Your thoughts on Prometheus

Prometheus was... Beautiful to look at..... but painful to watch

I was thoroughly entertained. Enjoyed it quite heavily. I think that it will stand the test of time and grow on people as they understand it more, much like Blade Runner. This is easily the top sci-fi film to hit the big screen in years.

I agree, mindlab. It will grow in stature as time goes on, much like another movie which seemed to polarize audiences: "A.I."

LIKE IT BETTER 2nd time around

Took me a week to see it but my hopes had already been dashed long before its UK release. Handsome tosh, a rung or two above the recent 'Thing' film. The ultra-secrecy followed by the splurge of tell-all marketing helps make me wonder if these people have a clue. If this is the best they can come up with after all that money, time, input, hype/secrecy, no wonder they need to lean on gimmicks like 3D. Fassbender was very good but the film whose potential outlines and caverns could be discerned in this forum was miles better.

@Neurion Same with me. I'd never wanna see an Alien homeworld either. I don't think there should be one either. I'd be more happy seeing the Engineer's homeworld, and would want to learn more about the beings in the huge circular craft in the opening of the movie. (if at all they are beings different from the Engineer himself.)

Well I think that the Aliens are bio engineered creatures, bio weapons of mass destruction. The SJ's created them as a part of their bio weapons divisions programmed to cleanse the sentient life forms of any habitable planet so that they can later reach that planet and do whatever they want...

To, me the "Alien" species are "designed" by the "engineers", so there is no alien "homeplanet", just a laboratory where they where designed. As the end of Prometheus, they even have not been "designed", but maybe they were created "by accident". I am even not sure if the tall white muscle-guys seen in Prometheus are the "engineers". I rather believe they are just a very small part of a "unknown extraterrestrian culture" and they seem to be "designed worriors". I dont think life engineers need that muscles. They look like clones to me and are created for a purpose - to win wars and to get orders. So they are like soldiers. We may find out lot more about this "yet unknown culture who made the engineers, the aliens and maybe even mankind" in the sequels. I am only not really sure if Lindelof is the right man for the job. As we learned from LOST he plays with the people by opening doors but behind the door there are even more questions, but no answers. Maybe the audience will play that game for a while - but when you did understand his "storytelling strategy" you will understand that you will never get the answers you hunger for. Lindelof is like a dealer who sells drugz, but they never deliver. Makes you addicted, but never comes a "satisfaction feeling". That was the LOST concept.

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him

Absolutely loved it, but with caveats. The first half/two-acts provide such amazing viewing that it makes it all the worse that the last act devolves into a muddled, monster movie. A few of the directorial choices anger me and Rapaci is a weak lead. Still fucking loved it, though. Improved with a second viewing, too. Can't wait to go back for a third after my exams.

Spaceyfreak wrote - "Lindelof is like a dealer who sells drugz, but they never deliver. Makes you addicted, but never comes a "satisfaction feeling". That was the LOST concept." Beautifully put. If he does have a fully-worked-out back-story for all this then P2 will likely just throw a bit more glittering silica in our eyes.

Well I've seen it three times, basically to confirm my original thoughts on it which were: Theme - great. Pacing - way, way too rushed in first half, many poignant shots barely held for a second etc, no chance of building an immersive atmosphere or being given time to absorb/think about what's going on. Script/characters - horribly lowbrow at times and smothers the higher themes. Acting - superb turns by Fassbender AND Rapace; these two save the movie from being a disaster IMO. I think I'm in love with Shaw/Rapace. First 10-15 minutes: Sublime. LOVED the Lawrence of Arabia tie-in, most appropriate for the film/David and one of my childhood fave movies. Editing: OK, here goes ... Clearly the worst edited movie I've ever seen on the big screen. Absolutely butchered. I would expect a bare minimum of 10-15 minutes has been lost but could be 45 minutes easily. Missing scenes are obvious from the point at which the movie dives into a complete mess immediately following the fabulous caesarean scene being interspliced with (and hence ruined by) THAT zombie scene, a hacked Weyland scene and the *excruciatingly* jarring exposition of WMD etc by Janek to Shaw following an apparently missing scene with Janek and Vickers. The movie, in pure filmmaking, narrative/storytelling terms is lost from here ... This is/was a very important movie to me being an Alien nut, hence the multiple revisits to confirm just WTF I was seeing/hearing and I can't tell you how disappointed I am. One can only hope that most/all of what they shot will one day make it into the Bluray as this could be a great movie but it's very, very clear that a large portion of what they shot didn't make it past the editing suite, presumably on orders of the Fox suits who I utterly despise for trashing this ...

