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jgrjr

MemberOvomorphJune 15, 2012820 Views8 Replies
I saw the film for the 2nd time yesterday. Both times at a 3D IMAX. I enjoyed the film more the 2nd time. Visually beautiful. I like the score very much. The David performance seems even better. His "three laws" line at the pool table was great. David is actually the scariest thing in the film. I liked the final scene with Shaw the beliver flying away on her quest to find the great truth, accompanied by the ultimate non beliver. The created with her species creation. Let's hope the film will be given a sequel. For all the plot commentary issues SRS made some bold decisions to go the way he did. Hollywood wants bankable pablum. This film was far from that. It was quite risky. Between first and 2nd viewings I saw an HBO small feature on the film. SRS said something like " I wanted everything to be believable". That is still where I have some problems. Everything has been listed elsewhere but I will mention two as examples. Would it not have been easier to show the ship launching a few satalites at the point of orbital insertion to imply the study of the planet? this could have been done with no extra time in that pretty orbital insertion sequence. Intead we get a sequence that makes the discovery of the ruins unbelievable. Why? The Holloway performance just gets more unbelievable. Remove your helmet. Sleep with your girlfriend. Discover you are horribly infected. Do not tell your girlfriend. Suit up and go back where other people might be infected as they remove thier helmets. Again tell no one. Really? He cetrtainly does not know David infected him. He would have to assume he was infected in the ruins. My big question is how does SRS miss things like this? Even though we all complain about these nits Prometheus is the best of recent SciFi. I give a lot of credit to SRS for the risks taken. It would have been a lot simpler to go with a straight Prequel. What do others think after additional viewings?
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spacejock
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I saw it 3 times so far, and yes it gets better every time. You grow to accept it, as it peovides u with beautiful visuals plus deep story. And i realized tht Weyland is one of the most disgusting human creature i ever saw in any movie. His selfishness goes as far as questioning his maker but u can tell he doesnt even respect him either, he just wants to know how can he live longer, everybody else for him is an insect he can step on. The best moment id when he dies lol.
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I am in total agreement with all you have said. A couple of other things I would have liked to see would have been Janek, Ravel, and Chance survive, and I'm still not sure as to why Mr. Scott needed to show a new type of Xenomorph being born. The one thing that impressed me from both viewings is the epic opening sequence, as well as the film's soundtrack. Both Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender should be given Oscars for Best Actor and Actress on this film. Noomi really surprised me with her performance in the med-pod sequence. She gave Ripley a run for her money.
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I posted a similar topic a little while ago here: http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/8220 would love to get your take on what I wrote.
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Just came back from my second viewing and I liked it better than the first. I really noticed David's fascination with Shaw this time around. Fassbender may have only joked that David was in love with Shaw, but there's something definitely there - whether intentional or not.
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Prometheus is much improved by turning the audio off and replacing it with Vegas by Crystal Method. No lie.
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Disliked it very much after first viewing. Lots of plotholes. Started to write my review and then it hit me... Went back with different expectations, and thought it was brilliantly devious... and the [url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/8183]implied ending[/url] is a great piece of black humour.
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A lot of problems I had with the movie when I saw it the first time were gone and I can now focus on the bigger picture. No more being stuck on small issues like why Fifield and Milburn were such morons (I actually liked their characters after the second screening). One thing that really hit me after the second viewing was Shaw's dream sequence with her dad, where he says that heaven/paradise was a beautiful place because that's what he chooses to belief. When Shaw's belief in the Engineers was questioned later on, she echoes her father's sentiment. Amazing foreshadowing of the sequel if it's really titled Paradise.

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