Super Quick Review: Yes its pretty great.

Slightly Longer Review:

Its interesting, it looks beautiful and it toys with you through the majority of its running time without you feeling too short changed.

The statements about it being a tangential prequel to Alien it pretty much on the money. Oh the slimey gits are present but mainly in a beta format with facehuggers showing up with extra worm abilities and agility, and they do less face hugging and more straight using mouths as unwilling blowjob dispensers. But again its a sideshow main trust is the whole jazz of the journey and the reasons of this lot landing up on a planet that makes The Burren look habitable by comparison.

The meat of the sandwich is heavy with all that why are we here, is there a deeper purpose to life, Can one reconcile faith with the discovery of conflicting evidence, will Idris Elba shag Charlise Theron you know the deep stuff. Thankfully again its all handled with a deft touch and does not weight you down until you needed an enema of 6 straight Deathwish movies to remove it.

Do you get an answer to all the question in the trailer? No of course you don't if you think you would you clearly are a nutter or a member of a church that worships ridley scotts left earlobe or something. But its the journey that's always the fun part, and the journey here is a silken road of comfort and fun. That said one section does really crush you with its refusal to answer, its fatalism really does work and without giving to much away but it involves Guy Pearce and a rather massive head injury. I guess sometimes what you seek will not be answered or answered rather painfully.

All this non answery stuff does mean the film sets up massively for a sequel, its got places to go places beyond the Alien linkage to something unrelated.

Again I should mention for the budget this film looks amazing. Seriously Ridley has clearly discovered how to make things shiny without deploying all the budgetary skill of the Greek government. For one they remembered to not coat every scene in grim darkness, probably for the best because that would be a disaster in 3D. (Saw it in 2D myself).

So yea, great film that largely lived up to the hype for me. Its not the second coming of Christ or anything but as a peice of multiplex existentialism you can do a lot worse. Oh and yes the last shot of the film is geekily satisfying.

I saw Prometheus in 3d.

Wasn't really anticipating it much, just had the chance and took it. Visually, it is absolutely amazing. DEF. one of those movies one must see in 3-D. It is a good movie, no gladiator or alien, but certainly a good movie. IDK if I will see it on dvd or whatever, but the 3-D was awesome with this one.

A-

It's pretty generic, sub-standard stuff.

Nothing you've not seen before, except the visuals but then you can pretty much defend Transformers, Star Wars and Battleship with that matntra too.

If Madagascar 3 is a dunce which makes inappropriate and unfunny jokes, Prometheus is the obnoxious snob who has as much brains as a vegetable.

Thank you for clarifying that eight hours later.

Always welcome, tell me when you're disappointed.

I saw it two weeks ago.

Oh, well, whatever then, I don't know what grade you gave it or if you liked it.

I assume you did, care to tell us why?

PROMETHEUS

Watched it last night at 12.01 show that was able to sell out by showtime. I was happy about that even though I ended up sitting on the side. I enjoyed this movie. I liked the style and look. The futuristic feel was well done. Fassbender was great and Theron was good too in her limited role. I liked the feeling of discovery that began in the film but I admit it kind of got "routine" towards the end. Plus, there was a lot of explaining done by characters about things that maybe shouldn't be outright verbally said or was obvious to the viewer by reading a screen in another case. I do have a couple questions.



The film makes me want to watch Alien again which I will put on the list this weekend.

Grade - A

I saw it for a second time and I'm leaning towards a B. The first hour is absolutely perfect before devolving into a fairly mediocre horror movie with utterly stupid characters ("Hi there, you cute malicious- looking snake creature!").

Fassbender carries the film, and Theron is also quite good.

Yea that probably is about right. I tend to be more forgiving about the drift though, my lack of not being a Hollywood script writer does that. Although I will say one section really is rather lazy

Quick -- which Alien franchise film am I describing?

I said the exact same thing Dark Shape. I couldn't believe the plotline was almost cut and paste to that.

As an Alien Prequel, it's fucking terrible. Granted Scott said it's not an Alien film at all but the trailers are completely misleading you to the contrary. The film as a whole does nothing but adds more questions and not even answer a single one.



Rant out of the way, what is left is an effective sci fi horror film that looks beautiful. It Has more themes then it knows what to do with and a paper thin plot, and sacrifices answering any of it's proposed ideas in favor of nameless deaths after another, which is fine. There's very little build up, but the production itself is so well done that even By-The-numbers is better than average. Acting is very solid, and the thrills are genuinely solid. I had a good time watching it and am definitely down for a sequel. It's good enough to bring class back to the franchise, but it has a long way to go to lead to anything significant.

It looks and sounds great though, and the 3D is very well used.

B+ right now, once my disappointment goes to a more stand alone level, I may like it more.

Scott's apparently really fond of Aliens, and there's a pretty clear reference to it in this film with Weyland Corp's motto being "Building Better Worlds."

Wasn't Cameron involved at some point in the real early stages with Scott? It's hard to ignore a sequel to your film that is more popular and won more awards to at least some degree

What a disappointing and frustrating movie. I just wasted $15. It's actually somewhat good, but it is incredibly frustrating to have this fucking movie making you ask a bunch of questions and not answering any of them.

3/5 stars

They should have stuck with their first idea of making it an Alien prequel. I hope they don't make a sequel.

They had talked about working together -- Cameron writing, Scott directing -- on an Alien 5, but that got shelved when Fox went forward with Alien vs. Predator.

I'm not terribly bothered by the lack of answers in Prometheus. I like the fact that we never understand the Engineers.

I have the same thoughts as most here. It may not manage to be Ridley's new masterpriece, but it does the job of wowing the audience with its so so beautiful production (the fact that it didn't have an overbown budget is indeed amazing). From the opening sequence, to the planet landscapes and lush ship interiors, every bit of the film was visually amazing. As a horror film, it wasn't THAT effective. Every non-horror aspect of it was fantastic though. Had it been an full-blown sci-fi adventure, I think it would have been that film that we were all waiting for. Fassbender and Rapace stood out in their roles, but Theron and the rest were good as well. All in all, it's not one of the absolute best sci-fi films ever made, but its sequel has the potential of being one.

A- (8.5/10)

God Theron, worst Escape pod ever! She is a great character

Well I loved it. It's not a good "horror" film, but that's just more false advertisement than anything, I feel. But it is a visually stunning science fiction film that makes some awesomely-geeky connections to one of my favorite films, with some great performances and an intriguing plot. And yeah, it doesn't answer a whole lot, but I'm with The Dark Shape in that I'm okay with that.

No it was fucking terrible. Just sad and frustrating and stupid

Also gotta love the George Lucasing at the end there. Wouldn't it be great to explain how the alien was born and how the planet came to look like that and why the ship isNO WHO GIVES A SHIT

If there is a dumber screenwriter in Hollywood than Damon Lindelof, I mercifully have not seen his or her work

Well it states its on an entirely different planet right from the beginning

Different planet? I don't follow you