Sorry, but that's your opinion, not fact.

>> ^sillma:

>> ^EMPIRE:
I actually like Prometheus. Sorry guys.

No one minds, but it's not making it any less shit.

>> ^EMPIRE:

I actually like Prometheus. Sorry guys.


No one minds, but it's not making it any less shit.

I actually like Prometheus. Sorry guys.

>> ^EvilDeathBee:
EDIT: I actually believe there could have been a good movie there, and an interesting and mysterious story. However, it was so poorly executed, it's just pretentious wankerey


This.

This is how I felt about the film. They had a competent director, good actors, GREAT cinematography and visual effects and yet somehow, Prometheus was a complete failure of a film. Prometheus was a terrible film. It was a horribly written story and had terrible dialogue.

>> ^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.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

LOST sucked.


Yeah, already 1 and a half minutes in and already this video's stupid. LOST's plot was conceived as they went, purposefully editing it in response to people's theories of the story so it wasn't "predicted", and ended up being garbage

Your video, Red Letter Media Talks About Prometheus on DVD, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

This video made me grin way too hard.

Thank you Prometheus, and thank you Videosift!

>> ^FlowersInHisHair:

Nice! Now I don't need to watch the film. I've been told I shouldn't.


The vocal minority can't be wrong, can they?

Ridiculous.

former anesthesiologist? wonder how many women he "put under" and did shit to in the past?

Damn Prometheus honest trailer - I can't stop hearing "Noomi Rapeface"....

>> ^ChaosEngine:

Oh god no.
Not Blade Runner. Please. I'm begging you.


I have a strong, strong feeling this is coming. Is it possible to see Harrison Ford spin in his grave while he's alive still?

Might as well throw a damn predator in it for Colin Farrell, who will undoubtedly play the main role, to fight off in it as well to spice up the action and REALLY bring that 3D out on the screen...

Someone, please shoot the alien jelly-plasmoid brain-suckers that have taken over all of the executive and script writer minds in Hollywood before it reboots EVERY show ever made. Next E.T. and Star Wars will get a reboot at this pace.

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Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by kceaton1.

Siftbot ... you shouldn't have [but I'm glad you did!]. Thank you, you charmer you =o)

Oh god no.

Not Blade Runner. Please. I'm begging you.

>> ^ChaosEngine:

God I hated that movie. It wasn't because it was bad (and it was fucking awful), but more because it could have been amazing. It had the chance to be awesome high concept sci-fi with decent action thrown in. Instead it resorted to the worst kind of b-movie schlock and a stoned first year arts students idea of profound philosophy.
And that's ignoring how much the movie hates science. Honestly when that retard took off his helmet and said "don't be a skeptic", I nearly walked out at that point.
"Don't be a skeptic"? Are you fuckin' kidding me? Yeah, let's just ignore one of the fundamental tenets of science!
bah....


You hit the nail on the head. They had so many of the right elements actually sitting there, ready to use... But, they really needed another writer or two. They needed one writer to make sure the story wasn't "all-over-the-place", to streamline it while leaving its intellectual side intact and at full throttle; in fact it should've been increased a bit in a few areas, which is my next writer. They needed to keep some of the more unrealistic elements in check as well, like the crashing spaceship...rolling...and her running, IN-LINE with it, such a stupid and corny seen; just CRASH the damned thing!

The second writer needed to shore up all the inconsistencies with the characters and their supposed "psychological persona" created for the movie. We all hate the fact that scientists are in a VERY foreign environment and yet he takes his helmet right off and shows everyone that his science degree was from a Bible University... This trend continues the entire movie, with of course in-line running girl, because that is where the camera is! And, so, so, so, many more to be enjoyed in drinking games to come. This writer would've made sure these idiocies were stopped dead in the script, secondly he would also interject about how certain characters would react to various scenes--in a REALISTIC fashion, not some cheesy SyFy Original movie of the week release...

The aliens themselves, who have seeded life, SENTIENT LIFE (planned out to the extent that the sentient beings would appear very far down their original "release" of DNA material into the environment--that is called ULTRA-INTELLIGENCE!) screw up minor details on their "WMD". This is another ridiculous notion, because if they can plant sentient life around the Galaxy then setting up a spaceship properly would be "kids play" to them... Another hole that needed a script fix or major change.

This movie just needed more development and perhaps less "ego" on-set and more realistic planning and even a real script with insight into the fields being used in the show: anthropology, biology, engineering, and all the other trades and skills used within--they needed to invite REAL scientists on set and to read the script, and to highlight things that were obviously things that wouldn't happen--even IN a "big business" scenario. The actors could've used real "shadows" of their job and a good idea how that scientist would do their job, with advanced technology and knowledge.

BTW, *quality