05-31-2012, 11:26 AM
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#101
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Ate 100 Treadmills
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Originally Posted by scotty2hotty
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88% on rotten tomatoes so far with 2 bad reviews out of 17.
Sounds like it's not Shakespeare, but a great action/horror movie:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/prometheus_2012/
Edit: Just watched Alien Director's Cut last night. That movie didn't have an amazing plot or dialogue either but worked well. Still very excited for Prometheus. Especially as everything after Aliens was upper crap.
Last edited by blankall; 05-31-2012 at 11:30 AM.
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06-03-2012, 09:43 AM
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#102
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Just saw it.
2/5. Disappointment of the year.
It's just another sequel, just without the one thing that made the originals cool, so forget your excitement.
Visually nice but not great. One very cool and clever body horror scene. The female lead and Fassbinders robot tried to hold together something that didn't really earn it at any point.
Things start going downhill at about the fifteen minute mark. Nothing the characters does makes any real sense, everything is just "forced by plot". Bits of dialogue happen and then are contradicted without any explanation. "The backstory" doesn't even try to make sense.
Since the movie was so silly right from the start, I pretty much just sat back and turned my brain off, but it wasn't that entertaining. Watchable, but I really like scifi-horror. To give you a reference point, I thought Aliens vs. Predators was more interesting and entertaining.
First comments I hear when the credits start rolling:
"This effing sucked."
"This was really disappointing."
Go see something else. Rent it if you must.
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06-03-2012, 09:50 AM
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#103
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Lifetime Suspension
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Still excited.
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06-03-2012, 09:57 AM
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#104
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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Still excited.
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Well, you can't say I didn't warn you 
I guess if you don't get except much, you could enjoy it.
There is that one really cool scene though. I'm sure you'll know which one I mean.
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06-03-2012, 10:35 AM
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#106
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Originally Posted by DownInFlames
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The action is okay really generic and there isn't enough of it.
Last edited by Itse; 06-03-2012 at 10:37 AM.
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06-03-2012, 11:24 AM
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#107
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Lifetime Suspension
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I agree with the criticism of the trailer in that it gives the whole movie away. I also think that out side of some good early films Ridley Scott makes very bad movies.
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06-03-2012, 12:57 PM
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#108
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Lifetime Suspension
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I will see Prometheus next weekend, but if it does disappoint I wouldn't be surprised. Ridley Scott hasn't made a good quality movie in quite a long time.
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06-03-2012, 02:09 PM
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#109
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Originally Posted by Tinordi
I agree with the criticism of the trailer in that it gives the whole movie away. I also think that out side of some good early films Ridley Scott makes very bad movies.
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I haven't seen anything after Black Hawk Down and Gladiator, which I both thought were very entertaining, if not exactly deep movies. And I've seen a part of Kingdom of Heaven which looked quite alright.
Which is really why I was so disappointed. I would not have minded all the dumb if the rest of the movie was more fun.
I do not put this on Scott though, I have a feeling he did okay with the script he had. There was really no story and the characters were all terribly thin. The actors did okay too IMO considering they too had nothing to work with.
Last edited by Itse; 06-03-2012 at 02:15 PM.
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06-03-2012, 07:57 PM
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#110
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by 3 Justin 3
I will see Prometheus next weekend, but if it does disappoint I wouldn't be surprised. Ridley Scott hasn't made a good quality movie in quite a long time.
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Guh???
His take on Robin Hood wasn't good, the two before that, Body of Lies and American Gangster are both fantastic movies, I'd give both a solid 8/10 ratings and would highly recommend either.
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06-03-2012, 07:59 PM
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#111
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How big of a box office movie is this going to be? Should a guy pre-order tickets for Friday night?
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06-03-2012, 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by oilers_fan
How big of a box office movie is this going to be? Should a guy pre-order tickets for Friday night?
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I'm wondering the same thing...
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06-03-2012, 08:45 PM
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I'm just gonna throw out a guess- 70 million opening weekend. That would put it in the top 5 opening weekends for an R rated movie.
I'd definitely be getting pre sale tickets if I were you.
