"Prometheus" picks up where "Star Wars" left off, with the death of Spock and the resurrection of the Last Starfighter and the resumption of the quest for another dimension that hearkens back to the original.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
loool
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
Aliens was great but it was too dinosaury for my liking
I went to the midnight screening of this. It was... interesting. The 3D is really good. And I'm no fan, I'm really not, but the 3D was really effective in this, I thought. It's a beautifully designed film; the suits, the ship, the interiors. Just great to look at. It's the kind of thing to have playing on a loop on a massive screen in your stylish apartment. The Chariots of the Gods stuff was bunk, naturally, but it somehow didn't matter too much. It didn't ruin my enjoyment, anyway. It's neither the haunted horror of Alien, or the sleek action fest of Aliens - nor whatever the other films were meant to be - it it is a decent, very flawed but wonderfully atmospheric, SF film. Tired now. Very tired.
― DavidM, Friday, 1 June 2012 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
That Quietus review is just awful.
also waiting til the last paragraph to say 'there is much to praise about the movie' and then do a big handwavy oh the cast the visuals etc
Ugh.
― Millsner, Friday, 1 June 2012 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't go in the end. Gave my ticket away and went home and watched the latter stages of Mathieu-Isner with my girls instead, all of us speaking faux-French in support of Paul-Henri.
Too much like work outside of work.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 1 June 2012 08:23 (eleven years ago) link
Also: ill.
i get the feeling having wiki-spoiled this for myself [via no self-control] i ought to save my hard-unearned cash, looks pretty lame
― DG, Friday, 1 June 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I'm waiting until the porn parody is released.
― StanM, Friday, 1 June 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
pornmetheus? prometheass? promelingeus? promidgeteus?
― StanM, Friday, 1 June 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
pornintheass, i'm guessing
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
This Ain't Prometheus
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 1 June 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
probemetheus
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
you guys, really.
Prom Eat The Ass
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
Where The Humans Aren't
― StanM, Friday, 1 June 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
this was incredibly disgustingly bad and stupid and awful
― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Friday, 1 June 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
so... should we see it?
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, 1 June 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
I'm going in with my Tim Burton's Planet Of The Apes mindset. Just focus on the art direction. Ignore all else.
― but he go's to a resturang and then die in a toilet (Jon Lewis), Friday, 1 June 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
it looked very good and it was woeful
― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Friday, 1 June 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
was the 3d ridiculously dark?
― Number None, Friday, 1 June 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
blogger Jeff Wells: "impressively composed and colder than a witch's boob in Siberia"
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 June 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
stupid trailer making me excited stupid ilx stupid ridley
hmph
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 June 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
Lindelof seems to be taking most of the heat, which is no doubt deserved. Still, Ridley did hire him
― Number None, Friday, 1 June 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
STUPID LINDELOF
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 June 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
it's being politely panned on bbc2 now
― DG, Friday, 1 June 2012 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
Fuckin Lindelof making sure the 26th ridley scott film in a row was dumb!
― but he go's to a resturang and then die in a toilet (Jon Lewis), Friday, 1 June 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
This was great, btw.
― DavidM, Friday, 1 June 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
I'd genuinely like to hear from someone who loved it
― Number None, Friday, 1 June 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
yes please god
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 June 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
friends who've seen it told me it was bollocks at best
― korea opportunities (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 2 June 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
"... best" say noodles vague's friends!
― promethethem (latebloomer), Saturday, 2 June 2012 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
I am straight up 100% officially unwaveringly anticipating the hell out of this until I have any reason not to.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, March 19, 2012
welp
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 2 June 2012 02:18 (eleven years ago) link
should we join hands and pray or something, I'm feeling very at-sea all of a sudden
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 June 2012 02:26 (eleven years ago) link
Have either Charlie Brooker or David Mitchell weighed in yet?
― Dreaming in Infrared (kingfish), Saturday, 2 June 2012 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
not making any moves till I hear from armond
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Saturday, 2 June 2012 03:14 (eleven years ago) link
he hates ridley scott, so i can't imagine he'll pick this one to fall in love with
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Saturday, 2 June 2012 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
That's So Armond!
― Brony! Broni! Broné! (Phil D.), Saturday, 2 June 2012 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
This was... OK. Worse than cubed. Better than Resurrection. Much stupidity, which I can't really go into without spoilers. For all that Ridley Scott has been playing down the idea that this is a prequel to Alien, the film goes out of its way to set up that movie - some of which I found satisfying. But it also raises lots of questions (so I'll come back and ask them when a few more people have seen). Main gripe though is that there is too much plot; a vaguely interesting premise meets blockbuster movie requirements = aagggh no one would really do that IRL.
Fassbender is great until he too is undone by the script's stupidity. Rapace is bearable. Most everyone else is wasted. The 3D is mostly unflashy but I suspect you lose nothing by seeing it in 2D.
― Jeff W, Saturday, 2 June 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
Plot
In the distant past, the spacecraft of an advanced humanoid alien race arrives on Earth. One of the aliens consumes a dark liquid, causing its body to disintegrate and fall into a nearby waterfall—seeding Earth with the building blocks of life.
― thomp, Saturday, 2 June 2012 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
xpost Thank you! 1 out of 1 StanMs found the previous review helpful
― StanM, Saturday, 2 June 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
all fair, jeff, tho without going into the details it's hard to see where you'd bump it up as high as 'ok'
The first maybe 40 mins are good tension/premise building, imo everything after the first expedition was incoherent hackneyed cliche- and the incoherence is by far the greater problem than the cliche.
― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Saturday, 2 June 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
just heard the end of a polite panning on radio 4
this film is beginning to sound so awful i think i'll have to see it
― DG, Saturday, 2 June 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
i think you may be onto something there
i have spent most of the last 24 hours talking about this movie and how dreadful it was- in a way that makes it better value than a movie i saw, liked and forgot.
― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Saturday, 2 June 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/s720x720/562542_285921241503363_150837808345041_570669_2001826621_n.jpg
― Dreaming in Infrared (kingfish), Sunday, 3 June 2012 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
I love that!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 June 2012 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
having just watched alien i'm looking forward to seeing these space jockey guys running around, esp. as they quite clearly have no legs and are glued to the chair
― DG, Sunday, 3 June 2012 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
Y'all are bringing me down.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 June 2012 01:56 (eleven years ago) link
Worse than cubed. Better than Resurrection.
this is impossible?
― goole, Sunday, 3 June 2012 06:00 (eleven years ago) link
But... the trailers...
http://i.imgur.com/9k3fE.jpg
― StanM, Sunday, 3 June 2012 07:21 (eleven years ago) link
*hangs head*
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 June 2012 07:24 (eleven years ago) link