Just watched Prometheus

[mbl]

Easily one of the worst Scifi movies I have ever seen. I expected better even from Ridley Scott. And then they try to spiritually connect it to the alien series at the end; even aliens doesn't deserve to be linked to that pathetic trash.

[Dervish]

It was okay, nothing fantastic. It's easier to swallow if you pretend it isn't meant to be some spiritual prequel to the Alien series. I think a big part of it's suckage is it doesn't really keep with the technology and feel of the Alien movies. Hard to believe something's like hundreds of years (or whatever it is) before Alien when the technology is way the hell more advanced than anything you see in the Alien trilogy (plus, Resurrection, I guess).

It's part of the reason I'm actually pretty excited for that Alien: Isolation game. One of the design philosophies they have for that game is that everything in the environment needs to be faithful to the first movie and should look like it could have been a prop made back in the 1970s for the first movie, so the 70s vision of the future.

[Awson]

Yar, it was sub-par.

[Smiral]

[Darog the Badger God]

I know that Ridley said it was gonna be a prequel, but after a while I like to think it changed overtime into something else.

I see it as a Spin Off, personally. but I agree with Dervish on multiple points. I'm really hoping Isolation does a better job than....

....Whatever the fuck we got last year.

[mdk]

mbl said
Easily one of the worst Scifi movies I have ever seen. I expected better even from Ridley Scott. And then they try to spiritually connect it to the alien series at the end; even aliens doesn't deserve to be linked to that pathetic trash.

THANK YOU.

I put it down as potentially the worst screenplay (per production dollar) ever written. What the fuck with the stomach-popper scene? IT MEANT. NOTHING. They went through all of that and then "Eh, let's walk over to stage left, something might happen there." NO MORE STOMACH-POPPER. Why. Why did I have to sit through this. It was a series of cool 3-D shots (which, the 3-D looked great, to be fair), occasionally connected by weak and stupid flat characters. Rocky and Bullwinkle -- this was Rocky and Bullwinkle. And they marketed it as like this groundbreaking, "THIS ASKS THE BIG QUESTIONS" type of thriller. Fucking. Dumb.

[mbl]

mdk said
THANK YOU.I put it down as potentially the worst screenplay (per production dollar) ever written. What the fuck with the stomach-popper scene? IT MEANT. NOTHING. They went through all of that and then "Eh, let's walk over to stage left, something might happen there." NO MORE STOMACH-POPPER. Why. Why did I have to sit through this. It was a series of cool 3-D shots (which, the 3-D looked great, to be fair), occasionally connected by weak and stupid flat characters. Rocky and Bullwinkle -- this was Rocky and Bullwinkle. And they marketed it as like this groundbreaking, "THIS ASKS THE BIG QUESTIONS" type of thriller. Fucking. Dumb.

Everything was pointless in it, it just pulls out a bunch of random sci-if/slasher troupes and then does nothing with them. The plot was just a jumbled mess of pointless scenes and characters and failed to accomplish anything but to give a really vague and stupid backstory to the Aliens race.

It has the writing of a crappy slasher porn movie without any good slashing or porn, and thus managed to come off as a complete waste of time for me, whether you connect it to the Aliens series or not.

[mdk]

and to make everything worse, they never even used that creepy high-pitched screamy noise from all the trailers. That was, like, 85% of the reason I showed up at all.

[idlehands]

That is terrible, at least you saved yourself from seeing it at the theatre.