**** The Official Prometheus Spoiler Discussion Thread ****

hola_adios said:
As accurate as your answers ... didn't noticed the link? :rolleyes:
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we will have to agree to differ then.

for example i will tell my wife that she obviously didnt walk after a C section. i must have been hallucinating.

people cannot change accents by living somewhere. i mean foreign footballers never pick up local accents do they?

androids would go against the programming. i mean when i write software the software always does something the complete opposite of what i tell it.

you cant deny many of my points. if you deny the above then :rolleyes:

edit: yes, i read some of the link but since half of the points were because the author was stupid doesnt give it any credence to me.
 
6/10

Should have been an hour longer and less jumpy aroundy. Also crew size should have been much smaller. And it would have been nice to see more character development. Oh, and more focus on a plot.

Whoever played David though put in a solid performance.
 
realBabelfish said:
we will have to agree to differ then.

for example i will tell my wife that she obviously didnt walk after a C section. i must have been hallucinating.

people cannot change accents by living somewhere. i mean foreign footballers never pick up local accents do they?

androids would go against the programming. i mean when i write software the software always does something the complete opposite of what i tell it.

you cant deny many of my points. if you deny the above then :rolleyes:

edit: yes, i read some of the link but since half of the points were because the author was stupid doesnt give it any credence to me.
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The C section thing really annoys me, I've already said that my wife was walking around less than 24 hours after a c section, we can't believe that space drugs from the future and robot stiching machines can reduce the time it takes to be able to walk around from a couple of hours to a couple of minutes.

But film geeks are quite happy to accept in 80 years time we will of perfected intergalactic space travel and androids so advanced they are capable Of dependant thought.
 
Jono8 said:
Also, i am sure that there were deliberately noticeable sparks when the ship crushed vickers.....
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Er - metal spaceship grinding on rocks? Am I the only person who sees a double standard at work here? If the same character had been played by a man in exactly the same cold manner, would people be asking if he was an android or a replicant? I seriously doubt it. But we expect our females in films to be hysterical at least part of the time, so an unemotional woman is immediately questioned. To point out the obvious, there's no reason to think that she is anything other than human, and some just are cold. And let's face it, daddy isn't exactly a family man. Or, like many people in positions of power, she puts on an act.

And that crashing space ship seen was so utterly stupid that whoever thought it up should be ashamed. If you're going to kill a character by dropping a spaceship on them (already a spectacularly stupid plot device) just get it over with. I actually felt embarrassed to watching it.

Also, why do people keep saying: "there's a great explanation here" or similar? I didn't see anything which needed explaining. The plot struck me as mostly pretty straightforward, and the bits that weren't were mainly down to a bad script.

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Vonhelmet said:
I was so disappointed by this. It was basically the same story as Alien, but not nearly as well executed. What was the point?
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really? to me it was very different. i much preferred the characters in alien too. you really got a feel for them and liked most of them.

i enjoyed prometheus but it wasnt as good as i had hoped i would be. im still stoked for a sequel tho.
 
Meridian said:
Er - metal spaceship grinding on rocks? Am I the only person who sees a double standard at work here? If the same character had been played by a man in exactly the same cold manner, would people be asking if he was an android or a replicant? I seriously doubt it. But we expect our females in films to be hysterical at least part of the time, so an unemotional woman is immediately questioned. To point out the obvious, there's no reason to think that she is anything other than human, and some just are cold. And let's face it, daddy isn't exactly a family man. Or, like many people in positions of power, she puts on an act.

And that crashing space ship seen was so utterly stupid that whoever thought it up should be ashamed. If you're going to kill a character by dropping a spaceship on them (already a spectacularly stupid plot device) just get it over with. I actually felt embarrassed to watching it.

Also, why do people keep saying: "there's a great explanation here" or similar? I didn't see anything which needed explaining. The plot struck me as mostly pretty straightforward, and the bits that weren't were mainly down to a bad script.

