Audio Reviews - Prometheus - Audio Review

A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

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  July 23, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Loethlin said ...

  See, me, as an astronomy buff, I can totally say that space is, in fact, a real place. What this movie made me feel was space is danger, sickness, madness and hostility wrapped in silence and suffocation. Only Alien managed to capture this feel of rejection from the very beginning.

  I see the awful cliches lifted from the first Alien movie. But seeing the painstaking detail put into it, I think it was deliberate. It makes me think, it's a homage, or a throw back rather than just another cliche.

  Or maybe I was just so starved for a real, good hard science fiction. I needed it to smack my ass and pull my hair. Maybe that's why I welcomed it like I did.

  On other note, it's pronouced no-mee rah-pahs

• June 23, 2012 at 11:35 PM, said ...

  Prometheus EXPLAINED - Movie Review (SPOILERS)

  
  
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  June 20, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Tony Beers said ...

• June 18, 2012 at 4:59 PM, said ...

  I LOVED this movie, it's the "Source Code" of this year for me. One of Cyrus’s complaints is only slightly relevant to me, it feels like he's looking for something more he shouldn't as far as 'More Explaining" since Prometheus has a lot of the "SHOW DON’T TELL” rule going for it. I mean, I can SEE the script written to explain more, but that would probably just turn into another complaint, right? Too MUCH Telling?  

   And I think they didn't wanna dig too deep into the Christian Philosophy/Ancient Aliens comparison because of the possible big-ass religious backlash from some audiences. For me, they touched on it, we’re smart enough to get it, we got it, we’re GOOD. Think about how it’s similar to Tron Legacy: touching on the issues of Perfection, Philosophy and questions of the Human Condition, but never having some highly extensive debate about it. We get it. There are nitpicks for Prometheus sure, but not enough to the point where this is anything below a Full Price.

   It will definitely be on my Top-Ten List of the year, very close with The Hunger Games and Chronicle, but I don’t know which will be ahead of the other yet. Despite loving it, I thought I'd post another well-known reviewer’s conflicted thoughts on the movie…

  
  
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  June 14, 2012 at 8:14 PM, said ...

  I'm just going to leave this here. 

  Sufficed to say; massive spoilers. 

• June 14, 2012 at 7:55 PM, said ...

  I see all the issues and criticisms of the film and appreciate their validity.  Even so I really liked this film.

  
  I think the film's logical flaws, holes and inconsistencies come from the film passing through so many hands and being the fruit of so many different labors with different directions and aims in mind.

  That being said, I immediately saw LV-223 and wondered what was up with that and never got a satisfactory answer from the film.  Unless this is Lindeloff's Dharma Project writ large and LV-223 is the Swan and LV-426 is the Arrow. 

  It is also totally unclear to me as to why the Engineer wants to kill the human explorers or what the recorded images of the Engineers are running from or to. 

  My hope is that a sequel of sorts in the works as I'd like to see these trailing plotlines resolved.  At least I'd like to see where Shaw and David end up. 

  
  
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  June 13, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Tony Tab said ...

  oh, and another thing about landing in the perfect place on a planet.

  Why the heck you gonna land on a spot that will go dark in 2 hours :p 

• June 13, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Tony Tab said ...

  I liked the movie, despite it's flaws, and I'd recommend to friends of the genre.
  Observations:
  Charleze Theron's icy character is a b*tch becasue her father, Weyland seemed to appreciate his 'son', David, more than her is what I got out of it.
  I thought David poisoned the Lead's lover out of spite at first but realized he was prolly just doing Weyland's bidding to 'test' it out.
  When Shaw stumbles in on Weyland and the two docs she pummeled, it took a wierd turn like.,oh,..didn't u just punch me, where is the alien baby? Nevermind,..let's go check out the engineer.
  I didn't like how the two geologists were freaked by the headless alien, then wants to pet the Eel thingie?

  Did I miss something? I Hate when in these movies they find some planet then ALWAYS land right were sh*t is going down,..! I know why but jeez,.did they take a 'reading'?
  I like that there was no true and al answer,..I like how the engineer woke up and was F*ck u all and went beserk.
  I think any answer we get from a movie about some profound origin Mission to Mars type story will ever live up to 'expectation' simply becasue we don't know that that expectation is!
  :p
  Low Full Price: but see it in IMAX with buds. Because it's pretty and the sound is good. : )

  
  
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  June 12, 2012 at 1:15 PM, said ...

