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PostPosted: 06-08-2012 02:24 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


DRuM wrote:
Prometheus - 6.5/10 I guess. Quite enjoyable, great visuals, subtle 3D, average story. That's about it.


:smirk: I plan to see it today if there are seats available, just released here 2 days ago...



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DRuM wrote:
Prometheus - 6.5/10 I guess. Quite enjoyable, great visuals, subtle 3D, average story. That's about it.


:smirk: I plan to see it today if there are seats available, just released here 2 days ago...


Enjoy Whiskey. It definitely entertains, so take scores like mine with a pinch of salt.
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Enjoy Whiskey. It definitely entertains, so take scores like mine with a pinch of salt.


Will do D :D
I simply love sci-fi :up:



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I'm trying to stand my ground and see the regular version (instead of 3D) of Prometheus tomorrow but I'm getting out-voted. Is it really worth the extra pennies, discomfort of shitty goggles and lost colour fidelity?



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I'm trying to stand my ground and see the regular version (instead of 3D) of Prometheus tomorrow but I'm getting out-voted. Is it really worth the extra pennies, discomfort of shitty goggles and lost colour fidelity?


Affirmative. (imo)
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Yes did see and the theatre was quiet :(

It was as I expected.
While not completely filling the gaps in the storyline for me it was good enough for me while not completing the puzzle that is the origins of mankind :paranoid:

I viewed in 2D, figuring I'd see it this way first before dropping extra $'s for a 3D screening.

Look, pleasantly surprised but sadly not entertained IMO.
Great effect & visuals but I do feel a little and somewhat letdown.

It just didn't have the 'ALIEN' feel but this it wasn't an alien movie I know.

Like DRuM I will drop my score accordingly, matching, dare I say, a disappointment level....7.5/10

and I won't bother to see it again :tear:



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Just came back from seeing it. Loved it. Not as good as Alien but definitely worthy. Ending was the only part that was a bit of a let-down.



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Snow White and the Huntsman - 4/10 - there are some pretty visual effects, but really unless you like Twilight it'll be a big "meh." Actually, it's a pretty stupid movie from top to bottom. So excluding any weird pedo-crushes on Kristin Stewart just skip it.
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I'm not going to go into how disappointed I was by Prometheus. It was basically a fairly average budget sci-fi made with millions of dollars worth of stunning visual effects. I'm now quite concerned about the Blade Runner project, Ridley seems to be going the way of Cameron. I'd have far rather watched two hours worth of Fassbender walking around on a deserted ship quoting Lawrence of Arabia.

Also had to endure an extended trailer for Spiderman, which looks GARBAGE. I hope it tanks.



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phantasmagoria wrote:
I'm not going to go into how disappointed I was by Prometheus. It was basically a fairly average budget sci-fi made with millions of dollars worth of stunning visual effects. I'm now quite concerned about the Blade Runner project, Ridley seems to be going the way of Cameron. I'd have far rather watched two hours worth of Fassbender walking around on a deserted ship quoting Lawrence of Arabia.

Also had to endure an extended trailer for Spiderman, which looks GARBAGE. I hope it tanks.


haven't watched it yet, but Ridley had a UK team build 13 or 16 sets old style, that's awesome in my book and not just full blown CGI

thumbs up just for that



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Iron Sky - 1/10 - stupid, unfunny, pisspoor direction, as subtle as a sledgehammer to the face

oh, and anyone who says i missed the point of the movie or any stupid shit like that gets this week's retard badge. it was a shit movie. deal with it
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SoM wrote:
haven't watched it yet, but Ridley had a UK team build 13 or 16 sets old style, that's awesome in my book and not just full blown CGI

thumbs up just for that


I went on the set with the big head :smirk:



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Iron Sky - 1/10 - stupid, unfunny, pisspoor direction, as subtle as a sledgehammer to the face

oh, and anyone who says i missed the point of the movie or any stupid shit like that gets this week's retard badge. it was a shit movie. deal with it


There was a point to that movie?
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Black Rain = 4/10 - A typical 80s cop movie with 80s hair and bad 80s "action" music. I'd seen it before but was curious to see it again. It should have stayed forgotten.

