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My review - IF THEY WOULD HAVE - (SPOILER)

Kane77

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my Prometheus review--- IF THEY WOULD HAVE --- I decided to watch a cheap Camversion, because I didn't want to wait another 2 month for the release in germany ( First flaw, release dates, big mistake and we know why they did ) and after popping in more and more bad reviews ..wtf . maybe bigscreen might give some credits back, who knows. Overall rating I give 5 points of 10. I wouldn´t give a PURELY negative review because of the love for Scott´s film he created. They gave it away! Really that´s a good description, maybe the overall quality WOULD HAVE BEEN better if they didn´t SPOIL it by themselves by releasing the BEST SCENES as trailers. What a ´funny´ way of pre-release policy to forbid all actors and staff to go public with the plot and THEN releasing the detailed trailers? [b]I mean IF THEY WOULD HAVE done a better care on the plot and actor development and also let Ridley´s talent of creating deep tension scenes more space it MIGHT..[/b] I only give flaws here, you have seen the movie. The first 3 minutes are just georgous, the landscape..wow there you can feel Scott´s feeling for big pictures ( he´s a painter, too. I had to think a bit of the opening scene of Alien) Or the scenes of David playing basketball/ watching lawrence of arabia etc..very nice, 2001ish.. First flaw: then the cheesy pale but Schwarzenegger looking ´sacrifice engineer´appears.. "WHY THE HECK SO MUCH MUSCLES, WHAT FOR?" ( I stopped and smoked a cigarette). The plot flaws: Basically the story unfolds and the first hour ( I looked up my watch) and I realized that the style is this: [b]The movie just follows (better:) illustrates in thin lines the plot RATHER than developing strong, dark and lifeful pictures that impregnate your brain[/b].( I´m not only comparing it to Alien but to other Scott films). I thought, I hope this gets better, this style of mainstream movies I don't need HERE. ( AND MAYBE THIS IS DUE TO THE BASIC ORIENTATION TOWARDS THE CRAPPY ANCIENT ASTRONAUT THEORY,TOO) Second flaw: the plot just burbles on..THE ONLY ACTING THAT STOODS OUT IS THAT OF DAVID! LITERALLY! I mean ITS ALL THERE, fantastic actors, georgous spaceship, ALIEN I DNA ..W T F?? main flaw: the mission is stated as an scientific exploring, but they do everything to hurt that. Like little kids they stumble into the temple, grasping for breath, touch everything, take the head into the ship ..Because of that David is able to take unrecognized an ampule on board. No science, [b]Tomb Raider in Space[/b]. The hangar Weyland briefing scene/ Weyland scenes overall.. WOULD have been nice when they developed a stronger, basic picture of Peter Weyland´s ideas and agenda in the background, PARALLEL to the main plot. Kind of threatening or sinister one.. IMO. That WOULD HAVE GIVEN a whole new REASON and TENSION to the plot. Maybe the only [i]valid[/i] one in this movie. Too, his relationship to his daughter. ( Actually we only see hints of, in the hangar briefing scene, when he calls David, a robot, as his kinda son and Vickers looks aside..). The plot just cant develop and breath. The fire blows out constantly. Acting: sorry, it just goes under, again, because of the mainstream style of plot/ story developing. Best scene of Vickers: " In my room. In 10 minutes" . seriously. Fifield and Milburn stand out, too, simply because of their status, they are merchendaries, a small hint to the blue/white collar thing in Alien I. The old capitalism problem, we´re only in it for the money. The Peter Weyland appearance when he wants to meet his maker. A joke. THE WHOLE MISSION is based on Weyland and then he just gets into his electronic walker and gets knocked down by the engineer. ( I watched the movie without the ending credits, so somebody please could give me a link..thanx)
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Agreed. And you probably watched the same cam version I did on my 2nd viewing that cuts out out the final scene with the engineer and his baby.
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Kane77
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right, I only read about that ending scene but couldnt find it on utube.
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this is nice..
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Your probably better off not seeing the ending sequence, it's almost cringe worthy and a final kick in the gut after sitting through 2 hours of the most ridiculous movie ever made. Prometheus makes Alien Resurrection look like a masterpiece of cinema. BTW... How long before the fanboys come in here calling you a troll for not thinking the movie was the "bestest movie ever made"? 3...2...1 (enter rabid fanboys)
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Unfortunately, once again all too very true! To quote Trent Reznor "and all that could have been"
