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Prometheus Spoiler Review
PostedJune 9, 2012
MindsetAW
from Surprise, AZ
Age:35 to 44
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:once every few months
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I am a sci-fi movie buff as well as a huge fan of Ridley Scott films. Nobody does space movies better. Read it and weep George Lucas. When I saw the trailer for this movie months before its release I was very excited about it and could not wait to see it. I have not been so excited about any particular movie in years. The trailer revealed just enough to suggest a connection to the original Alien movie; which is still a great movie. The crashed alien ship, the pods, and the attachment creature were all there to stir up a lot of interests in this movie. I saw this film on opening night and could not wait to get through the coming attractions and get on with the film. The movie opens with some great scenic shots and then pans to human like alien standing on the edge of a raging river and waterfall. The alien is very much a CGI looking figure and at first I thought that I was watching a trailer for some new video game. That is where I started to worry about this movie. If you are a fan of the original Alien movie you’re going to be let down. This movie was a huge disappointment for me. The plot is difficult to understand leaving many questions as to why and how. The set and costumes are very cheesy. I felt like I was watching a 1950’s sci-fi movie where everybody wears jump suits and plastic helmets. The vehicles, weapons, and machinery are all plastic looking. The plastic helmets and the plastic hubcaps on the passenger vehicle are just silly. I half expected the space suits to come with a red superman cape. If this movie is a prequel to Alien, and it appears that it is, then why does the technology appear to be more advanced than that of what is seen in the original Alien movie? Ridley Scott did you not learn anything from George Lucas’s mistakes? Just because you can do amazing things with special effects these days does not mean that you should. I feel like a lot of movies today are nothing more than a bunch of special effects artist competing with one other through film. Everything else is forgotten. There are so many unbelievable and unrealistic scenes that after a while you begin to feel insulted by the stupidity of this movie. I found myself laughing at scenes that were supposed to be scary and suspenseful. I found myself asking so many questions that I could no longer engage myself with this movie. Why didn’t the abrasiveness of a 200 mile per hour sandstorm damage the space suits? Like a pair of glasses on sandpaper the clarity of the helmets should have been scratched and scoured and the suits shredded. Nope, they look just fine when they make it back to the ship. How did the two highly educated scientists get themselves lost inside the caves especially when they have the coordinates right there on their wrists…and they were the mapping specialist too! Everyone else seemed to get out just fine. Again, why did two highly educated scientists choose to engage an alien creature without any caution as if it were a cute cuddly baby? Please! How was it possible for a woman to run, jump, and fight like an Olympian athlete minutes after having a c-section abortion? Really? How stupid do you think we are? The alien creatures look so similar to the main zombie in the movie, I am Legend that at time I was not sure which movie I was watching. How was it possible for the android (David) to communicate with the Aliens, simply by studying various languages here on earth? The language they spoke was nothing like the languages here on Earth. Very convenient for this movie that the android could communicate with the aliens and operate their equipment too. Also convenient was the hologram video that kept popping up only for that sake of helping the audience through this cumbersome plot. The elderly financier of this mission was completely unnecessary and only served to detract from this movie. He looked like a young man made to look old with latex. The sex arrangement between the ship captain and the female executive (Charlize Theron) was also completely unnecessary. It was contrary to her role as a tough, independent and disciplined professional. These types of scenes are put into movies only to influence young women into acting this way. The fight scene between the two different aliens is very reminiscence of the fight scenes between Jack Sparrow and the Kraken in Pirates of the Caribbean II. Not only does the menacing creature look the same as the Kraken but the fight scene pretty much ends the same way. How do you defeat a huge giant octopus? Couldn’t they have come up with something other than an octopus creature that we have seen a hundred times in other movies? Near the end of the movie, two remaining women are running from a ship that is falling from the sky. Fortunately the ship is crashing in slow motion while they are able to run at full speed making for a very suspenseful escape attempt. The reality is that this crash would have occurred in the blink of an eye; leaving them no time to run anywhere. Fortunately and rather conveniently, the main star is saved by a small boulder that is strong enough to resist the impact of a huge ship while also supporting its resting weight. Whew, good thing that boulder was there! What is that boulder made of anyway…solid Tungsten? The star spends the last half of the film running from a ferocious alien and when she survives and acquires his ship all she wants to do is travel to his home planet so she can talk to the others over a nice cup of Starbucks coffee. Doesn’t she have any concern over the possibility that the others will respond to her in the same manner. She barely survived one. I cannot imagine a whole planet attacking her. Good luck with that. I can go on and on over the ridiculousness of this movie, but I think you get the point. Overall this movie is worthy of rental only. Do not pay theatre prices for this movie. There are some good special effects here, but not enough to save this movie. BIG DISSAPOINTMENT!
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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