I love every minute of it until Janek decides to ram into Juggernaut, and the silly 3-way fight between Shaw, the misunderstood Engineer, and the silly looking prop from MEN IN BLACK 3. I SERIOUSLY THINK SOMEONE OR SOME PEOPLE AT FOX WANTED TO SABOTAGE THIS MOVIE.

I loved this movie. I've seen it twice so far and will probably watch it again. It's entertaining on it's face, but the deeper themes (relationships between creation or creators, ruins after the rise and fall of greatness) are like a puzzle you have to piece together. The tag line of this film should have been, "What if God changed His mind."

You ask "what if god changed his mind". I ask.. What if AUDIENCE changes its mind and does not want to follow Lindelof - the Riddler - miracles and he can watch the sequels on his own as nobody is interested in 2 hours "LOST-SPECULATIONS"?

Does anyone else think the big things have small beginning theme is an in-joke about the whole franchise? I mean, it all started as a jaws in space, b movie, etc but has somehow developed its own mythology and stoked so many debates.?? Personally, loved it. Think we'll see it very differently in years to come.

I was kinda disappointed with it. It was a good movie but a lot of the actual really good plot devices seemed to have been dumbed down for a mainstream audience. The movie should had had a lot more tension like the original Alien. It also had a lot of really unrealistic elements like the scientists exposing themselves to alien bio material ("Ya theres air in here lets open our suits") and just the magnitude of real evidence of alien contact being not that big of a morale dilemma for most of the crew. Forgive me if I am wrong since I'm not sure if at this point humans from earth may have already discovered other lifeforms in space, but if this was first contact it would be huge.

I think the main thing that disapointed was that the movie had a lot of hype and when its also in the shadow of Alien and Blade Runner like the Thing prequel was with the orginal, you have a very high bar to attempt to match. I think some was thinking this movie lacked the Horror/Thriller aspect of Alien, but you have to remember the scenerio was different and people should not have tried to compare the horror elements with Alien but more look at it with Alien 3 or Aliens etc... Because the first encounter was iconic... what i mean is look at the Gore and Death in the Thing 2011 there was a lot, but after you saw the Orginal Thing, then the newer movie does not have the same shock value, yet it has simular kinds of scenes. To me i think the Shaws C-Section was thrilling, not so much to me because i dont scare easy and we saw it in Trailers and discussed it a lot, but to people who never saw or analysed the trailers i think that scene would have been tence and have the effect Ridley wanted... But you just are not going to match the Orginal Chest Buster Scene... from Alien... i mean we seen enough Chest Busters since in all Alien movies and they never have that same effect.... To me i felt the movies plot was great and it needed longer than 2 hours to tell, thus the first hour went by fine, but after Shaw and Holloways intimate scene the rest of the movie seemed to be rushed as if the 2nd hour really needed 2 more hours to tell the story in more depth.... So yes its going to be a disapointment compared to Alien but thats because Alien was a classic film, a rare movie.... Ridley could have done Alien 5 or you could have got the two best directors in the World and a $300 Budget and you would still find it very tough to better Alien..... But if you take the movie on its own merits then its not bad, its actually a good movie with some flaws but the potential is there for Prometheus 2 and 3 etc....

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SEEN THE FILM 3 TIMES ONCE IN 2D, ONCE IN REAL 3D, AND NOW IN IMAX 3D WHICH I RECCOMEMED EVERYBODY TO SEE IT. LUV THE FILM THE MORE I SEE IT THE MORE I LIKED IT