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For its first four installments, the Alienfranchise was most concerned with offering up a combination of horror and sci-fi action, and less concerned with delving into lore. Prometheus, however, goes in a different direction, and Scott uses the prequel to explain the origin of the Xenomorphs and the Engineers. Though the film earned generally positive reviews and has a 73% score on Rotten Tomatoes, these explanations demystified the franchise, a move that, in addition to a focus on David (Michael Fassbender), an android, proved controversial.
I’m in the minority, but I like the lore provided by Prometheus and the movie.
The Alien movies didn’t come across as mystique to me rather that they left me hanging too much on a lot of background.
I think the problem with the two movies (Pro. & Sequel) was mainly that it didn’t give enough. So much lore was left unsaid or in 15-30 second scenes which while extremely carefully laid out and awesome, felt too divorced from the plot for the average viewer.
The story and ideas were great. I loved the abortion. Michael Fassbender was appropriately creepy.
However, this is the movie where the Prometheus School of Running Away came from.
Prometheus is a great example of “what could have been”. Great themes, fantastic visuals, some cool ideas, but… I don’t know what the word/phrase is but the people, their motivations and actions are almost all just ridiculous.
To call it all off, they just abandon the interesting potential they set up by killing Shaw, all the engineers, and basically repeating the movie in covenant.
I still maintain that Prometheus was god enough, and hypes were still high for Covenant. And I liked the earlier concepts they had, but killing off whats her face before the movie even began and going in the direction they did made Covenant much worse than it could have or should have been. I still haven’t seen the new one.
Prometheus was a good movie, all those purist haters should shut up and let the man make movies.
It was good. Until it wasn’t.
Ridley Scott knows he made a shit movie.
Shut up and let the man make movies.
Monsters remain scary as long as the audience doesn’t know much about them because the imagination is always scarier than the reality. Giving them a backstory was a dumb move, not helped by the writing being absolutely fucking abysmal, but that’s always been Ridley Scott’s achilles heel. Give him a great script and he’s one of the best directors around.
I like to go into a movie with as few expectations as possible and hear as little about it as possible. This has never bit me in the ass as hard as Prometheus. I don’t like horror(?) movies, haven’t seen any other Alien movies, and had assumed it was about Greek Mythology. 😆
The fact that black goo “eats” other life to “grow” implies that this Engineer on, according to the article, ancient planet Earth wasn’t just planting life. Also, there was almost no lava on Earth so it would be some recent geological time. I can only accept that he was planting human-like Intelligent life, perhaps our species itself. I liked it because it seemed to align with creationist myth and that’s a huge cultural mashup to me.
Anyway, I tend to overthink…
There’s another ‘fact’ taken for granted by this article that I can’t quite follow. They say the Engineer was acting on its own and this was a negative behavior in their species, a bit of a paria. What sustains such claim?
PS. I only saw Aliens (1986) and Prometheus. Not a fan of horror, but SciFi.
