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Prometheus, another movie I accidentally skipped even though I really wanted to see it, got a lot of mixed reviews when it came out. Some people absolutely hated it. Others were okay. A few were less negative. Maybe everyone who watched it will hate it after seeing all the things wrong with it though. And maybe everyone who skipped it won’t feel so bad about it anymore. [CinemaSins]
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Oh not again, I like this movie but I am sick of the bashing.
i liked it too
cannot understand the plot picking as its just a film (its not real) i find this on par with train or bus spotting.
i like to watch a film for what it is, something enjoyable
What do you mean it’s not real!?
well most of them aren’t real, we all know star trek is real
Just a film? Lame.
There is no such thing as ‘just a film’ unless you are happy simply staring at random moving images with equally random canned sound for a couple of hours. Films are not created equal, some are great and some are awful while most loiter somewhere in between. Prometheus was plain bad. For a film to be enjoyable a good plot, believable characters, well written dialogue and some semblance of a script usually help… pretty much everything this film was lacking.
It did look good in places though… but so did John Carter!
It’s cool and trendy to hate something mainstream. See The Hobbit.
I saw the Hobbit, I loved The Hobbit. I do not hate The Hobbit. I have hairy feet like a Hobbit.
Hobbit blows. Seriously.
Mainstream my arse. I hated LOTR too.
Too fucking long, too fucking boring, too fucking many money-grabbing instalments.
I don’t know how you can say that about lotr, they were quite cruelly squeezed into three films and were a labour of love. The hobbit trilogy, maybe, but to be honest, it’s good to be back in middle earth. And you can’t say they’re not value for money.
I know this is a youtube video by some angry nerd and therefore doesn’t have to contain any factual basis, but honestly, how is “ghost rider mount rushmore” or a basketball court on the ship count as something wrong with the film. I would say about 3/4 of those points were just plain crap.
Bits like touching the goo, or the geologist mapping the ship getting lost were totally crap, but overall I thought it was a decent science fiction film.
I had high expectations for this movie, I was wrong, I was so wrong..
“Futuristic flip-offs apparently require 2 fingers”. Or the guy is English (as suggested by his accent)and is sticking up the V’s. What a prat this guy is!
Or Scottish?
Didn’t David know the Alien language because he’d been loaded up with hundreds of languages and the ability to extrapolate meaning from anything he finds with similarities? Kind of like a walking Rosetta Stone? I’m sure I remember them actually explaining that in the movie.
The “futuristic two-finger flip” is actually a UK version.
Bit too many of these are “I personally don’t like it”. There’s enough to hate about the movie objectively, without getting personal preferences in the way. And he still forgot a few things:
- 80 years in the future, everyone’s still wearing winter jackets from North Face 2007 catalog
- they have inter-stellar flight and near-human androids, but the old guy’s still riding a human-powered wheelchair
Agreed with a few people here that this is geting old but alot of people point out Charlize running in a straight line and getting squashed.
People do this all the time in films (and in real life, i’ve seen loads of people upon seeing a flashing ambulance feel the need to run to the other side of the road in front of it).
I’ve never quite understood why in films people don’t slam on their brakes and letting the car chasing them at high speed just whizz past them.
It’s like the old chestnut, finding out your brakes don’t work yet still accelerating yourself off a cliff because you don’t know how to take your foot off the accelerator pedal.
Only just watched this farce, God it was bad. It is all very well saying it is only a film, but God at least say it is only a fucking bad film. You find yourself watching it and thinking ‘why did a highly trained professional just do that, and that, don’t do that???’ It is stunning looking and starts with a fair plot line but after 15 minutes it is like the whole production team switched their brains off. And why is a middle aged man playing an old dude for no reason – so they cut the flash back scene out, fuck.
SPOILER:
The worst is the ending, having endured this farce you are thinking that you can’t get any worst then you get a healthy dose of Double Mumbo Jumbo at the end. This is a concept for a basic scriptwriting book by Blake Snyder, basic, very basic. It is regarding why concepts like Vampire vs Aliens don’t/can’t work – it is hard enough to get a head around one outlandish concept and bed in, once you throw in two then it just becomes more than the viewer can take on board. And in this, having seen an innocent man contaminated??? Have sex and create a beast??? Have beast aborted solo with a machine and the beast live and grow rapidly in a room ignored by everyone and the ship??? To then at the end have the hybrid spawn of the Creator/Human open up to become a fucking Alien creature. I can’t believe the same man that made Alien and Bladerunner made this piece of shite, but I can believe that the man that made GI Jane and Robin Hood made this, time to call it a day Ridley, fuck, you have grown to become a joke of cinema.
Wow. I saw the film and literally can’t remember any of the stuff you just said.
There was sex? Abortion? It must have really sucked if I forgot all of that.
All I remember is the spaceship landing, some big leeches, and everything blowing up at the end.
Oh and those big tall alien guys that were arseholes.
You saw the film, but you didn’t watch it. All the above is in the film.
After watching the video above, I kinda remember it now.
Just shows how silly and forgetful it was though, I literally couldn’t remember any of that shit
This is just four minutes of some cock end bitching in the world’s worst accent about a movie he was obviously so disgusted by that he couldn’t even begin to think about possibly following the story line. Most of the points he raises are answered quite easily by the actual plot, and the rest can be discounted by the fact that it’s a fucking film!
I was fine with most of the movie, but remained just bamboozled that a ‘trillion dollar’ mission would assemble a crew that hadn’t met each other, or trained for years together, and been through endless psychological tests.
I can see they wanted to recreate the same vibe as was seen in the crew in ‘Alien’ – but it made sense for a routine cargo ship to just employ a bunch of blue collar contractors who only wanted the money, but Prometheus wasn’t that kind of ship. Everything that went wrong in the move seemed to stem from just how rubbish the crew selection was.
an entertaining movie with the usual Hollywood bullshit plot lines thrown in – the comedy geologists being eaten by a grue for example. What is so sad is that the acting was fine, the sets were stellar, the effects used sparingly enough to feel real but it held nothing of interest to reveal. Nothing. So we sit through all that thrashing about battling the odds, a magnificent tale of human endeavour and at the end of it all that effort earns them precisely nothing. Biggest let down of the year.
Monsters that grow exponentially without any sustenance always annoy me. Yes, with some biological wizardry, a creature could stretch itself to become humungous, but it would need to become hollow and as frail as origami. And it certainly wouldn’t get heavier!
(Apart from the Hulk. We like the Hulk
As much as I liked this film, the video does have a point. Although I cannt help wondering why people watch movies just to pull apart plot holes.
It was quite highly hyped, so I’d imagine he watched it expecting decent but instead got head scratchingly ridiculous.
Reminds me of when I saw silent hill revelations and I was pretty much WTFing throughout the whole film.
I somehow have to agree. From the start, when they go and explore the planet with only a few hours available. From there on, all the decisions to be taken are the wrong ones. Zero regards to safety, to team work etc….It looks like everyone is stupid or under the influence.
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Good story but shitty movie