Prometheus - Ridley Scott's 'Alien Prequel' (or not)...
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Guvernator said:
Lol too true, what a way to p*ss away a stunning first installment. To be honest though a lot of on screen sci-fi suffers from this problem. They come up with a brilliant idea\concept but then don't know how to conclude it properly. I wonder if they are just worried that they'll loose a huge number of their target audience if they make it too cerebral so go for the easy\dumbed down ending instead.
Indeed. When Neo takes out a Sentinel at the end of the 2nd film, I was convinced that they were going to play a very clever "dream within a dream" idea, and that he was still in the Matrix. Not dissimilar to the TV film "Virtual Nightmare" in which the protagonist learns that what he thinks of as reality is not, and then when he breaks through into the "real" world he finds that isn't real either and breaks through that too. Not unlike Inception that followed both years later, I guess. Anyway, instead they just had a lame cop-out of "uh, The One can affect the Real World too"
Also I hated the way they absolutely spoon-fed the audience that Agent Smith had broken through into the Real World.
I liked the real world idea. It was the natural evolution. The brain gives off signals, like a wifi box, so why shouldn't you control machines with those signal if you knew how. Thought it was ace. Plus a consciousness is just a bunch of signals so you could download yourself like Smith.
I know I may be in a minority here.
I know I may be in a minority here.
t so hopefully I will be pleasantly surprised...Halb said:
I liked the real world idea. It was the natural evolution. The brain gives off signals, like a wifi box, so why shouldn't you control machines with those signal if you knew how. Thought it was ace. Plus a consciousness is just a bunch of signals so you could download yourself like Smith.
I know I may be in a minority here.
[Sticks fingers in ears] There are no Matrix sequels, there are no Matrix sequels, there are no Matrix sequels, there are no Matrix sequels. I know I may be in a minority here.
Raify said:
[Sticks fingers in ears] There are no Matrix sequels, there are no Matrix sequels, there are no Matrix sequels, there are no Matrix sequels.
Full version at http://xkcd.com/566/
Edited by JonRB on Friday 5th October 20:39
MysteryLemon said:
It has faults if you sit there and pick at it but as a whole it works. I never felt lost or confused. All seemed to make sence to me.
Really? Woman gives birth to a squid? Using a machine she - by rights - has no idea how to use. Man turns into weird crab-zombie thing. Bloke decides - with no evidence whatsoever - that the goo they have discovered is a bio-weapon that will be used to destroy earth. Disc-shaped spacecraft manages to crash land perfectly upright so it can roll along creating a perfect situation of peril for our protaganists.WTF?
It's not a complicated film, just a rubbish one.
MysteryLemon said:
Oh yeah there were plot holes if you want to pick it apart but I didnt feel I really needed to know why that stuff happened.
Lots of things happen in films just because they do. Its a SciFi movie. There are no rules.
I liked it.
Not sure it needed to be picked apart at all, it simply fell apart of its own accord in front of my eyes.Lots of things happen in films just because they do. Its a SciFi movie. There are no rules.
I liked it.
I'm all for suspending disbelief, in fact I actively enjoy it and it's what films should do/encourage, but this one so jarringly misfired and so often it was like the Chuckle Brothers wrote it.
Glad you liked it though, each to their own.
Can't help thinking the ship rolling doesn't need to be one of the parts bisected by us (you lot 
). It's a film, it happens. Just accept it please! However I do understand people ripping into the plot holes etc, which is fine.
I'm looking forward to the blue ray version, just for the deleted scenes etc.
). It's a film, it happens. Just accept it please! However I do understand people ripping into the plot holes etc, which is fine. I'm looking forward to the blue ray version, just for the deleted scenes etc.
magpie215 said:
Bill Carr said:
Disc-shaped spacecraft manages to crash land perfectly upright so it can roll along creating a perfect situation of peril for our protaganists.
Oh come on that one is easy the flight gyro had been knocked of its gimbal and was operating 90 degrees from horizontal :-)Then, for reasons I can't understand, the ship begins to fall in the direction of Vickers and Shaw which is the complete opposite direction it was travelling.
It also happens to be a lot closer to them contrary to what we'd just seen.
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