[Movie] Prometheus - Page 40

On June 12 2012 15:00 Brett wrote:
I was quite disappointed by the disproportionate level of stupidity displayed by the characters in Prometheus, but I think a lot of you are being generous in your comparisons to Alien...

Does nobody remember this stuff?



* The captain, not really knowing what this thing is, goes down into a metal ventilation shaft of sorts by himself, where his movement is effectively restrained by his surroundings, in order to force it into a corner / hunt it. They then pick up the alien on the make-shift movement sensor and are able to tell him that it is moving towards him, and yet he cannot manouevre himself into a position where he can be sure of the alien's location (never mind that they have detailed plans of the vents and yet can't tell him where the fuck it's coming from). He also doesn't hear the alien coming, nor apparently look behind in an elongated shaft.

* The captain dies. And next minute the black guy shows up with the captain's flame thrower, np?

* Ripley running around by herself worrying about a fucking cat while a deadly alien creature is loose on the ship and killing everyone.

* The other, blonde woman is paralysed with fear (presumably) when confronted with the alien, and yet the black guy, who has a fucking flame thrower, refuses to shoot the damn thing or at least fire some form of warning shot to draw its attention. Okay, if he shoots, MAYBE she gets burnt and dies, so I can understand some hesitation. However, if he doesn't shoot, she dies anyway. What does he do? He attempts to RUN AT THE FUCKING THING, and gets slapped the fuck down by its tail. They both die. Dumb as fuck.

Anyway, there was a post a few pages back saying that Scott had referenced some Persian mythology, and that it fit the storyline here in Prometheus. That actually made for an interesting theory, and was the sort of information that the movie needed to present in order to not be the clusterfuck of unanswered questions that it was.

Ultimately it was a nice concept, poorly executed with great visuals and dumb-as-dogs balls characters.

On June 11 2012 23:30 Tobberoth wrote:
6. This is more speculative, but probably what I found most annoying. It makes perfect sense that the ship found in Alien 1 is the engineer ship downed in the end of Prometheus. It obviously looks similar and it makes sense that Weyland would know about the place and a bit of what happened so they could put the android on the ship and make them get samples. I went into this movie thinking it certain that this would take place on the same planet they reach in Alien. Unfortunately, this is made impossible by Prometheus, here's some reasons:
* The ship in alien 1 had an engineer with a burst chest in the pilot seat, this one does not.
* The planet looks completely different.
* There should be wreckage etc from Prometheus close to the ship, nothing of the sort in Alien 1.

I can only assume that it was never intended to be the same planet, but that just makes Prometheus so useless that they could probably have removed all connections to the aliens universe and we would have been better off.

On June 12 2012 16:40 ilikeredheads wrote:


The crew in Alien is a bunch of "blue-collar workers" so to speak who were never trained to deal with alien spaceship and hostile alien. In fact, they were reluctant to goto the planet in the first place. However, in Prometheus, the entire crew is hand-picked specifically for the mission and yet they do the stupidest and cliche things possible.

On June 12 2012 17:29 Brett wrote:

I understand that difference in the calibre of these people, but disagree entirely that that excuses the stupidity I outlined in my initial post. They are dumb actions for different reasons, but dumb nonetheless.

On June 12 2012 17:52 -Cyrus- wrote:
This was one of the worst films I have ever seen. I can't believe how bad movies are these days.

On June 12 2012 19:17 Brett wrote:
Fairly accurate? lol

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On June 12 2012 15:27 XXXSmOke wrote:
Im losing faith in Sci Fi

I think Aliens was just to perfect, that movie still scares the absolute shit out of me. Even after seeing it a bunch, it was just so well put together the script/visuals/suspense/action/terror.

Every Sci-Fi movie now lacks all of this, to many special effects, to many bad scripts, etc.

I want to be blown away, and be terrified out of my fucking mind,

Prometheus just kept me thinking it was finally going to get good and then just kept failing and failing.

On June 13 2012 00:01 coldSnaH wrote:
Idk why everyone is saying Prometheus was bad, maybe I was only one who saw it in 3-d at a huge movie theatre? But it was freaking awesome!

On June 12 2012 16:21 Drowsy wrote:
I didn't feel great about it, but didn't feel horrible about it either. It was nice to see a horror/sci-fi that opted for slow and deliberate pacing rather than anal fisting or limbs being sawed off in the first 15 minutes. Ultimately though, the characters weren't well developed or likeable and the dialog and script weren't well written even though the underlying plot was decent. 5/10, not offensive bad, but not something you could watch twice.