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Ridiculous
PostedJune 11, 2012
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I don't even know where to begin. First of all, the cesarean section to beat all cesarean sections had anyone who has ever had abdominal surgery rolling their eyes. If you have ever even seen a person recovering from this type of surgery, you would know that the immediate postoperative running, jumping and lifting was a fantasy in and of itself.
I am a huge science fiction fan. I was excited about this movie and loved Alien and Aliens. In my opinion, all the subsequent additions to the genre didn't happen. I was extremely interested in seeing how the ship carrying the eggs arrived on the planet in Alien. I was expecting a prequel to the Alien story, not a prequel to humanity and the aliens themselves. Prometheus gives us not only one origin story, but two.
We endcounter 3 species. Massive humanoids, humans, and aliens. The massive humanoids birth the humans, and then the humans birth the aliens. Really? Really.
From the other movies, we see that there are queens, there are warriors and there are the face-huggers. Can an entire species develop from a single warrior with no way to reproduce? Unlikely. Yet this is exactly what we are supposed to believe. Prometheus could have given us another glimpse into the Alien timeline, instead, it tried to give us some implausible genetic accident from which a species with a clear hierarchical structure, language and cooperative skills emerged. Fully formed. And then this warrior being somehow managed to reproduce, even though it is established that only queens can reproduce. Riiiight.
This ridiculous origin story, the revisiting of "the evil android," other images that seemed stolen or borrowed from other Alien movies combined into an implausible homage that left me rolling my eyes rather than wanting more.
Pros great actors
Cons too complex, unbelievable story
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