I saw it, I went for a good 8.5. It was an ambitious film, and that counts a lot for me. It meant that some things like character development and clear answers got pushed to the wayside at times, but overall it was deeply enjoyable and I never found myself saying 'No, please go back and explain that to me', it's one of those films where you're quite happy for the momentum of the film to carry you forward with it.
Best part for me is when they have a mission briefing AFTER they wake up from cryo-sleep! 😂. - "you want the job?" - "what job?" - "we'll tell you when we arrive, now get in the tank!" - "I'll take it!"
i saw it in 3D last night and the 3D was incredible. I worked as a projectionist for a long time and this was best presentation of this 3D nonsense ive ever seen.
Some genuine vision in the art direction - particularly the engineer, really making use of the uncanny valley effect there. Some awe-inspiring ideas, at least in the set-up. And the character of David was truly great. Most everything else was a bungle. My biggest problem was that the characters had almost no definition whatsoever. There were some gestures toward definition, but quite random & adding up to nothing. I can hear the writers, "Uh, I think these are the kinds of things people do."
Thats because he says something to the engineer, that sets it off. It just doesnt attack them randomly, David says something, and we dont know what it is. That is why this movie needs a sequel. To answer the questions from the first one.
@@hebeusuthu8143 Miles per hour has a measure of time in the expression, but it's a measure of speed, not time. Light years is not a measure of time, simple.
Thank god, there's at least one other person who understands the difference between leaving questions unanswered to make people think, and leaving plot holes because it's a bad script.
How the enemy/monster was defeated in the end was pretty abrupt, but I don't think it spoiled the movie at all, because coupled with that event is a dozen other events that happened leading to it and after. All I know is this will be a blockbuster, and it will be liked by scifi thriller fans and action fans alike.
My problem with the scenes is not that they are violent, it is that they are, or at least FEEL, completely random. My earlier comment spelled that out. Every death in Alien is shocking and we are sad to see that character leave. But in Prometheus there are 17 characters, about 10 of whom are superfluous to the story and only exist to get killed in the infantile, pointless action scenes. Also, Prometheus seemed barely interested in the David character. Much less than 2001 was in its technology.
Prometheus looks great, that doesn't mean it's a crushingly boring bad movie, which it is. The story is so big it didn't need to be linked to Alien, that just made it seem even worse. Biggest letdown since Phantom Menace.
8) The purpose of 'infected Fifield' showing up was to show obviously the infection in question, what it could do and obviously to the crew aswell. It wasnt hard for him to find the ship because obviously they were on a straight path 'God doesnt build in straight lines' the path leading directly to the 'tombs' or because he followed the crew back.
Ripley didn't have her own bar and lots of Vodka to calm her fears of being in space, Vickers was scared of space. She asked if anyone died in stasis, she never steps foot off the ship, until the escape pod scene, and she's drinking straight vodka. The problem is not so much that they got kinky, but that they left the bridge unattended while Milburn and Fifield were stranded.
Well, I think that should be explicitly stated, since everyone I've seen got confused (especially since the spaceship ends up on its side and the jockey has a hole in its chest missing.
It's set before the 'Aliens' series with Sigourney Weaver and John Hurt. It seems to be about both the origins of the human species but also the origins of the Xenomorphs (the Aliens).
To be fair, Joss Whedon has said that the final cut wasn't like anything from his original script. So I'm guessing the studio made changes in the editing and what not. A similar thing happend with David Fincher for Alien 3 when the studio made changes in the editing stages behind his back.
Yes, It gives us questions that need to be answered in Prometheus 2, which will then have more questions that will be answered in Prometheus 3, which then link to Alien. People need to listen to Ridley Scott's interview he did with Simon Mayo and Kermode before Mark did the review, this is not a direct prequel.
