tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439753875231153247.post2737715775926943933..comments2023-06-19T19:48:07.881+12:00Comments on rockets & robots are GO!: Film review: PROMETHEUS (spoilers)Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03580990585268942818noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439753875231153247.post-11085215455146124252012-06-12T20:53:40.528+12:002012-06-12T20:53:40.528+12:00No, but I've read many other reviews, discussi...No, but I've read many other reviews, discussions and breakdowns of the film now. More than I think it really deserves and while I think some are finding connections and meanings that are not in the film itself, there is some very cool discussion going on. <br /><br />I'm just gonna watch some Battlestar Galactica now.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03580990585268942818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439753875231153247.post-32011403743945799122012-06-12T16:01:00.780+12:002012-06-12T16:01:00.780+12:00Did you read the LJ via Reddit post that got tosse...Did you read the LJ via Reddit post that got tossed around the internet today? It turns the whole thing into LET'S TALK ABOUT GOD, GOD GOD GOD - but it actually makes some of this stuff make sense. (Of course, if you need a 3rd party LJ post to make sense of your movie, something has gone horribly wrong somewhere in pre-production, but that's another story.)<br /><br />http://M'rishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05469734282996556319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439753875231153247.post-45893552682804216562012-06-11T18:53:17.429+12:002012-06-11T18:53:17.429+12:00Cheers Mr. Calloway, and thanks for your frank dis...Cheers Mr. Calloway, and thanks for your frank discussion here in the comments.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03580990585268942818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439753875231153247.post-23153060872022012012-06-11T18:38:28.211+12:002012-06-11T18:38:28.211+12:00Ha! No worries M'ris - it's a fairly long ...Ha! No worries M'ris - it's a fairly long review, mainly of me bitching about it. And yeah - as an exercise in world building and ridiculously pretty visual landscapes, "Prometheus" is a resounding, staggering success. Those opening shots of weird landscapes, on our own damn planet, were amazeballs. <br /><br />The squishing of Charlize reeeeaaaally annoyed me. Especially as Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03580990585268942818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439753875231153247.post-74918912450065359212012-06-11T17:27:46.672+12:002012-06-11T17:27:46.672+12:00Plot "features" that I keep dwelling on:...Plot "features" that I keep dwelling on:<br /><br />- How was the black goo in scene 1 different than the black goo in the entire rest of the movie? (Giving up after scene 1 was a great plan on my part, ps.)<br /><br />-Speaking of the goo, notice how it did a different thing to every single person it touched? Yeah. That. Even if you want me to believe that it's a DNA transmogrifierM'rishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05469734282996556319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439753875231153247.post-81978124844393519292012-06-11T17:17:29.658+12:002012-06-11T17:17:29.658+12:00I didn't even read this (sorry, A) but I'm...I didn't even read this (sorry, A) but I'm guessing it's the same argument my friends and I have been having all weekend. And my only defense for loving the crap out of it is thus: ignore the plot. and the characters. and the black goo. Prometheus was an exercise in world building and 3-d film production, and it did both of those things pretty damn well.<br /><br />(i also abandoned M'rishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05469734282996556319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439753875231153247.post-8209655652367074452012-06-11T16:24:03.257+12:002012-06-11T16:24:03.257+12:00you've hit the nail on the head there: "I...you've hit the nail on the head there: "I just wish we could be discussing the themes and ideas that the movie talked about... instead of the flaws that stopped it from engaging with those themes and ideas."Daniel McClellandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07365505463057358772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439753875231153247.post-27827920950074350942012-06-11T15:28:39.441+12:002012-06-11T15:28:39.441+12:00Heh. Uncle Bishop.
Yeah, the Medi-Pod. Thinking ...Heh. Uncle Bishop. <br /><br />Yeah, the Medi-Pod. Thinking about it more (good gods why?), I get that you can explain it as being calibrated for Old Man Weyland. That totally makes sense, without question. But it seems entirely pointless - Rapace is able to get around that calibration easily enough. And if the audience is wondering "What? Why balls only?" as some sort of lead in to theAndyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03580990585268942818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439753875231153247.post-21687877411124105782012-06-11T12:30:16.986+12:002012-06-11T12:30:16.986+12:00Interesting. Thanks for your response. I agree the...Interesting. Thanks for your response. I agree the characters are less interesting (or, more importantly, given less screen time per person) than those in 'Alien'. If anything, they should've made the ship Prometheus much smaller (ala the Apollo missions of the 60s) and had only two or three people on it. Those people should not have been geologists (or whatever they were), they Daniel McClellandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07365505463057358772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439753875231153247.post-64061689254124089862012-06-11T10:14:42.431+12:002012-06-11T10:14:42.431+12:00Holy crap it would've been AMAZING if they'...Holy crap it would've been AMAZING if they'd got Peter O'Toole to play Weyland! <br /><br />Gods, I cannot imagine watching that alien caesarean while pregnant. Yikes.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03580990585268942818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439753875231153247.post-15001515224437896992012-06-11T10:12:32.756+12:002012-06-11T10:12:32.756+12:00There's quibbling over plot-holes, and there&#...There's quibbling over plot-holes, and there's being frustrated with absolutely nothing making a damn lick of sense. And characters are, as I said, barely that. I'll happily breeze past plot-holes if I've got a well defined character or two to hang on to. But they aren't to be found in "Prometheus". They're all so ill-defined and then killed off so arbitrarily Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03580990585268942818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439753875231153247.post-46531425843318198422012-06-10T23:58:13.184+12:002012-06-10T23:58:13.184+12:00Firstly, great to have you back.
Secondly, my pat...Firstly, great to have you back.<br /><br />Secondly, my patience is wearing thin with people quibbling over plotholes in this film. I can count the same<br />number of holes in the original 'Alien', and both films will be remembered for being the fourth most successful of their summers whilst making audiences watch A-grade B-movie R-rated horror.<br /><br />I'm just glad Prometheus Daniel McClellandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07365505463057358772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439753875231153247.post-34655107268646636582012-06-10T21:49:32.778+12:002012-06-10T21:49:32.778+12:00I found it entertaining, in a totally brainless wa...I found it entertaining, in a totally brainless way. But way too many plot holes. Hawaii wasn't inhabited until 300AD, which is a few hundred years after all these aliens died. So how did they know about them, it was clearly being implied the aliens had visited? Whoops. Didn't you totally expect the old man was going to be Peter O'Toole for a brief moment. That would have been awesomeFrancescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11821703500610952439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439753875231153247.post-16773689003954262262012-06-10T21:41:11.962+12:002012-06-10T21:41:11.962+12:00It just... gah. You could quite easily spend all d...It just... gah. You could quite easily spend all day & night pointing out the plot holes and illogical leaps the film takes. But the biggest failing, for me, is the complete inability to actually engage with any of the really huge themes the film is ostensibly trying to explore.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03580990585268942818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439753875231153247.post-67621406099780921042012-06-10T20:06:10.482+12:002012-06-10T20:06:10.482+12:00Welcome back!
So, so disappointed with this movi...Welcome back! <br /><br />So, so disappointed with this movie both as a part of the Alien legacy and on its own merits. You've nailed pretty much all of its failings and while he hasn't quite plumbed the depths of Lucas, it's a woeful mis-step by Ridley Scott. The fact that Fassbender still remains great in his role shows how good he is, as opposed to merits the script and story Chris Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18359998208650358233noreply@blogger.com