made the film he wanted to and that's why there would be no director's cut. I was under the impression that the additional scenes in the blu rays were included at the studios insistence.

I love how people point out the plot holes in Prometheus, obviously ignoring the fact that Alien and Aliens are riddled with plot holes as well. (not to mention 3 and 4)

At least in Aliens they'd learned the skill of turning corners when running away from things.

Very disappointed by it, characterisation was poor, plot was dull. I really can't understand how Ridley Scott came to make such a poor film.

30 years on from Aliens I can probably still name most, if not all, of the characters. 30 minutes on from Prometheus, I'd have struggled to name any.

Very well put.

They should have tied it in to the Alien film and then it would have made sense, especially to all the sci-fi geeks. It was an opportunity missed in my opinion. I bought the Blu-Ray and wished I'd rented it grrr.

mikey74 - Member
I love how people point out the plot holes in Prometheus, obviously ignoring the fact that Alien and Aliens are riddled with plot holes as well. (not to mention 3 and 4)

Hold on though, there are plot holes, but you have a basic thread of storyline which you can easily follow and characters which you could relate to. In Prometheus, the characters are stupid and you don't care about them whatsoever plus the plot holes and bizarre decisions happen about every 5 minutes. It's a constant distraction through the film.

erm, whats not to like? huge space craft, check. giant evil aliens, check. a massive fanny with teeth, check. just lacking in some big robots smashing each other up. its a sci fi film, after all...

Well, yeah, but.

Sci-fi can make up any rules it wants. But if it then doesn't stick to its own rules, it sets off my CDO.

Plus, as said, people hand-chosen for a mission shouldn't be so monumentally thick.

I've just watched it and enjoyed it except,I had to empty the washing machine. I left the film running and I don't think I missed anything.

I too expected more from Ridley, but hey, I mean his Rapha films are really good, this had the makings but just, just failed.

I didn't turn it off though, so on balance..7/10

I watched ten miuntes on a 'plane and had a strange feeling of déja vu, it was exactly the same as Alien but with different characters. I gave up and watched Race Across America instead.

Watched it on DVD recently really enjoyed it. Having seen alien recently and slightly coloured by the Kermode review I could see how it lacked the grittieness of alien but had enough going on that we were talking about it after the end. Again better than most of the dire crap in the top 10

heres an early script of prometheus

before lindelleoff - one of teh lost writers got his hands on it

i think i prefer it to the final version, a lot

to summarise the differences
-they do land on lv426
-weyland isnt with them
-vickers doesnt get killed in that ridiculous way of the ship falling on her; she is eaten through by acid when an alien is shot next to her
-david goes bonkers when he masters the engineer language and frees himself of his programming
-david doesnt ingfect holoway a facehugger gets him aslugliek xenomorph is loosed on the ship ala Alien
-david also forces shaw to be exposed to the a facehugger, like carter burke tries in Aliens
there is no cringeworthy proposition to shag between idris elba and charlize theron
only idris elba is left at the end so his crew cant say how much they love him and are happy to die with him
-fifiled becomes an alien human hybrid (ala alien 4?) rather than a zombie
- theres no ambiguity the ship was full of bioweapons heading to earth to kill humans david found that out
-at the end shaw is living the high life in vickers module

ethe rest is pretty much the same

lindeloff just added a load of psuedo mystical BS!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/112142280/Alien-Engineers

30 years on from Aliens I can probably still name most, if not all, of the characters. 30 minutes on from Prometheus, I'd have struggled to name any.

30 years ago and we were 30 years younger. Maybe kids watching Prometheus thought it was a totally epic film in the same way that we thought a film with a dwarf with pointy ears, a lanky bear and an asthmatic guy wearing a dress was the most mind blowing experience ever!

Nice find with the script. There's an overview / introduction [url=blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/jon-spaihts-confirms-his-leaked-prometheus-script-titled-alien-engineers-is-legit-6-things-that-changed-from-the-original-script-20121112]here[/url]. Seems it's authentic.

Pro"meh"theus? Yawn. Expensive CGI fails to save crap plot. Do like the "honest trailer" link.

I far preferred Men in Black 3 - at least it was funny, and Josh Brolin's Tommy Lee Jones was a class act.

I found it awful and utterly boring.

My DVD's for sale..

If anyone...

Is..

Remotely interested.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

was half way through the 'engineer' script and its now gone.

anybody manage to down load it before 20th century fox found there stolen goods?