Kermode is spot on. This sums up pretty much how I felt walking out of the theatre. + Visuals/Art Direction/Set Design (yay for sets and not green-screen fest) + Michael Fassbender (the opening act is wonderful) + Noomi Rapace + Some themes and ideas (makes you think, not just popcorn escapism) - The minor characters (Theron was a big waste) - Script/Storytelling (this is what hurts it the most, in my opinion) - Score (didn't like the Trek-like optimism, give me minimalist and brooding) 7.5
Trilobyte makes more sense, yeah. I read online somewhere that it was the Queen, and the reason they've been around for thousands of years before Prometheus, is that the Engineers built a statue of an Alien on the wall- and apparently it's what the Engineers were running from in the hologram 2000 years previously.
"create a precurser for the next one to two or more installments." Yep. It was only 1/3 a film that I paid a full price. Sigh...But agree with you that this is a setup for two more "prequels."
Fair point about the guy ignoring the worm in his eye. Maybe he thought he had just imagined it. I guess we've all ignored potential symptoms before and thought "ahh it's probably nothing." I just thought that, given the circumstances, people would be hyper-vigilent about stuff like that, rather than trying to ignore it.
For me, it was more about the questions being proposed in the movie than the plot. I can see how people didn't enjoy it, but I think we have to give Ridley Scott credit for trying (and I emphasize trying) to go where classic scifi movies in the past have gone. It's far from perfect, but better than most things being shown these days. Just the fact that people are expressing their opinions about the movie and trying to answer these questions tells me that overall it was a success.
About the ending: It's not directly tied to the original Alien. Prometheus is set on a different planet/moon than Alien so that crashed ship is NOT the same one seen in Alien. Sequels are planned which we assume will finally tie into Alien. The reason the chestburster doesn't look the same as the one in Alien is because 1) it's an earlier form of the species and 2) it had a different host. (don't you remember the dog like xenomorph from Alien 3 and the warrior xenomorphs from ALIENS.
Just went to saw it in cinema. Brilliant movie. Creepy as hell, very intense. Very nice CGI and good music score. Those who hate this movie obviously don't use their brain.
You're saying that if I think Prometheus is bad I should watch Transformers 3 and Prometheus will no longer seem so bad. That is the most pathetic defense of this abortion of a film I've come across. Both films are rubbish but at least Transformers isn't pretentious. "Great movie, blow me." Wow! Fantastic review, man! I'm convinced! Seriously though, as I wrote in my last message, explaining why Prometheus is good is impossible, because it isn't. But you've not even bothered trying.
Prometheus is a prequel to Alien but it's not a direct prequel. There are questions left unanswered but they are not answered in Alien. They are going to have to make a sequel to set everything up for Alien.
The comments you make on the dialog contrast between Prometheus and Alien are absolutely right. I was able to enjoy Prometheus for what it was, I was entertained watching it. The theater was full of people questioning everything about it at the end - but I would also say it's better to have people talking about how they were entertained and let down than talking about how terrible it was as a whole. It's not great but certainly better than a lot of films with the similar goals.
7) The fact they were freaked out is the reason they didnt run, they didn't know what it was, it could of been harmless for all they know, it looked harmless at first obviously and didn't strike until the Biologist went to touch it. Gear to deal with it? They didnt know how long they were going to be trapped
Apparently Riddley Scott had said he intended to make two movies. From what I understand, the sequel to Prometheus will depend on how well Prometheus does. They did leave a lot of mysteries, and didn't answer much. And I think he did that intentionally.
It is a prequel to 'Alien' in the sense it's an origin story of how the Xenomorph came to be, but it's not an 'Alien' film, it was never promoted as an 'Alien' prequel at all or with the same theme. Ridley Scott said many times it's a stand alone film, if you were expecting loads of aliens jumping from air vents and ripping people apart then unlucky. Theres a 30 year gap between Prometheus and Alien and RS already said he's willing to make more. Big things have small beginnings
I don't know because I am not- Ridley Scott. He is the director of the Alien series. I have complete faith that he will lead us to these answers. Prometheus is not a direct Prequel it is an ORIGIN story, which will be followed by more movies. Which may lead up to/ end up at the beginning of Alien. It's not inconsistent to Alien since it explains the Xenomorphs in that film.
