Alien Prequel Now "Prometheus"

[SkinsBoYee]

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I think it tied into the notion of cheating death, so he looked as plastic as possible...like he was supposed to look kind of wierd... Not to look natural. He looked as though he was went thru all he can medically and superficially to keep his youth. Unnatural. It fits in perfectly.

[jfsolo]

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Like I told my friends after the movie, it felt like it went a little bit too long.

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I'm not sure why at the end of the movie she decides to go to the engineer's planet. Did she not see the way that engineer reacted when he saw humans? Dude went f'ng ballistic and she's going to a whole planet full of them? How could that possibly end well?

I actually feel like the film need another 40 minutes or so myself. The motivation of some of the characters in some of the scenes need to be fleshed out more.

I can see this film being pretty polarizing, I thought it was solid, but I could see where someone might have issues with many parts of the film. In some ways it reminds me of Alien 3, a film that I liked a lot, but is disdained by many people, especially when compared to Alien and Aliens.

[Brian_OS]

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I REALLY wanted to love this movie. For me nothing has come out that has rivaled the Aliens movie from 86.. The characters in this movie are just not fleshed out enough to care about them at all... In Aliens,Hudson, Hicks and the Vasquez types were enjoyable and their dialog forced you to care about them. That's what made Aliens so memorable and not having that really hurts this movie...

As an example when the 2 guys were trapped in the cave they could have spent some time on character development. Instead they use that time to have the crew knock boots? Also, after finding a dead body and a "ping" that something is alive in the cave besides them there is No panic, nothing?

Beyond the stunning visuals, the story and acting felt disjointed throughout and in a 2 hour movie anything that resembled character development felt rushed..

2 out of 5 stars for me...

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I saw it last night. I haven't read any other impressions or reviews, but I thought it was good. Its not Alien or even Aliens and this movie-verse feels different which is the biggest "disappoint" that I really felt at the end. Alone it is a good movie and while it isn't about the characters so much as what they find and the whole creator-maker relationship, I understand Shaw's motivation enough for her actions to not throw the movie off track.

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[bkfount]

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it was an okay movie that had some nice visuals, great atmosphere, and tense build up, but felt like it had huge gaps in editing. It didn't even really resolve much of anything by the end. All the open ended stuff made me feel stupid, but it was co-written by one of the main Lost guys, so maybe it's just nonsense meant to make people generate as much speculation as possible.

There were some great scenes, but I really hated...

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the captain dropped a bomb by revealing how the planet was a military installation with a deadly weapon, but it literally came from nowhere. It felt like there was too much missing from his character and what has been shown to the audience for such a leap in logic.

The movie shows how they have the technology to map the installation in real time and they have wonderful radio contact with their ship, yet two guys get lost on the way back to the vehicles. The characters were awful, but they could have certainly found a better way to start with the monsters than that.

[marshallfever]

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the captain dropped a bomb by revealing how the planet was a military installation with a deadly weapon, but it literally came from nowhere. It felt like there was too much missing from his character and what has been shown to the audience for such a leap in logic.

The movie shows how they have the technology to map the installation in real time and they have wonderful radio contact with their ship, yet two guys get lost on the way back to the vehicles. The characters were awful, but they could have certainly found a better way to start with the monsters than that.

That's what really got me, I actually put that in my first initial impression of the movie. This came out of no-where without any real sense of build. I know what happened before that scene could hint at that, but that it's sort of a stretch.

[Hootiefish]

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I'm actually very angry i just spent my time watching this.. I was so pumped to go see this movie. I had high expectations and boy those fell flat. The special effects and overall tone of the movie were superb but the script fell flat on it's head.

It's funny cause I was on my way to see it when i saw my friend's face-book post which said:



That's exactly how i felt when i walked out. I saw it with my girl and my brother and they were flat out like "WTF" just happened. I usually love movies like this but nothing was answered at all.

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How is it that the captain of the ship is the one that revealed the actual story of the film when he said it was a military base where they created weapons of mass destruction.

The Freaking captain who wasn't even in the ruins exploring the "ship" nor has the degree to compete with the main actress is the one who breaks down the exact story of the movie.

In the beginning of the movie when we're shown the "engineers" and the chemical compound it ate......what was that suppose to mean and how did that relate to anything? Was it just to tell us that compound was harmful???

Also wtf was with the thing the main actress gutted out of her stomach. I see that the connection to "Alien" and everything.....but is this where that franchise is suppose to start. That thing she gutted out was the birth of the queen.......and it needed the "engineers" body to formulate the first "Alien?"

I just hate that it barely answered any of the questions it asked in the beginning and then added a crap ton more questions at the end.

