Prometheus didn't have the "scare" people expected

This scares more than Prometheus [img]http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/p589/jokerdeldesierto/Nuks1.jpg[/img]

Completely agree. [b]But at least we still have ALIEN[/b]....which as soon as my replacement 200watt home powered subwoofer comes in the mail sometime Friday, I'm gonna pop that bad boy in and crank it up L O U D. Even though I just watched right after Prometheus hit theaters.... Anyway back on subject, yeah it wasn't scary at all to me as far as making me jump or get goosebumps, it's way more thought provoking and has more of a mystery of life on a grand scale type theme, instead of slowing building up scares with ambient sounds and slow pacing and creepy camera angles, like The Shining, or The Ring, or (of course) ALIEN!

And I HATE that G-Damn Jar-Jar Binks so much it makes me literally cringe, worst character ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I've only seen that movie once.

Well, I can't remember the last time any movie really scared me, tbh. Most horror films are more gross and/or suspenseful than scary to me. But maybe I've desensitized myself since I'd watch horror films from the time before I even hit puberty.

Not one scene that scared me ... BAH!!1

@spacenik: agreed. Frankly, im kinda glad the creators left the "go bump in the night" stuff in the toolbox. However, depending upon interpretation, there were some elements of Prometheus that were unsettling in their implication. I think the lack of pure "horror" in the film threw some of the audience for a loop. Prometheus was definitely a departure from the "haunted house in space" approach. Alien = simple, elegant, focused, primal. Whereas Prometheus = cerebral, collage-like, multi-faceted, pondering, ambiguous etc.

Well put. I'd have quite enjoyed being scared, myself, but it's something I can definitely live without. Blade Runner wasn't scary either - still a great movie.

Me-so-horny ... that's what I hear EVERY TIME I see the JJB ... that and Midiclorians... please stop me, THEY RUINED STAR WARS!!!! please stop me. On the subject of THE SCARE, Ridley should have gone totally down the line of Alien Society, something along the lines of [url=http://trailersfromhell.com/trailers/576]SALO[/url] (yeah, the Pier Pasolini film that got him assassinated). Something so truly ALIEN SOCIETY that every scene was filled with original-Giger-like incongruities, strange lustings and questions, questions, questions. "How could they survive, being so alien?" Well, they did. And that one aspect of themselves was never really covered in the film, it just went off on a Lindelof-distractionary soujourn, imho. I think it DIDN'T WANT TO FACE its own scare potential - sfx, fine, but real scare? Also, remember, the kind of film Alien is comes from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Driller Killer era. Scott piggybacks trends, or is TOLD WHAT TO MAKE by his controllers, or he'd never have made Black Hawk Down when he did. Prometheus's role might not have been to SCARE us, but to get us to accept that God didn't make "Adam and Eve". Am I rambling still?

@FreePlanet I would completely agree with your last sentences, but Ridley did say he wanted to scare the living shit out of us in an interview , either way IMO its one of the most controversial and one of the best movies, with some of the deepest meaning...

yeah prometheus isnt that scary at all....loads of tension and the c section scene realy got me. loved he hologram scenes. the one with the engineers run through the passage way, then the last one looked back told the whole story of what went down. well done ridley jar jar binks seriously sucks balls, so do the robots in first star wars '"roger roger" ,give me a break!!

I've found very few movies scary. Even Alien didn't get me scared. Movies can disturb me though. Alien did. Prometheus did that very successfully with the reveal of the alien fetus and the c-section scene. I cared for Shaw at that point so it was distressing to see her get caught in a Saw-like situation, having to self-operate and pull that disgusting Cuddles out of herself. That had to be one of the most twisted and emotionally upsetting scenes I've seen in quite a while. But scared? Unfortunately, not really. Being disturbed by a movie can be a lot of fun though. Prometheus had the right amount of twisted content to satisfy me.

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@aurorian: nice post! you made a valid point without being rude.

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@aurorian: no no no. Clearly im the one not making any sense here. Your posts do not come across as rude. I meant to express: 1) nice post! 2) you hit upon something that i have noticed for a few weeks now (free planet's angry / dogmatic / bitter tone in many of his posts) and 3) you made your point without sounding rude (which isnt always an easy thing to do on a discussion forum where many of the nuances of communication are often lost (clearly on me...lol)). Basically, i was just giving you a +1 for several different reasons.

Fugetabout scary. "Prometheus" - and whatever comes next - I don't think is meant to be, or it certainly isn't going to evolve to be, the same thing as Ripley's fight to keep the xenomorph away from Earth. That's a different story. And I hope they keep it quarantined from this series. This series is going to be - it would seem - all about the "cosmic conspiracy" around our origins and place in the universe. There are more, grandly enough scary things to do with that, perhaps, but we don't need another mere "bughunt". And I love the Jar Jar.

come on people - lets be honest. Alien came out in 1979. How old were you when you saw it? I don't get "scared" of Alien now and i wasn't "scared" when i saw it when i was a kid. The "scare" factor is not there because it's "horror". Horror isn't meant to "scare" you, but take you into the darkness and dread. If you want scares, then watch Scream.

Sometimes new movies just dont have that scare factor anymore. The Thing prequel does not compare to the original for jumps. We have to remember Prometheus was a Cert 15 and R and so it was not a 18+ and so any real scares would have to be the clever use of suspense and timing with audio to provide some jump out seat moments. The movie did this about twice, but it never effected many on here as we all kind of knew what to expect at what time. The movie lacked the shock factor that Alien did, but then again every other Chest Buster effect in all other Alien movies inc AVPs does not and did not have the same effect as the first time you ever saw the scene from Alien. Saying that people who are not as old as many of us, who had seen say the latter Alien movies or AVPs and seen Chest Busters but never saw Alien would not be as shocked at the Original Chest Buster scene. This movie is a Mystery movie trying to ask questions and in doing so create many more, i think its intention was not to have any Horror or Action based plot. Essentially they was going for more of a Blade Runner set in Alien universe rather than another Alien Xeno movie. Ridley has to blame himself for failing to deliver on the Scare Factor as he did big up and hype the movie by saying the aim was to scare the S£"% out of people.