You think they should go join Vickers to the lifeboat, which has 2 years of supplies for 1 person? And it took MORE than two years to get there, so even if they got off a distress call, a rescue mission might not get there before they are dead?
I felt it had some good elements of tension, but only when the film had a direct link to Alien (for example the scene with those vases) I knew what was in there and it made me nervous.
i wouldn't call it a major spoiler since that same ship is already crashed in alien and it was only revealed not to long ago that it was a different planet.
this movie was suppose to explain all of them. From alien to avpR. We have waited the better part of 30 years to find out that we have to wait even longer maybe to 2016 before we get our answers. The main thing i was looking for was the relationship between the space jockey( the engineers) and the predators. Nothing, not even the questions asked in the movie were answered.
Mark touches on some great points that people seem to be forgetting or ignoring. I mean Ridley has always said from the get go he's not replicating Alien and it's not a direct prequel. If people have even a remote interest in Sci-Fi please go watch Prometheus it's a really great movie.
I admired the visual scale...the 3D worked very well, with all the floating screens...and it's a truly handsome gorgeous production. But when they awake the alien fellow in the chamber, he just gets out and starts knocking people around..how well thought out is that? And the viseral stuff with goo and completely odd creatures grappling and killing...it just saps the creative thrust right out of the film. The acting and production was the best part.
I would consider that an unlikely interpretation. Life on earth, as best we know, started somewhere between 3.65 and 3.85 billion years ago. So, are you suggesting the scene where the engineer sacrifices himself occurs 3.85 billion years ago? Possible, but hard to make sense of it.
Dam this movie was SO good! I havnt had one a long time making me want the next so bad,i even came to look up videos on it as soon as i got home from the theatre!
... while in contrast in prometheus we don't even know who the main antagonist(s) are or if indeed there is one. In promethues everyhing is more first person, we only know as much as the characters know. This instills a feeling of mystery, and I think Scott did something very original. Star Trek = classic bad guy vs good guy with strong emphasis on developing good guy characters. Promethues = dark, gritty, mystery thriller, we don't know - for sure - who the antagonist(s) are from the onset.
5) They took there helmets off because inside the temple/tomb there was an atmosphere similar to Earths, it was breathable. Everyone calling him stupid was clearly them not taking any risks 6) He got lost because he's a Geolist, he doesnt have Xray fucking vision, the scans he was taking were being sent back to Prometheus for the captain to relay there location and guide them.
I think reviews can serve a function of letting you know not to get your hopes up. Better to know ahead of time not to be too excited so that if you wind up not liking it you can go, "well people were telling me it wasn't all that good".
Your point is very valid in regards to opinion. I personally enjoy Kermodes reviews because his taste in movies mirrors my own and he has a very broad taste in film. Its because of this that I value his opinion, not because I 'only' wish to validate my own opinion about films i've liked/disliked but because he's also brought my attention to films I've never heard of and seen before, for example Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet. That's what good critics do.
I'll be interested in seeing that. I hope it explains how the Captain of the ship went from knowing nothing to knowing everything about the planet, the engineers and what they were doing there. That scene really annoyed me because it's blatant exposition rushed in at the last minute.
I agree. Incidentally, Kermode gave Kill List a very enthusiastic review. His love of Prometheus I find rather baffling, but sometimes he's clearly on the right tack.
The majority of "plot holes" that people find in this movie, aren't actually plot holes. They were things that people were left to figure out in the movie. All the questions you have could probably be answered or have been. Prometheus was alot more than a sci-fi alien throwback, which is what people expected. Ridley tried to put bigger ideas into it and make it more than just a tense film, like Alien. It's a good movie that had unfair expectations and couldn't meet them.
