watched prometheus at 8pm uk time..
my honest thoughts?....
it started pretty well and has some amazing cinematography and i was also impressed with the 3d which gave some great depth to some of the scenes, but the starmap scene was just a carbon copy of the scene on the ship from avp1, and also made little sense as theyre just about to arrive at the planet before anyone is told why theyre even going there....
but i got over that and the film started to build into something promising.... fassbender is excellent as the borderline psychotic android and also i dont really get the critisism of logan marshall green as to me it appeared as though he was meant to play a character who was a bit of an ass to set up the whole reason for david to dislike him (and do what he did to him)and he did the job well.
but after the tension was built and all the pieces were set up for a good finish... it all went downhill fast, the film is a mess, bad editing, absolutely laughable creature design, uninspiring story, crap score which sounds more like it belongs in superman with the repetitive upbeat jingle and crappy forgettable characters (apart from fassbender who was excellent as david).
now as a long time alien movie fan, i was a little worried as soon as i saw some of the designs for suits, ship, holograms and flashy screens, etc and didnt think they were very fitting in the already established alien universe, now i understood why they took those decisions as they had to keep up with modern sci fi movies, so i chose to ignore that element as i was sure that ridley would deliver on story and creatures..... but no, the story makes things even worse and totally ruins the alien life cycle thats been established in the previous movies, it seriously makes no sense whatsoever anymore, and the creature designs belong in some silly b movie, in fact, if the asylum rips prometheus off then even they might desing/make better creatures than what we have here.....
now just to explain why the life cycle makes no sense... in the original alien, the creature is born of a space jockey which then lays eggs which then go on to infect kane and bring about kanes son, which is a biomechanical alien as we know and love which makes sense as the space jockey (at that point) was a biomechanical creature which going by what weve learned from other alien movies the alien takes (in part) some of the form and traits of its host, but in prometheus, we see at the very beginning that the space jockey/engineers are just big blue human/oids, not biomechanical at all, the bits that looked biomechanical in the trailer was actually a suit, so we have a humanoid wearing two suits to form the sj as we know them from alien which therefore cannot give the alien its biomechanical look, which works for the birthing in prometheus, but then makes consecutive aliens make no sense.
on top of that, the engineer/sj at the beginning drinks the black fluid which disintegrates him, now why doesnt it do that to the two worms that turn into hammerpedes?.
well, thats enough for now, i did actually enjoy watching it and my time at the cinema, and im glad ive seen it, and it does have some plus points, but overall, i feel like this is 1999, george lucas and the phantom menace all over again, if this movie was a stand alone sci fi movie that was totally unrelated to the alien franchise then i would maybe rate it a little higher, but because in my opinion it damages the alien life cycle i give it 4/10... its pretty rubbish.
thanks
rich