It was a fine movie, but I probably would of had a better time watching "Snow White and the Huntsman"

Okay, I normally don't reply to people's opinions on films because to each their own, but man you completely missed the point of the film.

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The beginning showed the seeding of Earth by the Engineers. It showed our creation. The whole film was about creation: the creation of us, the creation of David, the creation of the Xenomorph.

It asked the question what responsibility do creators have to their offspring? What did Weyland owe to David? What responsibility do the Engineers have to us? Do they have the right to just off us because they were unhappy with how we turned out; does God have the right to off us because he was unhappy with our creation?

And yes, I do believe that you would have enjoyed Snow White much more.

And for those asking why Guy Pearce was used rather than an elderly actor, Scott wanted to use an actor that could play both young (as in the viral marketing videos, and I'm assuming, some cut scenes) and old alike.

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Plus, Weyland was supposed to be seen as being almost artificially old, hanging on for (literal) dear life.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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re: the Captain plot reveal

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Maybe its me, but I think people are making this more significant than it really is because his reveal isn't the story of the movie. It reveals the plot-device for the third act, but the movie doesn't hinge on this reveal because once you see what the Captain sees, its kind of obvious what they were trying to do before **** went sour. The story of the movie is all about the relationship of creation from destruction, which is what the whole point of the introduction was. It showed the self-sacrifice of the Engineer to destroy himself in order to build life on this nameless planet.

I didn't really think this "reveal" was a stretch at all.

[Hootiefish]

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It seems as though people tend to dislike something if they don't understand it. They see it as a failing of the writer/director/movie-which sometimes it is.

But sometimes it simply means that you just didn't get it. Not necessarily a fault of the film.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I was reading an article and one of the "points" was a line I thought was funny and half-way accurate:

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Because, In The Words Of My Friend Paul, “Killing A Douche Bag Scientist And Then Flying Off With His Lover Doesn’t Make David The Villian…It Makes Him the Hero”

[Money99]

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Not surprised that so many aren't that thrilled with the movie. It was written by a Lost writer.
You know, the guys that like to cover up plot holes and poor writing with obscure easter-eggs that 'make you think' but have absolutely nothing to do with the story or characters.

It seems as though people tend to dislike something if they don't understand it. They see it as a failing of the writer/director/movie-which sometimes it is.

But sometimes it simply means that you just didn't get it. Not necessarily a fault of the film.

That's what a lot of Lost fans said too when that show took some weird turns.
They spent hours digesting those little clues and coincidences.
In the end, it turned out that all those little coincidences meant absolutely nothing to the story. Nothing at all. They did it simply to make sure they made the 100-episode mark. Nothing more.
It wasn't a clever, or intelligent story that only the top egg-heads in the world understood.
It was an average story with bad writing so to cover up that fact, they used a lot of those obscure references to make people think the show was so smart and that viewers were so smart for watching the show. ER-NOPE!

[Hootiefish]

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That's what a lot of Lost fans said too when that show took some weird turns.

Wouldn't know. Never seen an episode of Lost. Never appealed to me.

[bkfount]

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It seems as though people tend to dislike something if they don't understand it. They see it as a failing of the writer/director/movie-which sometimes it is.

But sometimes it simply means that you just didn't get it. Not necessarily a fault of the film.

or...

the movie is trying to appear smarter than it really is and assume people will care to see something resolved in a sequel. This being co-written by one of the main Lost guys is all the explanation I need.

The intentionally vague point of the whole movie would be cool to some, since I've already seen 100 page threads spawning a variety of theories about the film. Millions of people liked Lost too, and fan fiction is quite popular.

Even if you don't "get" everything about a movie, and have to supplement the viewing with internet theories, you can still be turned off by bad writing and characters.

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why was a biologist scared by a dead engineer body from thousands of years ago, but wasn't shy about the obviously aggressive snake alien?

Why would Weyland have to fake his death, since no one seemed to even care after he came walking around in his robot legs. How did Charlize Theron saying he was her father matter to anything?

The engineers planted a map as an invitation all over earth, but it was just to lead humans to a planet that was used as a weapons facility?

The ending was like a looney toons cartoon. Was it meant to be funny? Lets run away from the giant rolling ship coming at us..in a straight line.

[Sandman42]

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I never had a problem with the plot of the movie or the them leaving things up to interpretations. I just felt that the action scenes weren't as tense as they should have been and all of them wrapped up too quickly. You never really got that sense of danger.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I never had a problem with the plot of the movie or the them leaving things up to interpretations. I just felt that the action scenes weren't as tense as they should have been and all of them wrapped up too quickly. You never really got that sense of danger.

True. Only a couple sequences seemed truly intense and kind of rushed to a conclusion. I guess in that sense the characters and action go together considering the action doesn't get that "out of hand" with one major exception.