It already started out weird when humanity’s first long distance space mission was apparently a luxury ship manned by gung-ho cowboys who seemingly had zero telescope or orbiter data, just flew their ginormous space-yacht around the planet’s surface with apparently infinite fuel, then picked a random landing spot by eyeballing it.
Next two scientists – who I assumed were top of their class and had worked hard to make the final selection to be on a mission to a planet assumed to hold the first signs of sentient alien life – finally stumble upon signs of sentient alien life, then immediately have a mental health crisis because it doesn’t mix with the gods and angels stuff they hold dear… that was enough for me.
I don’t understand why they had to dig up the sorry science-vs-religion nonsense and even then pick such a shallow dead end that it’s downright insulting. And the space jockeys that could have been extended with lots and lots of lore hints about mysterious alien civilizations in an interstellar war became, well, a blue bodybuilder instead.
yeah prometheus was also really bad. I’m not even mad that he made the movie at all, I still don’t get why he had to force it into the alien universe.
If this would be a standalone sci-fi movie I wouldn’t bother at all. It still would be a bad movie imho but at least it wouldn’t shit all over a great horror franchise with all this unnecessary nonsense nobody asked for.
But then to direct a sequel and to ignore nearly everything he set up in the first bad movie just to center the story about a crazy android and also to force a bad alien remake in the last 20 minutes…this still leaves me speechless. That crucial story elements were also missing from the movie and instead were put on youtube is the cherry on this pile of shit.
Prometheus did it for me.
It already started out weird when humanity’s first long distance space mission was apparently a luxury ship manned by gung-ho cowboys who seemingly had zero telescope or orbiter data, just flew their ginormous space-yacht around the planet’s surface with apparently infinite fuel, then picked a random landing spot by eyeballing it.
Next two scientists – who I assumed were top of their class and had worked hard to make the final selection to be on a mission to a planet assumed to hold the first signs of sentient alien life – finally stumble upon signs of sentient alien life, then immediately have a mental health crisis because it doesn’t mix with the gods and angels stuff they hold dear… that was enough for me.
I don’t understand why they had to dig up the sorry science-vs-religion nonsense and even then pick such a shallow dead end that it’s downright insulting. And the space jockeys that could have been extended with lots and lots of lore hints about mysterious alien civilizations in an interstellar war became, well, a blue bodybuilder instead.
yeah prometheus was also really bad. I’m not even mad that he made the movie at all, I still don’t get why he had to force it into the alien universe.
If this would be a standalone sci-fi movie I wouldn’t bother at all. It still would be a bad movie imho but at least it wouldn’t shit all over a great horror franchise with all this unnecessary nonsense nobody asked for.
But then to direct a sequel and to ignore nearly everything he set up in the first bad movie just to center the story about a crazy android and also to force a bad alien remake in the last 20 minutes…this still leaves me speechless. That crucial story elements were also missing from the movie and instead were put on youtube is the cherry on this pile of shit.