Prometheus

[Acies]

Spoiler incoming:

I thought prometheus was okay until they were attacked. From there on it was a downhill climb. The thing which broke all immersion for me was when the main-character gets infected with an alien in her stomach and the "robot"/David basically implies that he will give her "a slow painful death" (- as well as bringing dangerous aliens back to earth). She removes the alien with a "brutal cutting" in the capsule and severly wounded stumbles out to join David again as if nothing happened. Is this character suicidal/psychotic or both?

After that I had to pause the film and look up who wrote the script. Oh surprise. One of the writers also wrote the series "Lost". That actually explained a lot.

In my opinion they tried to cram too much nonsense into it; just to call it "mystical" or "mind-boggling". It doesn't really pan out that way though, the story becomes muddled instead and looses its "red-thread". I have nothing against films being mystical - but mysteries have to be planned and tied together through a great net of hints and logic.

I liked the environments though. I can probably recommend seeing this movie once - it's worth that, but I wouldn't see it again.

She didn't understand what was going on. Place yourself in her shoes. You just got impregnated from...? Are you even impregnated? Who knows, your stomach hurts, everything is spinning around you and BAM, you might have hallucinated that David told you he wants what's in your stomach.

She was impregnated during the second (or was it 3rd? Cant remember since I haven't seen the movies in a while...) and, again, the same deal happens to her. Just a different twist of events. She also gets the same deal during the 4th movie, but gains special powers.

To the "Lost" director thing... He planned out the entire series. There's just a lot of filler. I never was a fan of the tv show, but the story development was good. Mystical events and and such, in this movie, had already been planned. There are no plotholes int he movie, no loopholes... Everything in that movie has a reason, just like philosophy. Give an example of the "not planned" mystical part, I'll explain it to you. Otherwise, it just, like a prequel does, sets up for the other movies. If that's the case, then BAM, there you go. Answers already there for you. Think of Starwars and how they did what they did (also, this applies to Cranky, Starwars' science was even more abstract and wrong compared to Prometheus ).

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Your explanation isn't satisfying from my point of view :] In my view it's "grabbing at straws", just to hold some sort of logic together.

If I were to place myself in her shoes I'd stay as far away as possible from someone whom tried to kill me. If I somehow convince myself that I hallucinated I'd still take precautions ~ I have a will to live. If it is so in the movie though, that would go under under my prior thesis on the character - "psychotic". At which she would show signs of not being in "prime mental health" (which wasn't shown in prometheus), which in turn brings me to my next point.

In the Alien movie where the character has been impregnated with an alien (even though circumstances are entirely different) the character shows signs of not being in "prime mental health". That aside, in Prometheus it's not the impregnation itself but the (lack of) logical reaction to her almost being killed by someone else. At the core of any "sane" living thing is the will to live.

I don't have the patience to watch the movie yet again to pick-up on things I didn't like about it. You would most likely be able to supply me with explanations which seem logical to you - but far-fetched for me.

What I meant with the comparison of the "Lost series" and "Prometheus" having the same writer is that they both introduce a lot of new elements and actions just to make it exciting. Often too much, at which story loses its focus and just becomes muddled (applies both to lost and prometheus).

To the "Lost" director thing... He planned out the entire series. There's just a lot of filler. I never was a fan of the tv show, but the story development was good.

I watched bits and pieces from each episode, enough to conjure the story, but too much filler to read into it. It's like an episode of the Americanized version of DBZ. You're bloody right it was cryptic and the show was interesting, to some extent, but I don't remember seeing any black smoke.

From those quotes I can deduct that you haven't seen the series :]

I have seen everything except the last/half of the last season.

In the end though there is no "right or wrong". What you may see as "plausable" I might not. Judgement and interpretation form the experience of the movie - trying to prove what we believe with a logical discussion won't get us far. Discussing is fun though :]