Prometheus = 4/10 - It was.....a movie. It's sorta like a Transformers movie in the way that it's just a bunch of scenes that aren't really connected to each other and the plot has 50 strands of "well that was fucking stupid" going in several directions. Another thing I noticed: there is not one single likeable character in the whole film. I also didn't like that they stole dialogue from the other films. Even then it seemed forced somehow...weak sauce that makes dumber audience members clap and cheer whenever they recognize something.
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looks like the consensus is bad. Was gonna be my first theater movie in a while too...fuck it, I'll just wait for Batman.
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GONNAFISTYA wrote:
Prometheus ... there is not one single likeable character in the whole film


That's what put me off the most about it in the later TV trailers, with none of the cast looking, acting, or sounding like anyone I'd want to tolerate let alone pay to witness ( :olo: )
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GONNAFISTYA wrote:
seremtan wrote:
Iron Sky - 1/10 - stupid, unfunny, pisspoor direction, as subtle as a sledgehammer to the face

oh, and anyone who says i missed the point of the movie or any stupid shit like that gets this week's retard badge. it was a shit movie. deal with it


There was a point to that movie?


btw i give iron sky 1/10 only for the one amusing moment in the whole movie: the downfall reference. that did make me chuckle a bit
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GONNAFISTYA wrote:
Prometheus ... there is not one single likeable character in the whole film


That's what put me off the most about it in the later TV trailers, with none of the cast looking, acting, or sounding like anyone I'd want to tolerate let alone pay to witness ( :olo: )


You didn't like David? How could you not love one of your own kind?



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Features Tom Hanks and Sandra Ballock. This is a fiction around 9/11. Great story - I cried. Weaves a number of subplots very nicely.

10/10
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Men In Black 3 = Skip it. No seriously.

Wrath of the Titans = Good thing I downloaded it. Skip this one, too.

Alien = 9/10 - I watched this a few days after going to see Prometheus for "continuity" or some crap. I was high fuck u...

Much better than Prometheus.
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Features Tom Hanks and Sandra Ballock. This is a fiction around 9/11. Great story - I cried. Weaves a number of subplots very nicely.

10/10


i think this is referring to Exremely Loud & Incredibly Close, based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer who also wrote Everything Is Illuminated (made into a movie starring Elijah "Frodo" Wood). had just read the book when this came out so i skipped it in the theater. book was depressing. good, but depressing.
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Last whole movies I've sat through were:

Dark Shadows -- saw this with my Dad when it came out. 6/10, does what's expected of it but no more.

Avengers -- took the kids. 7/10, did marginally more than was expected of it.
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Flowers of War - 7/10

Christian Bale pretends to be a pastor to protect Chinese schoolgirls in a convent during Japan's Rape of Nanking. Strong performances from the entire cast and a very gripping telling of some of the atrocities the Japanese soldiers committed.



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would you pay to see it?
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Therac-25 wrote:
Dark Shadows -- saw this with my Dad when it came out. 6/10, does what's expected of it but no more.


Heh, my gf keeps nagging me how she wants to see this properly in the theatre and i keep telling her i really prefer to see Prometheus because it'll be shit too, but likely to be far less soulcrushingly dull - it's been a struggle for a week or two now.

I've had it with Tim Burton, the man has been out of ideas for a long time now. Fuck him and his motley crew of hangarounds that appear in every clonemovie he throws in the publics faces.

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Flowers of War - 7/10

Christian Bale pretends to be a pastor to protect Chinese schoolgirls in a convent during Japan's Rape of Nanking. Strong performances from the entire cast and a very gripping telling of some of the atrocities the Japanese soldiers committed.


Read about this and was interested, gonna keep an eye out.



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Tsakali wrote:
looks like the consensus is bad. Was gonna be my first theater movie in a while too...fuck it, I'll just wait for Batman.


Go see it, it's pretty good. Don't listen to the haters.



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Prometheus. 7/10

I hope they mop all that shit up in the follow up. It answers 10% of the questions from Alien and leaves 90% up in the air.

Shame about the weak writing but still worth a watch.
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So despite everyone (except the above) saying Prometheus was drivel... I went to see it. *sigh* Potential spoilers follow, but it's been out a week so whatever.

5/10 and dropping the more I think about it. Huge, gaping plot holes. Completely BS fake science (just the idiotic visual of "DNA" in the opening sequence made my brain hurt). Apparently no one has seen a sci-fi movie in the not-to-distant future. I don't care what the CO2 level is on the atmosphere, don't take off your fucking helmet in a fucking alien spacecraft on a fucking alien planet! And if you're a "biologist" what for fuck's sake would ever tempt you to try to pet a fucking alien?! Gah!!! Why are there no quarantine/decontamination procedures? ADJSHKSDGFK!
shit movie. skip it in the theaters.




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Cabin in the Woods 9/10.



