Prometheus

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What do you guys think of this movie? It is actually one of my least favorites in the franchise. I think it is a great sci fi movie and visually it is awesome however the plot is like a B grade horror movie and I feel it tries to answer questions in the alien universe best left unanswered. What do you all think??

Ps. How can you have an alien movie with no xenomorphs?! (Yes I know the end of the movie)

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I’d say covenant is the much worse out of the three new ones we have, but prometheus isn’t much to speak of. Only thing i got from it is the engineer doing stuff, “Prometheus school of running away from things”, and funny looking alien.

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I also thought covenant was weak and I personally feel the engineer is best left as the fossil in the ship in alien 1. It was mysterious and almost cosmic in that way. The entire plot of David nuking the engineers with black goo was so lame to me. Although I will say Michael fassbender’s David is my favorite part of both movies.

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David is great. But the movies he is in sucks very much ass. It is a terrible shame.

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Prometheus… i like but also hate it. its one of the movies that will be so much better if it was not a alien movie. The thing about Prometheus is part of what makes it shit is what it does to the lore and how it fits into the overall universe if.

but much like you said its a B grade horror movie, on its own. that being said the black goo is a cool idea just poorly used.

so true.

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prometheus is bad… reddit told me so…

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Completely agree.

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It’s god awful, but compared to covenant it’s at least somewhat bearable.

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It is sad the bar is that low. From where it began to the cesspool.

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Hate it with my entire being, mostly because of “lets take one of the most interesting mysteries and make it a giant white dude in our image because we lack imagination”

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I honestly enjoyed the movie. It wasn’t the best, but I kind of liked it.

The weird squid thingy creeped me the fuck out though.

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it’s alright…

After watching more movies that haven’t been forgotten to time, I have come to dislike blatant incompetence.

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I overall felt it was weakened by being connected to the Aliens universe. My random thoughts in no particular order.

  • Human technology feels far too advance for the setting and time-period. You can try to handwave that this is a cutting-edge science vessel, but it still feels out of place for the setting.
  • Showcasing the Space Jockey/Engineers was a story that didn’t need to be told. I also feel the movie fails to do any justice to the concept to even at least justify bringing them in. They take this idea and produce nothing more than a ‘monster of the week’.
    • I can however appreciate I’d likely have the same reaction as the Engineer in the movie did, if I went to cryo-sleep for 2,000 years and I woke up to a talking cockroach claiming it is a god and it deserves immortality because it made a neat robot.
  • The entire crew being filled with people so incompetent that they’d fail a blood test was crazy.
  • The guns still don’t sound like Pulse RIfles.

On a positive note, I’d say the part of the movie before they arrive at the planet was decent. We all known the actor for the Synthetic was 10/10 (same as the actor for the Synth in the newest film).

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Yeah, I know people like to have great big mysteries revealed and such, but personally I think that sometimes leaving them enhances the experience far more than explaining it. I like being able to think about and debate with other people about our head canons.

For example, the unknown enemy chasing the Vasari in Sins of a Solar Empire, the cause of the Collapse in StarSector, as well as the fate of the rest of human civilisation (albeit this is almost certainly going to be revealed in 1.0), or the motivations (if any) of the Shivans in Freespace.

I often find myself a little disappointed by the reveal, even if it’s executed well. In Prometheus’s case, we’ll- That was done pretty badly, so yeah…

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It made black goo which is a stain on the Alien franchise from that point forward. Not a single movie, or any piece of franchise can get rid of this black stain.

Xenomorphs are no longer a mistery, engineers are no longer a mistery, years of lore about Queen Mother and such demolished, all because Ridley Scott had got fungal infection and saw black snot comming out his nose, so now we have to suffer it too.

Even Alien Ressurection didn’t fuck with everything as much as Prometheus did. Ridley Scott must die, so that the franchise can move into any meaningfull way, which is directly way from black shit.
Even in movies he doesn’t direct this black piss has to be a focus of the plot.

Super smart scientists acting like a bunch of teenagers, fucking eachother (literally), touching shit, getting their helmets off, literally horny teenagers in a cabin in woods, but actually in space.

The Alien franchise has fallen. Billions must mutate via black goo.

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cm chud cant handle attractive intelligent people enjoying intercourse

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His Napoleon movie was a crime. I feel you man.

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