I've talked to a lot of my friends recently and a lot of them didn't like Prometheus. My Dad says the only point in the film thats worth watching is the end. Some of my friends said it was just 'alright.' Just a lot of people tell me its only a good movie to watch 'high' or to get drunk to. There's just not a whole lot of people I know that consider this an awesome movie, even for the standards of Science-Fiction in general. I mean here comes one of the BIGGEST sci-fi come backs ever and everything this movie was built up to be with all the commercials and teaser trailers and than it was such a big disappointment and let down for a lot of people. I don't really know how 'intellectual' and 'big thoughts & ideas' justify this film? I mean you either have a good film or you don't. There's really no middle ground here. There was just so many things in the film that didn't add up. Too many questions, too much 'stuff' to contemplate with. The Alien franchise at least gave you some answers throughout each film with a good conclusion to wrap things up. Why Scott felt the need to push the mystery so far, I don't understand? The first time I saw this film at the midnight premiere I was completely dissapointed with what Scott did with the series. I was hoping for something much more exciting and intense and I didn't feel like Prometheus delivered on that level like it really should have.
You can say anything good or bad about this film, I really don't care. I've heard all the Ions of arguments surrounding this film. Some say all these intellectual ideas, thoughts and notions helped elevate the film but to be frank I think it honestly did nothing for the film but drag this 2 hour movie out longer. I don't even know how this film achieved a 7.1 on IMDB.
Haha and some random guy on 4chan told me,
"And hiring the writer of Green Lantern to write a sequel which will not feature the Engineer home-world, but instead feature an Alien loose on a small ship, to be more "Alien like" is just proving he's f**king incapable of picking decent scripts or ideas for his (admittedly beautifully made) films."
I think Scott was once a legendary director who knew how to innovate on the level of Science-Fiction. But lets face it, Scott has kind of fell back a few pegs since his older days. Denying that is completely ignorant on ANYONE's behalf.
Whether you liked Prometheus or not you can't deny its faults. There really are just too many to count. I take Prometheus for what it is but for some reason its been a little hard accepting it into the franchise and I know some of you will say, "But Prometheus is not part of the Alien franchise." Well you can classify it that way but I have my own opinion. Its an Alien film ok...
