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My thoughts on Prometheus (spoiler-free)

ash'sbishop

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[size=5][b]Note:[/b] This review has been marked "spoiler-free". Any spoilers posted will be removed (the entire post).[/size] -----------------------------------------------------------------Saw Prometheus last night, was good but don't think it could ever have lived up to my expectations. The story was compelling and intelligent which is always a good start and the characterisation of the main cast was outstanding.The banter and interplay between all 3 of the Prometheus's pilots and Milburn ,Fifield and Janek was inspired and grounded it very much for me. However the films main failings from my point of view were the the rather rushed feeling to the outbreak of all the chaos.A movie trying to tell a story of this magnatude and depth would need a longer running time or have been made in two parts. I also went expecting it to be much darker and horrific after seeing all the trailers and found it to be only slightly more stomuch churning than a Disney film (slight exageration there).Hope this cut is what Sir Ridders was describing as his dark version and that his so called darkest version makes it way to the DVD/Blu-ray release.
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Xenotron
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I'm glad you liked it; I'm wondering how I will feel. The reviews are all over the place with this one. I went in to see [i]The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo[/i] with high expectations and I actually liked it better than I thought I would. So, movies can always live up to your expectations; they just have to be [i]that[/i] good.
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does he really have a darkest version? or did u make it up?
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In a nutshell, it was a 3 hour film (which would have been welcome, knowing what I know now) crammed into 2 hours. A shame. It did not live up to expectations and I could go as far as saying it was crap. Well, it was. A shame. A wasted opportunity.
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ash'sbishop
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Don't think it was crap at all but I stand by my initial sentence that it could never live up to the expectations people had.
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Xenotron
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So, were you not expecting the movie to be great? If so, does that make it ok? I don't get it. "Well, it wasn't great, but it wasn't that bad. I guess I liked it."
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I watched the film on its UK release yesterday and thought it was FANTASTIC, I have to agree though that some scenes did feel rushed a bit, the main one was the scene with Shaw in the Medi-chamber.... (if you know what I mean)!!!
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I think I'll have to watch it again!!! well mainly to try and make sense of it all!!! I think the worst thing I did was get drawn into this site and get caught up in all the hype around the film!!! there are going to be a lot of very disappointed fans of the Alien saga...this movie should have steered well clear of it ,if it is not a prequel?? all I'll say is beware the Phantom menace!!! it destroyed Star wars for me!!! this may destroy/alienate(no pun intended) alien and it's fanbase!!! I bet the directors cut DVD will be brilliant as the whole story can be told i,e, lord of the rings half hour of extra footage!!
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I think this movie is going to be like Marmite - some people are going to love it and some people are going to hate it. - I kind of loved it in the end.
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I think this movie is going to be like Marmite - some people are going to love it and some people are going to hate it. - I kind of loved it in the end.
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I think this movie is going to be like Marmite - some people are going to love it and some people are going to hate it. - I kind of loved it in the end.
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cybershandy
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I think this movie is going to be like Marmite - some people are going to love it and some people are going to hate it. - I kind of loved it in the end.
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Does anyone think this movie is going to be like Marmite?
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ash'sbishop
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Don't know but they could be what was leaking from the urns. obviously it has bad effects on the people who don't like it!
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davedubya
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A lot of people who dislike it seem to be quite irrational about their dislike for it. And, it seems, a lot of people want everything spelt out for them.
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It was a wasted opportunity. How Ridley Scott ever agreed to shoot that script is beyond me. The first AVP movie had a better story. And that sucked.
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I saw it Friday night and for a couple of hours and eight earth pounds, thought it was really entertaining. I do agree with some of the comments about the script; if I had one criticism it's that some things weren't just ambiguous and needing intelligence, they seemed missing. Given that I just lost interest in, well Lost, maybe that was it. It can't have been the actors (all brilliant), the effects, sets, cinematic beauty, the 3D. Like the scenes between Vickers/David and Vickers/Janek could have been expanded without hurting the flow. I can so see the marmite connection for fans though! but I enjoyed it and will watch it again, so maybe it's a 'grower'..enjoy!
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[i]"Does anyone think this movie is going to be like Marmite?"[/i] Is that anything like Nutella? If it is, I fear that I'll not like Prometheus. ;)
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