So...when exactly can we kill the time travel notion and move on?
craigamore
MemberOvomorphFebruary 20, 20121108 Views21 RepliesI have been waiting for this movie from this director for 15 years plus and if time travel is part of the plot...so help me, I don't quite know how I'll react. I'll be more disappointed in Ridley than I can honestly express.
Time travel is such an over used, trite concept.....we honestly believe they can't come up with better?
There are so many examples out there, 'Prometheus' would come off a silly, lazy, laughable waste.......I mean, I go straight to 'Sphere' when anyone brings up the idea and while that was a decent novel and the movie was just ok, it's been done.....a small crew investigates an unknown craft, vessel or establishment in a dangerous environment; encounters alien technology and ultimately learns the ship is human and from the future. 'Prometheus' would be 'Sphere', only that what they find would be off world and would somehow transport them........and the whole thing just leaves an awful taste in my mouth; like I've been sucking on pennies or something...eww....
Somebody....please....tell me I'm not off base with my ire and disgust here............[b]PLEASE[/b]
February 21, 2012
I think the whole time travel element came about with the mention of FTL (Faster Than Light) travel, which kick started discussions into the theories of time dilation.
In my opinion the only franchise that has used time travel effectively is the Terminator, any other time it has been used it has either just been a gimmick (Bill & Ted) or simply lame (Sphere, Timecop etc.).
Looking at Ridley's back catalogue of movies it is apparent that whenever he directs something he approaches it from a fresh angle that most directors would avoid (a realistic robin hood, human androids with feelings, a perverted alien stalking the crew of a ship, a realistic re-enactment of actual military combat). So I personally don't see time travel been used in Prometheus.