  Somewhat less favourable review:
  

• June 12, 2012 at 9:51 AM, said ...

  I watched it last night. What a huge disappointment! I was expecting a movie that had that same creepy sci-fi tone we saw in the Alien films. All we got is an above average movie with no plausible connection to the Alien films. Why is there a proto-xenomorph on LV-223 when it was already established that the ship that crashed on LV-426 was carrying eggs.  I also think the mystery of the Space Jockeys was ruined. That's it? Giant Albino Monks? This is what we waited all these years for? Why were they mad at us? The movie never explains it. They're just hostile because the movie wants them to be. I also don't see what was so interesting about David. I've seen his character before. This movie was a waste of time. Just give us a good Alien film. I longer give a shit about Prometheus.

  
  
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  June 11, 2012 at 5:47 PM, said ...

  @ Phillip Lindelof needs a writing partner who can connect the dots that he's either unable or unwilling to. Because he comes up with interesting and intriguing concepts but they never go anywhere. It's pretty damn disappointing.

• June 11, 2012 at 5:27 PM, said ...

  @ Phillip De Poalo Good point. There were several things that seemed to come out of nowhere that they didn't even bother to acknowledge. Let alone explain it. I found it enjoyable regardless because it was interesting and entertaining. Then again, I'm a fan of Lost despite its numerous faults and this movie is very similar in that regard.  

  
  
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  June 11, 2012 at 4:50 PM, said ...

  Seems to be a divisive film, with vocal people on either side of praise or scorn calling the other side fanboys* based on their reference points.  I guess it comes from the so-close for the one group, and the right on target for the other, close by a relative term in space.   Oh well, maybe a tv show of it would serve to explain the mysteries of the black liquid monsters or it could just be about the characters in the end :)

• June 11, 2012 at 1:08 PM, said ...

  I just saw it last night and I thought it was pretty damn good. Sure it wasn't a masterpeice but did anyone who saw Damon Lindelof's name attached to it not expect it to be full of unanswered questions?  Also, I think it's funny how people are upset about it not meshing with the rest of the Alien franchise when Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof acknowledged that while they're in the same universe it wasn't intended to be a prequel and then when that turned out to actually be true then fanboys still got upset.

  
  
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  June 11, 2012 at 9:41 AM, said ...

  I Had issues with Prometheus. I enjoyed the movie somewhat but was left with nagging doubts and feeling more than a little underwhelmed. After listenign to the review I have to agree with Cyrus but I felt there were other obvious issues with the film.

  Despite being 2hours long there was very little character development. Most of the movies time was spent with either Noomi or Fassbender. Noomi was brilliant in it, Fassbender was brilliant too but considering the time spent with him there was no typical character development.
  You can argue that’s because he’s a robot but for the time the movie is spent focused on him that excuse is not good enough. We had a whole segment at the beginning where he was alone and learning. That didn’t come up again once. Despite having a cheery disposition he approached people with a strong passive agressive slant. Did his time alone affect him? There are lots of ideas that could have been played with.

  Every single other character in the movie was tacked on they felt incomplete even Noomi husband? Was it? I’m not even sure. The ring getting taken off did that signify something? He seemed always detached and was by measures loving and then isolated and drunk. I vaguely feel its because he was annoyed about not finding the alien Engineers is there a reason that he was so annoyed though? It just felt like he was being petulant.

  Similarly the captain had one scene with an equally pointless Theron. The others? Geologist dude, random science dude, doctor dude, pilot dude. All very forgettable. The film is littered with hints at a deeper story behind all the characters but none of them are explroed. It really felt like 5 people had written this and an amalgam of the 5 was used for the final product.

  Throughout the movie characters did the most random things. Things far FAR worse than the stupid people in horror movies. The scientist guy who decides to have a cuddle with an unknown alien life form in an alien crypt surrounded by bodies. Charlies Theron being the ice queen for reasons that aren’t disclosed. Was she an android? it’s what I thought, that would make sense... she was up before everyone else and exercising while everyone else was suffering. but she wasn’t. She was super agressive towards David yet that wasn't explained. Was it because he reminded her of who she was if she was a robot too. Nope the scene was explained. Shes just a bitch, which is weak story telling.

  Wayland just appears saying i want eternal life and rolls out to meet the big alien expecting him to what exactly? Even Noomi Rapace undergoes a horrific ordeal then staggers in to see Wayland sitting there and has an awkward conversation with him. Its no big deal I just underwent a horrific ordeal – fucking hurt, scared as hell, lost my husband, but you’re gonna see an alien? im in!

