Accurate Review (spoiler-free)

Heapheastus
MemberOvomorphJune 01, 20121043 Views17 Replies[size=5][b]Note:[/b] This review has been marked "spoiler-free". Any spoilers posted will be removed (the entire post).[/size]
-----------------------------------------------------------------i live in the UK i saw the film last night at 12.05am so it is still fresh in my mind and here is my honest unbiased opinion.
Visually it is brilliant, i seriously hate films that use tons of cgi and end up with a visual that seems ott and soulless, this movie is the total opposite it looks real. You actually believe what your seeing is them on another planet and it feels lonely and vast not claustrophobic like alien.
The atmosphere of the film is not scary but you are intrigued so badly to find out stuff, its has an innocent feel to it like they are exploring and stumbling upon things instead of a terror haunting them.
It feels like i suppose it would feel visiting a ghost town, your aware of the unknown but your not actually scared more interested.
The dialogue for many character is the weak area, apart from janak and david everyone else seems unable to get across a charecter you feel for or are interested in. While watching i couldn't help but think "damon lindeloff isnt that great a character writer, he might be good at story structure but characters, no way" Its a shame because what was great about alien was the unpredictability of the characters dialogue but with this it feels sometimes very much like an american TV show (LOST springs to mind).
Idris and Fassbender give us 2 memorable characters though and i would say that Fassbender has created a sci-fi fan fave that sticks in the mind long after the film ends. It is a shame that fox did not give ridley another 45 minutes of screen time (like james cameron aslways seems to get) because that 45 minutes could of been filled with more Fassbender moments.
As for the mysteries i wont spoil the movie but i thought it was unique what i was seeing, i have not seen anything touch on these subjects and psychologically as the movie went on unlike other movies that make you feel empty this movie fills you with more wonder and questions, i found myself checking my watch hoping that the movie would not end because it felt like it was slowly swelling into something really grand.
The ending is genius, i did not even fathom that ending, it opens a massive opportunity for the beginning of a new franchise that has potential to leave alien behind and take on star wars. You feel gutted when the film ends but not because its a bad movie but because like a spoilt brat you cant have all the cookies in the jar you thought where going to be there, this film is like lusting after every cookie in a jar only to find that the jar only offers 3 cookies but theres a message at the bottom of the jar and it reads
"Theres more cookies you know, but they aint in this Jar there in another one" ;P
Why are people against it ? its simple really, when a child wants it all at once he cries and stomps his feet, because he is immature and impatient.
Film deserves 2 oscars best director and best support actor and Fox should greenlight the next saga as quick as possible, but next time not via Damon lindeloff.