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Thread #145598   Message #3370180
Posted By: GUEST,Blandiver
01-Jul-12 - 04:45 AM
Thread Name: BS: Prometheus Anyone?
Subject: RE: BS: Prometheus Anyone?
In the context of the plotting it was all just so convient. They revealed the whole DIY medi-room thing early in the proceedings & you just knew it would be a key feature. It was as if they'd put the plot together using one of these Novel Writing Computer Programmes. As Ted Bovis* said 'First rule of comedy, Spike - don't telegraph the joke!' The more I think about Prometheus, the more enraged I get. A film that should have been the fulfillment of my 30-year inner adolescent dreaming turns out to have as much depth & tension as a below average episode of Scooby-Doo. I've never been so disappointed by a film since Alien3. Then as now, I fell for the hype! Do I have to wait another 30 years for the sequel? If so, I'll be 80, muttering into my popcorn that the new fangled Holographic Stadium Vision isn't as good as Traditional 3D...

Imagine what it could have been - antediluvian sci-fi myths with terrestial & extra terrestrial archaeology & coming face to face with the ancients in a way that went beyond mere mainstrean horror schlock into realms of the truly terrifying occult drawing on Giger's Lovecraftian genius.

Anyway, looking forward to watching Vampire Planet later today. My wife's at work, so it's a home-alone Sunday (her next day off is Tuesday, hence my Thursday Sunday comment; which means Monday will be Friday...)   

* UK Catters might get the reference; USA Catters might have to go hunting on Google & YouTube.