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Good acting, great CGI, and otherwise good to great production values

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Mike K

In Reply to: RE: Love it or hate it, it has generated more discussion than I've seen in a long time. posted by mpathus on June 27, 2012 at 10:18:37

cannot bail out the story line, which is a muddled, inconsistent, and at
time a completely unbelievable mess. And without a strong story line,
the film is ultimately not going to become a classic.

Prometheus is several cuts above Alien 3 and 4, but several cuts below
Alien and Aliens.

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Story line seemed... - mpathus 16:11:50 06/29/12 (0)
... pretty reasonable to me, though pacing could have been less pushed at times.

I saw it a THIRD time last night. (I know, glutton for CGI but noticed any head angle tilt macerated the 3D image integrity - possibly why some were having 3D woes - eyes symmetrical?).

This time around I felt that they should have allowed more time for images, some very beautiful, to linger - it has such strong visuals (IMAX 3D).

Overall it seemed a touch off pace in places due to editing, and might benefit from a carefully hewn "Director's Cut", that takes its time and fills in more back story (though that could detract from the film's messages if people are blow away by too much information).

Vickers' subtext was a mystery I'd like see cracked. Why was her Father so distant? They were so physically similar that I speculated that she may have been cloned from him, "a Son", but ended up a transsexual, which may explain Theron's absolutely mannish character choices, taking up the captain to prove that she wasn't a "robot", and Weyland's creating "David" ("better worlds" conceit).

Prometheus has so much mythology going for it that I thought Scott and ensemble couldn't help but exploit or twist Greek myths (Electra? Oedipus?).

Maybe they need a book of it after all.

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