At the start she says "I believe because I want to". She is supposed to be a scientist. Also the biologist says to her something like "eh, any evidence" and she has none, but it turns out she is right and the biologist dies. Why does Fassbender infect that guy? Just to see what happens? It isn't really discussed later.
1. Weyland was on deaths door, was looking for a way to prolong his life. These 'conmen' that don't exist so no point in even mentioning them didn't have the proof in the form of the star maps they found to convince Weyland otherwise. 2) Davids goal in dosing up a member of the crew im speculating was to see for himself out of curiosity or a preconcieved agreement by Weyland to see the effects of this unknown bio-contaminent on human life
The encouraging thing is that there are very few people (critics AND audiences, as far as I can tell) who come right out and say "Prometheus is awesome!" Most people who like it will say "It's okay, nothing special", or "It wasn't a masterpiece, but at least it's not as bad as Transformers 3". But the thing of it is, lots of people really love Transformers 3. Very, very few people really love Prometheus. "Meh" is the operative word in most cases. "Shite" is the operative word in my case.
"as soon as she wakes from the turmoil she is faced with another development which involves an impromptu caesarean due to an alien impregnation which almost kills her." True. And THAT "dramatic" development is ALSO forgotten by Shaw the minute after it happens! She doesn't ever mention to anyone, "Oh, by the way, I just had an ALIEN SQUID pulled outta my abdomen. Crazy, eh? How'd that happen?" She has a way of forgetting important events so that the movie can ploddingly move on to the next scene
Well if it slows down digestion and aging, why would you assume it doesn't slow down everything else? I think he would have still propositioned Vickers if he'd been laid an hour earlier by Shaw or (shudder.... Forde)...
I liked this movie and agree with this critic that it does have flaws. He mentioned that Scott said they were not on LV426. The whole time I thought they were. I don't remember when the film mentions they are on LV223. Well that changes a lot of things for me now.
I saw it, I went for a good 8.5. It was an ambitious film, and that counts a lot for me. It meant that some things like character development and clear answers got pushed to the wayside at times, but overall it was deeply enjoyable and I never found myself saying 'No, please go back and explain that to me', it's one of those films where you're quite happy for the momentum of the film to carry you forward with it.
Best part for me is when they have a mission briefing AFTER they wake up from cryo-sleep! 😂.
- "you want the job?"
- "what job?"
- "we'll tell you when we arrive, now get in the tank!"
- "I'll take it!"
It's a great script. Especially when these' intelligent' characters are running and running in the same direction as the giant rolling spacecraft.
And when the cabbage in the cave tries to pet the newly discovered serpent.
The dumbest crew ever.
yeah but like elizabeth shaw i wanna fail at running away from things
I liked the film a lot. I think the ending is Scott screaming "Give us the money to make another, make it now!"
i saw it in 3D last night and the 3D was incredible. I worked as a projectionist for a long time and this was best presentation of this 3D nonsense ive ever seen.
Remember that they're basically in a biological weapon factory and the targets have turned up and are wanting to have a chat.
Pretty good and pretty accurate. Now if you could just cram in some more words and thus make the review feel a bit more articulate and full.
Some genuine vision in the art direction - particularly the engineer, really making use of the uncanny valley effect there. Some awe-inspiring ideas, at least in the set-up. And the character of David was truly great. Most everything else was a bungle. My biggest problem was that the characters had almost no definition whatsoever. There were some gestures toward definition, but quite random & adding up to nothing. I can hear the writers, "Uh, I think these are the kinds of things people do."
Great review. Always informative. Really enjoyed Prometheus. It offers up plenty of questions to be answered. Can't wait for the next in the pipe.
Thats because he says something to the engineer, that sets it off. It just doesnt attack them randomly, David says something, and we dont know what it is. That is why this movie needs a sequel. To answer the questions from the first one.
Light years is a measure of distance, not time.
cycodamo it’s the description of distance travelled over a period of time.
