Awful, awful movie.
Yes. Have loved Alien for years. Never cared much for Cameron's action packed space marine take on the universe.For the people who LOVE Prometheus...did you watch Alien and Aliens prior to seeing this film?
For the people who LOVE Prometheus...did you watch Alien and Aliens prior to seeing this film?
I wouldn't say I loved Prometheus, but I enjoyed it more them most people here seem to. But yes, I'd seen Alien/Aliens beforehand.For the people who LOVE Prometheus...did you watch Alien and Aliens prior to seeing this film?
I understand. I know the story didn't live up to its potential. I really, really enjoy all the things Prometheus did well, though. Come to think of it, I've always been able to appreciate movies, shows, music, and other media in a compartmentalized way, where I hone in on the elements I find appealing and tune out the rest.No one is doubting how beautiful the film was. The score and SFX were on point too. The story sucked though.
To me, it doesn't matter how good the acting was or how great it looked.
My expectations for the first one was high. I mean how could it not be after watching this trailer: https://youtu.be/34cEo0VhfGE
Here is the Alien trailer: https://youtu.be/LjLamj-b0I8
I thought this movie was going to be on par with one of the greatest movies ever made and it wasn't.
I still don't get the first movie.
There is that fucking huge spaceship but only like 15 people?
I know the internet hates the first film but I kept my expectations in check and had a great time with it. Really looking forward to the sequel.
Come the fuck on...seriously the worst movie you've ever seen? Worse than MK: Annihilation?The first movie is an idiotic, dumbest possible action-driven, poorly-acted, derivative mess that virtually nobody would defend if Scott's name weren't attached. I'd genuinely call it one of the worst films I've ever seen, with virtually no value on any level, and it boggles my mind that anybody would or even could look forward to a sequel.
Come the fuck on...seriously the worst movie you've ever seen? Worse than MK: Annihilation?
Come the fuck on...seriously the worst movie you've ever seen? Worse than MK: Annihilation?
i think it's safe to call this one of the worst movies i've seen for sure. it was just a memorably awful theater experience for me.
I would rather see Neil Blomkamp's Alien sequel, than Prometheus II!
For the people who LOVE Prometheus...did you watch Alien and Aliens prior to seeing this film?
For the people who LOVE Prometheus...did you watch Alien and Aliens prior to seeing this film?
For the people who LOVE Prometheus...did you watch Alien and Aliens prior to seeing this film?
a sequel to the 2nd best science fiction movie of the last 20 years? I'll take it.
The religious allegory is obviously there but I doubt that the space Jesus explanation will be the actual reason why the engineers decided to destroy humanity. That interview laid out a scenario where it can be viewed in a certain light but I think it's more likely that the engineers that seeded life at the beginning of the film were a different sect of engineers from the biomechanical ones we saw in the installation perhaps indicating a schism within their beliefs.The protagonist is Christian.
The film takes place over Christmas.
Our creators wanted to wipe us out 'around 2000 years ago'.
I wonder what prompted that after spending 4 billion years creating us?
Yep, it's Space Jesus! And now Shaw's off to find Heaven.
It was rated R, it had a good bit of gore.I didn't really hate Prometheus. I was just disappointed at all the wrong turns (pun intended) the movie took. It could really have been the Alien of our time, but as soon as we found out that it was going to get PG-13 rating I knew we were gonna be in for a shaky ride. And then, stupid shit that just didn't make sense as far as the plot was concerned. We were led to believe the engineers were this sage-like fore-bearers of human civilization. When we finally encounter one of them, surprise they're nothing but Generic Movie Monster # 3507857345. Black goo stuff is classic lindelofian mcguffins. They serve no purpose other than to move plot despite tantalizing us as something important to the internal logic. We won't know what the smoke monster in Lost is smoke or why black goo is black goo. It's just there. I was disappointed because of so much wasted opportunity.
Yes, I love those movies more than Prometheus but Prometheus is way way better than Alien 3 and Ressurection
Well, this sequel might be better than the first one because of Damon fucking Lindelof.
And by the way, he's not returning to write the sequel.
why not?
Because for the first few months of the film's existence he ate almost the entirety of the shit being shoveled back at the movie.
It wasn't until the blu-ray came out that people began to realize Ridley Scott way more at fault for why the movie played the way it did.
But by then it didn't really matter.
Basically - the money isn't good enough to go diving headfirst under that bus again.
I remember that. Typical fanboy shit, take blame off the obviously responsible party (in this case, the film's director, one with a pretty spotty record of quality tbh) and try to shift it onto an easy scapegoat.
nice tag, bobby.
To be fair - there's a reason he's an easy scapegoat. And he did fuck that script up from Spaihts draft. But then again, that's what he was hired to do: Translate Ridley's bad ideas into script form, and blend them with Spaihts' mostly solid ideas for a direct ALIEN prequel.
But I do understand why people see his name and immediately get sketched out at the prospect of the film's quality. It's just that on Prometheus - he wasn't the real problem.
Meh. The first one had nothing.
All the problems of Promethus are explained on the 4 hour documentary on the bluray. All stems around Scott loving wine and being very amenable to whatever changes anyone suggested at any time, which means David Lindelof just threw shit out there and Ridley went along with it.
It all starts with, "I had this great idea..." for a story/scene/prop/set/whatever, and someone saying, "What if we did this..." and Ridley saying, "Sure" and then shutting down the day for wine tasting.