Prometheus

Had high hopes for this though I'm not a massive sci fi fan. Saw it on Wednesday, ended up very disappointed, thought the script was poor.

Thoughts?

I can't go further than "quite good".

The trailer gave too much away for one thing (obviously a criticism aimed at the marketing rather than the film itself). Despite only an allegedly loose connection with Alien, there seemed to be a lot of echoes - which is fine on one hand, but diminishes the shock/surprise factor.

It's still a visually stunning film though, so worth seeing on the big screen for my money. However, I don't think this movie will go down in history as having as much impact as Alien or Blade Runner - perhaps unrealistic to expect another masterpiece, but that's unfortunately the high watermark which Mr Scott himself set.

I gave it a 7

It may have been higher had the expectation not been set so high due to it being a prequel to the alien movies

Skydriver wrote:I can't go further than "quite good".

The trailer gave too much away for one thing (obviously a criticism aimed at the marketing rather than the film itself). Despite only an allegedly loose connection with Alien, there seemed to be a lot of echoes - which is fine on one hand, but diminishes the shock/surprise factor.

It's still a visually stunning film though, so worth seeing on the big screen for my money. However, I don't think this movie will go down in history as having as much impact as Alien or Blade Runner - perhaps unrealistic to expect another masterpiece, but that's unfortunately the high watermark which Mr Scott himself set.

This.

Yeah I agree, I went into the film looking forward to it and taking at face value what Ridley had said about it not strictly being an Alien prequel but came out underwhelmed - the parallels between it and Alien were very obvious - even to the point of unoriginal - and I didn't think the film's plot was truly allowed to take shape due to the pace of the film; I know it has set up for a sequel but to be honest, I was hoping for a film with a little more substance to it rather than the precursor to a new franchise.

Have seen it today, really no idea what to think of it just yet. Part of me thinks I just spent two hours watching a film designed purely to make me watch the sequel (supposedly already being filmed) but it was still enjoyable, my issue is how do i know i won't come out of Prometheus 2 having just as many (or more) unanswered questions?

I gave it a 4. It was poor and I was left disapointed by all of it. And will they even call the sequel Prometheus 2? The spaceship was destroyed.

Morgannwg wrote:I gave it a 4. It was poor and I was left disapointed by all of it. And will they even call the sequel Prometheus 2? The spaceship was destroyed.

I think I read somewhere they had plans to call the sequel paradise or something like that, though technically they've claimed it has 2 sequels one being Alien the other being paradise or whatever it will be called.

I quite liked it myself, may even be a sequal.

Has anyone watched the DVD of this and do the alternate beginnings and endings improve the film?

Derbyblue, I commented elsewhere about seeing some new scenes in the trailer. So it has an alternate beginning/ending? That's bound to bloody improve it!

Yeah pretty sure that it does, but it does say something that it must be the first film to have both an alternate beginning and ending. Though I wonder if that was always their plan or was a reaction to the amount of negativity it received.

I thought this film was quite good actually. Same eerie, spine chilling feelings as Alien except without the Aliens or face huggers. I can see why some may not like it, but overall I thought it was pretty good. Love my Sci Fi though.

Not bad but the story could have been a lot better written.