Prometheus

[Cranky Old Man]

I just saw it, and it was both good and bad at the same time.

Spoiler below!

What was good:
1. They didn't show the monster straight away. In fact, they didn't show the main monster until the end, and they changed a LOT about it and its cousins - not just some minor details like they did in Alien 3. This was the best part of the movie: It was Alien all over again, and it felt new all over again.
2. The environments were very detailed and sci-fi. The effects were flawless.
3. There were some good characterizations that brought some unusually clever parts to the story.

What was bad:
1. The story was overall incredibly dumb. Uwe Boll level of stupid. Everything from the sci-fi elements to the christian subtext, was horrible.
2. As fresh as it was for a remake, it was still a remake of Alien, with evil android and a lot of verbatim quotes from Alien and Aliens repeated.
3. As a remake, it also falls short because a 2010 movie can never compare to an 80s movie, because an 80s movie is serious and immersive, and knows its fucking shit, while a 2010 movie is epic "American hero" bullshit, like a fever dream from a drunk teenager.
4. There was no shadows in this movie. Alien and Aliens made a whole genre around black monsters hiding in and leaping out of the darkness. It was the theme of the Alien series, that Ridley Scott has somehow completely forgotten.

If you want to watch this movie, watch the environments, while imagining the characters saying and doing clever stuff. Ignore the humanoids, well, except for the two blonde ones.

At least this movie wasn't boring.

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Wasn't extremely impressed with the trailer so I decided to just watch Spoony's review of it and am glad I decided not to see it; it sounds stupid as hell.

I'm really surprised that Spoony whined about it THAT much, and at several places he whines about things that he just misunderstood. It's not an excellent movie, but that review was pretty bad as well.

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The most annoying scene has to be the one where the black dude gets laid. I was expecting somebody to point out "Hey, where's that generic black guy?" later in the movie, and they find him in her quarters with his head ripped off because she really WAS an android that had to eliminate somebody suspecting her, but no, that scene just establishes that every woman is a slut. (...in an Alien movie, that has had a whole working-girl feminist theme going for it, up until that point.)