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17 minutes ago, Mercury33 said:

I watched Prometheus again this morning. IDGAF what anyone says. That movie is great. 

 

I believe I only saw it once when I was in the theater and enjoyed it at the time. I think maybe there was a bit too much nitpicking going on afterwards by some people (The scientists are stupid for taking off their helmet, they didn't run to the side, etc)

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On 11/17/2021 at 7:31 AM, Mercury33 said:

I watched Prometheus again this morning. IDGAF what anyone says. That movie is great. 

 

Visually, it's really good. I just can't stand how it kinda ruins some of the mystique of the first film (why did we ever need to know the origin of the space jockey and xenomorph?) and it's not scary. A big part of what makes the horror in Alien effective has to do with how relatable the character's decisions are in trying to prevent the horror, but mostly because of things beyond their control almost every attempt to stop it unexpectedly makes the situation worse.  In Prometheus it's like the characters go out of their way to make dumb decisions (instead of slipping and falling and accidentally getting attacked by the facehugger, crew members actively try to provoke the space cobra, etc), so I stopped caring pretty early on. Though tbf this series has been irrelevant since part 3 so I wasn't expecting much to begin with.  At least Marvel films still feel kinda relevant, even if the initial hype of experiencing the MCU is fading out a bit.

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3 hours ago, Mercury33 said:

I watched Prometheus again this morning. IDGAF what anyone says. That movie is great. 

Movie is good for the first two thirds. It falls apart in the last act. I just watched it recently too. Once the shenanigans start to happen the movie becomes a boring horror movie that requires characters to do stupid things in order for them to die. 

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Prometheus is one or two more drafts away from being excellent, there's just too many instances of "why would you, a super smart scientist, do that?", and things that could have easily been explained away with a line or two, even if it was just lampshading. The caesarean section scene was great though. 

 

Covenant felt like Scott going, "oh you want to nitpick my movie, well fuck you I won't even bother trying to pretend this time! Fuck it, they don't even wear helmets at all this time and get infected from spores!" 

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The trailer for Prometheus is better than Prometheus.

 

6 hours ago, Brick said:

Prometheus is one or two more drafts away from being excellent

The script that Prometheus was... derived from was actually good and had none of the stupid shit that ended up in the movie. I think Jon Spieghts wrote it... I have a draft of it somewhere. All of the silly shit happened once Lindelof got involved and wanted to focus more on the Engineers than the 

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On 11/17/2021 at 12:37 PM, Brick said:

Prometheus is one or two more drafts away from being excellent, there's just too many instances of "why would you, a super smart scientist, do that?", and things that could have easily been explained away with a line or two, even if it was just lampshading. The caesarean section scene was great though. 

 

Covenant felt like Scott going, "oh you want to nitpick my movie, well fuck you I won't even bother trying to pretend this time! Fuck it, they don't even wear helmets at all this time and get infected from spores!" 

 

I thought it was funny how a few years ago he said he was considering doing multiple sequels to Covenant.  It almost had the tone of a threat when he said it, and based on online reactions a lot of fans of the series definitely took it as such.

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11 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

The trailer for Prometheus is better than Prometheus.

 

The script that Prometheus was... derived from was actually good and had none of the stupid shit that ended up in the movie. I think Jon Spieghts wrote it... I have a draft of it somewhere. All of the silly shit happened once Lindelof got involved and wanted to focus more on the Engineers than the 


THAN THE WHAT?!?!?

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Covenant, now there’s an utter piece of trash no one asked for. How do you do a sequel to Prometheus and it’s NOT about Shaw and David’s journey or what happens when they get there. F U Ridley. 
 

That being said, once more for the people in the back…Prometheus is fucking fantastic!

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Prometheus is one of those movies where the buildup is so fucking good and it just absolutely shits the bed in spectacular fashion in the last act. I'm still mad about it whenever it comes up. It had so much potential, at least at the time. Only saw it once in the theater and was absolutely livid that it squandered everything about that amazing lore. Only other movie in recent memory that shat the bed this hard was Hereditary for my money but at least it was hilarious. 

 

I refuse to see Covenant or whatever that other shit is called.

 

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21 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

Prometheus is one of those movies where the buildup is so fucking good and it just absolutely shits the bed in spectacular fashion in the last act. I'm still mad about it whenever it comes up. It had so much potential, at least at the time. Only saw it once in the theater and was absolutely livid that it squandered everything about that amazing lore. Only other movie in recent memory that shat the bed this hard was Hereditary for my money but at least it was hilarious. 

 

I refuse to see Covenant or whatever that other shit is called.

 

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Covenant is Ridley Scott basically saying FUCK YOU to everyone who critiqued Prometheus.

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