"Prometheus"

[Imran Siddiqui]

Wait, the movie is actually good? WTF?

Why wouldn't it be? It's Ridley Scott revisiting his best movie ever and starring Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender. It'd take some effort to make that truly suck.

[Kuciwalker]

But it's called "Prometheus", which basically gives away the entire plot.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Technically so does the title "Alien"

[MOBIUS]

It'd take some effort to make that truly suck.

And somehow he managed to succeed.

[Lorizael]

You know what I hate? I hate plots that depend on vehicles being parked too far away from the action. Ugh.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Why wouldn't it be? It's Ridley Scott revisiting his best movie ever and starring Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender. It'd take some effort to make that truly suck.

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.

[Elok]

Are there NEW and IMPROVED H.R. Giger genital-demons?

[MOBIUS]

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.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Comparison time - what did you think of "The Avengers"?

[Docfeelgood]

Comparison time - what did you think of "The Avengers"?

Best movie so far this year.

[MOBIUS]

Comparison time - what did you think of "The Avengers"?

I thought The Avengers was pretty disappointing too, but at least it doesn't pretend to be about anything other than comic book superheros...

[Berzerker]

What is driving you nuts?

the repetitive blaring sound like an ambulance or prison break

is blaring a word?

I just mute the damn things if the remote is close

[Guynemer]

It is the same sound they used in the original Alien trailer.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well screw you guys, I thought it was great! An excellent mystery sci-fi. Kind of reminded me of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama, well, you know, if there was looming killer aliens in the background.

[MOBIUS]

That's OK Imran, I actually enjoyed movies like Hudson Hawk and Deep Blue Sea when they came out - we're all allowed the odd guilty little peccadillo from time to time...