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Svanya's thoughts on Prometheus after seeing it (my review)

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AdminPraetorianJune 08, 20122303 Views40 Replies
I liked the movie but didn't love it. I give it: 7/10. Let me focus on the basics, no nitpicking (well not too deep anyways): 1-The movie felt rushed, it needed at least 30 more minutes to flesh itself out. I feel like I missed a huge chunk of the movie. 2-The Soundtrack reminded me so much of Star Trek I half expected Captain Kirk to break into his famous "These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise"... 3-I didn't feel an emotional connection with the characters. Give me more time to digest it all. Sure I loved the costumes, the sets, Fassbender as David, and the C-Section scene. I need to see the movie again to really put all my thoughts in order. I think I may be in shock tbh... [Center]****************************[/Center] *2nd screening edit, 10 June. (not gonna make a whole new post just to say this) Saw it again today and my verdict stands, it was an entertaining movie but it had some flaws; I feel it was deliberately held back to save something for the sequels and did not live up to it's full potential (great Director, actors, sets, budget ). Worth seeing, it is a good Sci-fi movie, just don't expect a masterpiece. Honestly everything in it seems to be old stuff leftover from O'Bannon's original script and rejected scenes from Alien. ~Notes of interest: 1-David has interesting quirks for a Robot: He is Left handed. He is seen eating, snacking, dying/styling his hair. 2-Shaw's father and the SJ dying of essentially the same thing, rapid cellular breakdown. 3-The line "God does not build in straight lines" makes no sense as they were looking for god... 4-David's head and body are in the same place it was in before the crash or at least very close and close together. 5-If the engineers head/helmet was so heavy how come Elisabeth/Ford were able to carry it, and then Elisabeth carried it alone in the bag BUT when they examined it they needed Davids help?? 6-Shaw just walks up to the MedPod, doesn't bother to lock the door despite people wanting to contain/freeze her, and does a whole C-section. The same people that worked to contain her lose total interest in her condition after 5 minutes. 7- In the trailers Holloway shines his flashlight onto the same type ceremonial bowl we see at the opening of the movie which the engineer drinks from, but in the movie it's replaced with a green crystal... [Center][IMG]http://i48.tinypic.com/fto7sp.jpg[/IMG][/Center] [Center]Srsly, wtf?[/Center]

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thefacehead
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LOL I was there last week and guess what........ It doesn't get any clearer, I still love the 'film' because it's created so much debate and that's healthy.
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7/10 is indeed a generous score, given that you admit you didn't care for any of the characters. Agree big time on the sound track! I think your notes of interest with Shaws father and Ebola is just clutching at straws unfortunately, doubt that there was a fore thought there but maybe that's just Lindelof cynicism. This entire film was essentially an advert for a sequel imo. Will you bother with the sequel?
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thank you for your honest review/ opinion, Svanya!
You don\\\'t see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage!
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Svanya
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I don't know. I was going to do a generic Like/dislike review but it was all so obvious, of course Iiked the sets, 3D, and the costumes but that has been said before...

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I think when he said "God does not build in straight lines" he was referring to the fact that it HAD to be made by an intelligent being. That it wasn't a natural thing.
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I only saw it in IMAX and I was an IMAX virgin so the noise was quite overwhelming to me (i'm 32 not grandad lol) so therefore didn't really 'get' the score. I just can't bring myself to watch it again yet, but I will. I will!
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Agreed with all your points Svanya. The score itself was great but just used in wrong moments and too much IMO. I give the movie a generous 7/10 too and feel in the 50/50 group as I can relate to those who love it and hate it.
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Haha, the soundtrack was kinda nostalgic at times. :-)
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I agree, it was certainly rushed, and there were obvious things that didn't fit so well, I personally loved how pretty it was, but wasn't scared at all... agree, didn't feel connected to anyone that died. Going to go see it a few more times before I write my review, want to also write something different and not the same ole' review we've read for the past week thanks for writing you views, very honest and remained neutral
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@Svanya I believe that making you not like most of the characters was intentional; I think the intended effect was to highlight the fact that Elizabeth is all by herself once her boyfriend is gone.. you can see how brutal everybody else is to her, like when the other female character is trying to wake her up as if she was an animal on the veterinary table. There is a lot of religious subtext too, some of it a little bit forced into the story. I pretty much agree with your score.
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I feel you Svanya. For me a huge problem was the characters. The humans were pretty boring. God-awful scientists with crap lines and little development beyond 'I dont like you. so when we get stuck together in the temple alone at night, hopefully us not liking each other adds tension.' But you're also right that so many things were obviously unique and well done. So far, I blame Lindelof pretty heavily. He's more than a bad writer. I think he's a bad person. Seemed like he wrote a 2+hour trailer for Prometheus II. a few questions (someone help me out): The horse-shoe ship took off with some sort of energy burst (at the end), where is the exhaust opening in the anatomy of the ship? Is shaw sitting in the SJ chair? Why did mutant Fifield return to Prometheus? If the engineers were running from xenos, or something xeno-ish that the balck goo made, why was so much of the running time dedicated to setting up the proto-xeno birth at the end? If there are many juggarnaut ships, do any of them have engineers sleeping in them? (off that) they really found the one ship of 'many' that had the one engineer? Why doesnt anyone mention that Shaw had a effing octo-baby c-sectioned out of her by the med pod? Seriously? Vickers was pisT when Shaw touched the medpod?!?! but no mention of octo baby trapped in medpod room? (for lindelof) How can you take such an interesting idea and fill it with so many cliches?
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@Arkadine; You misunderstand, I felt NOTHING for the characters... That is the problem, I felt no connection either way.

