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

So glad I came to this thread and I read this on the last page.
I got back from seeing this movie tonight and I echo every single statement on this page, the movie was AWFUL.
There is no tension, no kind of drama/fear or any atmosphere at all. The characters are lame, some of the dialogue between them is just bland and uninspiring.
Complete and utter let down. Nearly every time I go to the cinema I leave feeling the same. The last good movie I see was Expendables and I am hoping #2 does the same.
There is a reason I never/rarely ever go and that is because people seem to have forgot how to make good movies!
 
FeFiDoh said:
Nearly every time I go to the cinema I leave feeling the same.
There is a reason I never/rarely ever go and that is because people seem to have forgot how to make good movies!
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Come, embrace me as a brother... We were clearly separated at birth :p

Seriously, I feel the same way. Every time I come out thinking that movies get worse each year.

Well, specifically script writers get worse each year.
 
FoxEye said:
Come, embrace me as a brother... We were clearly separated at birth :p

Seriously, I feel the same way. Every time I come out thinking that movies get worse each year.

Well, specifically script writers get worse each year.
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LOL...i've been to the cinema more this year than the whole of the last 2 years.

Safe House, 9/10, Cabin In The Woods, 10/10 movie, Avengers, 8/10, American Pie, 8/10, The Raid, 9/10, Prometheus, 8.5/10 ;)

With Batman coming up as well, it's the best year I can remember for a long time for mainstream movies.
 
If you rank Prometheus as 8.5/10, we clearly have different expectations from our films :)

It's 5/10 at best (for me).
 
FoxEye said:
If you rank Prometheus as 8.5/10, we clearly have different expectations from our films :)

It's 5/10 at best (for me).
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I ranked it 9 out of 10 after getting out of the cinema but i've had to drop it down half a point due to a few minor plot holes ;)

Faults aside it's a fantastic sci-fi movie and there is a huge sci-fi drought at the moment.
 
Absolutely no way in the world Prometheus is 8.5 out of 10!

I wanted to see The Raid at cinema but it wasn't been shown at of mine, but I have seen it, and it was AMAZING! But that wasn't at the cinema so my point stands.
Most of those movies you list I do not see as being worth of going to the cinema for tbh they are things I would watch but not pay £9 to sit in a cinema to see it. Would rather wait for it to be released and pick it up some where.
The raid is being remade as well because the yanks are lazy and don't seem to understand they can read and watch a movie as well, even a movie that requires little story and brilliant action.

Anyway I digress. My point still stands. Prometheus feels so far removed from the other movies I just really can not believe they are meant to be joined together.
Maybe it was the way Alien was shot but it just felt so much darker and claustrophobic and Weaver is brilliant in it. I agree with Fassbender being good in it, he was by far the most stand out character. The others I was happy they died, my only disappointment was it took 2 hours for them all to be killed off.
 
Each to their own, I knew before setting foot in the cinema it wasn't a true prequel and wouldn't tie in with Alien, maybe that helped, I watched it as a standalone sci-fi with hints of Alien.

Others have sat there waiting for 2 hours for the tie in and have left disappointed...therefore leading them to pick out a lot more holes than they probably would have.

The world would be boring if we all agreed, imagine how fast these discussion threads would die if we all just came in and said yeah, it was great :D
 
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Faults aside it's a fantastic sci-fi movie and there is a huge sci-fi drought at the moment.
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I agree, if they made a movie about large grey people, we would lol about some plot holes and inconsistencies but consider this very good action sci-fi and pad Ridley Scott on the back. But because we HAVE TO look at it in Alien perspective, it will always be slated for its massive shortcomings in the Alien story (the ******* pterodactile man, the pterodactile!).
The more I think about it the less reason there was for it to be tied to Alien universe and Space Jockey. Ridley said he wanted to tell the story of SJ, but in effect he didn't, so rolling this out on the back of 1970ies legend, is just pointless. We don't care now if he eventually does tie it, because, at this point, after the ridicule from Alien universe perspective, any such explanation it will be at best, in the style of Heyden Christiansen screaming "Nooooooo!" in Darth Vader costume just for the sake of manouvering badly scripted elephant of a story into expected ending.
 
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v0n said:
I agree, if they made a movie about large grey people, we would lol about some plot holes and inconsistencies but consider this very good action sci-fi and pad Ridley Scott on the back. The more I think about it the less reason there was for it to be tied to Alien universe and Space Jockey. Ridley said he wanted to tell the story of SJ, but in effect he didn't, so rolling this out on the back of 1970ies legend, is just pointless. We don't care now if he eventually does tie it, because, at this point, after the ridicule from Alien universe perspective, any such explanation it will be at best, in the style of Heyden Christiansen screaming "Nooooooo!" in Darth Vader costume.
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I think he genuinely set out to make a prequel, got sidetracked, loved the new idea but had already announced an Alien prequel so had to tie it in somehow.

Perhaps if it had been a true stand alone movie it would have made people happier.
 
v0n said:
I agree, if they made a movie about large grey people, we would lol about some plot holes and inconsistencies but consider this very good action sci-fi and pad Ridley Scott on the back.
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I can't agree with this.

1. The terrible dialogue.
2. The gaping plot holes.
3. The cardboard characters.
4. Everything not covered by 1-3.

Seriously, I enjoyed Pandorum more than this. I enjoyed Cargo more than this. I enjoyed Moon more than this. I enjoyed Sunshine vastly more than this.

It wasn't good Sci-Fi.

Had it been anyone other than Ridley Scott, we'd *all* be tearing it a new one. People are being soft on it because the maker of Alien made it.

It was awful.

Sorry I should really stop posting because I've said everything I need to say at least once already! I'm just a passionate Sci-Fi enthusiast and this film has made me RAGE :p
 
^ Agreeing with FoxEye! What I haven't said he has.

For some salvation Terminator is on BBC2 thank god.
Don't make em like they use to ;)
 
at the beginning when the engineer is stood at the waterfall the camera points up toward the ship hovering above. it is plainly not a conventional engineer ship (conventional as in horseshoe-shaped). anybody else notice this? continuity error? (i doubt) or more related to the story?
 
no_sleep_til said:
at the beginning when the engineer is stood at the waterfall the camera points up toward the ship hovering above. it is plainly not a conventional engineer ship (conventional as in horseshoe-shaped). anybody else notice this? continuity error? (i doubt) or more related to the story?
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It was clearly a device to show a separation (both in era and intent) between the 'Engineers' and their forebears.
 
I thought it was on the whole average. Just doesn't quite give you that atmosphere that made Alien so suspenseful.

What is wrong with films today, they just don't seem to grip you as they used to. Effects and CGI over storytelling.
 
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