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MemberOvomorphJun-19-2012 5:06 AMI was disappointed with Prometheus on many levels, and I am quite sure that I won´t remember this movie as anything but a grand scale missed opportunity.
It seems to me though, that a lot of the people, who liked this movie try to categorize the opposite opinion as lack of insight or abillity to make sense of the plot. So can someone please explain the plotholes to me, and more importantly; tell me how the understanding of these plotholes, makes this movie a masterpiece...
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MemberOvomorphJun-20-2012 2:42 AMif your saying when i go watch prometheus 2 it will tell me what i saw in the first movie was actually a load of misdirection and bs i will start going into negative numbers and send ridley hate mail
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MemberOvomorphJun-20-2012 3:15 AM@Hadley´s Hope
"Visualizer... when I write the word "all" in a sentence, it is there deliberately.
It's fine leaving some things up to our imagination, if the point of the film is to have the audience think about the possible meanings in terms of solving the mystery."
Doesn´t make much of a difference whether you put "all" in your sentence or not. Your defense for the movie diverging in possible explanations (which was your own expression, by the way) is describing Prometheus as a mystery, and that´s where I disagree.
"It's not fine just to dick us about by leaving important things unexplained just because they couldn't be bothered coming up with anything."
Why exactly do you think that this is not the case with Prometheus?
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MemberOvomorphJun-20-2012 2:34 PMI will end my activity on this thread by thanking its contributors for good dialogue and interesting feedback. I haven´t read any plot revelations or explanations that made the plot more sensible to me, and nothing has really convinced me, that the multiple missing explanations in Prometheus is a good thing.
I absolutely embrace the possibility of other people understanding something in this movie, that I don´t. But so far, no one has enlightened me.
Finally - I watched Prometheus for the second time today, and it didn´t change my first impression.
icemunk
MemberOvomorphSep-11-2012 2:30 PMI went into the movie expecting a prequel of Alien. It is not that. It is the same universe, but definetely not a direct prequel. I went into the movie expecting answers about Aliens, but it doesn't not give you that, it just leaves you with a lot of questions. So, yes.. I was expecting something entirely different. I felt a bit disapointed when it didn't go the way I wanted... but upon second viewing, and some thought about it.. I think that was the point of the film. It wasn't meant to answer questions, it was meant to make you question it more. So, indeed.. it was a mystery.
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