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I didn't pay to see Prometheus Part 1!

keepshowkeeper

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---this has spoilers - on Prometheus and on Lost!--- While I sat thru the end credits I wasn't really dissappointed, because I knew what to expect storywise. No, I had some other unsettling sensation. I felt like I had been framed. (By the way, noone here warned me about that!) I thought "What? Wait! This isn't the end, it can't be! The story is just beginning! And they roll the credits already??" I thought about what I have been expecting and if I've been expecting to much. I expected the story of the SJ seen in Alien, or of his race. Mr Scott himself told us that Prometheus would be about that, didn't he? And what did we learn about them? First of all, that they do not exist as we knew them. They are only suits for some big bald guy. The big bald guy likes to go berzerk on humans and androids for no apparent reason. So absolutely no valid information about this SJ-race is given. When Shaw and David-head lift off to go to the SJ-homeplanet I thought "You s.o.b.'s! You did Lost-style on Alien! You never answer any questions, you just put up more and more questions, to sell us sequels!" Never in my life I watched a movie doing this: pretending to be a standalone-feature but in fact being part 1! That movie tricked me into thinking that it WAS NOT part 1 of a series! I realised that when it was too late: while watching the end credits! Many of you assume that all those unanswered questions about the SJs may be answered in the sequel(s). Well, maybe! But I payed to get those answers in the very movie the director told us he would deliver them! RS never said "Prometheus will raise even more questions about the SJs, that might be answered in some sequel" or did he? At the end of Prometheus XV we'll see Ripley in her cryotube dreaming it all that or what?? I just saw this [url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/6316#75079]RS on sequels[/url] It's an outrage I say, good Sir!
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paul muadib
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Heck, I'll watch parts 1.0 to 3.7, answers or not. I'm fully capable of synthesis, development of my own personal sub-story / plot. If this is 1 of 3, I'm hoping Ridley can crank them out fast enough! I'll need another fix a couple months after buying the DVD when it comes out and I watch it at least a dozen times!
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i agree but also disagree. Yes we all want answers about the xenos and the SJs, but we will get those over a series of films, and as far as im concerned this film has greatly expanded and given answers to the questions raised in alien. We know that the moon was used as a factory base for the SJs, that the ooze is a weapon that merges with organisms to create monsters/weapons, the only real question posed is what happened to the SJS, and why did they want to destroy us?
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But was a Quiz or a Movie ? You can say that the acting was awful that the story sucked that the scenography was lame .. but really all those complains because no sufficient explainations about the SJs ?? In a science fiction movie ?? I mean ..who cares ???
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I thought he said he "didn't pay" to see the film? What am I missing, why would they let anyone in who didn't pay to see the film? Just LAUGH M F A Right T F OFF !!!
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@paul muadib spoken like a true fanatic. ;-) BTW: If you are, tell me, I have questions for you that only a true fanatic can answer.
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Paul, you're the best. The sleeper has awakened! :D Also, yes you did. You paid to see Prometheus 1. I would be more surprised if you paid to see Prometheus 2, since that hasn't even been made yet. But it will be. Because Ridley already said it was a two-parter... Like, a year ago. :/
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@ninjacop I know all that. I just wanted Good Sir Ridley to tell me that Prometheus is just part 1 of so many so that I would not feel as a ripped-off-dumbass at the end of the movie. @Frantz I think you did not get my point. Let me explain. I am not at all complaining about something "unrealistic" in a SF-movie. It has something to do with the history of the Alien-universe. I don't know how old you are or if you have seen Alien. I saw Alien as a kid, and since then I wondered "Who is that Space-Jockey?". 35 years and several Alien-movies and -comics and -books and -games later I still don't know. Along comes Ridley Scott, the inventor of that universe, saying "Prometheus will deal with the race of the Space-Jockeys!" Frantz, do you have any idea what it means to have a question since childhood unanswered, then after 35 years comes the only guy in the world who could answer that question saying "I will answer that question" - and then he doesn't!!! @Spartacus "What am I missing" A whole lot.
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@ keepshowkeeper I have just seen the film ...I have posted my underwhelmed review....I am with you ALL the way with what you have posted...Conned. THATS THE EMOTION I COULDNT PUT INTO WORDS WHEN I LEFT THE CINEMA......THANK YOU - CONNED!
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Coming to think of it - what a dumb marketing strategy is that? Imagine this: there is a movie called "The Lord of the Rings". What you get to see is "The Fellowship of the Ring" - so you don't know there will be a Part 2 and 3. You will sit there watching Frodo and Sam approach Mordor - END of the movie "The Lord of the Rings". You'll go "Wait a minute! That's not the end of the story!" When you KNOW the story will be continued, everything's fine. But Prometheus didn't promote that! That's cheating! I'm sorry, but even AvP, horrible and boring as it is, at least delivers a complete story.
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Um... It WAS called "Fellowship of the Ring." I guess it's a little weird if you went into a movie not having read it was going to be a two parter like, a year ago, and weren't expecting a sequel hook because, hey, the notion of a sequel to an alien spin-off is patently ridiculous, right? So, accepting that complaint as genuine, what did you want them to call it? Prometheus 1? Prometheus part 1? Prometheus: Subtitle indicating there are going to be more? It's hard to name something like that. Not saying it's a bad idea, I'm just saying what on Earth would you even call a movie like that? What if they called it Prometheus 1, and then they never make Prometheus 2? That would be a trip, man. AvP is a kick ass movie. The fact that you call a perfectly competent, successful, awesome movie that delivers exactly what it said it would and then some "horrible," on a site about an Alien prequel no less, has me wondering if you aren't a troll. Or at least from avpg. But what's the difference AM I RIGHT FELLAS? WAY-OH!
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@Ripley McPreviouscharacter am I correct interpreting your post saying that I am a troll just because I have a different opinion than you? "AM I RIGHT FELLAS? WAY-OH!" Oh man. We live in different worlds, that's for sure.
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With you again Keepshowkeeper - This Ripley dude has got it all wrong.....we are in different galaxies...not even the same species... The truth hurts this dude real bad....he wouldnt know a decent story if it came up to him and kicked him in his ass!

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