re: Prometheus 2 moving forward.

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A shitty movie? No I cannot enjoy this movie. It was a confusing, lifeless mess that tried to do way too many things at once. It lacks any form of a coherent plot. It's full of forgettable characters who do NOTHING that makes sense throughout the entire film. Literally nothing. Their only job in the film is to rush to the next plot point because frick you that's why. There was only one actor playing a robot but everybody else might as well have been a robot as well.
"Engineer Head explodes. Anybody want to know why? No? Okay on to the next plot point."
"Robot tries to poison douchebag mcfratbro. We won't explain any of this to you though."
"Main character girl births a squid baby. Anybody care what happened or why? Nope okay moving on."
"One of our crewmen turned into a zombie and attacked us. I don't think anyone wants an explanation of that either. Moving on."
"Hey I'm gonna crash into that ship with this ship. Yall better get into the escape pod." "Nah we're good."
"Hey robot we just survived this whole mess against all odds. Lets quickly decide to get in this ancient ship full of toxic goo that makes me birth squid babies with no food or water and look for an alien homeworld rather than going back to earth and helping move humanity forward with this technology. Surely nothing could go wrong. I mean it's not like the last alien we met just ripped your head off." "Aight."

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Well, just about all of that was addressed or answered at some point, so I'm not sure what your problem with it is...unless you just are bitching to bitch. But there are very simple explanations for almsot everything you listed.

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It was awful and for a movie that hyped itself up to be an intellectual masterpiece, it was the farthest thing from it.

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It may not have been an "intellectual masterpiece," but it was certainly better than most give it credit for. It's easy to try to pick holes into it, sure, but that doesn't make it a bad movie. And like I said, a lot of the questions and shite people bitch about was addressed and they just don't like the answers.

I really liked the first one and I'll be looking forward to the sequel, no doubt. And I can't till all of you that hated the first one watch the second one anyway solely to find more things to bitch about though...should be pretty entertaining to hear all of the bitching and read all of that bullshite.

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Prometheus was on par with Tron: Legacy, but with better acting and a cooler cast.


weak troll is weak

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A very pretty movie that wasn't very good? Seems like a pretty obvious comparison to me.

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That's the key, and what ruined Prometheus for a lot of people: expectations. They were too high for most people, and no matter what was on screen, it never would've lived up to them.

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Absolutely. The first time I saw it I had gone in with all of the baggage that comes with seeing one of these movies a couple weeks after it hitting the theaters. I did nothing but criticize. I've seen it a couple of times since then and I've enjoyed it more each time. Once you take it for what it is, it's not a bad movie.

The only sequel that would be more controversial on this board would be Drive 2.

I didn't have any expectations. I thought the first one was a decent movie. It wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible either. A little hard to follow for me at times because I was distracted, but this sequel will be one that I wait for the dvd release to watch though.

I'm excited.

Oh and 10 pages +

Prometheus was full of flaws of course. But I enjoyed it because I enjoy sci fi future alien flicks. This next one gives Ridley a chance to fix those flaws and make a much better movie hopefully. Like the alien at the end of the movie. It never looked like that originally, I remembered it having more legs than the two normal human legs. Must have merged with an alien bug on the planet after it had no one else to impregnate.

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My problem is the assumption that people who like the film are right, and that you can't not like the film (I'm not saying you do, but people confirmed your comment after) as if people who don't like the film have some invalid reason, or they "expected" too much, and that caused their distaste. It's like those who don't like the film are WRONG.

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I'm not sure anyone is saying that those who dislike the film are wrong. If they are, they fall into the same category of douchebags who say that those who like the movie are wrong.

However, to address your expectation point, when a movie has been talked up and hyped for as long as Prometheus was, people expected greatness. And whenever the movie did not meet their expectations, they proceeded to bash the ever living shite out of it for not obtaining that greatness. I think they thought less of it and criticized it more since it did not live up to what they were expecting the movie to be.

As an example from my own life, I saw Napoleon Dynamite much later than everyone else, and by that point I had heard a million times how hilarious it was. So I went in expecting greatness. When it didn't live up to my expectations, I thought "meh, it was kinda funny." I think that if I had seen that movie blind without knowing anything, I would have enjoyed it much more.

The same thing can be applied to LSU football. We are a great team and the fans demand greatness. Whenever the team struggles, instead of remembering that LSU still has an awesome football, people only talk about the negative.

Not sure if that made any sense.

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you obviously know nothing about film

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I could probably learn a lot from a guy who doesn't think Tron and Prometheus are both science fiction...

Do you know who I am, you're just fricking with me, right?