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MARK11  08/25/2012 10:24 PM Report

Gustav...grow up. Get outa your Dad's basement. You don't anything about storytelling; the history of sci-fi in particular. Just...go back to your REALITY TV and sniping on websites.

CrispyChicken  06/11/2012 06:52 PM Report

At the highest level of human potential and technological advances in the future. A trillion dollars invested in cross thumping religious scientist and crew that all have the characteristics and sensibilities of 10 year old children. This movie has so many flaws and insults to intellectual integrity and honesty, one could write a book, it was a philosophical mess.

Evolution is a fact for one. The only way the creator idea works and for this movie to have been made properly is if there was some sort of reference suggesting the aliens genetically modified / bred with existing life on earth around the time of the missing link era, then they left and life continued. The human species evolving over time into what it is today. Finding the aliens in the future using clues left behind, by a few aliens.

Then other aliens of the same species, getting pissed off when we find them. Being completely disgusted by our way of life and what we've become, then deciding to wipe us out. This could all be done with out being said if made intelligently. This movie was fun to watch and look at aesthetically, over all it had the potential to be very good, but was screwed up by a fundamentalist creationism agenda, poor writing and lacked proper character building to fit the environment.

People use to be burned alive for speculating about the nature of the stars, under religious law in the name of the cross. All most everything you can think of is a sin or blasphemy, there is even thought crime under the same religious views. All religion especially cross thumpers think they are at the center of the universe.

Science fiction, general philosophy and peoples theories are an alternative perspective for open mined people and consequently the real cross thumpers feel all of the above to be anti religious. This has always been the case and these new creationist are desperate because they have lost and will continue to lose the argument.

So in recent years, pathetically they attempt to trepass on other abstract theories ideas and facts trying to bind their religious cross thumping crap to it. Like demonstrated in the Jesus VS. Aliens movie talked about here.

Gustav  06/11/2012 03:27 PM Report

She said hard disk i think, hårddisk in Swedish means hard drive. if anyone wondered...

She made a mistake!

REMant  06/11/2012 11:10 AM Report

The consensus of informed opinion seems to be that this is the worst sci-fi movie since Avatar. There are some reviews containing the plot on IMDb. It seems to me to be something of an Indiana Jones parody. I detected music lifted from Also sprach Zarathustra. It also has a runaway android reminiscent of Hal. The plot appears - it should be no surprise - to reprise the family romance of Whig mythology. We were transplanted from another time and place, and indomitable women have to battle big business to return to our primitive ancestry. Now, I'd like to know the meaning of life myself, but I don't think it will be found on another planet (anymore than in a knot of ganglia). Neither, apparently, did the writers.

Perhaps these fantasies are spawned by hard times, but it's curious that we can make movies technically much better than something out of the '50s, yet seemingly can not or dare not improve the script.

Film was reviewed in Scientific American, believe it or not, tho it manages to say nothing. Altho the Huff Post managed to put the best spin on it, the only critic who seems to have really liked the film was Roger Ebert.

Entertainment Weekly critic Lisa Schwarzbaum: "All one needs to know to understand 'Prometheus' and honor 'Alien' is that women can be tough fighters," she writes, referring to Noomi Rapace's lead character Elizabeth Shaw. "That the characters with the goofiest accents get killed first. That nothing beats a really primo close-up of a gooey ET creature just before it goes berserk. And that, in the great tradition of the best sci-fi films, space would be a lot more boring without intrepid human idiots who touch stuff even when told 'Don't touch that!'"

Ty Burr in the Boston Globe: "Watching 'Prometheus' is like opening a deluxe gift box from Tiffany's to find a mug from the dollar store. Everything in the film's first third primes you for what months of hype have promised, yet somewhere along the way, you begin to detect the odor of thrice-cooked hash."

Salon.com critic Andrew O'Hehir writes: "Prometheus is the story of a trillion-dollar mission to discover the origins of human life on a distant planet. Basically, this is supposed to be the greatest exploration undertaken in the history of mankind.

"So who do they send? A gaggle of fractious goons whose collective scientific nous is rivaled only by that of the Three Stooges. Within minutes of touching down (conveniently beside the only 'man-made' structures on the planet, ala 1960s Star Trek) the 'scientists' are yanking off their helmets, on the basis of 'it seems fine to me', dipping their fingers into strange organic ooze, and lugging a severed alien head back to an unquarantined spaceship in a sandwich bag.

"The plot is entirely juvenile and cliché stuff with "profound" questions like who created us. For some reason, the beings who created us also want to kill us - and it seems to involve incredibly elaborate genetic engineering that also happened to kill most of our creators in their remote "lab facility". They're CLEARLY much more powerful than we are - and they could just bomb the hell out of us, or do it in a thousand simpler ways. But no, they seem to want to utilize excessively elaborate and dangerous genetic modification or infestation - that they can't handle at all. At least, that's what I got out of it."

Not, of course, that there aren't crazies who ate it all up - no doubt the same who like dungeons and dragons and so forth - tho I would be wary of their political proclivities.