Prometheus Fan Reviews

[Space Sweeper]

Yeah, Honest Trailers has its moments (when it's not long-winded and analytical, but quick and abrupt), but Cinema Sins' 'Everything Wrong With ______' is consistently thoughtlessly shitty.

[OmegaZilla]

I can't stand RLM though.

Basically; exactly why I didn't like the HT for the third Nolan Batman.

[Ratchetcomand]

Here's part one from Film Brain's review

http://blip.tv/film-brain/bad-movie-beatdown-prometheus-part-one-6541049

[Alien³]

Here's part one from Film Brain's review

http://blip.tv/film-brain/bad-movie-beatdown-prometheus-part-one-6541049

I can guarantee he'll love Prometheus in a few years.

What an annoying character. I had to turn it off.

[redxavier]

I can guarantee he'll love Prometheus in a few years.

Maybe. It wouldn't surprise me. People have now managed to convince themselves that Alien3 is a good movie and that Alien Resurrection isn't that bad, and even that the first AvP has merit. All you need is another, more atrocious movie to follow, and we're sure to get that with Prometheus 2, where it's revealed that all the fan fiction explanations and rationalisations were total crap, but that the answers/logic/sense/actual substance are sure to come in Prometheus 3.

Also, if you can't see that the 'Everything Wrong With X' is somewhat tongue in cheek, and jump at the chance to exploit its fun format to dismiss the valid flaws it points out in Prometheus,then it might be that you're loving that film just a bit too much.

I've seen a number of explanations and counter-criticism articles about Prometheus now, and I'm struck by how much it reminds me of the Star Wars gusher side of the fandom that firstly denied that any problems existed with the prequels and then proceeded to project theories, explanations, links etc. onto the loved object that 'complete' it.

[Alien³]

Didn't enjoy the film I gather.

[Darth Vile]

I can guarantee he'll love Prometheus in a few years.

Maybe. It wouldn't surprise me. People have now managed to convince themselves that Alien3 is a good movie and that Alien Resurrection isn't that bad, and even that the first AvP has merit. All you need is another, more atrocious movie to follow, and we're sure to get that with Prometheus 2, where it's revealed that all the fan fiction explanations and rationalisations were total crap, but that the answers/logic/sense/actual substance are sure to come in Prometheus 3.

Also, if you can't see that the 'Everything Wrong With X' is somewhat tongue in cheek, and jump at the chance to exploit its fun format to dismiss the valid flaws it points out in Prometheus,then it might be that you're loving that film just a bit too much.

I've seen a number of explanations and counter-criticism articles about Prometheus now, and I'm struck by how much it reminds me of the Star Wars gusher side of the fandom that firstly denied that any problems existed with the prequels and then proceeded to project theories, explanations, links etc. onto the loved object that 'complete' it.

I know - I remember when people thought Blade Runner, The Terminator and The Thing were rubbish...

[redxavier]

Didn't enjoy the film I gather.

Not entirely. It's a riveting film to watch for the first time in a darkened cinema and the effects, design and cinematography are stunning. I remember being frustrated a few times (the petting snake being the most noticeable instance) but the visual porn kept me distracted. It's only when the lights come back on and you're going home that you realise none of it makes much sense and characters do and say stuff that's falacious at best. I find film is quite offensive in its disrespect of the audience and its treatment of science is amongst the worse I've seen, which is something I'd expect from Michael Bay, but not Ridley Scott (but then, he had made the abysmal Robin Hood). There are fundamental problems with its basic plot as well.

I know - I remember when people thought Blade Runner, The Terminator and The Thing were rubbish...

Blade Runner was never a big box office success true, but it's never really been considered rubbish. Neither have The Terminator and The Thing, so I'm not sure your memory is truly accurate. Perhaps you'd care to pick some more appropriate films to support your wry comment?

[Valaquen]

I know - I remember when people thought Blade Runner, The Terminator and The Thing were rubbish...

Blade Runner was never a big box office success true, but it's never really been considered rubbish. Neither have The Terminator and The Thing, so I'm not sure your memory is truly accurate. Perhaps you'd care to pick some more appropriate films to support your wry comment?

