revelthedog wrote:Well I'll save myself 15 bucks by not going. Shame really. Had high hopes for this one.
girating. man wrote:is able to programme an incredibly rare medical machine to perform an emergency c-section on herself
Bollockoff wrote:Only one thing I need to say.To be fair it is established she knows of the machinery and its manufacturer earlier on in the film. And from what I remember of the C-section scene she actually tricks the machine into doing one by selecting foreign object removal from an easy drop-down menu. Which come to think of it was more related to her imminent exploding cavity problem anyway. Why the fuck was it even a squid? It was obvious that it was ready to "hatch" and it looked nothing fucking like its host.girating. man wrote:is able to programme an incredibly rare medical machine to perform an emergency c-section on herself
That was what fucked me off about the whole screenplay, it was just lazy, braindead amateurish writing.Bollockoff wrote:I agree it was lazy. And that's being kind.
Of David. I am partly reconciled with his character. He doesn't know what he is doing exactly. He has spent 2 years assimilating tons of data based on Shaw and Holloway's findings. Despite being designed to look like a man in his Thirties, he is in fact a hyper-intelligent Synthetic human with the maturity of a child. When he is doing stuff in the temple/ship he is exploring, in wonder. I can buy the playing with things, I can buy the 'infecting Holloway' until he doesn't do anything with him. A poor imitation of Ash there, and his threat to stick Shaw in stasis is very much like Burke in Aliens.Tempy wrote:Prometheus Like an empty faberge egg.Â
The spectacle is immense and beyond anything else you're likely to see this year. Makes The Avengers look like what it is, a kiddy comic book film. Visual design is gorgeous throughout. Rapace and Fassbender steal the show at every turn delivering brilliant characters. Rapace especially bucks many a female protagonist trend and ends up getting one of the show stealing scenes in the film, Cronenburg level body horror that will make you squirm.
 It is an epic, reaching out to touch God for the spark of life and... falling short by an arms length. The first and second act are brilliant introductions, even if Noomi's partner is an unlikable prick who you want to shut up in every scene. As soon as they start to try and construct the mythology they fail. Remeber the egg chamber in Alien? Ash's fascination with the Facehugger? The ambiguous horror of the Xenomorph? Yeah, well it seems that modern audiences can't deal with that and they need intent, cod philosophy and navel gazing questions about our existence and nature to make a worthy film. The plot is an unfocused splatter of philosophy and creativity that has no idea where it is going or what it wants to be other than yearning to be profound.Â
The cold, precise and calculating nature of Alien is lost and the crew are morons. The script rarely sparkles and is infact full of awkward bits. None of those moments of humanity that made Alien and Aliens so much fun are presented by the crew, the supporting characters are all "guy who is offed 3" and "man who appears in background 2", they have no soul and no substance.Â
Ultimately it is a piece of SciFi spectacle on an Unprecedented scale that is as hollow as any other blockbuster. I won't deny it is slick and a hell of a lot of fun though.Â
Problems I had with the film:
Guy Pearce cast as an older Peter Weiland. Young men in prosthetics playing old men are shit. Get an old man.Â
Biologist who pets an evil alien snake creature for no reason. Fucking earnt his PHD that one.Â
David seems to know everything about the Derelict and the Engineer Aliens. Shame he never explains it to us.Â
Corny dialogue. Characters getting stuck on "godforsaken rocks in the middle of space" jesus christ, write better.
 A crew who are perfunctory and underwhelming, no one like Parker to lighten up a dim bunch. Unlikeable lead. Holloway was a dick, hated him. Guy comes back as a zombie. Why? WHY.Â
What does the stuff in the vases do, what the fuck is going on? What are the snakes? Are they the worms from earlier? Are they stored in the vases? Jesus christ, someone SPECULATE AT LEAST.Â
Utter mess of a last act. What the fuck was happening? It was ambiguous in a way that was unflattering.Â
Underused sections: Shaw in the shuttle vs. the Engineer, should have been a longer, better scene. Tentacle beast SEVERELY underused for such a lush bit of design and CGI
I was surprised by this too. He just appeared out of nowhere and then a second later he was dead. I was hoping that scene would be the equivalent of Ripley in escape pod at the end of Alien.Tempy wrote:Tempy wrote:Underused sections: Shaw in the shuttle vs. the Engineer, should have been a longer, better scene. Tentacle beast SEVERELY underused for such a lush bit of design and CGI
Yes, just a pity it went from FUCK YES!!! to WTF??? in a heartbeat.Tempy wrote:Also Noomi with the Ax at the end, after nearly giving up was an absolute FUCK YES moment even though she only got 5 seconds of glory.
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