Well, I had low expectations going into this movie. I’m not a big fan of the “Alien” series of movies. I did like “Bladerunner”, but I think that had better material to work with than Alien or Aliens.
Still, I wanted to see the show, figuring this would be a special effects extravaganza.
It was.
That’s all it was though.
The plot was so utterly incomprehensible that I have to believe they started filming this movie before the story was written. There are plot holes so gaping they could swallow a galaxy-sized black hole.
Heck… that’s not fair. You can’t put holes in what doesn’t exist. This movie is more like a tattered collection of plot fragments scattered over a skeleton of gore, horror and cheesy background music.
We saw it at the IMax in 3D. Please don’t subject yourself to that expense.
This would be a good movie to watch on your 52″ home theater system on a rainy Saturday evening.
Well… except the CGI is pretty good.
How the heck they made Charlize Theron unsexy is a major mystery to me. That may be the most impressive achievement of the entire film.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackYour opinion is in the extreme minority on this one. Of course, that doesn’t mean your opinion is invalid; it just means most who see this film are going to like it. Fortunately you still have the Transformer franchise to entertain you.
So, have you seen it? Or are you just reacting to the reviews?
I think you know what I think of the opinion of professional movie reviewers…
Did you hear, astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s ripping the movie for Theron’s character saying, after they had gone 35 light years, that they had traveled half a billion years?
I thought his comment was funny.
I haven’t seen it yet, but most who have seen it seem to like it. And I’m talking about regular viewers not critics. I hope I like it more than you did. I’ll let you after I’ve seen it…
That scene didn’t bother me Mtn. Many people have a standard hyperbolic speaking habit when they are angry or excited. The Cosmic Wife’s is “fifty blue million”. So saying “we came half a billion” whatever just struck me as emotional hyperbole.
There are far, far more obvious and bothersome things to point to in this movie than one off-the-cuff bit of emotional hyperbole.
But I don’t want to spoil it.
So, Dadman, yeah, lots of people loved “Alien” too. I thought it was nothing but a slick version of fifties “they are coming for your women” bug-eyed monster sci fi.
Of course I laughed all the way through Jaws too. “Here comes the shark! Look out!”
I liked Alien and Aliens. The other Alien films not so much. I’ll probably enjoy ‘Prometheus’…
Heh, it will be interesting to see what you think of Prometheus after the comments you’ve made about “Transformers” and other “turn your brain off” movies.
One reason I found Prometheus less enjoyable than Transformers is because Transformers didn’t pretend to be profound or intelligent.
One thing I really can’t stand is faux profundity…. of faux intelligence for that matter.
LOL…it sounds like you’re daring me to like it. My problem with Transformers is much deeper than the suspension of disbelief. It’s the direction, script, pacing, storytelling, character development, etc. I’m quite open to letting incredible stories or films pull me in if they are well-made. I hope to enjoy Prometheus.
So, what do you think of movies like “The Avengers” or “Thor” or “The Hulk” or “X-Men”?
I don’t see a whole lot of difference between those movies and the Transformers movies. They are all just cartoons brought to the big screen, and that’s all I expect of them.
The first Spiderman movie I thought did a good job of going beyond the cartoon genre, but that was a rare exception.
I suppose if I treated Prometheus as a cartoon movie I’d have enjoyed it more.
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