It literally has a measure of time in the expression
@@hebeusuthu8143 Miles per hour has a measure of time in the expression, but it's a measure of speed, not time. Light years is not a measure of time, simple.
For myself, it gets better each time, similar feeling I had to 'The dark knight'.
Thank god, there's at least one other person who understands the difference between leaving questions unanswered to make people think, and leaving plot holes because it's a bad script.
my favourite reviewer. whenever i come back and watch a review about a film i've seen, i nearly always agree with mark.
Was there not an interview with Ridley Scott and Kermode? That's the one I want to see.
I loved it, fassbender out-acted everyone else on screen, and I really hope there's more to come
How the enemy/monster was defeated in the end was pretty abrupt, but I don't think it spoiled the movie at all, because coupled with that event is a dozen other events that happened leading to it and after. All I know is this will be a blockbuster, and it will be liked by scifi thriller fans and action fans alike.
cant wait to see this film !! thanks for the quick upload :)
My problem with the scenes is not that they are violent, it is that they are, or at least FEEL, completely random. My earlier comment spelled that out. Every death in Alien is shocking and we are sad to see that character leave. But in Prometheus there are 17 characters, about 10 of whom are superfluous to the story and only exist to get killed in the infantile, pointless action scenes.
Also, Prometheus seemed barely interested in the David character. Much less than 2001 was in its technology.
Haven't seen the film yet but is Michael Fassbender credited for playing the Fender Bass in the original motion picture soundtrack for Prometheus?
Prometheus looks great, that doesn't mean it's a crushingly boring bad movie, which it is. The story is so big it didn't need to be linked to Alien, that just made it seem even worse. Biggest letdown since Phantom Menace.
I adored the film!. you must see asap
So...how did the engineer get back into the seat (where they found him in Alien)?
Well, if my memory serves me correctly, that those jars are similar to those found in Alien where a good old John Hurt found those facehuggers.
Father is a reference to the original film when Ian Holm (a similar role to Theron's) would contact "Mother".
no I mean the poster with the ship crashing, look at it in detail.
8) The purpose of 'infected Fifield' showing up was to show obviously the infection in question, what it could do and obviously to the crew aswell. It wasnt hard for him to find the ship because obviously they were on a straight path 'God doesnt build in straight lines' the path leading directly to the 'tombs' or because he followed the crew back.
Ripley didn't have her own bar and lots of Vodka to calm her fears of being in space, Vickers was scared of space. She asked if anyone died in stasis, she never steps foot off the ship, until the escape pod scene, and she's drinking straight vodka. The problem is not so much that they got kinky, but that they left the bridge unattended while Milburn and Fifield were stranded.
Well, I think that should be explicitly stated, since everyone I've seen got confused (especially since the spaceship ends up on its side and the jockey has a hole in its chest missing.
It's set before the 'Aliens' series with Sigourney Weaver and John Hurt. It seems to be about both the origins of the human species but also the origins of the Xenomorphs (the Aliens).
What’s the line from 2001: a space odyssey in Alien: Covenant? I’ll watch it again.
To be fair, Joss Whedon has said that the final cut wasn't like anything from his original script. So I'm guessing the studio made changes in the editing and what not. A similar thing happend with David Fincher for Alien 3 when the studio made changes in the editing stages behind his back.
Yes, It gives us questions that need to be answered in Prometheus 2, which will then have more questions that will be answered in Prometheus 3, which then link to Alien.
People need to listen to Ridley Scott's interview he did with Simon Mayo and Kermode before Mark did the review, this is not a direct prequel.
Kermode is spot on. This sums up pretty much how I felt walking out of the theatre.
+ Visuals/Art Direction/Set Design (yay for sets and not green-screen fest)
+ Michael Fassbender (the opening act is wonderful)
+ Noomi Rapace
+ Some themes and ideas (makes you think, not just popcorn escapism)
- The minor characters (Theron was a big waste)
- Script/Storytelling (this is what hurts it the most, in my opinion)
- Score (didn't like the Trek-like optimism, give me minimalist and brooding)
7.5
ALWAYS REMEMBER: DECKARD IS NOT A FUCKING ROBOT.
