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Sounds good.

I just watched Journey 2 The Mysterious Island with my daughter...it requires you to suspend disbelief and my daughter had all sorts of hard questions about the utter lack of any kind of science in it.

I liked it. They went from what was originally going to be some pretty ham-handed origin stuff into something subtle enough to be confusing.

apparently if you wait until the very last credit of the movie, there's a 'credit' that gives a date and a website

there are some other viral things floating around

sequels?

Okay finally saw it. I've got to let it jell a bit. Perhaps I was expecting too much from it but I was definitely entertained.

I bet that big bald white alien dude would crush all competitors at this years @Fit games and maybe be the first huge alien white dude to conquer Mt. Midoriyama.

Liked it.

"A" for effort, FX, character designs, ambitious goals.

"D" for general 'tardedness.

Overall: -B/C+ range.

It is a rare movie indeed that can live up to its hype and it is even rarer, still, when a director returns to old source material and somehow manages not to screw the pooch in the worst possible way (as did George Lucas with the SW prequels). Much of Prometheus is the realization of things scrapped from the original Alien movie due to budgetary constraints, a need to edit the movie down to a servicable viewing time, and the limits of the technology of the day. So, I'm glad Scott had a chance to dust off his stack of Giger designs and go to work. Visually, I was completely engaged and totally drunk on the eye candy. Scott's directing is as deft as it ever was and he can make even repulsive content look beautiful. Of course, the plot is the real problem, and I can't help but think that even though I'm sure the narrative suffered due to editing the movie to an acceptable viewing time, adding the excised scenes won't fix what is fundamentally wrong with the story. However, I thorougly enjoyed the movie and would recommend it to anyone who is a fan of the original Alien or Blade Runner. That Prometheus had me thinking about what I had watched long after the movie was over indicates that it was worth my time and money.

Saw it this afternoon. It's almost as if there were five or six different drafts of the script, with different elements, and then they just decided to jam them all together in lieu of a coherent conclusion.

WildGorillaMan wrote:Saw it this afternoon. It's almost as if there were five or six different drafts of the script, with different elements, and then they just decided to jam them all together in lieu of a coherent conclusion.

WGM, that makes me think of this video:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjE2UlrE76M[/youtube]

Bram wrote:

WildGorillaMan wrote:Saw it this afternoon. It's almost as if there were five or six different drafts of the script, with different elements, and then they just decided to jam them all together in lieu of a coherent conclusion.

WGM, that makes me think of this video:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjE2UlrE76M[/youtube]

This comic pretty much sums up Prometheus.

I saw this on Direct TV last night.

Maybe I missed something when I went to take a piss, but I did not understand why they were going back to destroy earth.

FX were really good but the story had no real flow and I was especially underwhelmed at the Kamakazie run at that mother ship....Bruce Willis and Will Smith saved earth way better than that.

I liked it. It was nice to see them use one of the old Giger Dune designs.

Yeah, this wasn't as bad as I expected, yet worse that I'd hoped.

The original script actually made sense, but was more like an "Alien 5" movie.