Prometheus
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- CygnusZero40
How is this in 3D? As good looking as Avatar?
- I thought the film sucked, but I admired the 3D, as it isn't in your face. Its subtly done as an enhancer not an effect.Horp
- There are a lot of really vast scales in the movie and it just helps those feel properly vast.Horp
- I thought the opposite. The movie is a solid "OK" and has a lot of issues, but the 3D is pointless dribble, see 2Dbiusness
- inv0
Its ok, nothing more, nothing less. When i watch it a second time it will be in 2D.
- Horp0
I tell you summat though, those 'engineers' come in a wide variety of sizes...
That's the one they found in the first Alien ^ . About 6 times bigger than the ones in Prometheus which are pretty much just very tall humans.
No doubt that's another continuity issue that gets resolved by the phrase "Its not a prequel".
- I liked how they used wee kids to get the sense of scaleGhostschool
- Horp0
and why the fuck would the engineers have taken short little video clips of themselves running into little rooms?
QUICK! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!!! EVERYONE...RUN INTO THAT LITTLE ROOM!! SOMEONE RUN AHEAD AND SET THE VIDEO CAMERA UP FIRST THOUGH SO WE CAN RECORD OURSELVES!!!
^ Spoiler alert.
- You are familiar with the concept of video surveillance?inv
- At a weapons facility...nonsense.BabySnakes
- I am familiar with the concept, yes. Odd how it ONLY recorded the few seconds where they ran into the room.Horp
- Odd also, that the creators of life in the universe might need security video surveillance, protection from, erm... protection from what?Horp
- errr.... hmmmm.Horp
- eachother...BabySnakes
- robotron3k0
It sucked so bad.
I was ripped off, who can i sue??
- probably only yourself for still believing in Hollywoodpr2
- tru dat.robotron3k
- teh0
So is this a pick up from A \/ P ?
- ukit20
A V P was first to use the Ancient Aliens theme
- omg0
How was this not a prequel?
- Iifeinvector0
Amazing visuals, I thought. Would love to have a drawing session with one of those big white guys, hehe.
- CygnusZero40
Im going to see it tonight. Not really expecting much outside of some cool sci-fi visuals. My only real question is how good the story is. I thought of all of Ridley's movies Gladiator had the best story, but Im not expecting anything on that level.
- Xopher0
Saw this today, thought it was amazing.
Didn't let the inaccuracies bother me. You're never gonna get a seamless 'prequel' 30+ years later. Who cares.
- CygnusZero40
Just saw it. I thought it was very good. Even great at times. No it doesnt have the horror creepy aspect of the Alien movies, but it wasn't really going for that.
On its own its hard for me to see how anyone cant at least like it, but yeah if you're going in expecting another Alien movie, you might be let down.
- Frosty_spl0
The visuals were some of the best ever, wow! Loved the surgery scene!
Why did the white guy in the beginning kill himself? Was that just to show what the "weapon" was?
- CygnusZero40
From wikipedia, and obviously SPOILERS!!!
A spacecraft arrives on a planet in the distant past. A humanoid alien drinks a dark liquid. Its body disintegrates and falls into a waterfall, seeding the planet with its DNA.1
- ukit20
"seeding the planet with its DNA"
lol...how much less scientific can you get?
- rascuache0
Don't read if you ain't seen:
- < Best analysis I've seen on the Christian symbolism in the movie, which 95% of you seem to have missedbiusness
- Wow that was informative. Thanks for posting.CygnusZero4
- No probs! Transformed the movie for me. Wish I was smart enough to have worked it out on my own! :Drascuache
- nice readernexbcn
- This connected the dots for me. Thanks!inv
- Yeah this helps, but it just goes to show how badly Scott et al conveyed the storyliamh
- If you have to read that much in to a movie after seeing it only once, IMO, it failsgoldieboy
- Shaw's crucifix necklace appears throughout the movie, and the Engineers are returning 2000yrs ago...biusness
- ...this analysis stretches some ideas too far, but it wasn't hard to miss considering the titlebiusness
- CygnusZero40
I would have never picked up on all the religious stuff but reading that certainly raises the value of the movie for me.
- chossy0
How come they didn't spot the wee worms as a life form when they trod on them on the way into the room at the start?
Are the detectors rubbish and can only spot something maybe as large as a goat perhaps, or a seagul maybe? they probably didn't have enough money left over during the funding of the expedition to give the scientists good equipment, they probably blew loads of money on weylands fancy bed sheets.