Prometheus Fan Reviews

[Gash]

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

No, it isn't.

I know.     How anyone can list 82 apparent faults in a film whilst displaying such enormous observational failings negates pretty much anything else they have to say.

[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)

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.

Perhaps The Terminator wasn't the best example - although I'd still argue that it wasn't as respected as it is now... and was certainly regarded much more as a 'cult' movie in my parts. However my original point still stands (although the conversation has now moved on).

[Tough little S.O.B.]

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.

And the Flute...dont forget the flute!

[redxavier]

"Her suit had ten seconds of air five minutes ago"

This is a flaw. 

Everything actually wrong with Promethues probably requires two sentences and 20 seconds.

Oh lordy. Let me guess, you've written an impassioned defence of this film where you've handwaved away most of its problems (probably using deleted scenes) and projected complex themes onto its vague outline?

[D.R.]

I had planned to never see it but I finally broke down and watched the movie. The set design was good. 

[Alien³]

"Her suit had ten seconds of air five minutes ago"

This is a flaw. 

Everything actually wrong with Promethues probably requires two sentences and 20 seconds.

Oh lordy. Let me guess, you've written an impassioned defence of this film where you've handwaved away most of its problems (probably using deleted scenes) and projected complex themes onto its vague outline?

You'll love the movie eventually.

[SM]

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

No, it isn't.

I know.     How anyone can list 82 apparent faults in a film whilst displaying such enormous observational failings negates pretty much anything else they have to say.

Quite.

There's legitimate flaws with the flick, but making fun of a movie for things it's supposedly done wrong - but didn't; simply lacks any sort of humour.

[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.

Perhaps The Terminator wasn't the best example - although I'd still argue that it wasn't as respected as it is now... and was certainly regarded much more as a 'cult' movie in my parts. However my original point still stands (although the conversation has now moved on).

I'll agree with you there. It did accrue more of a reputation over time.

[ChrisPachi]

You'll love the movie eventually.

Look into my eye.

[Gash]

"Her suit had ten seconds of air five minutes ago"

This is a flaw.     

Well no    . She's seen getting to the life pod and salvaging bottles before removing her helmet, and grabbing further supplies before re-helmeting and leaving for the wrecked juggernaut whilst the Engineer is fighting the trilobite.

Everything actually wrong with Promethues probably requires two sentences and 20 seconds.

Oh lordy. Let me guess, you've written an impassioned defence of this film where you've handwaved away most of its problems (probably using deleted scenes) and projected complex themes onto its vague outline?

Nope, and I think few - if any - of the deleted scenes add anything essential to the understanding of the story. I don't need speculative complex themes to enjoy the movie but twenty seconds would cover the time it takes to list the flaws.

[redxavier]

Well no    . She's seen getting to the life pod and salvaging bottles before removing her helmet, and grabbing further supplies before re-helmeting and leaving for the wrecked juggernaut whilst the Engineer is fighting the trilobite.

Yes, because all you need to do to refill the oxygen supply in your suit is to be seen grabbing a hold of an air cannister. The rest is magic. Which is pretty much how most of the film goes. Things just magically happen, logic and reason be damned.

How anyone can list 82 apparent faults in a film whilst displaying such enormous observational failings negates pretty much anything else they have to say.

Well, that sure says a lot. Again, it's painfully obvious that not all the faults in the movie are to be taken seriously and yet you're using this to dimiss the entirety of the video. I bet this humour failing wouldn't occur if it was AvP or a film you disliked.

You do have me curious though, about these "twenty seconds [that] would cover the time it takes to list the flaws."

[szkoki]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLbcZggwVCw#ws

[OmegaZilla]

'It's a pree-quel'

[DoomRulz]

Well quite honestly, that's all it would've taken really.

[Twin Drive Sigma Aquarion]

I just saw it, this was pure 6/10 material. It would have been 5/10, but the hammerhead and trilobite were awesome as hell. BTW anyone else think the engineers resemble Pinhead?