  Why? What headcase would possibly want to carry on at this point.

  The script was not tight it hinted at character flaws and depth but immediately glossed over them. When they talked to the captain about what he would do to stop the aliens spreading he simply says “anything” then at the end without a moments hesitation between him or his crew he suicide runs a ship just because Noomi yells at him to stop it. I don’t care that its saving earth. The enormity of what’s happening doesn’t hit home and the captains happy to die for it anyway. Is there a reason he’s happy to die for the Earth? Redemption? A need to fill a emptiness...  nah just cos.

  No one seemed to put much stock in their own preservation. Scientist brought back alien samples and happily worked on them in an open air lab. No security measures were in place despite this being a Trillion dollar trip with the Wayland himself. Hell the alien cask seemed to be chilling in the drinks cabinet alongside other stuff. Its cool no biggy.

  The visuals are great and there were some fantastic set pieces but it lacked a lot of what makes a movie truly great... good even.

• June 11, 2012 at 8:30 AM, said ...

  Did we watch the same movie guys? 'Cuz this review looks more like a light advertorial to me.. I know that ads keep the cash flowing in, but please don't compromise your credibility!

  
  
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  June 11, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Nick Kroboth said ...

  Human stupidity in horror is believable to a POINT. This crossed the point and then some.

• June 11, 2012 at 7:03 AM, said ...

  Spoiler Alert:  (don't read if you haven't seen)

  While I did enjoy the film's visual and the fact that it wonderfully expanded the "Alien's" world,  I agree with some of the posts below that there were a few moments in this film of just implausible human stupidity.  Why?!  These moments basically all centered around the 2 scientists that went off on their own.  First, there was the seemingly forced scene where they decide to go off on their own.  The character gives an over-dramatic Shakespearian explanation for why he doesn't want any part of continuing with the expedition and then goes off and immediately gets lost.  Then when they are left there, due to the storm, the Captain is like "Well, I'm going to bed.  Good luck guys."  This makes no sense.  In the 20 minutes they were exploring, they made the largest discoveries in human history and also seemed to be in danger.  These 2 scientists are going to continue exploring, but instead of helping them, lets all go to bed and hope they are alive and didn't need any help by the time we wake up.  Then of course the scene where they come across what has to look to them like an alien cobra.  The scientist of course has to lean up next to it like it is a cute puppy, even after it hisses and snaps at him.  WTF?  There are not people, let alone scientists that fucking stupid.  

  As for the ending of the movie, I didn't mind it.  Considering there are a lot of people seeing the movie that haven't really seen or gotten into the Alien movies, I think it was ok to bring it full circle.  

  I disagree with Co-host saying that the David character was one of the best sci-fi characters we have seen in 20 years or whatever.  I think it was a very good character that was acted very well, but we have all seen that character before.  He is the Robot/Android who isn't supposed to have emotions but is constantly placed in emotional situations where you wonder if he has emotion or not.  (Terminator, Data from StarTrek, I-Robot etc..)

  I still give the movie a high-Matinee/ low full price. The first half really developed the characters and brought you in emotionally and the second half was very exciting and intense.  

  
  
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  June 11, 2012 at 4:51 AM, said ...