Trilobyte makes more sense, yeah. I read online somewhere that it was the Queen, and the reason they've been around for thousands of years before Prometheus, is that the Engineers built a statue of an Alien on the wall- and apparently it's what the Engineers were running from in the hologram 2000 years previously.
I'm now officially intrigued... by the word 'Grooey'.
probably gruey. as in gruesome, meaning something that induces shivers.
but, anyway, it isnt. its just facepalmy.
"create a precurser for the next one to two or more installments."
Yep. It was only 1/3 a film that I paid a full price. Sigh...But agree with you that this is a setup for two more "prequels."
Fair point about the guy ignoring the worm in his eye. Maybe he thought he had just imagined it. I guess we've all ignored potential symptoms before and thought "ahh it's probably nothing." I just thought that, given the circumstances, people would be hyper-vigilent about stuff like that, rather than trying to ignore it.
but you've got to admit, the design and the look of the film is just amazing, not?
and i actually found most of the actors pretty decent
So, going to see this tonight. Watch in 3D or not?
For me, it was more about the questions being proposed in the movie than the plot. I can see how people didn't enjoy it, but I think we have to give Ridley Scott credit for trying (and I emphasize trying) to go where classic scifi movies in the past have gone. It's far from perfect, but better than most things being shown these days. Just the fact that people are expressing their opinions about the movie and trying to answer these questions tells me that overall it was a success.
"Abandon" implies that THEIR situation could have been resolved if I stayed. That was not the case.
This film truly is Scott's Phantom Menace moment.
Now that he's declared an interest in doing something with Bladerunner get ready for his Clone Wars.
About the ending:
It's not directly tied to the original Alien. Prometheus is set on a different planet/moon than Alien so that crashed ship is NOT the same one seen in Alien. Sequels are planned which we assume will finally tie into Alien.
The reason the chestburster doesn't look the same as the one in Alien is because 1) it's an earlier form of the species and 2) it had a different host. (don't you remember the dog like xenomorph from Alien 3 and the warrior xenomorphs from ALIENS.
I like how he doesn't give anything away of the story or plot.
Reviews can give awareness to a film of which it would not have received if it were not for film critics.
I could seriously listen to Mark talk about movies all day, he never has anything to say that I disagree with and his opinions are really entertaining
Just went to saw it in cinema. Brilliant movie. Creepy as hell, very intense. Very nice CGI and good music score. Those who hate this movie obviously don't use their brain.
What exactly was in the jars?
You're saying that if I think Prometheus is bad I should watch Transformers 3 and Prometheus will no longer seem so bad. That is the most pathetic defense of this abortion of a film I've come across. Both films are rubbish but at least Transformers isn't pretentious.
"Great movie, blow me."
Wow! Fantastic review, man! I'm convinced! Seriously though, as I wrote in my last message, explaining why Prometheus is good is impossible, because it isn't. But you've not even bothered trying.
I'd like to hear what Mark things about the deleted scenes. I got a chance to watch them and think they add a lot to the film
Prometheus is a prequel to Alien but it's not a direct prequel.
There are questions left unanswered but they are not answered in Alien.
They are going to have to make a sequel to set everything up for Alien.
how do u know this? Do u have any info to back up what your saying? I read the info on this movie and it said prequel.
The comments you make on the dialog contrast between Prometheus and Alien are absolutely right. I was able to enjoy Prometheus for what it was, I was entertained watching it. The theater was full of people questioning everything about it at the end - but I would also say it's better to have people talking about how they were entertained and let down than talking about how terrible it was as a whole. It's not great but certainly better than a lot of films with the similar goals.
Giant squid was early version of facehugger just like Alien (or maybe early version of chestburster).
I think Prometheus will be admired in time.
