Quote from: Valaquen on Oct 17, 2012, 07:51:42 AM
Quote from: Deuterium on Oct 17, 2012, 03:31:22 AM
Just to bring things back to the harsh light of reality...
In "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", the motivations of the extraterrestrials may have remained a bit nebulous and uncertain...but the motivations of the friggin' humans were NEVER unclear, uncertain, confusing, or required a further sequel to explain. Furthermore, the inscrutability of the "CE3K" aliens left things actually interesting, and something to ponder.
IMHO, with CE3K, we have a masterpiece...one for "ages", as it were. With Prometheus, we have a film that will be shown on the SyFy network next year. I very much doubt (again, IMHO) that anyone will be talking about it 30+ years from now.
I think a great contrast to Prometheus is 2001: A Space Odyssey. I just saw the former at a screening at the art cinema and it blew me away. Again. There are sequences and ideas there which run shivers through me.
There is no disagreement there -
2001: ASO is a brilliant piece of cinema... however, if made today, it would struggle to get funding and would probably be a small release production.
Prometheus is a much more commercially viable proposition. As you know, unless you are making self funded art-house cinema - making movies involves large scale compromise. For certain, some of the compromises ensure that
Prometheus could never get into the realms of
2001:ASO, Alien or
Blade Runner quality... but ultimately (IMHO),
Prometheus works, and is valid, because it's a very good bridge between brilliant aesthetics, larger concepts and commercial Hollywood/mainstream cinema. Give me
Prometheus any day of the week over
The Avengers,
Iron Man 6,
X-Men 7, JJ's
Star Trek (although I actually thought the last one was a good pop corn movie) etc. etc. etc.