I have to change my review/opinion of Prometheus

Totally agree...TOTALLY!

I could never give any movie a 10/10! Nothing is perfect! BUT I am glad you liked it so much. :)

I agree it's a far better film than I thought it was after my first viewing. (I almost had steam coming out of my ears.) Brilliantly pulled off. Going to be talked about for a long time.

Nice review and glad you enjoy the movie so do I too.................^^

So, you didn't find anything wrong with the "biologist" trying to pet the alien cobra that was quite clearly threatened by the guy? A real biologist would never in their right mind try anything that ridiculously stupid on Earth, let alone on an unexplored alien world they have literally just landed on less than 12 hours earlier................

Never say never. People are stupid or sometimes have ulterior motives for their actions as explained above. Even some biologists. And like I said before, it's a movie. Let yourself go and suspend a little disbelief for 2 hours. Funny how so many gripe about the little things that make little sense but say nothing of all the things that make perfect sense. Things that the makers of the film studied very hard and researched to get right.

To be honest, as the biologist is only human, yes, humans tend to do stupid things al the time.

Clearly every biologist in the entire universe should all act in the same exact way with caution and without curiosity in any way shape or form. The thing didn't seem to be a threat at the time, he was curious and naive. Nit picker..

@Svanya, you're right, i'll give it a 9/9 ;)

Sorry, but I thought Ridley Scott was trying to make things seem realistically scientific in this movie, and no biologist I have ever known (and my cousin is a marine biologist, so I do know a thing or two about the procedures they employ) would EVER try to pet an un-known creature.

[quote]Clearly every biologist in the entire universe should all act in the same exact way with caution and without curiosity in any way shape or form. The thing didn't seem to be a threat at the time, he was curious and naive. [/quote] Actually, yes, they should. Caution should have been a given on the mission. Have curiosity, yes, but biologists would never attempt to pet a creature they have no experience with before knowing what that creature's defense mechanisms are. And why would a naive biologist be on as important a mission as this one? I'm sorry, but your logic is flawed.

I'm glad you liked it, but a great movie doesn't need watching 3 times to give it a higher score ;) Sorry being negative nancy here :9

LordSoth, it's like oysters, one needs to aquire the taste. big invetions came from stupidity, and ppl willin to cross the universe are more adventurous than others

cypher - Quote: Clearly every biologist in the entire universe should all act in the same exact way with caution and without curiosity in any way shape or form. just in case u missed it at the briefing near the start of the movie vickers says - for those of you i personally hired hello again, vickers hired a hot headed meteorologist , incompetent biologist and the rest because she WANTED the mission to fail, she wasnt there because she wanted to find anything she wanted the mission to be a failure and what better way to do that than hire incompetent people

I remember that, but i don't know who are the ones she personally hired, and the others.

I'm sure if I watched Sucker Punch enough times I would probably start to like it as well. Maybe I should. I think every time you watch a film you do not like you get desensitized to the negative emotions you feel when you watch it and after enough viewings, the faults of the film no longer bother you. I am sure if I watched Sucker Punch every day and there was tons of discussion going on about how mysterious and deep it was, I would also have a bias towards viewing the film in favorable light. Not judging, just interesting to observe this behavior.

4.5 of 5 From me it was definetly a very good movie but not an amazing or perfect movie i'm a big alien fan but this movie wasn't what i expected but was still very good

I am not attacking anyone here but obviously we all saw the movie with different eyes. But when I see 10/10 then I think these people work for Ridley or 20th Century Fox lol.

drakeequation: not sure about the relevance...i gave prometheus 8/10 after the first viewing...no need to see it more than once to like it.

I think it's weird that the biologist was scared of the blip from the pups that indicated life - scared enough to head in the opposite direction. Scared of a blip but a completely foreign species of schlongsnake is 'beautiful' and he wants to give it a pat. Then again, maybe it's freudian.

[i]I think it's weird that the biologist was scared of the blip from the pups that indicated life - scared enough to head in the opposite direction. Scared of a blip but a completely foreign species of schlongsnake is 'beautiful' and he wants to give it a pat. Then again, maybe it's freudian.[/i] Lol Freudian. Seriously tho I agree. Scared of a blip then more than happy to pet alien snake?

@ihdiinnotime: wow, I admit that never crossed my mind. (Vickers wanting the mission to choke was the reason she hired such bozos.) Hmm... Well, I'm off to another viewing soon and will think of that :)

I have made this point in several threads already. If you want a movie to be entertaining, then you need for the characters in it to sometimes do stupid things that trigger plot points. If you wanted a realistic story of space exploration, you get a movie of 2 hours of a bunch of guys with beards and ties looking through screens of data from a probe thousands of light years away. now if THAT's your idea of entertainment, then maybe stick to NASA documentaries?

I'm very, very curious to know just what expectation you had of responses or comments when you posted this... Personally, I just can't accept that rewarding this film with 10/10 is credible by any kind of rational judgement. Nevertheless; I envy you, your satisfaction. Long may it continue.

Regarding "petting" a cobra I agree on that silly plot scene BUT... Steve Irwin dies getting to close to a stingray because he saw it as beautiful... and it f**king stabbed him!

Regarding Milburn, the biologist, and the hammerpede... Yes, he seemed concerned of a "ping" the probes picked up. But if you recall, Fifield was smoking something (you can guess what it was). They cut away, then come back to them encountering the hammerpede. Did Milburn smoke as well and those "concerns" went up in smoke (pun intended)? And if you believe that these two "clowns" were hired by Vickers, who seemed to want the mission to fail, then this oddity makes more sense. And IMO, Scott submitted his "PG-13" version, but the MPAA still gave it an R rating. In Scott's "R" version, this drug reference may not be a reference, but a clear cut use of drugs and these guys' inhibitions were removed. If an "R" version and the other 20+ minutes are added, a lot more may make sense.

@drakeequation See your point but not sure about your theory. I went in to Sucker Punch with the same enthusiasim I went in to see Prometheus. I felt Sucker Punch was poor-mediocre and did not even consider a second viewing. There was just nothing there (e.g. story, action, music, and etc.) to draw me into a second viewing. Whereas, I came out of Prometheus feeling it was good...not great. However, as I digested the film I started questioning it...much like what people are doing in these forums. IMO, you do not do that unless you like the film on some level. I went to a second viewing (obviously concluding I enjoyed the first one enough to go again); and, I ended up thinking it was not just good but great! My point being is that I do not think MOST people go back to mediocre or poor movies just to see if they can be desensitized into liking it more. A person does not come out of a movie saying, " I think that movie was poor...I will go a few more times to see if I can change my opinion." What is the point...maybe, I will catch parts of it on TV assuming I can sit through any part of it again.? I personally came out of Prometheus thinking, "It was good. Went in a totally different direction than I had thought. Lot of stuff going on and alot of questions as to WTF I just watched. I am intrigued. I will watch again."

sevensisters... case in point, I will be going back for a second viewing this Saturday because of many of the reasons you point out. (plus my wife, who is not on this forum and didn't know a lot going into the movie, [b]really[/b] liked it)

I agree it was kinda stupid for him to behave that way with the space cobra. However, maybe he was scared sh*tless of the earlier ping and seeing all the dead bodies and thinking some giant monster was running around that killed all the engineers. Then a little snake pops up and it's like a relief compared to what was lurking iin his mind so he tries to prove to himself and the other dude there is nothing to worry about and laugh off how scared they were.