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@ arkadine: if they were intentionally making unlikable characters, Shaw wasn't a strong enough character to offset this. I think Lindelof intentionally kept friction and strife in the interactions of characters, but I don't think this was an effort to intentionally put the audience off to everyone but Shaw. And if it was, it was a mistake.
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@Proxy; I know right!! They were all so worried about contamination and protocol but when Shaw removed the "baby" no one cared about her and no one cared to know where the "baby" was or to destroy it.. O_O

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@Svanya Well, that would be a problem. Indifference is much worse than hate lol I understand you, because I guess Elizabeth's "search" won't be embraced by all the audience, the character is full of contradictions.
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@Svanya Well, that would be a problem. Indifference is much worse than hate lol I understand you, because I guess Elizabeth's "search" won't be embraced by all the audience, the character is full of contradictions.
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@Arkadine; For instance, I should have hated Vickers for torching Holoway, but I didn't. I should have felt bad for Shaw but I didn't. The list goes on and on hence my no nitpicking rule. I liked David enough, as I pointed out he had some really interesting quirks for a Robot, the snacking while watching movies was really bizarre. Him bleaching his hair and styling it was very cute.

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Well, now that i saw Prometheus the THIRD (!) time, and you maybe KNOW that my critics here are not very "positive", i must have some strong connection to the alien universe and everything that has to do with it. I really LOVE rapace and fassbender doing their jobs, thats what i enjoy most on this movie. Would like to simply watch for hours what david8 is doing, as it feels "wired" that a "mashine" is making its own decisions, for example to watch a movie, repeat sentences of the movie dialogues and to bleech his hair (!) as he is fan of peter o` toole. cool. The best "horror" scene was for me the COBRALIEN scene. Oh how i love how this sweet pet moves through this black goo... THAT is really authentic to me. All in all i simply wonder, that the actors show so little emotion, compared to the SITUATION they find themselves. Ah - one more thing.. Yo, the music was not bad for a "star treck movie"... so "hopefull, not very deep..". BUT FOR A RIDLEY SCOTT ALIEN PREQUEL THE MUSIC IS REALLY BAD AND DOES NOT SUPPOR THE EMOTIONAL CONNECTION TO THE FLICK AT DAMN ALL!!! ... Music and Soundtrack in a movie is very important to me. I sometimes simply start Alien again JUST TO HEAR THIS MUSIC AT THE BEGINNING... so simple. And so GENIUS.
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@Svanya Well, I don't hate Vickers neither. In fact she is my favorite character. She is the voice of reason in this movie. The only character whose actions are consistently coherent, the only sane person in a "ship of fools". I am close to hating David though in the same way I hated Hal 9000 in 2001, but more than hate it is fear.. I would never feel safe with him around :-) I recall someone in the forum calling him a "passive aggressive" bastard basically, that definition was so spot on :-)
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@Arkadine; I called him passive aggressive in a few posts LOL, that was me. He is very unlikable in the way that he is, again, passive agressive. He is a little c*nt, but it still didn't make me want to slap him or care that old man Weyland was a jerk to him.

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