DRuM wrote:Oh dear. People who have just come back from seeing the movie are not giving it great scores. Apparently:
It created more questions than it answered.
Lack of suspense.
Stuck too closely to the character archetypes created in Alien.
One dimensional characters.
Some really dodgy writing and more than a few plot holes.
and that the 3D is hardly used and therefore useless.
I was excite but now I'm disappoint.
You got it pretty much spot on, I still enjoyed the film and dont feel let down, will be seeing it again, but the writing sucked in certain parts and dont try relating it to the Alien franchise too much, to me it felt like what Alien would be today if Alien hadnt of been made. I kinda expected all that tbh just from the adverts but what pissed me off was the 3d, I completely forgot I was watching a 3d film after the 1st 5 mins and was just left with the annoying glasses on my face, if youre going to watch this then dont fork out the extra for 3d because it really isnt worth it and hope they keep that in mind for when the make the next one
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its a cool novelty from time to time I think, be quite happy living without it though, only seen avatar that really impressed me and that film was proper bogging... but yea for films like prometheus its pointless, just ruins the picture really
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Yeah well I dislike it because half of the time it completely fucks with my eyes. I can't properly play on a 3DS with 3D enabled either. My eyes just get tangled up because of it. Really have to force them to properly focus on the picture which is very tiring.
I like it when the effect simply enhances the immersiveness of the shot, parallax, etc. I hate it when I feel the need to duck or swat things away from my face.
3D can be done well but you really need good cinematographers to pull it off and there aren't enough talented people in Hollywood to fully take advantage of it. Instead we get visually assaulted by small-minded morons who just got a new toy and think it's funny to piss off their audience.
[edit] I guess my main gripe with the approach to 3D is that it somehow has made movie directors believe that their audiences should become active participants in the film instead of just watching the film.
Eraser wrote:Yeah well I dislike it because half of the time it completely fucks with my eyes. I can't properly play on a 3DS with 3D enabled either. My eyes just get tangled up because of it. Really have to force them to properly focus on the picture which is very tiring.
mine do that, not sure if its common but for the 1st 5 mins of a 3d movie im convinved im going to get chronic headache if my eyes dont adjust, then throughout the film theres usually moments when it feels like ive lost focus, it reminds me of looking at those 'pictures' with the hidden picture ? (its a scooner dumb ass), same with the 3ds too. In this there was a few times where nothing 3d was happening but i could see 2 images overlaid on each other, ended up looking like a reflection on the glasses *shrug*.
Agree that they shouldnt have things jumping out at you all the time n all, its better when its subtle otherwise its just distracting.
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Avatar was the only film I've ever seen in 3D that I felt was worth it. Every other movie made me wish they had a 2d version showing I could go to instead.
* It created more questions than it answered.
* Lack of suspense.
* Some really dodgy writing and more than a few plot holes.
drum's list is basically spot on - this is yet another confusing, forgettable, incoherent, committee-driven snoozefest with a checklist of franchise references. a lot of it was boring and some bits (specifically dialog on the ship) were so bad that by the third one people were laughing out loud in the cinema - which i was really glad of because it covered up my involuntarily saying "oh, fuck off" out loud.
* Stuck too closely to the character archetypes created in Alien.
* One dimensional characters.
all of the characters are poorly-conceived copies or pastiches of characters in the first two alien movies and avp. for the actors - charlize theron is brilliant as usual, michael fassbender makes a pretty good robot. idris elba is given nothing to work with, guy pearce just embarrasses himself (must've owed somebody a favour or had contractual obligations) and noomi rapace is an annoying squeaky elf.
* and that the 3D is hardly used and therefore useless.
the 3d in the first few minutes (where they do use it) is fantastic - it's all epic, sweeping shots of skye and really made me want to visit the place. didn't want to go to a 3d showing, but that made it almost worth it.
the soundtrack is weak.
the other big thing with aliens is the company - that instantly believable world of mundane, functionally designed technology and massive corporate power. very little of that survives and the visual references are jarring next to the star trek spangliness of everything else. the company is given a few explanatory lines but it's very clumsy in comparison to what has gone before.
the things that'd justify being such a miserable moaning bastard about it can't be said because they're spoilers. it would be like revealing the killer in a murder mystery, except that instead of denying someone the satisfaction of a puzzle solved, you're denying them a wave of disappointment.
idk, it's not avatar/red tails bad, but if it had to be ranked it in the franchise then it'd be somewhere just below alien3/avp and is definitely best watched as if it's unrelated/non-canon.
Seen it again, this is all Lindelof's fault - 'kick this cunt in the face til your foot breaks.... Just hope they try and make a sequel now, were James Cameroon will makse sense of the clusterfuck writing that this chimp made a hash of
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Haven't seen the movie yet, but it did kind of look like one of those things that ends up bringing up interesting questions to which the answers are retarded (Lost being the prototypical example of that shit, but X-File's last episode is still on the hook for that).
As for 3D, it's shit. Aside from the fact it hurts my eyes, the picture is necessarily dimmer by about 30% which makes it look worse still. I've taken the kids to 3D movies, but I just keep my eyes closed and don't look at the screen. I can't watch it for more than half an hour without pain.
The worst thing about 3D is that it makes directors come up with retarded shots of stuff zooming into the audience. I'm almost cynical enough to think that Prometheus was designed around that shot of that huge wheel thing rolling into the screen -- "that looks awesome, now come up with a story that gives us an excuse to show that in 3D!".
- 'kick this cunt in the face til your foot breaks.... Just hope they try and make a sequel now, were James Cameroon will makse sense of the clusterfuck writing that this chimp made a hash of