"Prometheus"

[dannubis]

Hudson Hawk is an entertaining movie.

[rah]

Yeah, I kind of liked Hudson Hawk also. It's easier when you watch it with no expectations since everyone said it sucked.

[Lorizael]

An excellent mystery sci-fi.

The mystery is how an actor as good as Charlize Theron could come across as so wooden and uninterested.

[rah]

I can only assume that she doesn't bare her chest like she does in "Reindeer Games"

[Thomasbrought]

promethius is dope

[Imran Siddiqui]

Ratings wise, Prometheus beats Hudson Hawk and Deep Blue Sea pretty handily, however:

Hudson Hawk (22%):
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hudson_hawk/

Deep Blue Sea (57%):
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1090759-deep_blue_sea/

Prometheus (73%):
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/prometheus_2012/

[Imran Siddiqui]

dp

[Lorizael]

I don't have hard data to back this up, but I've noticed that review aggregators seem to suffer from a kind of inflation near the time of a movie's release. They're either far too high or far too low. With time, the results seem to settle on the "true" value.

That said, who cares; it was a crap movie regardless of what the reviewers say.

[Grandpa Troll]

I can only assume that she doesn't bare her chest like she does in "Reindeer Games"

No rah, but she did expose more than she did here in the Snow White/Huntsman movie

[MOBIUS]

I don't have hard data to back this up, but I've noticed that review aggregators seem to suffer from a kind of inflation near the time of a movie's release. They're either far too high or far too low. With time, the results seem to settle on the "true" value.

That said, who cares; it was a crap movie regardless of what the reviewers say.

What Lori said.

[Berzerker]

sounds like someone made ancient aliens into a movie

I'd rather see a movie taking us back in time to the first civilizations and show the aliens running the world

[DaShi]

Technically so does the title "Alien"

Holy ****! Is that what that thing was? I thought it was someone's pitbull.

[DaShi]

Oh, but they make that effort! Jesus H. Christ it's bad. As far as I can tell, the premise is that, 50 years before we fly to the stars to seek an alien race, somehow our collective unconscious is wiped clean of all memories of science fiction narratives. Among the many amazing things we then have to learn anew are (and I don't thing these are spoilers, per se):

1) Landing in one valley on a planet and not seeing anyone there does NOT mean the planet is uninhabited.
2) If you're stuck in an enormous structure for a while, and one part of it has a whole bunch of dead bodies piled up, that is NOT the one place you should decide to hunker down.
3) If you are a biologist and encounter an alien life form that you describe to your ship's crew as "four feet long, reptilial, with translucent skin," your first instinct should probably not be to try to play with it.
4) The creepy robot seems creepy for a reason.

That's just the idiocies. Don't even get me started on how bad the script is overall or how inane the whole premise is. Seriously, if you want to see "Prometheus" and your girlfriend wants to see "What to Expect When You're Expecting," just take her suggestion and use it as a bargaining chip for something new to do in bed after; you'll get better sex AND a better movie.

What part of Charlize Theron did you not understand?

[Lorizael]

What part of Charlize Theron did you not understand?

The new Ripley is pretty hot, too.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

What part of Charlize Theron did you not understand?

I understand every part of Charlize Theron, though no part as well as I would like. But if all I wanted was to ogle Charlize and didn't mind her being surrounded by a positively idiotic sci-fi flick, I'd stay home as rent Aeon Flux.

Also, Lori is wrong: Shaw bears about as much resemblance to Ripley as Ralph Maccio does to Chuck Norris.

There's a good film inside Prometeus, trying like an alien fetus to get out; that film develops David, McVickers, and even Shaw into deep, complex characters and pits them against each other in a psychologically-compelling narrative. That film also gets around to explaining why Weyland is Guy Pearce in old-guy make-up instead of just an actual old actor. That movie would be the brilliant love-child of Alien and Bladerunner; but this movie is the result of a shabby one-night-stand between Alien and a stoned sophomore Religious Studies major.

[Imran Siddiqui]

That film also gets around to explaining why Weyland is Guy Pearce in old-guy make-up instead of just an actual old actor.

Speculation is sequals may include flashbacks or videos to a young Weyland.

[Guynemer]

I'm hoping it wasn't simply so that they could use young Pearce in the viral marketing fake-TED talk campaign.

[Lorizael]

Also, Lori is wrong: Shaw bears about as much resemblance to Ripley as Ralph Maccio does to Chuck Norris.

They're nothing alike, but people are obviously drawing the comparison. I simply mean that the actor who plays Dr. McGodPants, Noomi Rapace, is nice on the eyes.

There's a good film inside Prometeus, trying like an alien fetus to get out; that film develops David, McVickers, and even Shaw into deep, complex characters and pits them against each other in a psychologically-compelling narrative. That film also gets around to explaining why Weyland is Guy Pearce in old-guy make-up instead of just an actual old actor. That movie would be the brilliant love-child of Alien and Bladerunner; but this movie is the result of a shabby one-night-stand between Alien and a stoned sophomore Religious Studies major.

[MOBIUS]

Amen to that!

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'm hoping it wasn't simply so that they could use young Pearce in the viral marketing fake-TED talk campaign.

Apparently, I read it was because they were going to have a dream flashback to young Weyland, but that was cut - but they already hired Pierce for the role. Which sucks royally, because apparently Max von Sydow was in talks for it.

[Donegeal]

I enjoyed it. I think alot of people went in expecting answers and were upset that they didn't get them.

[Sava]

Hudson Hawk? Oh God.

[Al B. Sure!]

sounds like someone made ancient aliens into a movie

I'd rather see a movie taking us back in time to the first civilizations and show the aliens running the world

Umm...

Stargate?

You're like 20 years, a movie, 3 television series, and a bunch of DVD movies late, Berzerker.

[Alexander's Horse]

I'd still like to know why no-one locks their car in the movies and weapons never jam or need reloading

[Lonestar]

I'm not too sure about the whole "The reason the engineers want to kill us is because we killed Space Jesus 2000 years ago" thing.

Also, everyone acts like an ******* to David, is shocked when David acts like an *******.

[Addled Platypus]

never ever see "Oh,God" the movies

GT exposure in "Devils Advocate"

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Also, this:

[Addled Platypus]

great stuff Rufus

[Berzerker]

Umm...

Stargate?

You're like 20 years, a movie, 3 television series, and a bunch of DVD movies late, Berzerker.

that wasn't going back in time to show the 1st civilizations, but I liked the premise and it was a decent movie

[ricketyclik]

I just saw it, and thought it was pretty good. Sure, derivative, but how many movies aren't, and a pretty good effort considering it's the 7th (?) in the franchise. The (other than Alien) movie it reminded me a lot of was 2001: A Space Odyssey. I also liked the David Brinn-like exploration of an unstable new DNA finding its way in the universe.

There were a lot of hinted at but unexplored aspects, but I kind of like that low-in-exposition style of story telling, leaving the audience to their own conjectures. Of course it also leaves plenty of room for sequels, prequels and spin-offs.

I don't get the "The reason the engineers want to kill us is because we killed Space Jesus 2000 years ago" reference of Lonestar's above - I thought it was unknown as to why the engineers had it in for us, having created us in the first place.