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Gibsons
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Printer Bandit
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The movie is too stupid to spoil. I'm done using spoiler tags for Prometheus. Most of what was coming was obvious before it happened, and not even the scriptwriter had the answers to the questions that were left unanswered.
Dr. Zaus
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SKORPI0
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I think he meant the thread title of this topic, not the OP which indeed shows the warning. :\
Dr. Zaus
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Plagiarized existence exist
Among the writers of the word
Shake your spear at Shakespeare
Shake your spear at Shakespeare
Loud and noisy
Strong refrigerators
Gaining independence
Gaining independence
Stupid people do stupid things
Smart people outsmart each other
Then themselves, then themselves
Then themselves, then themselves
Take me down there
Photographic relapse
People feeding frenzy
The devil is so lovely
My blue moon rivets in exits
Forewarned customary spirits
By myself, by myself
By myself, by myself
What? Sorry if I offended you, but I wanted to spare others from having to watch that "review."
Dr. Zaus
Lifer
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You didn't! I was agreeing! Sarcasm doesn't work on the internet so i guess my saying the review was great was lost; and then my posting of the entirety of the system lyrics obfuscated my point, which was "Stupid people do stupid things
Smart people outsmart each other"
SP33Demon
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Like someone else posted before:
http://www.projectprometheus.com/newworlds/
Weyland terraformed a shitload of planets, some even 200+ light years away. I doubt they're worried about "resources".
Magusigne
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My thoughts on this were this:
LV223.. Weyland corp just switches the designation to appear like LV223 is LV426.
And or/ David activates a distress beacon on a engineer vessel to lure people in.
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I actually did both. I have no idea how the topic title reverted again.
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Strange. The OP title is updated, but the title of the thread hasn't changed.
Not all movies are neatly tied up at the end. This isn't some new thing taken from "Lost", it's been around for decades. Many leave unanswered questions, sometimes to allow for sequels and sometimes because the writer or director preferred it that way.
Some examples from movies which are personal favorites of mine and generally considered great movies:
Memento
Inception
Moon
Total Recall
Mulholland Dr
Cube
The Matrix (As it stands alone, pre-sequels)
American Psycho
Zodiac
Many don't have sequels, yet leave the ending open-ended and with some questions unanswered. It's intended, and many people apparently enjoy these sorts of movies.
ImpulsE69
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I think there is a split on how people approach this movie.
1) There are the Alien franchise fans who went in expecting to learn more about the space jockies and their role.
2) There are people who still expected this to be a direct prequel to Alien and did not like the fact that it didn't line up (which added to the confusion when trying to make those lines that didn't really exist).
3) There are those that went into it simply as a science fiction movie.
Depending on where you fell, would skew your expectations and possibly your view of it.
I would say I fell in the first catagory and roughly the second. Once I thought about it more I realized that no, this was not a prequel, it just took place prior to Alien and told one story that we did not know. The let down being, I wanted to know more about the space jockies. We did learn more, but ended up with more questions than answers. Some of those answers can be theorized, but then, that's what we've had for 30 years is theories.
One review I watched pointed out the dumb things that the characters did in Alien were pretty much echoed in Prometheus and when I thought about it, they were right. The crew in Alien did a bunch of stupid things when dealing with the creature.
This movie ultimately follows todays movie standards pretty closely, which is probably the biggest downside.
1) There are the Alien franchise fans who went in expecting to learn more about the space jockies and their role.
2) There are people who still expected this to be a direct prequel to Alien and did not like the fact that it didn't line up (which added to the confusion when trying to make those lines that didn't really exist).
3) There are those that went into it simply as a science fiction movie.
Depending on where you fell, would skew your expectations and possibly your view of it.
I would say I fell in the first catagory and roughly the second. Once I thought about it more I realized that no, this was not a prequel, it just took place prior to Alien and told one story that we did not know. The let down being, I wanted to know more about the space jockies. We did learn more, but ended up with more questions than answers. Some of those answers can be theorized, but then, that's what we've had for 30 years is theories.
One review I watched pointed out the dumb things that the characters did in Alien were pretty much echoed in Prometheus and when I thought about it, they were right. The crew in Alien did a bunch of stupid things when dealing with the creature.
This movie ultimately follows todays movie standards pretty closely, which is probably the biggest downside.
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SP33Demon
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There are definitely parallels between the two, especially the crew not being cohesive and having that "mercenary" mentality. I would rank Alien and Prometheus close to one another, mainly because Alien's suspense was great after the Chestburster, but Fassbender/Rapace's performances + way better visuals cancel it out.
You're comparing Total Recall to Prometheus? (I could pick several of the ones you mentioned but I'll pick TR because it was made to be a Summer popcorn flick)
What scenes or segments of Total Recall aren't connnected by that movies' strong narrative thrust? When does it venture out into left field?
What important sequences of TR are featured and then simply forgotten about the second after they're done?
I haven't seen TR in a few years so I could be not remembering it properly.
PottedMeat
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these are all solid movies that leave just 1 or 2 questions for the viewer, prometheus leaves you with too many unintended questions / screwups in addition to the one they left in at the end.
That's assuming Scott considers Cameron's Aliens as part of his Alien-Prometheus universe. I thought he was quoted in saying he didn't consider any of the sequels as part of his story. I could be totally wrong.
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