When Lore pulls that old Data switch was a height on genius!
I've not actually seen it or any of the promo material yet but we all know that's going to happen and so was Fassbender good at it? [giveup]
shareNo, it was done terribly by scott. It was so obvious that hed done a data/lore that you can even spot it without seeing the movie lol.
shareI sure hope we didn't get that unexpected xeno sucked out/blown out of an air locker as the conclusion to the movie...he wouldn't do that now...would he? :D
sharelol Yeah, theres no point in you going to see this movie at all lol
shareDuly noted, thank you for saving me the spare change I'd have shed to confirm my prejudices about this endeavour.
There must be some of that Prometheus magic though, you know, that depth and nuanced subtlety which made people question their very existence so much that they felt capable of throwing out terms like 'retard', 'idiot' and 'moron' to anyone who dared query their blind reverie of a cult classic in the making return to the golden age of science fiction by the master of the modern take on such movies (Well, except Alien - that was just a slash flick in space, oh and Blade Runner was apparently crap too - but NOT Prometheus, that was deep dude!), that's there - right?
I mean I'm looking forward to the destitute coming here and telling me how it changed their lives in ways unimaginable to meagre minds such as mine.
There must be something in this movie, the visuals perhaps, the soundtrack, the acting, the CGI????
I mean, it's Sir Ridley Scott of Prometheus fame, we should bow before him and accept that he's naked whilst telling us he's wearing the latest in haute couture.
Where are those emotes?!?
Prometheus brought up great questions, but its execution was terrible. Here those questions are tossed out the window in favour of people dying left and right in mostly gruesome ways because they did something stupid. Its an alien movie. Youll have your check list of what makes an alien movie and this movie will tick every box. Scott has been listening to fans and has just gone out and made something that alien fans with worship him for, or at least what he thinks alien fans will worship him for. I wont go so far as to say its a rehash of alien with the names changed to protect the innocent, but its not far off.
shareSo Dallas, the big questions of Prometheus (I've yet to hear what they are, feel free to throw them out to me) are ignored in favour of a gorefest with lots of xenos and an idiotic crew.
Is it at least...scary?
I suppose the questions were largely in my head after seeing the trailer, rather than in the movie lol I was interested to see a heavy scifi movie about our origins tied in with the origins of the alien. We didnt get that. We didnt even get a sniff at that. I thought maybe we'd get a little taste when the giant 'engineer' stood up, but instead of some great dialogue he just started murdering people lol.
As for this being scary, not so much. The gore factor is set to mild to light as youd expect from something aimed at 15 year olds. As for scary, it might be to anyone thats never seen an alien movie before. Or any movie where people get killed off like camp counsellors in an 80s slasher flick.
The promotional material for Prometheus really had me excited. The focus on Fassbender's David 8, the TED talk with Guy Pearce as Peter Weyland, a timeline of Weyland's successes leading the when the film would take off, Shaw's online video messages with a slew of diverse people mirroring her facial expressions in a close up request for a meeting, the trailer (This will be awesome, I can't believe the trailer already looks like a full movie) - I completely get it. The marketing was sound as a pound Dallas.
That's why when I walked out, stunned at how bad it was, I went online to laugh about how I'd been duped only to see that early adopters for the Cult of Didley Squat were setting up superiority camp and trying to administer their "Authority" on all matters Prometheus.
Obviously I did the world a service by way of giving back and schooled them on all matters cinema (AS far as I know anyway).
Helluva four and a half years but they know who they are and they know how ridiculous they were attempting to be in retrospect.
Were you ever there on IMDb Dallas?
Not so much, had a long spell on the stargate universe boards having much the same conversation about ideas/concepts verses execution. After that died on only browsed every now and again. I have already seen a few people talk about this like its awesome. I can understand why they might say that if they had no expectations of something with little depth, but other than that its just another let down as far as Im concerned. I wanted to like prometheus so much, and it was just meh as fuck. I had hoped that this movie would save, but all it did was make it even more pointless than it already was.
Thank god Scotts changed his tune on making another 4 or 5 of these cash grabs.