Prometheus was the biggest load of horse sh*t I've seen in a while.
The acting of many of the characters was abysmal, especially Noomi and the geology bloke. Comicly, epicly bad.
The script was... I can't describe mishandled it was. *Nothing* was left to subtlely. And the amount of extraenous infomation that there was absolutely no need for boarded on laughable.
Example:
"Is that one of those super duper surgery bay thingys..."
[So now we know that there's gonna be surgery done at some point, thanks for removing that tension]
"...and only 12 of them were made, ever"
[and... why did we need to know this piece of information? To show how rich the people who put together the mission are? It's a multi-trillion dollar flight across the galaxy, we get that fact (and we don't care)]
There are TONS of script extensions like this. 50% of it could have been removed, and not negatively affected the movie. Another 25% needed to be made much slicker to fit an AAA movie. 25% was on par. 0% of the dialogue approached interesting or witty.
A trillion dollar romp across half the galaxy and most of the crew hadn't met each other before hand? This wasn't a bus. It was a life or death mission into the unknown, taking a day or two before hand to say "Hi", pretty fricking vital me thinks.
Why did no one care about stuff going on around them? Some staggers into your room naked, covered in blood, with a massive wound, and no one says A THING?!
The mural wasn't explained. The statue wasn't explained. Why the canisters are stood up in front of the head in a cave when the rest of the cannisters were stacked away wasn't explained. And you know why? Because all they were there for was to make it look like Aliens. There was no logical point to most of what happened.
I took the first guy effectively killing himself to be some sort of engineer terrorist, a lone fighter, seeding life where he shouldn't have done. This was pretty much the only reason I could see for them wanting to kill us. But the extended version seems to show lots of other engy's with him, guiding him towards it, like some sort of ritual. This changes the whole meaning of the film for me, and suggests that Ridley didn't know WTF story he was making. And it shows.
If there was ever a "paycheque movie" for Ridley it was Prometheus. He doesn't seem to have checked the script over and it would seem monkeys edited it, it feels like half the movie was cut out, not that this would make it any better. If I was given $200mil to make a movie loosely based on my 30 yr old highly loved work, I'd read the script at least once before shooting, and I'd be there every step of the way when editing.
I went to the IMAX to see the film, at 00.01am the first night/day. At the end, there was *total* silence. I've never experienced that before. And the theater emptied *fast*, I'm honestly not sure people hadn't walked out before the end.
In an effort not to make this too negatively... it was... er, very pretty. Not exactly the visual tour de force others seem to think it was, but on par with the better films around atm. Fassbender did a good, but somehow very expected, job, and Theron was OK as Mrs Stoic. The rest of the actors need more lessons.
I *refuse* to read more into the story than was on screen. It's not *our* job to make up the story, it's the writer/director that's supposed to do that. They failed massively.
PS. I don't really care if this is an Alien prequel, BUT, I think at some point it was supposed to be, given how 10 minutes before the end, almost ALL of the "ingredients" for the start of Alien were there. Crashed ship, alien with alien inside, warning message beacon. Again, I just feel this shows that Ridley was "making it up" as he went along, which has lead to this mess of a film.
The acting of many of the characters was abysmal, especially Noomi and the geology bloke. Comicly, epicly bad.
The script was... I can't describe mishandled it was. *Nothing* was left to subtlely. And the amount of extraenous infomation that there was absolutely no need for boarded on laughable.
Example:
"Is that one of those super duper surgery bay thingys..."
[So now we know that there's gonna be surgery done at some point, thanks for removing that tension]
"...and only 12 of them were made, ever"
[and... why did we need to know this piece of information? To show how rich the people who put together the mission are? It's a multi-trillion dollar flight across the galaxy, we get that fact (and we don't care)]
There are TONS of script extensions like this. 50% of it could have been removed, and not negatively affected the movie. Another 25% needed to be made much slicker to fit an AAA movie. 25% was on par. 0% of the dialogue approached interesting or witty.
A trillion dollar romp across half the galaxy and most of the crew hadn't met each other before hand? This wasn't a bus. It was a life or death mission into the unknown, taking a day or two before hand to say "Hi", pretty fricking vital me thinks.
Why did no one care about stuff going on around them? Some staggers into your room naked, covered in blood, with a massive wound, and no one says A THING?!
The mural wasn't explained. The statue wasn't explained. Why the canisters are stood up in front of the head in a cave when the rest of the cannisters were stacked away wasn't explained. And you know why? Because all they were there for was to make it look like Aliens. There was no logical point to most of what happened.
I took the first guy effectively killing himself to be some sort of engineer terrorist, a lone fighter, seeding life where he shouldn't have done. This was pretty much the only reason I could see for them wanting to kill us. But the extended version seems to show lots of other engy's with him, guiding him towards it, like some sort of ritual. This changes the whole meaning of the film for me, and suggests that Ridley didn't know WTF story he was making. And it shows.
If there was ever a "paycheque movie" for Ridley it was Prometheus. He doesn't seem to have checked the script over and it would seem monkeys edited it, it feels like half the movie was cut out, not that this would make it any better. If I was given $200mil to make a movie loosely based on my 30 yr old highly loved work, I'd read the script at least once before shooting, and I'd be there every step of the way when editing.
I went to the IMAX to see the film, at 00.01am the first night/day. At the end, there was *total* silence. I've never experienced that before. And the theater emptied *fast*, I'm honestly not sure people hadn't walked out before the end.
In an effort not to make this too negatively... it was... er, very pretty. Not exactly the visual tour de force others seem to think it was, but on par with the better films around atm. Fassbender did a good, but somehow very expected, job, and Theron was OK as Mrs Stoic. The rest of the actors need more lessons.
I *refuse* to read more into the story than was on screen. It's not *our* job to make up the story, it's the writer/director that's supposed to do that. They failed massively.
PS. I don't really care if this is an Alien prequel, BUT, I think at some point it was supposed to be, given how 10 minutes before the end, almost ALL of the "ingredients" for the start of Alien were there. Crashed ship, alien with alien inside, warning message beacon. Again, I just feel this shows that Ridley was "making it up" as he went along, which has lead to this mess of a film.