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no, I really am not on a rumble or a negative guy or like sme here who like to dis the movie for ego reasons. - How did they randomly find the temple so quick? This is an entire planet surface - Why on earth would scientists remove their helmets in a possibly infected temple? - scientific protocols at all - Why does Ford straight away start giving the head electricity for kicks? the most important scientific discovery in human history waggles its ears and rolls its eyes - before eventually blowing up like a frog in a microwave. - How the hell does Shaw walk after abdominal surgery? - ´´christian believe´´ as an excuse for bad plot ... ... ´´If all these questions were compensated with raw action, or tongue in cheek humor, i could have just waved it away; But the film propagates itself as an intellectual, epic adventure about the beginning of mankind.´´ ´´ when Milburn and Fifield get lost in the alien temple after becoming scared when seeing a decapitated Space Jockey and decide to go back to the ship. There is no explanation as to why they become lost and a complete lack of interest from the rest of the crew as to we're they are and their safety. Despite Captain Janek stating to them via radio that Alien life has been detected, he just tells them to go to sleep.. ´´ ´´the auto-doc, presumably intended for the sole use of Chalize Theron's character and somehow only set up to deal with MALE patients.´´ ´´ Captian Janek and his two stooges suddenly went from joking disinterest in the whole expedition to an easy willingness to sacrifice their lives for the greater good´´ the list goes on and on
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@Kane77 Agree with everything. And yes, the list goes on because there are tons of stupid, unexplained moments in this shit film.
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the list is like the universe - ever expanding and infinite!
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This film is like a man taking a long time to drown in a lake: Occasionally, he'll kick out hard and his head will break the surface - he might even snatch a lungful of air, enough to keep going just a little bit longer...but if the the fact he refuses to accept is that he just cannot swim - no amount of stamina and kicking of his legs can answer it. Eventually, it gets too much...and then, that's all.
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Kane, if you saw the end scene in the movie, before the credits, you're overall score of the movie would drop considerably, I am sure of it. Yes it is disgusting, Yes it is horrible, for all the wrong reasons... I read somewhere that Ridley Scott has never seen AVP or AVP:R.. I wish he had, it would have been a lesson to be learned..
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so THIS is the proto-Xeno that bursts out of the engineer? [URL=http://www.imagebanana.com/view/6g6lhb2i/2ig95.png][IMG]http://img7.imagebanana.com/img/6g6lhb2i/thumb/2ig95.png[/IMG][/URL]
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Q) How did they randomly find the temple so quick? This is an entire planet surface A) One of the crew spotted straight lines, nature follows fractal mathmatics Q) Why on earth would scientists remove their helmets in a possibly infected temple? A) They scanned the air and found it clean, also cinema hates helmets. Q) Why does Ford straight away start giving the head electricity for kicks? the most important scientific discovery in human history waggles its ears and rolls its eyes - before eventually blowing up like a frog in a microwave. Time means money in filmmaking, every second in film = $$$$$ The Engineer was infected and was dying when he was decapitated. Meaning if he wasn't decapitated, he would have died quickly regardless. This is based on a movie series with face-suckers, and alien chest bursting babies. You guys went in expecting way too much. And if you watched the film on a cam version (considering the official US release is tomorrow) you really have no place in criticising it. You do not even know if your missing parts that were there. Every film can be picked apart. This was at least original.
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@visual A) nope. They went straight down, analyzing atmosphere, David "there is nothing in the desert", Janek: "lets go through this gate"..and then Halloway " gods not building in straifgt lines", right where the temples are. Could it have been that the temples were just at the other side of the planet?..well.. B) nope. breathable air dont mean that inside of the complex are perhaps chambers/ life forms that are in fact poisonous. ridiculous. C) not convincing at all. They find an alien life form, they mostly are scientists, Normally the protocols are clear, ( I assume something like this, I´m no biologist/archeologist in particular): - leave goddamn helmets, gloves on - measure, measure, measure (scanning was ok) - take probes( no heads please), fotos - go back to ship and ANYLIZE - most important: dont contaminate the site ( just because of dating/ further investigating) the point was: why the heck do they stick that high voltage device into the most important, 2000 years old, archeological piece, trying to ACTUALLY REANIMATE AT ALL? do you do that with an early christian skull, lets say 100 BC ?? Just because Shaw spottet some skin irregularities on top of the head? and is she an expert on that? Frankenstein? WTF? Of course I saw that before that scene they did this ´surface decontamination´, but SURFACE, and we know there was something INSIDE) and why is Halloway drinking a bottle in the background?? come on..
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This was a movie better left to the trailers and everyone's collective imagination. In reality it's just Ridley's ramblings.

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