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All flash, no substance
PostedJune 10, 2012
ic2064
from Wausau, WI, USA
Age:45 to 54
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:monthly
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Special Effects
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Art Direction
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Acting
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5
Story
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Camerawork
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5
Prometheus was a disappointment.
Full of sweeping panoramas and long camera shots, the cinematography was beautiful, but the film ended with that. With a small cast, there was plenty of time to develop characters and relationships, to draw the audience into the experience, but the film makers seemed to want to keep us at a distance, keep us just watching, never engaging.
None of the characters grew or changed from our initial impressions of them. None of the relationships were compelling. The script was also oddly flawed. For example, as not to give away too much, the characters came out of stasis having just made a two year flight together, but when they woke up, they seemed to be meeting for the first time. No explanation was offered for how they all wound up where they were, what their individual motivations were, what goals they had. The characters were presented as nothing more than empty caricatures, and were never developed beyond that. The relationships existed because we were told, explicitly, that they were there.
There is no hint here of the personal investment each character in the original Alien films had, no sense of dread from the creature in the darkness, no urgency, no fear.
No anything. Just pretty pictures.
Pros pretty
Cons slow, undeveloped, unemotional
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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