Loved the "Good morning David" part, a wink to 2001 ; )
as long as it will have sequel, prometheus is great beginning.
7) The fact they were freaked out is the reason they didnt run, they didn't know what it was, it could of been harmless for all they know, it looked harmless at first obviously and didn't strike until the Biologist went to touch it. Gear to deal with it? They didnt know how long they were going to be trapped
Apparently Riddley Scott had said he intended to make two movies. From what I understand, the sequel to Prometheus will depend on how well Prometheus does. They did leave a lot of mysteries, and didn't answer much. And I think he did that intentionally.
I still can't believe this review, nine years later! It doesn't sound like the movie I saw, which was pants!
It's still fresh now
Happy thinking. I prefer it when a story has a middle and an end personally.
It is a prequel to 'Alien' in the sense it's an origin story of how the Xenomorph came to be, but it's not an 'Alien' film, it was never promoted as an 'Alien' prequel at all or with the same theme. Ridley Scott said many times it's a stand alone film, if you were expecting loads of aliens jumping from air vents and ripping people apart then unlucky. Theres a 30 year gap between Prometheus and Alien and RS already said he's willing to make more. Big things have small beginnings
Did Mark review Cloud Atlas?
I don't know because I am not- Ridley Scott. He is the director of the Alien series. I have complete faith that he will lead us to these answers. Prometheus is not a direct Prequel it is an ORIGIN story, which will be followed by more movies. Which may lead up to/ end up at the beginning of Alien. It's not inconsistent to Alien since it explains the Xenomorphs in that film.
i had to download the audio of this video and slow it down by 2x and get a dictionary out to understand this guy. i approve.
You think they should go join Vickers to the lifeboat, which has 2 years of supplies for 1 person? And it took MORE than two years to get there, so even if they got off a distress call, a rescue mission might not get there before they are dead?
I felt it had some good elements of tension, but only when the film had a direct link to Alien (for example the scene with those vases) I knew what was in there and it made me nervous.
i wouldn't call it a major spoiler since that same ship is already crashed in alien and it was only revealed not to long ago that it was a different planet.
this movie was suppose to explain all of them. From alien to avpR. We have waited the better part of 30 years to find out that we have to wait even longer maybe to 2016 before we get our answers. The main thing i was looking for was the relationship between the space jockey( the engineers) and the predators. Nothing, not even the questions asked in the movie were answered.
Did he ever discuss the 3D?
Like, in another video or something?
Mark touches on some great points that people seem to be forgetting or ignoring. I mean Ridley has always said from the get go he's not replicating Alien and it's not a direct prequel. If people have even a remote interest in Sci-Fi please go watch Prometheus it's a really great movie.
damn... this guy can talk up a storm... he doesn't pause.
I admired the visual scale...the 3D worked very well, with all the floating screens...and it's a truly handsome gorgeous production. But when they awake the alien fellow in the chamber, he just gets out and starts knocking people around..how well thought out is that? And the viseral stuff with goo and completely odd creatures grappling and killing...it just saps the creative thrust right out of the film. The acting and production was the best part.
Charge of the Light brigade comes to mind in this case.
I would consider that an unlikely interpretation. Life on earth, as best we know, started somewhere between 3.65 and 3.85 billion years ago. So, are you suggesting the scene where the engineer sacrifices himself occurs 3.85 billion years ago? Possible, but hard to make sense of it.
Dam this movie was SO good! I havnt had one a long time making me want the next so bad,i even came to look up videos on it as soon as i got home from the theatre!
... while in contrast in prometheus we don't even know who the main antagonist(s) are or if indeed there is one. In promethues everyhing is more first person, we only know as much as the characters know. This instills a feeling of mystery, and I think Scott did something very original.
Star Trek = classic bad guy vs good guy with strong emphasis on developing good guy characters.
Promethues = dark, gritty, mystery thriller, we don't know - for sure - who the antagonist(s) are from the onset.
Those were eggs in Alien. Obviously those jars were meant to look a bit like the eggs.
