Prometheus (2012)

[Groggy]

No, I meant I don't understand what are they doing with the films.

They're not making them.

[The Firecracker]

He was posting here less and less as the years went by

Years? Doesn't seem like he was around for that long.
Now we can't really know when he registered I guess...?
I liked him too.

[Dust Devil]

I've seen this in the meantime, hopefully I'll snatch some free time and post my thoughts in a couple of days.

[Dust Devil]

Anyway.

In short lines: a pointless exercise. In my, very humble opinion, they should have focused more on what made Alien a great SF franchise in first place. The atmosphere, the 'hang time', the pace, the ideas. They partially did this, but not in a good way. The biggest problem is they basically rehashed all of the characters from the first movie, and made them sillier, and then threw them in a Ickean scenario. Again I ask; what was the point? Also, a lot of times I had the feeling Scott was trying to even the score with Cameron, if there was, objectively, a score to even in first place (for the latter directing the sequel).

Standalone, this movie does deserve (a near) 7/10. In the franchise, it merely scratches a 6/10 on a sunny day.

[Dust Devil]

Needless to sayl I don't expect anything good from the second one.

[Groggy]

Prometheus had only peripheral connection with Alien anyway. They should have kept it a standalone movie.

I thought it started really well then dive-bombed into cliched stupidity. Characters act stupidly to forward the story, the plot takes nonsensical twists and the creature designs are underwhelming. A forgettable turd, so pretty much par for the Ridley Scott course.

[Dust Devil]

Well, they explained the genesis of the Xenomorph, I just don't understand why they needed a whole movie for that.

[Groggy]

I didn't really need to see a giant alien vagina going down on a white space giant either.