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[Party McHardy]

Arrival was better than both of those.

Oops, agreed. Amazing film.

 

[Valonquar]

Alien 4 was just the beta test for Firefly.

 

[RainblowDash]

Well I watched the vid and that was pretty amazing. I think however that was too far away from the original ideas for the Alien franchise though.

 

[Doom85]

It’s not perfect but I really like it. I liked Covenant too. I can’t think of better modern sci fi. Interstellar? Pfffff

Blade Runner 2049

Dune

Ex Machina

Annihilation

 

[SantaC]

Prometheus is an underrated gem. I dont know why people hate it. It is certainly better then most reboots.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

It's actually my favorite Alien movie after Aliens and the original Alien.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Prometheus is not a good film.

Sure does look nice though

 

[ManaByte]

Neil Blomkamp was going to make a sequel to Aliens with Ripley, Hicks, and a grown up Newt. Ridley Scott killed it. Fuck him.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Call me when they make something as dark and gritty as this again.

 

[clarky]

First half hour or so of Prometheus is fucking great, i remember thinking "what is everyone on about this is awesome" Then it just devolves into complete and utter shit.

 

[Doom85]

Call me when they make something as dark and gritty as this again.

That scene sucks because virtually all the prisoners are one dimensional and not very visually distinct so after that scene the whole cast except for Ripley, the doctor, and the preacher are possibly attempted rapists meaning I barely have anyone to give a shit about (and Ripley’s fate is already sealed, and the doctor doesn’t last long, so, yeah, a climax with pretty much nothing but unlikable assholes, “yay”). Add in awful audio mixing, badly dated CGI, the bullshit laziness that is the opening bit, the poor attempt at giving the Xenomorph a POV to build tension, and no wonder its director David Fincher doesn’t like the film being brought up around him. Not to mention the stupidity of the premise, 1 has truckers, 2 has marines, sure. 3 couldn’t decide between prison and church and so nonsensically combines them, and we’re already off to a dumb start (“we’re on the honor system”. Oh, fuck off, movie)

To go from Aliens, which has one of the most memorable ensemble group of characters in film history IMHO, to these unremarkable basic bitches:

Prometheus is flawed in a LOT of ways, but by god it is far superior to Alien 3. Fuck, Michael Fassbender alone makes it a better film.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Dude wrote a paragraph with gifs to elevate the movie with really smart people being really fucking dumb. lol. At least we knew the dudes in Alien 3 are scum.

 

[poppabk]

Prometheus - looked very nice, story was utter trash.

The Ridley Scott who crafted Alien would look at Prometheus and shudder.

Scott is yet another director, like Snyder, Waititi, etc, in dire fucking need of some creative oversight.

Nah, Ridley Scott has always been most interested in how things look, attention to (visual) detail, creating or recreating worlds.
The actual story set in those worlds is secondary - he mainly wants to explore ideas of creation and god with a small g - possibly a parallel of his own work creating 'worlds'.

 

[Gp1]

I like it too, but it suffers from the Final Fantasy XV syndrome.
A great universe and a somewhat interesting story, but in order to make sense you have to explore it on every single media and content outside of the movie. They went to a point to cut parts of it to make videos for TEDx and Youtube.

Good for a text-book omnichannel marketing case, not so good when you consider only the movie.

 

[AGRacing]

They only had a loose explanation for any of this… and it was never going to make any sense.
Prometheus is a beautiful looking mess of a movie.

 

[Doom85]

At least we knew the dudes in Alien 3 are scum.

Doesn’t make them worth watching, or their “honor system” anything but fucking idiotic if we’re whining about characters not being smart. The Sopranos has interesting scumbags, the prisoners in Alien 3 are less interesting than staring at a black piece of paper.

 

[Badlucktroll]

I like the deleted scene where the engineer speaks and he is basically like “wtf do you want!?!?” then they piss him off

 

[violence]

There was a time when I was watching Prometheus every day. It’s great.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Doesn’t make them worth watching, or their “honor system” anything but fucking idiotic if we’re whining about characters not being smart. The Sopranos has interesting scumbags, the prisoners in Alien 3 are less interesting than staring at a black piece of paper.

Better than Big Bang Theory in space.

 

[Uhtred]

This movie had one of the greatest trailers ever made

 

[diffusionx]

i like the movie because I like the idea of the truth of origins being out there somewhere, hidden amongst the ruin. I am just as fascinated by what we see in this world with stuff like the pumapunku or Baalbek stones that nobody can describe or fit into our current understood timeline and theory of history.

But the movie turned kind of shlocky instead of leaning into that. Maybe what I saw in it is too high brow for an Alien movie.

 

[DragoonKain]

I liked Prometheus a lot because of the lore. The lore is what fascinates me most about that universe. But if they would have put a lot more of it into the movie of course it would've been better.

 

[Nester99]

I really like this movie but its hard to over lock some major flaws.