Ridley Scotts "Prometheus"

[SHroomtroll]

I saw this a week ago on 50mg of mxe, i had very high expectatios but was ready to be dissapointed since anything that get too hyped will be so.

anyway the experience of a 3d movie in a cinema on mxe was just mind blowing! for most of the time i forgot i was watching a movie and got totally immersed in the plot.

Most of the movie was good but as a few have posted the pace was way too high, it felt like they tried to make a3hour movie into 2hours and the plot opened alot of doors it never closed.

Hopefully a 3hour extended version will fix this along with the sequels.

 

[daedaloops]

I absolutely loved it but then again I'm very easy to please when it comes to hi-tech scifi and biomechanical horror. Not to even mention that it was an Alien prequel. And that it had Michael Fassbender as an android (genius! :lol: )

For the people getting disappointed: If there's one thing DMT has taught me it's that expectations are useless, or even harmful, to any kind of an experience. Including movies. And the ability to get completely immersed is a powerful tool. Going in with 0% expectations and 100% immersion is my advice to people who still get "disappointed" by movies. If the movie genuinely happens to suck, then the immersion breaks pretty quickly, and then you can rightfully state that the movie sucked.

With Prometheus my immersion didn't break at all and I had one hell of a movie experience. For example, I LOVED the intensity of that surgical operation scene, thinking it was all happening to me..

I would say SHroomtroll is doing it right, now just try doing that even when sober..

 

[anrchy]

I'm curious as too why having questions at the end of a movie is seen as decreasing the value of it? I have read a ton of posts on the Internet where people are complaining about this.

It seems to me that any movie with sequels is going to have an open plot. Not only that, but Prometheus answered all the questions from the movie Alien. Again I love this movie. My only complaints are that a couple things don't line up well between Prometheus and Alien.

 

[Mel Angel]

I thought this link would compliment this thread.

http://www.nextmovie.com/blog/is-prometheus-an-alien-prequel/

 

[Pebble on the Beach]

When I left the theatre I was a little puzzled by the sequence: man drinks black goo -> man has sex with woman -> woman is pregnant of octopuslike creature -> octopus "impregnates" engineer -> alien. It seemed like an artificial ploy to link the movie to the previous alien saga. Then it came to me: The octopus is a proto-facehugger, and alien is bio-warfare!

When I got that cleared out in my head the movie stands as a decent prologue in my book, thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

[purple_dye]

Then it came to me: The octopus is a proto-facehugger

What do you mean by this?

 

[Pebble on the Beach]

Then it came to me: The octopus is a proto-facehugger

What do you mean by this?

In the alien movies the facehuggers spawn out these eggs that closely resemble the canisters containing the goo in Prometheus. Facehuggers basically serve as the middleman to inject the alien parasite foetus into a human body where it can grow.

And since This black goo seems to be a bio-warfare type of weapon to "correct" some mistake they made on earth, it would seem logical that alien is the final stage of deployment of said weapon. The octopus is the middle man for kickstarting that final stage. Alien is engineered mass-death for humans.

 

[space face]

I saw this a week ago on 50mg of mxe,

I plan on doing the same exact thing very soon. I've seen counless movies in the cinema while on mxe and have to say it's a wonderful experience and I highly recommend it.

 

[sidefx]

Prometheus was a visually stunning movie i recon.

But i was not too fussed on the story, it touched too many movie genres without sticking to one.

A little Alien, some event horizon maybe.

I think i was expecting one big movie all in one, i really DO NOT LIKE these movies that are good movies split into separate portions; Mostly un-entertaining on their own.

of course look at the Alien Trilogy all three are brilliant to watch on their own.

I like ALIENS the best.

And Resurrection is pretty good they did alright, scraping another one up.

 

[anrchy]

I absolutely loved it but then again I'm very easy to please when it comes to hi-tech scifi and biomechanical horror. Not to even mention that it was an Alien prequel. And that it had Michael Fassbender as an android (genius! :lol: )

For the people getting disappointed: If there's one thing DMT has taught me it's that expectations are useless, or even harmful, to any kind of an experience. Including movies. And the ability to get completely immersed is a powerful tool. Going in with 0% expectations and 100% immersion is my advice to people who still get "disappointed" by movies. If the movie genuinely happens to suck, then the immersion breaks pretty quickly, and then you can rightfully state that the movie sucked.

With Prometheus my immersion didn't break at all and I had one hell of a movie experience. For example, I LOVED the intensity of that surgical operation scene, thinking it was all happening to me..

I would say SHroomtroll is doing it right, now just try doing that even when sober..

This is exactly what I do!! You worded it perfectly. No expectation all immersion.

 

[Orion]

SPOLERS!!!!!!!!!


I kinda felt let down with it, so many questions. What is the purpose of the black fluid, where did that squid come from? Intercourse with the infected guy ? Why did it mutate him and make her pregnant when it killed the engineer in the beginning outright ? How did the squid get so big? Why does the squid end up forming some sort of bluish and more fleshy version of an alien inside the engineer ? How do we get from that to black xenomorphs, queens and facehuggers ? Is this not meant to lead into the original alien ? I know it's a different planet and different ship, but judging by the ending it seems its supposed to tie into the main xenomorph plot somehow... Through all these questions I never really felt compelled in any other way, and none of the characters got enough screen time to really feel for them...
Ridley Scott has already hinted at a sequel though, so perhaps this will clear things up, or maybe it will get even more vague... either way I just don't see what he's getting at with this.