Prometheus

Sorry for the bump but I finally saw this (rented for cheap!) and hence a few points:

1) Once you have a kid, making it to the cinema is a much rarer event. Redbox/iTunes/Netflix/etc. will be how you watch most of your movies...on your iPad in the toilet...or in bed for 15 minutes/night so it takes you over a week to get through a typical movie.

2) Cool how people have modeled sets from the movie in various engines.

3) I fucking hated this movie. Great visual design, some cool conceptual stuff, creepiness, and some very fine actors who had a few moments here and there of actual good acting. But otherwise I didn't care for the script, shitty dialog and incredibly stupid decisions by many characters. And the fact that it just fell flat to me.

4) Stil, I am glad I saw this movie because now I can complain about how bad it was!

F'king kids...

I actually watched this again the other day and, well, I found it to be pretty okay this time around. It looks good, some scenes are killer and the character of David is intruiging. 3/5 imho.

Yeah once you get past how excellent david and the visual design / cinematography is there really isn't much left to like about the film in all honesty

I have to agree with you there Dux, the movie is somewhat of a clusterfuck of what appears to be plot-holes and bad storytelling and a few bad decisions as well.

With that being said, it's still a good movie and I can't wait to rewatch this on Blu-Ray.

I watched it again as well and the general consensus is the same. Great visuals, awful story/script. I found this article to be best and most honest review of the movie (can't remember if I posted this before)

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/ridley-scotts-prometheus-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-20120611#

the 3d bluray is soooo good (idk if i posted that before, i dont care). literally so good that now i want to buy a 3d tv asap...

The engineers are so good that it makes up for the illogical shit, really. The deleted scenes on the bluray are actually pretty good and I can't think of one reason why they weren't just inserted into the final film other than trying to keep a 120min running time intact. Especially the engineer at the end speaking and the extended chase sequence with Shaw on the lifeboat. The engineer getting a glimpse of our culture on Vickers screen, it's kind of amazing they cut that. Vickers and Stringer Bell also have a half way interesting conversation in her room too instead of just an out of nowhere lets get laid exchange that amounts to zero.

Not sure where that articles coming from with the engineer design. It's more or less perfect. Unsettling and ancient looking. I don't know how that could have been handled more appropriately. And the movie opens with that shit which is pretty ballsy and doesn't dick you around until the end to see them up close.

But I guess any movie following the first 5 minutes of Prometheus' opening is going to probably have some trouble living up to that along the way.