  Prometheus:
  Ok I just saw this today finally and I'm sadden to report myself that I gotta agree with most people on this one more than ya'll!  The movie was visually beautiful and was very well made, but the story was very, VERY flawed!  BAD!!!
  And, I'm kind of even more sadden to say this movie kind of ruins the origin idea of the Xenomorphs for me.  Mostly because it made more sense for them to be a race of hive-like creatures that breed by using host that they take a little DNA from to adapt for their new environment.  If they were engineered by the Jockeys/Engineers I'd hoped it wouldn't have been so muddled and confusing.  I was hoping if they did go the rout that the movie was set in the same universe as the Alien movie but wasn't about the Xenos that it be just hinted at that the Jockeys probably made more than one kind of weapon on that LV-426 planet, but apparently all they were doing on that planet was making those canisters of that Black-Alien-Death-Ooze!  Which purpose and effects confused me... At one point it decays a person or alien away into a pool of pure genetic material and the next time we see it used it mutates worms into Alien-Penis-Cobras and a guy into a violent hydrocephalus superman with sperm strong enough it can impregnate a woman that is completely sterile!  It actually reminded me more of how the alien/virus/whatever you'd call it in the Thing movies worked or that Black-Alien-DNA-Ooze from the 2nd "Species" movie that turns the astronaut guy into a male of that... species!  If anyone remembers those movies they'll know what I'm talking about!
  The Jockeys were a disappointment too.  I was hoping if anything we'd never get a clear look at their true faces to keep a little mystery about them or if they did show their faces they looked maybe more alien than just being 10ft tall with completely white skin.  Also that brings up the opening of the movie.  So they were the alien race that fertilized life onto Earth billions of years ago and all life here can be traced back to them having one guy drink the Black-Ooze and melting his genes down and releasing it into the water... so shouldn't that DNA test, they done on the ship in the movie and says that the Jockey's DNA matches humans, say it has genetic markers in-common with all life on Earth from amoebas to zebras and even plants!?
  The Proto-Xenomorph at the end was a let down as well... I might've actually forgiven some things if an actually Xenomorph-Chestburster came out of that Jockey at the end.  But comparing that thing to a xenomorph is like comparing an iguana to a crocodile!  They have a lot of things in common but they totally different things!
  Also this movie had one flaw that really ruins a movie for me is none of the characters I liked... hell I out right hated most of them which isn't good as it makes me happy to see them die not shocked or scared.  The only likable characters was David the android( I'm convince if the whole movie was just him taking care of the ship and his other daily jobs on-board the ship the 2 years it took them to get from Earth to LV-426 it'd been a better watch) and the Captain(and his likability began to wain when he suddenly goes from the guy that drives the ship and makes safety calls to the guy that's aware the company is evil and must be stopped like he's been a member of some group trying to stop them).  The only other character they could've made that'd been more likable is if they got pet of some sort on board like another cat, a dog, or a monkey!
  The worse character was Noomi Rapace's as she came off as selfriteous and terrible at her job.   As Spoony put it she's not a good scientist since most choices she(and all the other scientist) make have ZER0 logic behind it!  Like removing your helmet just because the air reads as breathable...  that just meant it had no poison in the air not that it wasn't full of deadly alien germs! The one guy who was suppose to be a geologist, but from the way he looked and talked(the whole badly used line from the 1st Alien) I just thought he was another hillbilly member of the ship's work crew, made no sense!  Like Spoony up there put it he and the other nerdy guy, who did at least look like he might be a scientist, where freaked out by a long dead headless Jockey but one of them(the nerdy one who wasn't high he wasn't the one smoking at all) starts to instantly start screwing with what amounts to a freaking alien cobra!  There is no excuse for that unless they were trying to say it was hypnotizing him some how(just based on him saying how "beautiful" it was... it was literally a scrotum that opened up into a cobra's hood), but that just might be coming up with an excuse for them. Also most people I know in real life would be more than happy if we some how found any proof of alien life... it could just be an alien's toilet seat on Mars, but the one guy in the show gets so mopey to the point of drinking because he didn't get to talk to any aliens with-in his 1st what 15 hours on the planet!?  That dude's an asshole and if anything I blame him more for most of the bad stuff that happened in the movie.  They landed on the planet were their all of 5mins and the Captain guy said they only had a few hours of daylight left they should wait til morning before doing anything, but nope they need to go inside that day, and what happens?  They get 2 guys lost(granted one of them had a mapping thing with him) and killed, and almost got himself and his girlfriend killed in a storm that was blowing razor-sharp bits of rock around!
  And finally Guy Pierce!  Why hire a guy in his 30s to play a man in his I guess 90s to 120s if you're not going to have a scene of him as a young man with in the movie somewhere?! Even then it doesn't make a lot of sense to have a guy that young playing that role!  It's made more sense if they hired him to play Weyland in the promotional stuff for the movie like those viral marking things and then get a real old man actor to play him in his later years!  I knew what was going to happen in the movie thanks to this review and wiki but I was sort of expecting Weyland to inject himself with that Black-Alien-Death-Ooze and de-age back to his younger self since that stuffs effects seem to range into whatever direction the script says and then he mutates into a monster and dies!  That's probably been in a better movie though!  Hell he looked more like the Judge character from "Nothing But Trouble"!  
  As I said before this reminds me more of one of those 90-early 00s sci-fi horror films that came out like once or twice a year like the last big example is like "Pandorium" a few years ago I think or "Super Nova"! 

  Crap!  I just realized that it wasn't LV-426, but LV-223... which is good and bad as it means this might not have been the actual origins of the Xenos but it's still asking the audience to know a lot of crap!

