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Post by poindizzle on Jun 13, 2012 9:13:54 GMT -5
I liked it, actually my only real beef with it was that Theron's character died for seemingly no reason. Like I don't understand how her character's death added anything to the movie when she could have had a meaningful death in a sequel instead. Or just lived so we'd get more Charlize Theron hotness in another awesome movie. And I agree with everyone who said that Fassbender was fantastic in this movie. I'm a huge fan. She died because she can't run left or right. My fiancee had to point that out to me even though it's a pet peeve of mine to talk during a movie. At first it seemed like they were possibly running diagonal which would make sense, if you cut a hard right or left you might get crushed, but then there was that aerial shot of them running a straight line. Panic? Maybe.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2012 13:54:48 GMT -5
Im very glad to see my fellow Irishman Michael Fassbender getting the credit he deserves for this movie.he is an excellent actor.
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Post by noir on Jun 13, 2012 14:11:39 GMT -5
I'm seeing it in an hour or so. sooooo excited, this was definitely my most anticipated movie this year, although i'm pretty underwhelmed by the reviews. going to go in without any preconceptions and hope for the best.
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Post by Chris Hammers on Jun 13, 2012 18:43:17 GMT -5
Just got back from seeing this. Really enjoyed it. Looking forward to getting the bluray.
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Post by DontHassleTheHoff on Jun 13, 2012 19:02:53 GMT -5
Just got back from it. Loved it. It had suspense, great performances and a sense of beauty at times. Was nice that it was quite an inteligent and thought provoking science fiction film, which was a nice break from the AVP series which was a little less sophisticated, more in line to the original two. I kind of wished they would have probed more on the idea of how scientific advancements challenge our perceptions on religion.
I really want a sequel. Only if left in the same hands. There's alot of questions still to be answered, the big one of course being why they wanted to end life on earth. I don't think we really need to probe more into the origin of the actual aliens, maybe have them appear, but I'd love the main focus to be on the humanoid aliens.
Also, fantastic to see Rafe Spall in hollywood, he had an amazing british comedy series called Pete Versus Life, which i cannot recomend enough. Though obviously Rapace and Fassbender stole the show.
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Post by noir on Jun 13, 2012 19:06:35 GMT -5
well, i'm back and i think one word sums it up: disappointed.
first half of it was very promising, i think the acting was superb, set pieces wonderful - in fact the visuals and soundtrack were the two factors i found to be essentially perfect. however, the plot was incredibly thin, and seemed to have no idea where it was going at any point. far too many questions were raised, and not even a handful of those were answered. i don't want to dismiss it entirely, as technically it WAS a very good piece of film making, however, i went in expecting a fast paced, modern update of alien with philosophical overtones and i left without any of that.
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Post by koreygunz on Jun 14, 2012 8:36:25 GMT -5
So were the Aliens simply an accident created from the worms in the black liquid and then mixing with human DNA? That was the impression I got, or am I off base? I enjoyed the movie, but I had a lot of questions about it at the end. Maybe that was by design.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2012 9:22:51 GMT -5
So were the Aliens simply an accident created from the worms in the black liquid and then mixing with human DNA? That was the impression I got, or am I off base? I enjoyed the movie, but I had a lot of questions about it at the end. Maybe that was by design. I dunno man but I need some more answers too.maybe the Blu ray will sort some out?its gonna have 25 mins extra according to Scott.
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Post by wyleecyotee on Jun 14, 2012 9:43:07 GMT -5
So were the Aliens simply an accident created from the worms in the black liquid and then mixing with human DNA? That was the impression I got, or am I off base? I enjoyed the movie, but I had a lot of questions about it at the end. Maybe that was by design. I dont think so, the blackooze made the worms into the snake worm things. David took a vile of the black ooze back with him and gave it to that guy, the ooze then transfered to the lady and somewhere along the lines it was made into the pre- Alien squid thing. Nothing to do with the snake worms. The creators made the black liquid (I think) and made it so it either mutates or makes new life.
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Post by HoganBai on Jun 14, 2012 9:59:11 GMT -5
I LOVED the first half-two thirds of this movie, then it just got a bit silly & confusing, plot holes that have been mentioned but it did make me interested to see a second. With that ending, a sequel would definitely be more of a direct prequel to Alien, but I liked that this one sort of kept it's distance.
I definitely got the impression the xenomorphs we know are accidents, part of that black liquid/human meets engineer hybrid makes some ancestor of the xenomorphs. Oh well, I didn't have quite as high expectations as everyone else seemed to have, so I wasn't that disappointed. 7/10
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Post by K5 on Jun 14, 2012 11:29:12 GMT -5
my friend told me it was garbage...but i'm still wanting to watch it.
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Post by TurboEddie on Jun 14, 2012 13:40:27 GMT -5
I watched Prometheus last night and loved it. It's a traditional science fiction film that just did everything right.
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Post by Chris Hammers on Jun 14, 2012 14:01:34 GMT -5
I LOVED the first half-two thirds of this movie, then it just got a bit silly & confusing, plot holes that have been mentioned but it did make me interested to see a second. With that ending, a sequel would definitely be more of a direct prequel to Alien, but I liked that this one sort of kept it's distance.I definitely got the impression the xenomorphs we know are accidents, part of that black liquid/human meets engineer hybrid makes some ancestor of the xenomorphs. Oh well, I didn't have quite as high expectations as everyone else seemed to have, so I wasn't that disappointed. 7/10 During the March 17, 2012, WonderCon, Scott stated that the film leaves many questions unanswered, and that these could be answered in a sequel, saying "If we're lucky, there'll be a second part. It does leave you with some nice open questions." Asked if a sequel would be a direct prequel to Alien, Lindelof said "if we’re fortunate enough to do a sequel... it will tangentialize even further away from the original Alien."
