I'm looking forward to another film completely carried by Michael Fassbender.

Yep. So far this year, we've had Duncan Jones wasting his time with the warcraft movie and now Michael Fassbender and Marion Cottilard are wasting their time on this nonsense.

nope, sorry, still rubbish. +1 for the hilarious slap of Fassbenders head being ripped off and used to slap weyland.

such a shame that Lindenhof or Scott were allowed anywhere near Spaths original script.

I hate on most superhero films but I enjoyed this one immensely. It's got lots of humour, the writing is pretty tight and this scene was a great highlight.
Only downsides are Jennifer Lawrence and Dinklage, both of whom are vastly overrated.
McAvoy and Fassbender are excellent. Good acting like that really elevates the whole film.

There was a clear problem in that you didn't care for any characters. The most likable character was the homicidal robot, which is a failure in my book. In the original Aliens, you grow to like Ripley and you like the camaraderie going on in the beginning of the movie, even if most of them were fucktards. The marines in Aliens were also likeable, even if you sorta recognized them as the dickheads from high school - some of them were our hook into the world, ripley, hicks, hudson all good. Even in alien 3, you still ahve ripley to hang on to, even if it's a desolate despairing film. Alien 4 you have Winona Ryder-robot to like, where ripley is more.. well, alienated.

in prometheus, I liked the Captain Janek and in a twisted way Fassbender-bot, because he was played well. All their motivations didn't make all that much sense though. I hated Holloway, hated Shaw, hated Vickers, fucking hated all of them. Gah, it's so irritating, because the universe of it is so interesting! aaargh.
>> ^Fletch:

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I think there could have been a much better movie with the same source material, I think the concept could be really cool, but it's beyond a simple reedit repair job. The characters need a total rewrite to not be selfish, unlikable fucktards. There needs to be a lot more explanation and more time spent soaking in each of the more important subject matters and not this jump from one scene to the next with no flow and no reason.

I don't know. It seemed like it needed more "epicness". Like you said (or, as I understood you), more time for the viewer to parse the implications of the much bigger picture before they throw up a scene of some slimesnake tickling someone's uvula. Maybe a scene where they just stand around and go "OMFG! We've discovered the greatest discovery in the history of mankind! Oh, shit! That's a fucking alien structure! The first one ever discovered!! This is fucking amazing!!" They just didn't seem too impressed with anything. And I wish they had left the Alien stuff out completely. They didn't need it. There's just a bigger, better story here than the one we've already seen again and yet again in the sequels. Most of the characters did have that ST:TOS red-shirt aura about them, and really served little purpose outside of biting it in creative ways. Could have been better, but I still dug it, and I think the sequel(s) has a chance to be great. I just hope the Engineer homeworld isn't overrun with alien queens or some dumb shit like that.

>> ^Fletch:

I watched this film the first time expecting more of an "Alien" prequelish movie, but the "Alien" stuff just seemed thrown in as an afterthought. I've watched it several times now and have grown to love it, though. I think it would be better without the "Alien" shit in it at all. There is simply a much bigger and better story here, and with Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender having already signed on for the sequel, it looks like the story will be going where ever they went.
There are some things that don't add up very well, like Charlie getting all depressed because they only discovered dead "Engineers". WTF, dude?!? Anyhoo, the illogical stuff is minor compared to the enormity of the main storyline, imho, and it doesn't bother me. Maybe a director's cut could shed more light. I did understand what was going on much better after seeing it a couple times. A little more exposition, Mr. Scott!


In no way was I ever confused by Prometheus. It being confusing was never the issue, it's not deep, it's not well thought out at all.

The issue was the characters do ass backwards stupid things, their motivations are slim to non-existent, and there's zero interesting payoff.

I'm glad you ended up liking it. I wish I could have, because it's a damn pretty movie. It set things up really well, and then, just.... squandered everything it had built.

>> ^Fletch:

I watched this film the first time expecting more of an "Alien" prequelish movie, but the "Alien" stuff just seemed thrown in as an afterthought. I've watched it several times now and have grown to love it, though. I think it would be better without the "Alien" shit in it at all. There is simply a much bigger and better story here, and with Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender having already signed on for the sequel, it looks like the story will be going where ever they went.
There are some things that don't add up very well, like Charlie getting all depressed because they only discovered dead "Engineers". WTF, dude?!? Anyhoo, the illogical stuff is minor compared to the enormity of the main storyline, imho, and it doesn't bother me. Maybe a director's cut could shed more light. I did understand what was going on much better after seeing it a couple times. A little more exposition, Mr. Scott!


I think there could have been a much better movie with the same source material, I think the concept could be really cool, but it's beyond a simple reedit repair job. The characters need a total rewrite to not be selfish, unlikable fucktards. There needs to be a lot more explanation and more time spent soaking in each of the more important subject matters and not this jump from one scene to the next with no flow and no reason.

I watched this film the first time expecting more of an "Alien" prequelish movie, but the "Alien" stuff just seemed thrown in as an afterthought. I've watched it several times now and have grown to love it, though. I think it would be better without the "Alien" shit in it at all. There is simply a much bigger and better story here, and with Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender having already signed on for the sequel, it looks like the story will be going where ever they went.

There are some things that don't add up very well, like Charlie getting all depressed because they only discovered dead "Engineers". WTF, dude?!? Anyhoo, the illogical stuff is minor compared to the enormity of the main storyline, imho, and it doesn't bother me. Maybe a director's cut could shed more light. I did understand what was going on much better after seeing it a couple times. A little more exposition, Mr. Scott!

I thought the last promo was pretty awful, but this is great. Excellent performance by Fassbender.

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Noomi Rapace (original G.W.D.T. trilogy), Guy Pearce (Memento, LA Confidential), Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba (the Wire), Logan Marshall-Green.

Really excited about Noomi, Guy and Charlize being in it.

I don't think the world needs another X-Men film, but I'll upvote for the Fassbender. He can bend my fass any time he likes.