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**Rqvtwlfk** · 06-11-2012, 03:49 PM

Why wouldn't it be? It's Ridley Scott revisiting his best movie ever and starring Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender. It'd take some effort to make that truly suck.

Oh, but they make that effort! Jesus H. Christ it's bad. As far as I can tell, the premise is that, 50 years before we fly to the stars to seek an alien race, somehow our collective unconscious is wiped clean of all memories of science fiction narratives. Among the many amazing things we then have to learn anew are (and I don't thing these are spoilers, per se):

1) Landing in one valley on a planet and not seeing anyone there does NOT mean the planet is uninhabited.
2) If you're stuck in an enormous structure for a while, and one part of it has a whole bunch of dead bodies piled up, that is NOT the one place you should decide to hunker down.
3) If you are a biologist and encounter an alien life form that you describe to your ship's crew as "four feet long, reptilial, with translucent skin," your first instinct should probably not be to try to play with it.
4) The creepy robot seems creepy for a reason.

That's just the idiocies. Don't even get me started on how bad the script is overall or how inane the whole premise is. Seriously, if you want to see "Prometheus" and your girlfriend wants to see "What to Expect When You're Expecting," just take her suggestion and use it as a bargaining chip for something new to do in bed after; you'll get better sex AND a better movie.

06-11-2012, 03:49 PM	#10
Rqvtwlfk Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 453 Senior Member	Why wouldn't it be? It's Ridley Scott revisiting his best movie ever and starring Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender. It'd take some effort to make that truly suck. Oh, but they make that effort! Jesus H. Christ it's bad. As far as I can tell, the premise is that, 50 years before we fly to the stars to seek an alien race, somehow our collective unconscious is wiped clean of all memories of science fiction narratives. Among the many amazing things we then have to learn anew are (and I don't thing these are spoilers, per se): 1) Landing in one valley on a planet and not seeing anyone there does NOT mean the planet is uninhabited. 2) If you're stuck in an enormous structure for a while, and one part of it has a whole bunch of dead bodies piled up, that is NOT the one place you should decide to hunker down. 3) If you are a biologist and encounter an alien life form that you describe to your ship's crew as "four feet long, reptilial, with translucent skin," your first instinct should probably not be to try to play with it. 4) The creepy robot seems creepy for a reason. That's just the idiocies. Don't even get me started on how bad the script is overall or how inane the whole premise is. Seriously, if you want to see "Prometheus" and your girlfriend wants to see "What to Expect When You're Expecting," just take her suggestion and use it as a bargaining chip for something new to do in bed after; you'll get better sex AND a better movie.
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