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aka Sam *****ing.
[I only seen a thread about the trailer and Patmans, which is just a summary, so I hope this doesn't count as anything.]

Prometheus was a visually stunning movie, and very well acted, but suffered from poor writing.

Spoiler: ESSAY TIME

So the movie starts off with the 'Engineer' aka tall white buff dude, drinks black crap and disintegrates into a waterfall or something, and thats apparently how humans are made, my first problem with the movie, the engineers have exactly the same DNA as us, Millburn does say, "and we are supposed to totally ignore darwinism/evolution?" I mean the movie could have gone with something like 'oh the engineers have X which is something every living organism has' I don't know, its seems so vain that they only want to know the origin of man and not life itself.

The characters themselves are just unbelievably stupid, in the beginning when Shaw and Holloway talk with Vickers, Shaw is interested in an automatic surgery table, but later it says it is a model only men can used, why would Vickers, a woman herself keep this thing to herself when she cannot use it? I know this is a little nitpick, not at all important to the story, but it just bothers me.

Another ... really weird scene is when Vickers is talking to Janek and they go have sex, I know it was just a plot device to get Janek away from the console as Millfurn and Fifield do stupid crap (which is what I will talk about in just a bit) but it would have been interesting to see Vickers and Janek form a relationship, I'm not saying they become a thing, but some kind of friendship in the least, but its never even mentioned.

Now to the scene with Millburn and Fifield, this was just beyond stupid, these are trained scientists, and yet they mess around with a HISSING snake alien creature, its just basic knowledge not to do that, even with dogs who don't know you.

This is probably the weirdest/stupidest thing, but Shaw is down to her skivvies, covered in blood from the cesarean she just performed on herself, and when she stumbles through the door no one even bothers to ask what the hell happened, they go back to attending to Weyland (who looks like they spent their whole budget on the special effects and used whatever to make this guy look old, WHY COULDN'T THEY USE, I DONT KNOW? AN ACTUAL OLD MAN?). But it leads to the other question, why did Weyland fake his own death in the first place? His company is the one funding this whole mission, they could have told the crew out flat that he was in stasis on the ship.

This is just another nitpick, but when Shaw got all moody about being sterile, I found to be a very useless scene. I can get that people are just sterile, and I understand that it was to make the scene where David tells Shaw she is pregnant more of a shock. But David told her she was already along 3 months would have already been the weird part, since they recently awoke from stasis.

The ending is just bad, its obvious lead in to a sequel, Shaw going to a whole planet full of Engineers? SOUNDS SO FUN.

TLDR:

What did you think of Prometheus??

I was looking through the old khv awards and i guess this is my fourth consecutive win for randomest member.
well I think I won this year, i mean who knows 20 ppl might come out of no where and vote for someone else.

IF YOU WANNA GET TECHNICAL IT MAY JUST BE 2 WINS SINCE I THINK TWO OF THEM WERE TIES.



[i won a khv poll im so cool guise]