Prometheus:Overrated,underrated,or in between

That's all good dk.David is by far my favorite part.As I've said,over the years I've recognized a lot on issues with Prometheus,but i still enjoy it.BULL ALIEN:Is that true about the predators helmet?

@ninXneo426 about the Predator helmet? Yes, he was there only to stop the queen and the outbreak and to clean things up the best he could but it went to hell fast.

Thank you.I didn't know that about the helmet.

somewhere in the middle for me. I found the characters kinda boring (except David and Shaw) the acting wasn't great (fassbender was great as usual) I liked some bits, but overall it was kinda bland in my opinion. Not terrible by any means, but not great

David stole the show while Shaw and almost everyone else ruined it. I watch it almost once a year to see if I might like it more but I like it less after each viewing

I agree and I feel the same. There's only so much depth in Prometheus that people want to give it.

There is no official "Prometheus explained" other than people making up their own explanations with a good dose of vivid imagination. I admire that but I don't buy into the "explained" stuff myself the same way I don't believe rumours in gossip magazines.

You can basically direct a short film, introduce a series of incoherent scenes and slap a label on it that says "ambiguity", and it could be expanded upon by fans watching it. If other qualities of the work make up for it, people can overlook issues, it's just a matter of where you draw your line.

I prefer old-school well written stories.

Prometheus was simply badly written, riddled with plot holes, and downright stupid characters. Most critics criticised the plot regardless of the final score. Some people can overlook these issues, other felt like it ruined the film.

I can still remember the first Prometheus trailer; reading the lines, "they went looking for our beginning...", and, "...what they found will be our end", which had me frothing at the mouth. Unfortunately, the way the film turned out was suboptimal.

A flawed masterpiece. Many reasons for the problems, but I would say the greatest mistake was hiring Lindelof. RS had a bold and risky vision for the movie. It could have been pulled-off to much greater effect with a carefully crafted screenplay featuring  well-written supporting characters. Have the mystery but so many hanging threads. Spaiths version was too much like an Alien re-boot, and I'm glad they didn't go with that.

Covenant looks like it will have solid characters, and a well structured storyline and script. My fear is the possibility of over reliance on the type of monster chases we've seen many times before. I want the story to be deep, about seeking out answers. I would also want to see some justice done to the Shaw character, and not just booted to the curb (as Newt and Hicks were basically just put into a trash can in Alien 3). I think Shaw deserves better than that.  

Underrated. It was a super slick movie. A lot of the complaining I see it petty and snobby. It was cool to look at and made me nervous. I might change one or two things but on the whole the movie is a big keeper.

Covenant looks like it will have solid characters, and a well structured storyline and script

I got the same impression based on the casting, their merits respectively, and my first, although brief, impression of the acting in the trailer. 

I'm mostly looking forward to see Waterson, McBride and Crudup. 

I'm not looking forward to see Rapace again, at all. Only an explanation of what happened to her should she have perished already.

i feel that Rapace is a very good actress but not for this kinda movie, i was actually that she took the role, i don't think its her, besides that prometheus was flawed but i enjoyed it non the less, hope Covenant takes a few things from it, namely the special effects and CGI, even the depth of the movie in some places, "always having to look a little deeper than what is presented" 7-8/10 could have been better but i fully enjoyed it. i actually didn't know about the ties to alien coz i didn't see the trailer, my ex girlfriend suggested it,lol. at least she had one useful contribution to my life

i feel that Rapace is a very good actress but not for this kinda movie

I agree about that, have you seen the original Swedish Millennium trilogy? Her acting was pretty good overall in those films. 

As for your ex, damn, doesn't seem like a great relationship lol 

i Haven't @Neomorph, my sister should have those, il ask her... 

hahaha... 

Prometheus is OK but there are so many dumb and/or uninteresting characters, some lame monsters, uninteresting things so it is a bit annoying. One thing that it got right was the landscapes.

The only interesting characters are David (great acting by Fassbender by the way) and the Captain (Janek). Shaw is naïve and stupid, her boyfriend is uninteresting and a jerk, Fifield and Milburn are stupid because they are just jerks and try to pet a deadly space snake. Weyland is not interesting and doesn’t make much sense (they should have kept his TED talk although maybe in a shorter version) and the other characters are just there as fillers.

Some monsters were alright, namely the Deacon and the Squid. The Engineers didn’t make sense (which was kind of lame since they were an important part of the story) and I didn’t like the Fifield Zombie. Why the F didn’t they put sub-titles when Weyland and the Engineer spoke? Who made that dumb decision? Having Fifield as a Xeno type would have made the Xeno connection clearer because the Fifield Xeno looked way better and it Made more sense (!).

Having some mystery is alright but when there are just so much that you got to guess or should look up beforehand then it is an example of bad film making. Like I have said before everything wasn’t obvious with Alien either but at least the characters compensated for that.

Fassbender and the captain saved this movie from being a disaster. Thanks to them I give Prometheus a 2 out of 5 instead of 1. Being that I have seen some deleted scenes I believe that the faults of this movie comes mainly from bad editing. Is it just me that thinks that Idris Elba did a good job in this or at least alright?

As far as overrated, underrated, or in between I say in between. The potential is there it is just that bad decisions made the movie worse than it could have been which is annoying being that these problems could have been fixed. Maybe the actors did the best that they could but other factors made the movie suffer in quality.

If I shall rank it among the alien movies I would probably put it at number four, after Alien 3, Alien, and Aliens (in that order).

As far as Shaw in Covenant I really hope that she won’t be in it at all except for maybe as a corpse. I just have so much dislike for that character – she is stupid and one of the reasons why Prometheus is worse than it could have been. The character is badly written so I don’t blame Noomi Rapace for that. Someone mentioned the original Millennium movies from Sweden, she did a good job in those. Perhaps someone can get them with English subtitles if that is possible.

Covenant will be interesting, I will give it a chance.

To me, Prometheus is one of those movies that just didn't quite meet it's utmost potent. The premise was great, but the execution was somewhat lacking.

That being said, it was not "bad" in the truesense of the word (If you want bad, I'll send you my "Dr. Giggles" DVD), just sort of like eating that leftover turkey from Thanksgiving--Okay but nothing to write home about. My rating is "In between."

I feel that over time Prometheus will be appreciated more for all the hidden things & clues throughout the film, especially after we get a few more prequels churned out.