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Originally Posted by _____V_____
You need to watch it as a standalone film, separate from the Alien franchise, to appreciate it a bit more, specially the questions it leaves you with. Think of it as a spin-off.
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Watched Prometheus again last night. My 6th or 7th viewing, and I love it a wee bit more again. As for the questions, all answers are given in the movie if watched carefully, IMO. I still say it's a great sci-fi film with a dash of surreality.
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I always watch movies as "stand alone films" so that they get a fair opinion. The story itself was fine but like most movies today, I was left not caring about most of the characters. Most of them are "fodder" and other ones are either too stupid or mean spirited enough that you want to see them get killed anyway.
I also didn't really like how a grey octopus looking creature mixes with a body builder looking pale man to come out as a black "Alien" style creature. I didn't really care for the look of the Engineers themselves. Why body builders with 6 pack abs?...lol. They looked like comic book superheroes or supervillians. I did like their exo-suit, but their actual design I thought was cheesy.
The whole philosophical ideals of the film were fine. The effects with the spaceship were great and virtual map of the cave was neat.
But it didn't really offer me anything new. After a half hour I knew the girl and the android would survive. I knew the old man would be on the ship after they played his hologram. I knew the engineers wouldn't be friendly. I knew the engineer wasn't dead after the spaceship crashes. I knew the octopus looking thing was still in the lifeboat. I was never really left "wondering" what was going to happen. It was really pretty straight forward.
Like I said, it's not a bad movie. But I also don't think it was anything I hadn't seen before.