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Haven't seen a movie this bad since Dragon Wars

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I walked out of Dragon Wars and almost walked out of this one too. I saw six other people get up and leave. Story and dialogue were very disappointing for the last 90 mins of the film. It was very boring and it lacked suspense. Been reading these forums for 3 months and just feel extremely let down.
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Lopan
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@Sukkal I am not wrong though. This is like trying to convince me that Legally Blonde was an in depth masterpiece of human creation. Even sound's silly saying it.
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I'm really sorry you're disappointed.
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you should've walked out, and not bothered coming on hear to cry about it. If it's not your piece of cake that's your problem. I enjoyed it a lot, and can't wait for a sequel if there's one.
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I'm sorry you're disappointed too. The sequel will be better.
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Maybe it's the 3-D man, playing with your eyes.
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Megatronus
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Someone paid money to see Dragon Wars?
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People applauded at the end of my showing. I enjoyed the movie in general but I have to say some of the dialogue was cringe inducing. "I Choose to believe" used about 3 or 4 times during the movie. An expedition based on a hunch of a scientist (what was her specialization after all?), then a mad scientist experiment and a zombie/The Thing passage that serves no purpose to the story...high points were the special effects, the design of the engineers, the sets, the music (yes, I ended up liking it, specially the nice touch of the Chopin tune at the beginning and at the end of the movie), and of course Michael Fassbender
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It wasn't that at all. I really liked the movie. Furthermore it focuses on the space jockey which is what really interested me, not Aliens, which is a old dead topic that this movie shouldnt touch.
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No walkouts or phones going off at any of my 3 showings, nothing but people hungry for more LOL
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sukkal
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Lopan, If it must be so for you to maintain your condescending, ego-centric world view of your superiority than I am "simple" [u]because I choose to be so[/u]. It can be a [i]good[/i] movie without being a [i]perfect[/i] movie based on your subjective criteria. The film has its issues, granted, but your assertion that those who find it entertaining are therefore of inferior intelligence is, frankly, [u]offensive[/u].
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I "believe" (no pun intended) that the repeated reference to religious symbolism will play an important role with what's already happened and with what's to come next. Both Shaw's and "Hollow-way's" crosses, a crucified xeno sculpt, birth from a barren womb... are there more?
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"expedition based on the hunch of a scientist" well said Arkadine. Even for Ridley, that was one hell of jump from the cave drawings to the movie titled spacecraft. Mabey well get the deleted scene in the director's cut. And If memory serves, Dr. Shaw's hypersleep chamber id'd her as an anthropologist.
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Anyone saying this was a good movie has to be a little simple. I am a passionate lover of all R.S movies but this was just dismal. In 33 years i have need seen a movie with so many issues on the big screen. Sure most will point them out but regardless it has been a huge let down. In years to come this will be slated more so then Alien 3. Wait and you will see. I was not even upset as it was not an Alien movie. Here is just off the top of my head. 1:When entering the planets atmosphere how comes the Prometheus ship just so happens to arrive right outside the engineers ship? Just pure coincidence? 2: Why is it when old man Wayland is discovered not one crew member said anything about him being there? 3: Why did Shaw tell the security guy "No Weapons" when there is clearly Aliens present ? That is just silly. 4: What an earth did the first scene with the Engineer drinking and dying have to do with any part of the movie? 5: Why did the space jockey (Engineer) just get up and attempt flying back to earth? He could have got up at any time the millions of years he was there. Why now? 6: Shaw gives birth to a baby alien yet she is now fine to run around within 2 mins? None of the crew question or ask her if she is ok after having an Alien removed from herself. 7: Why does the captain always ask where people are or what they are doing when he has a huge hologram map on the deck along with cameras attached to every crew member? 8: How did they find the planet that was billions of miles from earth? All we see is "Movie intro at cave in Scotland" .... "Oh there is a picture of some people who i think are gods" ... "They want us to find them" (Cut scene) "Captain we are here at the planet." 9: When the two crew members were lost why did the captain not just watch the camera footage instead of everyone randomly just going onto the planet searching ? Again they are all tagged why not look on the giant hologram that tells them as it beeps the whole movie? 10: Overall a huge let down of a movie. There were so many distracting plot holes and pointless thing's happening it become silly watching it. I also witnessed people leaving the cinema which i have never seen.
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@db References aside, you cannot convince a room full of scientists of anything by telling them: I don't have anything to back me up . But I am right because I choose to believe
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It was really well done. It just created more questions then it provided answers to. Really, I think he needed another 60 minutes to help some needed back story and bridge some continuity gaps that were created in the story. I hope to GOD that he makes another one that goes to where our blue human counterparts came from. I'd like to see her message as translated through the beheaded David.
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@Lopan - I think the engineer/space jockey drinking and dying at the waterfall at the very beginning was the creation of Earth. They have identical DNA to humans, and the DNA was being carried through the water and likely started human life. Many of your other questions are valid, but one of yours is why didn't the space jockey just fly the ship and leave. If you didn't notice, he was in hypersleep, and I don't think you can just get up from hypersleep without the ship automatically doing it, or if someone else opens it (like they did in the movie). I do not feel like this was a bad movie, but it could have been much better. When I watched Alien, it felt a lot more solid of a movie than Prometheus. Hopefully the sequel will be better.
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It did not answer anything nor did it mean anything @Solver2. To me it seemed like it was made up as it went along. If any other movie at the cinema did as many random thing's as this it would be slated for poor directing. To me everything was just for the sake of it. Nobody questioned anything. What will happen in the next Spiderman ? A horse just shoots beams out of it's eyes then you don't see it again and nobody asks why ? That is exactly the sort of crap happening here. "Oh well its a movie that is supposed to happen" Way too much of that for me to keep interested.
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Let me tell you an anecdote. People would buy almost anything. I recently stumbled upon one of those online camrips. The film had been subtitled in spanish over over a russian dubbed copy. The funny thing is it was no translation, all the text was made out. And there were comments: Very good movie. I will watch it again lol How dumb people can get???
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Seriously, the movie "species" was better written and more entertaining then this hack job.
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Sorry you think that way @sukkal but i am just saying it how i see it. How can anyone watch Prometheus without having so much happen with a blah look at it ? If i was to watch a Spiderman movie to have a flying horse appear for 20 seconds I would ask why? To much of that happened in this and people are blind or just see that as "Oh its sci fi thats cool". Thing's need to have reason or meaning in a film. I honestly see this as R.S making an Alien Prequel then 6 months in thinking "No lets change it all". By which time it become lost in what it was trying to actually be. When you cut it down in basics. Rich man is dying and wants to live so they look for an answer to keep him alive. That is just a poor underlying story that holds this together. Sorry

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