Prometheus

[Equiliari]

Men in Black 3 enganged me more emotionally than Prometheus, which was a disappointment... The only bright parts were the general look of the movie, which was amazing, and David.

[broodmywarcraft]

Men in Black 3 enganged me more emotionally than Prometheus, which was a disappointment... The only bright parts were the general look of the movie, which was amazing, and David.

Agreed.

[broodmywarcraft]

The ever outspoken Maddox has a hilariously on the mark article about it:

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse....theus_nutshell

[Turalyon]

^ Man, that review was a funny read.

Tad harsh, though. The amount of vitriol he threw made it seem like he actually cared a great deal for the film. As for me, "meh" seems to cover everything about Prometheus if I had to review it.

[sandwich_bird]

Just saw it. Thought it was good. If you start trying to think about the story more seriously then of course it's dumb and full of wtf moments but the visuals and the scenes were quite enjoyable and compensate for the story.

[Eligor]

I quite liked Prometheus. Like in many "serious" sci-fi films there's a certain emotional disconnect with the characters, a bit like watching them through a thick pane of glass, but that's part of the tone of the story and I think part of the charm. It is also the best cinematic version of Lovecraft's ideas and thinking, although not quite as good Lovecraft's own "Mountains of Madness". Lovecraft portrayed scientists and the way they would react to something like that much better than Linderlof and Scott, in "Prometheus" the characters are more idealistic truth seekers than pragmatic men of science, not the most likely people to be sent on this kind of expedition. The art direction was phenomenal, it is rare that a supposedly extra-terrestrial location feels so alien, creepy and real. You can almost breathe the musty air of the tunnels. The Engineers were creepy, and brilliant, in a way as unsettling as any tentacled nastiness (if not more so), the same goes for the "creation of life" scene at the beginning. Loved the scenes of David watching the other crew members' dreams in an attempt to understand them. In a way this movie has as much thematic connection with "Blade Runner" as with "Alien".

If you start trying to think about the story more seriously then of course it's dumb and full of wtf moments

It seems quite the opposite to me, part of the fun in this kind of movie is developing your own explanations and reading those of other people. It wouldn't have been as interesting if the movie offered a neat and logical explanation for everything, there's a point beyond which everyone has to make their own sense concerning what's happened and the characters' motives. "Dumb and wtf" is a terribly dismissive way of seeing things.

[sandwich_bird]

It seems quite the opposite to me, part of the fun in this kind of movie is developing your own explanations and reading those of other people. It wouldn't have been as interesting if the movie offered a neat and logical explanation for everything, there's a point beyond which everyone has to make their own sense concerning what's happened and the characters' motives. "Dumb and wtf" is a terribly dismissive way of seeing things.

Well let me just say that there's a lot of problems in the writing and that affected my suspension of disbelief. Don't get me wrong, I like the overall concept, I just think the execution could have been better, especially in the science department. First, just think about the first scene where the alien's DNA start life on earth. It's impossible for our DNA to match the alien's DNA, not with a 3.5 billion years history of evolution at least. They are also assuming that the DNA of the alien didn't change during billion of years which is also hard to believe. One could argue that maybe the aliens only started human life on earth. This hypothesis is reinforced by the fact that*when David enter the alien cryostasis room, they show the alien looking at a map of our galaxy and the continental drift had already happened on earth. But if this is the case, how is it possible that the alien DNA(or our DNA) has so many similarities with the indigenous life on earth? Another thing to note is that I'm pretty sure DNA doesn't look like that but rather something like that. I understand that it's supposed to be breaking down because the alien ate some slime thingy but what I'm saying is that it would have been more plausible (and looked better) to see it unwrap and then break down.

Other than that, it's highly improbable that we'd have all that technology by 2096(I think that was the year? not 100% sure). We're not even sure we could land a man on Mars by 2035, I don't see us landing a man on a planet 35 light years away IN A 2 YEAR TRIP... Furthermore, as Neil Tyson pointed out: ''In the film they travel 35 light years into space, which Charlize Theron's character comments as being about half a billion miles from Earth. But that estimate's a little off. Like, way off. As Tyson points out, half a billion miles from Earth would only put you just past Jupiter. In reality, a single light year equates to 5.88 trillion miles, not billion. So 35 light years would have put the crew some 205.8 trillion miles away from the Earth. Well past Jupiter, and well outside of our solar system.''

The crew is also unbelievably stupid. I guess academic standards have been greatly lowered in the future so that anyone can get a PhD. This guy explains it better than me.

[Hawki]

Quick note in that I can forgive the date-Alien takes place in 2122, so Prometheus had to be set sometime prior to it by virtue of being a prequel. And hey, Scott's been wrong before...or maybe not...guess Los Angeles will have flying cars and Replicants in 7 years time.

[TheEconomist]

Furthermore, the Alien films series started in the late 70's when Western culture was just beginning to scale back their projections for future technology. You know, from The Jetsons to something a bit more realistic

[Equiliari]

which Charlize Theron's character comments as being about half a billion miles from Earth.

That one was probably a nod to the song with the similar name.

It's impossible for our DNA to match the alien's DNA, not with a 3.5 billion years history of evolution at least.

Also, for the engineer to be a 100% match as claimed in the film the engineers must have been on Earth during that time because of a thing called endogenous retroviruses. For now we have discovered that roughly 8% of our DNA is ranging from fully functional viral DNA and remnants from viral infections in us and organisms we are relatives to. Meaning the engineers must have lived on earth and had the same relatives as us as they with a 100% DNA match would have traces of the same viral infections that organisms before us and we have suffered... So add that to the things that completely ruined my suspension of disbelief.
And no biologist that I know of call the theory of evolution "darwinism".

Now the idea of panspermia could have worked... but in this film, it didn't.

Other than that, it's highly improbable that we'd have all that technology by 2096

Close 2093. So 3 years earlier. Thats about 20 generations of iPads right there.