The Thing was rubbished by critics on release, but The Terminator wasn't. So I dunno what he means.

[wmmvrrvrrmm]

The Thing was rubbished by critics on release, but The Terminator wasn't. So I dunno what he means.

However real this is, I'm reading at Reelviews that Terminator was only a minor success in the cinema but its success on video and Cameron's success with Aliens warranted it a sequel. (http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=1618)

[Valaquen]

The Thing was rubbished by critics on release, but The Terminator wasn't. So I dunno what he means.

However real this is, I'm reading at Reelviews that Terminator was only a minor success in the cinema but its success on video and Cameron's success with Aliens warranted it a sequel. (http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=1618)

It was what they called a "sleeper hit," grossing nearly $80 million on a 6 million dollar budget, so it was a financial success. As for critical reception, Wiki has that amassed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminator#Reception_and_legacy

Obviously it didn't blow the box office away, but I don't think that was the claim being made.

[Darth Vile]

Blade Runner was never a big box office success true, but it's never really been considered rubbish. Neither have The Terminator and The Thing, so I'm not sure your memory is truly accurate. Perhaps you'd care to pick some more appropriate films to support your wry comment?

A lot of folks didn't appreciate Blade Runner on it's initial release. It was the advent of home video that really allowed films such as Blade Runner, The Terminator, The Thing and Highlander to find a new lease of life with new audiences (particularly those too young to see them in the cinema 1st time around). Hindsight is a wonderful thing and I'm sure we all have impeccable taste enough to appreciate something as soon as we see it... 

[Valaquen]

Blade Runner was never a big box office success true, but it's never really been considered rubbish. Neither have The Terminator and The Thing, so I'm not sure your memory is truly accurate. Perhaps you'd care to pick some more appropriate films to support your wry comment?

A lot of folks didn't appreciate Blade Runner on it's initial release. It was the advent of home video that really allowed films such as Blade Runner, The Terminator, The Thing and Highlander to find a new lease of life with new audiences (particularly those too young to see them in the cinema 1st time around)

I think that was the case with most R rated flicks in the age of early video. Blade Runner and The Thing did indeed tank and find life later, but The Terminator was a success, even at the theatres. It garnered only £20million less than Alien, and on a smaller budget. Read Starlog etc from 1984/5: the film was big.

[Gash]

Also, if you can't see that the 'Everything Wrong With X' is somewhat tongue in cheek, and jump at the chance to exploit its fun format to dismiss the valid flaws it points out in Prometheus, then it might be that you're loving that film just a bit too much.

Most of the flaws I watched in that video weren't valid at all, some were pure ignorance and others things seemed to be deliberately misconstrued for 'comedy'.  These things are done to be tongue in cheek, but it all just strikes me as a waste of time. Valid analysis might be worth a read - if it's taken the time consider why things don't work - but this _"This guy looks like a water balloon - I want to pop him with a needle," "the origins of jugglng," "the spaceship from Firefly," "Charlize doesn't lap dance", "Gold plated 22s?" "Futuristic flip offs require two fingers" "Snake thing looks like a penis and a vagina"  "med-pod's too stupid to understand the difference between male and female anatomy," "Now she's the not only the girl with the dragon tattoo but the girl with the alien abortion scars," "Her suit had ten seconds of air five minutes ago," "David's head is in the exact same place after the crash,' and on, and on, and on.

No, those aren't things wrong with Prometheus, those are things wrong with a critic who isn't being observant because it doesn't suit his piss take agenda. They are statements, or misunderstandings, or lame jokes that only prove that youtube is the easiest outlet for bad comedy, and that the guy who made it probably sits in the theatre too busy dreaming up how to deride one scene to follow what's actually going on in the next.

Everything actually wrong with Promethues probably requires two sentences and 20 seconds. You'd need an hour to list the ignorant flaws in that 4 minute Youtube diatribe.

Does this guy watch the Bridge on the River Kwai and complain that the bridge is made of wood? Or that Kes is set in the future where the two finger 'flip off' is apparently invented?

So much drivel that the whole critique is invalidated.

[SM]

"David's head is in the exact same place after the crash,'

No, it isn't.