Prometheus sucked...

[Javaman]

34. Here's an interesting blog on the movie. it's worth reading...

that said, I saw the movie.

While I won't say it sucked, it wasn't what I would call a great movie. It was just okay.

Scott, I think, was going for subtle and instead got obtuse.

Here's the blog...

http://cavalorn.livejournal.com/584135.html

on edit: my personal take was, it was too much like the first Alien movie. Way to many similarities. It struck me as a retread in many ways. I thought much of the character development lacked. Endless clumsy dialogue that went no where with no point other than pondering philosophical what if's.

The problem as I see it is pretty basic: the franchise as it stands is action oriented based upon corporate greed. However, Scott has tried to take the whole concept of the Aliens and set it on it's head by establishing a whole new story arch with the "engineers" and how they were responsible for humanities creation. While that might be a very interesting concept to pursue, I found it's execution very ham-handed. It's a story for it's own movie and not to be muddied into the Alien mythos. At least not in the way Scott dealt with it. Frankly, what he should have done was expand the concept to fully flush it out and break it into two films. A 2 hour film for what he wanted to achieve was way too short and, what I believe, left out a lot of the story.

There was so much wrong from a story telling point of view, I don't even know where to begin, but that said, I'm sure there will be a sequel and perhaps that will give us more of the mythos that Scott is trying to convey.

My deeper understanding as to what Scott was trying to create with this movie was only fully comprehended when I read the above blog. Sadly, if a movie requires a second explanation after the fact, then the movie failed.

If however this is a new trend in filmmaking where you have to read background material prior to or after a film, then that is vastly different and frankly bad in my opinion, but given internet marketing these days, if done correctly, than it could be a clever angle, sadly, this is not that film nor that marketing tactic.