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06-04-2012, 10:04 AM
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#114
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Ate 100 Treadmills
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Some of the criticism so far seems a little bit ridiculous. I recently rewatched the original Alien film:
-it has just about no dialogue.
-the plot is just a series of action events. They explore the ship, bring back Alien, then run away from Alien, etc..
Prometheus was suppossed to be a throwback to the original Alien film. Alien was known for the atmostphere and strong visuals. If Prometheus accomplishes that, I'm happy. Not expecting good dialogue or script.
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06-06-2012, 07:01 AM
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#115
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Originally Posted by blankall
Some of the criticism so far seems a little bit ridiculous. I recently rewatched the original Alien film:
-it has just about no dialogue.
-the plot is just a series of action events. They explore the ship, bring back Alien, then run away from Alien, etc..
Prometheus was suppossed to be a throwback to the original Alien film. Alien was known for the atmostphere and strong visuals. If Prometheus accomplishes that, I'm happy. Not expecting good dialogue or script.
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Umm...  I don't get it. To me your point sounds something like this:
"I just listened to the Ramones first album and all the songs are really simple and the lyrics don't make much sense. So if the next Blink 182 album rocks I'll be happy."
I fail to see the relevance.
As to which kind of a movie it is;
The first two movies (aka. "the good ones") are really simple survival films with very little plot. (They both do use symbolism very effectively though, which is a big reason for why they work so well.)
Where the next two films are most apparently different is in their open attempts to be more "deep" and have "meaningful dialogue".
I think it should be apparent from the trailer which group this film belongs to.
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06-06-2012, 07:09 AM
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#116
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Originally Posted by scotty2hotty
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Small sample and really all positive for the most part. The only critic that really matters at the end of the day is yourself so I will reserve judgement for when I see it. I will be crushed though if its merely average and forgettable. I want so badly for the Alien universe to return to the brilliance of Alien and Aliens.
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06-06-2012, 07:11 AM
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#117
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Originally Posted by Itse
Just saw it.
2/5. Disappointment of the year.
It's just another sequel, just without the one thing that made the originals cool, so forget your excitement.
Visually nice but not great. One very cool and clever body horror scene. The female lead and Fassbinders robot tried to hold together something that didn't really earn it at any point.
Things start going downhill at about the fifteen minute mark. Nothing the characters does makes any real sense, everything is just "forced by plot". Bits of dialogue happen and then are contradicted without any explanation. "The backstory" doesn't even try to make sense.
Since the movie was so silly right from the start, I pretty much just sat back and turned my brain off, but it wasn't that entertaining. Watchable, but I really like scifi-horror. To give you a reference point, I thought Aliens vs. Predators was more interesting and entertaining.
First comments I hear when the credits start rolling:
"This effing sucked."
"This was really disappointing."
Go see something else. Rent it if you must.
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Credibility shot down in flames.
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06-06-2012, 07:18 AM
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#118
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Credibility shot down in flames.
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I don't think he's saying that Aliens versus Predators was a good movie. Rather he's saying Prometheus is so bad that even AvP was more interesting. I hope he's wrong though. Aliens is one of my favorite films and I am still looking forward to seeing Prometheus.
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06-06-2012, 07:28 AM
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#119
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Originally Posted by cDnStealth
I don't think he's saying that Aliens versus Predators was a good movie. Rather he's saying Prometheus is so bad that even AvP was more interesting. I hope he's wrong though. Aliens is one of my favorite films and I am still looking forward to seeing Prometheus.
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How could that be possible when the AVP films were preposterously bad? By all accounts so far in the reviews Prometheus is a good film maybe not a great film. What he's saying is that he's not a very good movie critic.
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06-06-2012, 07:41 AM
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#120
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
How could that be possible when the AVP films were preposterously bad? By all accounts so far in the reviews Prometheus is a good film maybe not a great film. What he's saying is that he's not a very good movie critic.
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With Hollywood anything is possible. I haven't seen it yet so I can't really comment on how good the film is. I know I've really enjoyed films that critics have trashed and hated ones that they love. I learned to distrust movie critics long ago and judge films myself.
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