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In Reply to: "Prometheus:" not only held up to another viewing, posted by tinear on July 31, 2014 at 19:05:31:
...except to say that it is a movie worth watching over and again. So much detail. Not just detail in the screenplay but also in the set design and artistic back-drops. Definitely, this is a very high quality production. The CGI is terrific.Below, some thoughts that come to mind.
It starts out to be a search to find the "ones who made us", then turns into a shop of horrors when they finally find them.
Shades of Kubrick? Or is that A.C.Clarke. But with Clarke's story, 2001:A Space Odyssey, the search to find the ones who left the monolith on the moon ends by not only refusing to answer the central question, (who were they), it depicts an artificial intelligence (HAL 9000) that goes bonkers on the journey to Jupiter, then turns homicidal, killing all but one of the crew. The surviving crew member does seem to meet with the "monolith leavers' but undergoes a kind of transcendence into another life state. Then he is seen , symbolically, as a human fetus in orbit and looking down upon planet Earth. And this answers nothing while raising more questions such as; What the hell is this? Answers are forthcoming by reading all the novels by Clarke in the series;2001, 2010, 2061 & 3001. The last novel answers all remaining questions if, by now,anyone is still interested.
At least in Scott's story the artificial intelligence (David) doesn't go bonkers, nor does he betray anyone. (not really) David is merely following the instructions from his master (Weyland). Also in Scott's story there are some clues to human origins given. Just clues, but enough to wet an appetite for the next sequel. By now the screen play must have been written. I'll go see the next installment.
At the core, these movies are sci-fi horror. And I suppose it would be a letdown if:
a)the horrific alien monsters did not begin killing off, one by one, a ships crew
b)all but one (maybe two) of the crew will be killed, but the survivor will be seen to have escaped by the skin of teeth to tell the tale, but....
c) the Weyland corporation will not want the story to get out, (there are commercial interests at stake) so the protagonist will ultimately be taken prisoner by the Weyland corp and put on ice. But wait we've already seen that movie. sigh.-Steve
Edits: 08/01/14 08/02/14
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