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i still think vickers might be alive.

and my evidence for her being a replicant/android would be the fact she could pin a metal android to the wall with 1 hand. i like theron and would like to see more of vickers (fnar fnar)
 
Meridian said:
And that crashing space ship seen was so utterly stupid that whoever thought it up should be ashamed. If you're going to kill a character by dropping a spaceship on them (already a spectacularly stupid plot device) just get it over with. I actually felt embarrassed to watching it.
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You don't feel the irony of a pretty blonde young my-daddies-rich business girl and who sexed herself up as liking to "minimise risk" getting squished by a spaceship? I don't understand all the hate for that scene. It was a little twist you don't get often in films these days. Audiences felt convinced she would survive (why else would they have scripted all the hassle she went to to survive the Prometheus imploding?) only for her to die anyway. And I can't actually think of any other film where a character gets squashed by a falling spaceship? So from that perspective it is pretty original too. By the way, she was running towards the shuttle. She wasn't running in a straight line because she was an idiot per se. She didn't even realise the spaceship was getting THAT close to her until it was too late.

Also, why do people keep saying: "there's a great explanation here" or similar? I didn't see anything which needed explaining. The plot struck me as mostly pretty straightforward, and the bits that weren't were mainly down to a bad script.

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Because good sci-fi films don't come along all that often. And when they do, people like to discuss everything in detail. It can't have been that bad of a film if you yourself keep coming back here to discuss it.
 
Well what David said to the engineer apparently out:

Dr. Anil Biltoo of the SOAS Language Centre in London worked on the film as Linguist Teacher (he also featured in the film as the Professor in the hologram David is watching) . During an interview with The Bioscopist Dr Biltoo explained what was said.

David says: ida hmanəm aɪ kja namṛtuh zdℇ:taha … ghʷɪvah-pjorn-ɪttham sas da:tṛ

Translation: “This man is here because he does not want to die. He believes you can give him more life.”
 
realBabelfish said:
i still think vickers might be alive.

and my evidence for her being a replicant/android would be the fact she could pin a metal android to the wall with 1 hand. i like theron and would like to see more of vickers (fnar fnar)
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That's not evidence I'm afraid. They are obviously close (David being referred to as his son, and Vickers his daughter...so they must be close in that regard)...he just didn't resist, why would he. He's not going to do anything to harm her.
 
realBabelfish said:
we will have to agree to differ then.

for example i will tell my wife that she obviously didnt walk after a C section. i must have been hallucinating.
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And she was running, and fighting ... but this is just a minor thing in an ocean of bad, which clearly some people refuse to understand or acknowledge, and that is fine.

Anyhows, some more reviews: http://badassdigest.com/2012/06/17/film-crit-hulk-smash-the-damon-lindleof-intervention/

Prometheus should have stuck with being a horror film, but no, it tried to be what it is not and failed miserably. It would have done fine as a horror flick, I am not going to go into more bashing, because by now anyone defending it, is just showing the typical behaviour of a fan boy.

Now some just want to wait for the sequel? I will watch it, in telly, while reading a good book ... not rewarding bad art here.
 
hola_adios said:
Prometheus should have stuck with being a horror film, but no, it tried to be what it is not and failed miserably.
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I disagree:there are plenty of horror films out there, and the horror bits of Prometheus riffed so loudly on Alien there was no point in making it. It was the other stuff that had the potential to be interesting, particularly: what happens to religion when you near-proof that God is not involved in creation? As I've said elsewhere, what cinema science fiction desperately needs is intelligent films, for the over-25 audience, so that it can drag itself out of the Star Wars ghetto. Scott has enough rep that he could attract that older audience and show them that you can have science fiction which is something other than spaceships, monsters, robots and lasers. He could make a film that isn't utterly dependant on special effects, for instance. He could have people experiencing life (not attacks by phallic life forms) and talking about it. You know, adult drama.

But no, what we got was cheap melodrama with a few bits of cod-religion waving forlornly in the back ground. Every time it looked like someone might do some thinking, a monster attacked. As I said earlier, in common with many science fiction films it was a massive waste of a couple of reasonably intelligent ideas.


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