Started by Corporal Hicks, May 24, 2019, 02:58:03 PM
Quote from: Nostromo on May 31, 2019, 12:50:50 PMPrometheus is great seriously.
Quote from: The Old One on May 31, 2019, 12:56:55 PMQuote from: Nostromo on May 31, 2019, 12:50:50 PMPrometheus is great seriously. No, no it isn't. It's seriously a disaster.A interesting idea totally wasted on a inane script.
QuoteFifield and Millburn are intelligent scientists early Ok, but then later on wants us to believe they're idiots-?
Quote from: The Old One on Jan 24, 2019, 10:33:28 PMLacklustre trailers, title.With the awareness that Prometheus was crap, a sense of "Oh you won't fool me this time, Ridley Scott!" was in the air,which most likely contributed to it's sequel's decrease in commercial success despite IMO, being a superior film and script.And a concept that we'd seen before.(From the trailers perspective.)It's more easy to see why audiences didn't have a interest when you compare it to what Prometheus did have.Prometheus' the return of Ridley Scott to Sci-Fi, a cast of hot new stars and an return to sense of legitimacy in that Prometheus was described as it's own thing in the Alien Universe, the complete opposite of the abortion of AVP/AVPR people had suffered five years prior- that had little to do with the series history creatively, aesthetically, narratively or thematically beyond the creature itself.
Quote from: The Old One on Apr 29, 2019, 04:45:12 PMIt's because Prometheus was touted as Ridley Scott's return to Sci-Fi, a amazing cast and a superb trailer. Obscuring the awful script.So by the time the sequel appears, people are throughrally disenchanted.
Quote from: The Old One on Jan 25, 2019, 04:08:26 PMThe cast isn't superior to Prometheus' but they're better acted and directed.The editing in Prometheus is completely f**ked, Covenant's is not.Covenant knows what it is, Prometheus does not.Nah, Covenant- aside from the Xenomorph in the ship at the end being somewhat lacklustre but not always- is a superior film.(when it's standing up and moving around slowly like a man it's pretty fantastic and so is the visuals of the atmospheric decompression.)Aside from some of the production design of the human crafts, spacesuits and weaponry which I thought were much more interesting looking in Prometheus, Covenant is much, much better film it's probably just that because Prometheus doesn't know what it's about- in your head you can define it therefore in whatever way you want, whereas Covenant actually has a strong narrative theme. As many smarter than me have said, Covenant's a Romanticism; Gothic Horror in space and if you're not willing to approach it like you would that genre of literature, you're not going to be interested.
Quote from: The Old One on May 31, 2019, 05:13:42 PMThe reason Prometheus' sequel was received as is, regardless of being a superior film, and more internally consistent- is already discussed to death.
Quote from: The Old One on May 31, 2019, 05:23:12 PMNah, Prometheus is trash.It sits alongside VIII-TLJ, GoT-S8, SWPrequelTrilogy and The Hobbit Prequel Trilogy. The shelf of immense wasted potential, scripts full of holes and bizarre acting characters.