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It's playing at the big old historic theater up the street, so I'm definitely catching a show. (I want to see it ... but playing at that theater is the icing on the cake for sure).
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I saw it the other day and I'm still not sure whether I liked it or not. It's certainly not bad... It looks fantastic, it's well acted and the dialogue is good with the exception of one or two in-your-face expositiony lines. It's just the mythology that's a problem.
There's a lot to digest by the end and I'm not entirely convinced that the plot made sense, but since a sequel seems to be on the cards, it may well be that some of that ambiguity was intentional.
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Saw it. Meh. It does neither itself nor Alien any favors by being so connected to it. And make no mistake, whatever you hear people (including Ridley Scott) saying...this IS an Alien prequel. The references are numerous and what is shown in this movie WILL affect how one interprets what is shown in Alien, and IMO not in a way that makes either more enjoyable.
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Ditto from Lucy and me. Saw it last week, noted the flaws, didn't care because it was entertaining.
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Oh, and the 3D is really not worth the extra £2 a ticket. Plus the extra quid for the glasses.
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About a buck fifty five. Bloody foreigners!
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20 dollars here in Sweden, but the 3D was awesome. This is Scott back in the sci-fi game, not just visuals but plenty of subplots, hidden clues/secrets (visual and spoken).
Took 8 people with me and saw it, we all liked it, spent three hours after in a hotel bar, discussing it. Mmm, western decadence.
Here's an extremely dissecting blog post about the movie, discussing important and easily-overlooked cues and symbolism (as well as some open for interpretation). Don't read if you haven't seen it! It's meant to be watched with a blank slate.
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quote:Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in the film that not only enrich it, but offer possible hints as to what was going on in otherwise confusing scenes. Let's begin with the eponymous titan himself, Prometheus. He was a wise and benevolent entity who created mankind in the first place, forming the first humans from clay. The Gods were more or less okay with that, until Prometheus gave them fire. This was a big no-no, as fire was supposed to be the exclusive property of the Gods. As punishment, Prometheus was chained to a rock and condemned to have his liver ripped out and eaten every day by an eagle. (His liver magically grew back, in case you were wondering.) Fix that image in your mind, please: the giver of life, with his abdomen torn open. We'll be coming back to it many times in the course of this article.
quote:Here's an extremely dissecting blog post about the movie, discussing important and easily-overlooked cues and symbolism (as well as some open for interpretation). Don't read if you haven't seen it! It's meant to be watched with a blank slate.
Excerpt:
quote:Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. I'd like to draw your attention to the use of motifs and callbacks in the film that not only enrich it, but offer possible hints as to what was going on in otherwise confusing scenes. Let's begin with the eponymous titan himself, Prometheus. He was a wise and benevolent entity who created mankind in the first place, forming the first humans from clay. The Gods were more or less okay with that, until Prometheus gave them fire. This was a big no-no, as fire was supposed to be the exclusive property of the Gods. As punishment, Prometheus was chained to a rock and condemned to have his liver ripped out and eaten every day by an eagle. (His liver magically grew back, in case you were wondering.) Fix that image in your mind, please: the giver of life, with his abdomen torn open. We'll be coming back to it many times in the course of this article.
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Sure. It's not because the name Prometheus sounded cool with test audiences. Fuck's sake, some people can (and do!) make a thesis paper out of any goddamn thing- I know several have been written on the Harry potter and Twilight books...and anyone that seriously thinks those subjects warrant a paper deserve to be barred from higher learning.
And the planet.
If it's got a lot of male rape symbolism, and I hear it does, then it's in keeping with Dan O'Bannon's original script for Ailen and it's good enough to get me to rent it from the dollar machine at the holidays.
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I definitely think it does tie in with the Prometheus myth, though. You know, the guy who created Man from clay and stole fire from the Gods for him bit. The opening in particular called this to mind. My main problems with the film are with the execution, (particularly the uneven characterization and the obvious shoehorning of Alien references into its structure) not with the conceptual underpinnings, which are very fertile ones.
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