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boyohboy
MemberOvomorphOctober 07, 2012Even though everything was there - good optics, nice ideas, good actors (fassbender, rapace - NOT theron), the movie did not touch me.
I felt unfortunatelly bored the most time.
Even on DVD i is hard to me to watch it without falling to sleep.
So what went wrong?
Some reasons i can imagine...
1. No clear "answer" to the big questons it wants to deal with
2. Space Jockeys "unmystified" as humanoids (boah!)
3. did not feel any empathy or sympathy for the characters
4. i found myself every 3 minutes asking myself "..what the hell..." because of an "unexpected emotionless" kind of storytelling
5. maybe after some decades in science fiction, it is really hard to find original ideas, we have seen it all, there is simply nothing new under the sun. It is very
very rare to surprise the audience nowadays, as we had each surprise that can be imagined in the past
6. It was a crude mixture of "epic", "action", "horror", "sci-fi", but i did not feet any fear in any of the scenes. When i see aliens, i have still after ALL THESE YEARS and dozend of watchings still fear when watching alien or aliens...
7. maybe the biggest problem was crude cut. Everything in a "harsh hurry". They should have added some scenes and change some little things which would improve the outcome 200%. It feels like "done in a hurry", by studio order..?
8. Plus - dont forget the soundtrack. Did not like it at all.
9. Did i talk about Mrs. Vickers? Hated that role and that acting to death... dont know why, but i dont want to see her again, though she is pretty.
But then - why matrix touched me (and millions of others) much more then prometheus? Even "Looper" (a small nice science-fiction movie) touched me much more though very limited budget. Or "Surrogates" was better. Even "Inception" (though i think its overrated) was better.