If you ask me Di Caprio (or should I say Di Sexxxio) is a wee bit miscast (he struggles with accents) and Foxx is a total plank… can’t stand him.[/reply]
Which is funny because he used to visit his redneck I-ti grandparents in southeast Georgia for years…they still live there actually…
I’d say it was a solid three and a half star star film.
Frustrating though. Seemed to suffer somewhat from a lack of identity. What kind of film was it aiming to be? What questions did it attempt to answer? What was its central motive?
Kinda left me scratching my head. I felt like I had watched a heavily edited version of what could have (should have?) been a really great film.
There were a lot of problems with characters acting inconsistently and some errors in logic.
But nerds on the internet are getting so angry about this stuff - I think it’s just that they had a movie in their heads and when what they saw on the screen wasn’t it, they flipped out.
i am a MASSIVE Alien/Aliens/Alien3 fan, read all the comics, all the novelizations, yadda-yadda-yadda. but this… this movie is riddled with continuity errors, character issues, technological missteps, and worst of all, a bunch of bullshit ‘LOST’ style faux-mysticism.
the abortion scene was shockingly childish and unnecessary, the space jockeys (engineers) were not the right size, and the beauty and classy nature of Alien was raped and discarded so that Ridley Scott could rattle his sabers and and in another piss-poor performance as a middling director who hit his stride decades ago.
actually, my girl and i were talking about this, it doesnt deliver like AVP : R, but… i donno… i mean, since AVP was just a side idea that ISNT an actual part of the Alien world, its just a sorta… counter reality in a lot of ways, it didnt bother me, it was just a popcorn movie. but Prometheus pretends to be the ONLY other official film in the Alien timeline (Scott has said that he doesnt consider Aliens to be a sequel to “his” film, the arrogant motherfucker, he didnt write the thing) and as a result its flaws and inconsistencies piss me off WAY more.
so no. i would rather watch AVP, and AVP : R, because at least they went out of their way to try and make interesting connections.
Prometheus is an exercise in quarter-life crisis masturbation.
Prometheus was admirable in its attempts to explain away a lot of the Alien mythology and kickstart a new direction all of its own, but ultimately I think it kind of fell flat. Lead actress was uninspiring and Charlize Theron’s character provided little beside the way of window dressing and a bit of attitude. Wasn’t really an action film nor was it a philosophical film nor was it a straight up monster movie. At best it was a pastiche of all those genres.
I disagree. I think they went with a very philosophical approach. More philosophy than anything else really. And I agree about Theron. Her character was empty and added absolutely nothing.
I disagree. I think they went with a very philosophical approach. More philosophy than anything else really. And I agree about Theron. Her character was empty and added absolutely nothing.
philosophical!? it was the most basic and childish explanation of original life ever. there was nothing new, nothing interesting, and most of all, nothing worth of the alien tie ins that it desperately advertised and demanded that we all notice.
[reply]I disagree. I think they went with a very philosophical approach. More philosophy than anything else really. And I agree about Theron. Her character was empty and added absolutely nothing.
philosophical!? it was the most basic and childish explanation of original life ever. there was nothing new, nothing interesting, and most of all, nothing worth of the alien tie ins that it desperately advertised and demanded that we all notice.[/reply]
Philosophical, they explored a fictional explanation of the beginning of humanity. That there is no God and there’s another civilization that’s responsible. Also there’s the fact that we apparently disgraced ourselves in their eyes, they considered us a mistake worth erasing.
You may think it’s weak. But IT IS philosophical. Like it or not.