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2012 9:58:26 GMT -5
I have 2 questions for those that have seen it
1)does anyone else think Vickers was an android?I defo do after the second viewing
2)what if the Aliens we know were never seen before the Kane incident?I mean what if the derelict from Alien had sucessfully fled the lab from Prometheus only for the Pilot(who was already infected)to crash and whatever came out of him laid the eggs......only for them to cahnge COMPLETLY when they made contact with humans?
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Post by MacReady on Jun 15, 2012 15:05:34 GMT -5
For all the people who kind of didn't like it, or had many, many unanswered questions; the video contains spoilers if you haven't seen it, but if you have, watch it, you'll get a kick out of it!
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Post by noir on Jun 15, 2012 17:11:49 GMT -5
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Post by KMIS™ on Jun 15, 2012 22:31:12 GMT -5
Was it jumpy?
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Post by Mr. Show on Jun 15, 2012 23:13:04 GMT -5
If you would have told me 6 months ago that I would end up liking Men In Black 3 more than Prometheus, I would have called you a liar. But here we are. There were a lot of things I liked about it, its a beautifully made film, and it has some really cool moments. But thinking about it after the fact, there are a lot of things about it that are just... dumb. REALLY DUMB. Don't get me wrong, Men In Black 3 is dumb too, but its at least dumb and fun, where Prometheus is dumb and full of itself.
DUMB THINGS:
1. They go on their FIRST exploratory mission and Dr. Shaw is extremely adamant that she wants NO WEAPONS brought along. And everyone goes along with it. Then, Robot Fassbender goes around touching and playing with anything and everything he can get his hands on. And at the first sign of breathable air, they all immediately take off their helmets. Dumbest scientists ever.
2. The black goo had no discernible rules to it. The Space Jockey at the beginning drinks some, falls apart, his DNA gets into Earth's water supply, and creates mankind. Some black goo gets on those worms in the cavern and turns them into evil space snakes. Some black goo gets on Crazy Angry Mohawk Geologist's helmet, and turns the glass into melty plastic which smothers him. Later, he turns into a super-strong zombie (what?). Robot Fassbender puts some black goo in Dr. Boyfriend's drink (just to see what happens I guess? His motives were never clear), which gives him a worm in his eye, and then makes him have weird skin and get really sick. But he sexually transmitted some black goo to Dr. Shaw, which made her pregnant with a squid baby. So, the black goo can really do anything and everything, whatever the scene calls for. That's just lazy writing.
3. More lazy writing! So Captain Idris Elba stays on the ship for the entire time, and any time someone asks his opinion, he says, "Hey I just drive the ship." Then 3/4 of the way through the movie, he suddenly figures out EVERYTHING that none of the other characters could figure out. "This isn't their home planet, this is a military base and these jars that are all over the place are actually weapons that ended up accidentally killing them all because they weren't careful." He knew all this despite never setting foot off the ship.
4. So Dr. Shaw gets the squid baby surgically removed (I really loved that scene by the way, it was one of the best parts of the film) and runs out and just leaves it in that room. Doesn't bother telling anyone or trying to kill it, just shuts the door and says that's that.
5. Old Man Weyland (who looked like Johnny Knoxville in one of those old man makeup pranks on Jackass, seriously) shows up in the hologram, and tells everyone he's been dead for a long time by the time they are seeing this, and that Dr. Shaw and Dr. Boyfriend are in charge. BUT WAIT, hes not dead, he's been hiding in the back room of the ship, and he wants the Space Jockeys to give him immortality. I have NO IDEA why he pretended to be dead, or why he thinks the Space Jockeys can make him immortal, but he seems to be pretty convinced that they can.
6. Captain Idris Elba gets word that the Space Jockey might be flying to Earth to destroy it, so he crashes into it, blowing himself and whats left of his crew to smithereens, and he seems REALLY HAPPY to be doing it.
7. The ending, we have what I assume to be an early version of the xenomorph. I'm guessing that because it appears to be a less evolved version of the xenomorph than the ones in the Alien films. So here is what has to happen to create a xenomorph. First, a guy has to drink some black goo. Second, he has to sexually transmit the black goo and impregnate a woman with a squid baby. Third, the squid baby has to grow into a gigantic face hugger which has to lay its egg inside a Space Jockey's stomach. That's an incredibly random chain of events, yet there were carvings of xenomorphs in the caverns, which means that this has all happened before at some point. And, since this clearly isn't the same planet as in Alien or Aliens, that means at some point it has to happen again.
Even with all those problems and more, it was still worth watching though, and I actually do want to see it again, just to see if those problems bother me as much the second time around.
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Post by Mr. Show on Jun 15, 2012 23:17:55 GMT -5
For all the people who kind of didn't like it, or had many, many unanswered questions; the video contains spoilers if you haven't seen it, but if you have, watch it, you'll get a kick out of it! That's awesome. This really cracked me up. Thank you.
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Post by King Silva on Jun 16, 2012 2:09:51 GMT -5
For all the people who kind of didn't like it, or had many, many unanswered questions; the video contains spoilers if you haven't seen it, but if you have, watch it, you'll get a kick out of it! Oh wow that was awesome. ;D
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