• June 11, 2012 at 4:28 AM, said ...

  How was the plot at all sloppy? The sequences were carefully and deliberately laid out. I can't think of a moment in the film where I thought, "Huh?" I can see how some of the actors are under-utilized, since a lot of them are simply there to perform a function crucial to the plot, but the main characters were dense and multi-dimensional, and you really cared about their plight. This could only be achieved by good writing and good acting, which the movie had.

  These are just technical issues, but the story puts Prometheus on a pretty high level of sophistication. It asks some really complicated questions about human nature and our quest for answers and purpose, our fear of death, our lust for the unknown, and the dangers of these very human matters. It doesn't answer these questions, which is the whole point. These are questions that can't be answered, only considered, and they subtly imply this theme through situations in the movie.

  
  
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  June 11, 2012 at 3:49 AM, said ...

  @Herman Completely agree with you. I myself am a Lost fan, but after this, I really think Lindelof is not a great writer. It's just asks so many questions with no payoff. @Gregory Alford The difference between this and Blade Runner is that Blade Runner was just ahead of its time. The main complaint here is with the script itself. Blade Runner was cut down to a movie that didn't make much sense and it wasn't until the film was released with better cuts of the movie that people really started to appreciate it. The same could be said for Prometheus but it seems like its just vague for the sake of being vague. It doesn't help that Damon Lindelof is known for asking questions and not knowing how to answer them or where to go. That's just my opinion.

• June 11, 2012 at 3:16 AM, said ...

  I think my main problem with the film is Lindelof's script. He has the nasty habit of presenting all these questions to the audience and never answering them. He should write the first 1/3 of a film and then let another writer take over. He can't write an ending to save his life. Sorry Lost fans, but the guy is overrated.

  
  
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  June 11, 2012 at 3:09 AM, said ...

  Oh one last thing Spoiler Alert

  Idris Elba got to fuck Charlize Theron before he committed suicide, so he died a happy Black Man lol

• June 11, 2012 at 3:07 AM, said ...

  I think this movie much like Blade Runner will get better with time. Once people have seen multiple time. Because you have to take in consideration a lot of critics didn't like Blade Runner when it first came out nor did they like Alien.

  Film critics were polarized as some felt the story had taken a back seat to special effects and that it was not the action/adventure the studio had advertised. Others acclaimed its complexity and predicted it would stand the test of time.^[74]

  In the United States, a general criticism was its slow pacing that detracts from other strengths;^[75] Sheila Benson from the Los Angeles Times called it "Blade Crawler", while Pat Berman in The State and Columbia Record described it as "science fiction pornography".^[76] Pauline Kael noted that with its "extraordinary" congested-megalopolis sets, Blade Runner "has its own look, and a visionary sci-fi movie that has its own look can't be ignored—it has its place in film history" but "hasn't been thought out in human terms."^[77] Roger Ebert praised the visuals of both the original Blade Runner and the Director's Cut versions and recommended it for that reason; however, he found the human story clichéd and a little thin. In 2007, upon release of The Final Cut, Ebert somewhat revised his original opinion of the film and added it to his list of Great Movies, while noting, "I have been assured that my problems in the past with Blade Runner represent a failure of my own taste and imagination, but if the film was perfect, why has Sir Ridley continued to tinker with it?" 

  Critical reaction to the film was initially mixed. Some critics who were not usually favorable towards science fiction, such as Barry Norman of the BBC's Film series, were positive about the film's merits.^[58] Others, however, were not: Reviews byVariety, Sight and Sound, Vincent Canby and Leonard Maltin were mixed or negative.^[73] A review by Time Out said the film was an "empty bag of tricks whose production values and expensive trickery cannot disguise imaginative poverty".^[74] In a 1980 episode of Sneak Previews discussing science fiction films of the 1950s and 1970s, critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert were critical of Alien. Ebert called it "basically just an intergalactic haunted house thriller set inside a spaceship" and one of several science fiction pictures that were "real disappointments" compared to Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, though he did complement the early scene of the Nostromo's crew exploring the alien planet as showing "real imagination".

  
  
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  June 11, 2012 at 3:01 AM, said ...

  To me I feel like the movie was a very High Full Price. And the reason it wasnt a Better than Sex because I still feel a little puzzled about the movie premise that we were created by aliens and the movie never really explains that. I guess the reason was it was trying to prepare us for a sequel which I dont minds. I just feel it left me hanging at that.

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