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Prometheus 4/10

I agree with every criticism posted in this thread. Uninspired, boring, dialogues so bad they were almost funny, so many plotholes and cliches i can't even be arsed attempting to list them, etc etc. The only scenes i thought were good were the ones with Fassbender the droid on an empty ship doing his Lawrence of Arabia thing and playing perfect basketball and learning obscure ancient languages, more of that would have been excellent.

Was a frustrating watch because i wanted it to be enjoyable and it really, really wasn't. Skip it.



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Prometheus - 7 / 10

Was let in for free to see it. I enjoyed it expecting it to be shit yet found it entertaining. Better than Men In Black 3 that's for sure.

You guys getting your panties in a bunch over plot holes and 'fake science' - it's not trying to be the next Blade Runner. The hell did you expect?

You can't say you didn't think about smiling when that dumbass trying to pet an alien got his arm snapped in half.

I think you guys are getting hung up on the movie because you're trying to look into it too much.

Or maybe I enjoyed it more than others cause it was free.



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I think you guys are getting hung up on the movie because you're trying to look into it too much.

Or maybe I enjoyed it more than others cause it was free.


No, you're right. They're just a bunch of nerds who expected far too much, decided they weren't going to enjoy the film before they even saw it and will never be able to enjoy another sci-fi if it doesn't give them the same feeling they got when they watched Aliens for the first time in their teens. Most of them wouldn't have even thought about the dialogue/writing if they hadn't read it in a review by some faggot critic, but feel all noble and hip now commenting on it.



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...are you going to be ok with the fact that it was a shit movie but you enjoyed it anyway? It's nothing to be ashamed of you know, everyone has a few of those. Don't let the fact that most of us hoped for something better get you down.



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look, the reason the first alien worked was because the people were colonists or somesuch so you expect them to do stupid shit. aliens had marines, again... bad decisions but with guns. alien 3 - prisoners. now this one had "scientists." fine, the aliens kill them. whatever. but if they're "scientists" then they should act a little scientific. i'm not complaining about made-up stars or the logistical problems of sleeping in stasis or whatever. i'm complaining about a shitty, inconsistent screenplay that most teenagers (or a decent editor) could have vastly improved in about five minutes work.
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The guys at Half In The Bag do a decent take on why Prometheus, while not being entirely horrible outright, seemed so...ugh.

Video Review of Prometheus

I have to say though...they hit the nail on the head regarding the way the movie uses the same writing style of "Lost" in that it just keeps throwing shit at the audience with little payoff for any of the 10,000 plot strands.

And SPOILER ALERT!!!

...but I simply found it fucking stupid that they'd spend two years plus getting to the planet and then after finally landing on it, the Captain of the boat - who's not really in charge anyways - suggests they all chill out for the night and wrap themselves in blankets because "it'll get dark in six hours"? Six hours? You could explore half the area in that time...and he wants to ignore the clearly alien structures just outside his windows? What? From what I saw, there were alot more people on the ship than what they focused on and it just seemed weird that while a handful of people went out for an adventure the rest of the ship sorta just huddled down and what?...played cards? Where the fuck was everyone and why did half the crew show no sign of excitement at actually landing on an alien planet? Isn't this like the first alien planet that humanity is supposed to have landed on? Or at least the first with confirmed alien creatures?

The captain, sitting alone on the bridge while his crew members are lost outside of the ship and after having one of the probes detect an as-yet-unconfirmed alien life form (all this after discovering a fucking confirmed alien lifeform who's head just exploded in the science lab) decides it's a glitch and that instead of monitoring the two guys who got lost he'd rather leave the bridge and get laid. I can understand him wanting to get laid...it's Charlize Theron for fucks sake...but he's the Captain on a ship that just landed on an alien planet with a confirmed alien presence and with two lost crewmembers and he leaves the bridge completely abandoned? And that angry guy with the crazy red hair decides he wants to go back to the ship because there's no rocks for him to examine? Dead aliens, yes, but no rocks so his talents aren't immediately needed. Has he no sense of wonderment or adventure at all? Sure, he's there to get paid and not make friends, but no curiosity at all? From someone who's supposed to be a scientist, someone who's very nature is inquisitive? None? What? Or the "biologist" that decided to return to the ship with him? What? There's a fucking alien corpse lying right in front of him and he wants to go back? He's the biologist...he should be the guy pushing everyone out of the way so he can get a better look. Isn't it his job to... bah fuck it. Seriously...why did those people make the trip if none of what was transpiring was of any interest to them?

END SPOILER ALERT!!!

The motivations for the characters are simply dumbfounding and leaves the audience with no clear gauge on who's doing what and why.

Beautiful movie though. :up:
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