Ian Holm was the android in alien not lance henriksen. Lance came out in Cameron's sequel.
5) They took there helmets off because inside the temple/tomb there was an atmosphere similar to Earths, it was breathable. Everyone calling him stupid was clearly them not taking any risks
6) He got lost because he's a Geolist, he doesnt have Xray fucking vision, the scans he was taking were being sent back to Prometheus for the captain to relay there location and guide them.
I think reviews can serve a function of letting you know not to get your hopes up. Better to know ahead of time not to be too excited so that if you wind up not liking it you can go, "well people were telling me it wasn't all that good".
Your point is very valid in regards to opinion.
I personally enjoy Kermodes reviews because his taste in movies mirrors my own and he has a very broad taste in film. Its because of this that I value his opinion, not because I 'only' wish to validate my own opinion about films i've liked/disliked but because he's also brought my attention to films I've never heard of and seen before, for example Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet. That's what good critics do.
I'll be interested in seeing that. I hope it explains how the Captain of the ship went from knowing nothing to knowing everything about the planet, the engineers and what they were doing there. That scene really annoyed me because it's blatant exposition rushed in at the last minute.
The 'Directors Cut' Blu-Ray can't come soon enough!
I agree.
Incidentally, Kermode gave Kill List a very enthusiastic review. His love of Prometheus I find rather baffling, but sometimes he's clearly on the right tack.
The majority of "plot holes" that people find in this movie, aren't actually plot holes. They were things that people were left to figure out in the movie. All the questions you have could probably be answered or have been. Prometheus was alot more than a sci-fi alien throwback, which is what people expected. Ridley tried to put bigger ideas into it and make it more than just a tense film, like Alien. It's a good movie that had unfair expectations and couldn't meet them.
At the start she says "I believe because I want to". She is supposed to be a scientist. Also the biologist says to her something like "eh, any evidence" and she has none, but it turns out she is right and the biologist dies.
Why does Fassbender infect that guy? Just to see what happens? It isn't really discussed later.
Can we see it?
1. Weyland was on deaths door, was looking for a way to prolong his life. These 'conmen' that don't exist so no point in even mentioning them didn't have the proof in the form of the star maps they found to convince Weyland otherwise.
2) Davids goal in dosing up a member of the crew im speculating was to see for himself out of curiosity or a preconcieved agreement by Weyland to see the effects of this unknown bio-contaminent on human life
An Alien prequel in the vein of Contact? I can live with that.
The encouraging thing is that there are very few people (critics AND audiences, as far as I can tell) who come right out and say "Prometheus is awesome!"
Most people who like it will say "It's okay, nothing special", or "It wasn't a masterpiece, but at least it's not as bad as Transformers 3".
But the thing of it is, lots of people really love Transformers 3. Very, very few people really love Prometheus.
"Meh" is the operative word in most cases.
"Shite" is the operative word in my case.
Could Mark Kermode speak if his arms were strapped to his sides? Just wondering.
I wish I could upvote your comments forever.
"as soon as she wakes from the turmoil she is faced with another development which involves an impromptu caesarean due to an alien impregnation which almost kills her."
True. And THAT "dramatic" development is ALSO forgotten by Shaw the minute after it happens! She doesn't ever mention to anyone, "Oh, by the way, I just had an ALIEN SQUID pulled outta my abdomen. Crazy, eh? How'd that happen?"
She has a way of forgetting important events so that the movie can ploddingly move on to the next scene
Well if it slows down digestion and aging, why would you assume it doesn't slow down everything else? I think he would have still propositioned Vickers if he'd been laid an hour earlier by Shaw or (shudder.... Forde)...
I liked this movie and agree with this critic that it does have flaws. He mentioned that Scott said they were not on LV426. The whole time I thought they were. I don't remember when the film mentions they are on LV223. Well that changes a lot of things for me now.
I never said 'it is but it isn't' go back and read the first sentence properly