Things are about to get…real, of the Legacy Control Facebook fan page…I don’t actually know what that even means.
[Spoiler Warning]
Let me start by saying Alien and Aliens are two of my favorite science fiction horror films. Heck, they are up there with my favorite films of all time. To say I had high hopes for Prometheus is an understatement. Luckily my life prohibits the viewing of films when they first come out, so I was spared the initial hit after hearing/reading reviews. I still held on to hope when I finally watched it the other day. Now…all hope is lost.
Prometheus..I believe means (specifically in this scenario) what a giant let down. Let me just identify a few of the things that I rolled my eyes so hard at, that they nearly slapped the back of my skull.
1. Two frightened explorers on an alien planet. They just walked away from a pile of alien corpses. Ok, a testicle headed cobra thing pops out of the black ooze in the room in which they are staying. Forgetting the fact that the dead alien bodies had testicle headed cobra sized holes in them, one of them attempts to pet the, obviously aggressive, alien snake thingy. They die…horribly.
2. Our heroin is pregnant with an alien baby squid thingy. She, after beating down two of her other ship mates, sprints to a surgical pod, which is conveniently fully operational and warmed up at all times, then crawls inside for an emergency “foreign object removal.” It slices her open as she gets “jiggy with it” from the pain. You know the claw games where you pick up stuffed animals and/or watches…well the machine did that with the alien baby squid.
3. Advanced alien craft which is outfitted to destroy humanity…its started up by the giant super human albino body building aliens…by playing jazz flute.
Ok, there are many many more things that hurt me…hurt me right down to my bones but these are the ones that stand out.
If you can totally separate this one from the original Alien/Aliens films, look at Prometheus as a stand alone, brand new IP its passable…dare I say almost enjoyable. But guess what folks…it isn’t. Is it worth the watch…sigh, I’m join got have to reluctantly say “yes.” If only for it’s comedic value.
Pros: Micheal Fassbender turns a pretty good performance (he is the only one who does), there was minimal CGI in regards to the aliens, or at leans it seemed like it, which is a HUGE bonus for me and the cinematography was top notch.
Happy Wednesday.
Javis
I never saw Alien in my life, but Prometheus looks as confusing as a color-blind kid with a Rubix cube.
For some reason I can never stop thinking about this ong when I haer Prometheus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhatwLeYoKo
A fine association to make, me thinks:)
I only watched about half and could not follow it one bit. Granted I was playing Dragon’s Dogma when I tried, I really tried to get into it. I gave up and it sits on the harddrive, waiting to be tried again.
I don’t blame you…not one bit.
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN”T WATCHED PROMETHEUS!!
1. A “Biologist” walks right up to a unknown creature
2. The mapper somehow loses the map he just made and can’t exit the facility before the rest of the team?
3. They run directly away from the rolling ship and don’t sidestep?
4. She cuts this crazy alien baby out of her and no one gives a shit?
5. Also after the mapper cuts the thing when its on the guys arm and gets acid blood sprayed on his helmet the plastic melts onto his face yet is just gone later on when he goes apeshit psycho. Not really a huge one just thought that was weird.
Yes, all good ones. There were sooo many “WTF” moments.
About #4, what disturbs me the most is probably: A paranoid hypochondriac billionaire heiress buys an auto-doc to help her through dangers – but the designer of the thing hasn’t realized there are two genders that are similar enough that both should be using the same machine freely, nor has the heiress (or any on her staff) bothered to change the settings to default to her.
If they wanted to make things seem difficult, they could have added the hurdle “child to big to abort” or “child not found” or “morality paradigm forbids the taking of life”, but no, they had to go with the “someone was a complete idiot” solution.
(And like I said, not only one person, but upwards to half a dozen separate complete idiots)
Luckily, I’ve been told time and time again to NOT see this movie.
I will use the time I saved to continue playing Borderlands.
Time wasted more gooderer.
Yeeah. I saw this movie last weekend. I think the plot went like this:
1. Aliens make life on Earth.
2. Aliens decide to destroy life on Earth.
3. Aliens decide not to destroy life on Earth.
2000 YEARS LATER…
4. Scientists forget *everything* they should know.
5. Main character’s faith in God is unquestioned!!!!!!11!11!!111!1eleventy
6. Running away from a round thing in one of two wrong obviously wrong directions.
THE END.
7. THIS IS AN ALIENS PREQUEL! LOLOLOLOLO
You might find this entertaining:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHzGYbdcSRI&feature=player_embedded