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Even the 3D effects were rubbish. It must surely be Ridley Scotts worst film and by a long way.

I enjoyed it. Certainly wouldn't bother with 3D, though.

I'm looking forward to the blue ray. I'm sure I'm gonna love it.

Just got back from the cinema, having seen Prometheus.

Good points: I got to keep the 3D glasses.

Bad points: Everything else.

It's like Alien but with 90% less tension and 300% more gloop. Agree with Max, worst Ridley Scott film I've seen. The 3D was interesting, purely because it was my first 3D film. I don't know if anyone else tried this, but I took off the glasses a few times and found it made very little difference. I'm not convinced it was 3D all the way through.

I agree with T.B. that it's worth checking the writer before the director. However, I thought Scott had a bit more about him than this.

As a prequel, it's a sort of sequel - so it's entirely my fault for ignoring my own NO SEQUELS rule.

Oddly enough I haven't seen the whole of Alien in one go, just caught bits of it on TV over the years. I did see the sequel, Aliens, which was fun. After that, they became more predictable and messy. I'd recorded Alien and watched half of it prior to going to see Prometheus. When I got back from the cinema, I was so irritated I erased Alien without watching the rest.

My hatred of Prometheus stems from a few things

- mad plot inconsistencies, e.g. why did the android stuff strange things into one of the human's drinks and how did that then lead to his wife's pregnancy with an alien?

- gore for the sake of gore

- what was the android up to anyway? It seemed like a throwback to the original Alien

- it was lazy; even the characters fell into the same groups as the original film - likeable (probably survive or die in heart-rending fashion), not-likeable (will die first)

I guess it boils down to a wasted opportunity, in my view. It had some striking images, good ideas (I loved the hologram of the engineers recorded in the tunnels) but then threw them away to turn into another messy alien-horror-schlock-fest.

There's talk of a sequel. I hope he does it because it'll distract Scott from making a sequel to Blade Runner.

I'm beginning to have a problem with S-F films; they've all become (a) horror (b) Star Wars sequels or (c) James Bond in Space, with a Baddie who Must Be Stopped. The Star Trek reboot fell into that category, fun though it was.

Science fiction with a sense of wonder appears to be an endangered species.

Also agreed. I remember the scene early in the original Alien movie, where John Hurt goes into the spacecraft, it was brilliantly done, very imaginative and suspenseful. Prometheus totally lacked that IMO.

Last edited by maxflinn (2012-06-13 14:46:24)

In the first Alien film, you never got to see the monster except its teeth. That kept it scary. In the later films, when they showed the whole thing it lost its power to shock.

Hollywood would do better if they started using plots. Period.

Apparently the Prometheus DVD release will have an extra 30 minutes of badly-plotted gibberish.

It's also good when the script has surprises in it.

Some films you just sit there waiting for them to tick off the obligatory plot clichés.

I lost count in Prometheus.

Well I finally got to see this yesterday, and I'm really surprised at the strong opinions against it!

I thought it was brilliant, will definitely pick up on Blu-Ray. The 3D didn't have a huge amount of depth so I think the film could've probably gone without, but at the same time I was glad the gimmicky coming at the screen trick wasn't overused, which often distracts me from the content itself...

shenzi - I really didn't get any of those plot inconsistencies you're talking about - David the android was clearly working towards a larger agenda that the others weren't aware of, under the orders of Weyland. The black liquid seemed to have a different effect depending on who it came into contact with, and so it actually made perfect sense that when it infected the guys DNA from the drink and he had sex with his wife, his sperm was also infected, giving her a freak-pregnancy, which may well have been part of David/Weyland's agenda (greedy corporation seeks technology/power/bio-advancements - sounds familiar!)...

Ultimately I loved it, it answered a few questions in relation to the Alien universe and posed a few more within Prometheus - what went wrong with the Engineers? How were they already aware of the existence of aliens (alien muriel on the wall)? Since Prometheus is heavily themed in creation, who created the Engineers? Why were they heading to earth with the black liquid - to destroy us or change us? Questions I really look forward to being answered in a sequel...

Visually stunning with Alien-esque landscapes, excellent acting across the board (particularly Fassbender), just the right amount of gore in scenes which all served their purpose... I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I enjoyed that, not Oscar material but decent IMO, and much better than Prometheus.