Prometheus: 5 Reasons Why It Was Great, 5 Reasons Why It Sucked
5 Reasons Why it Sucks (in small but annoying places)
1. Doesn't Need To Be In 3D
2. Over The Top Soundtrack Moments
I liked the soundtrack on the whole but there's a few 'wonder' moments (i.e. When David finds the engineers and their mission 'statement') where an over the top score would play completely out of place with the rest of the soundtrack, direction and narrative. It felt like Spielberg (yawn, yawn) had sneaked into the edit suite in these brief but annoying moments. 3. Ridiculous Final Scene With Shaw's Character
As Elizabeth Shaw strides towards David's head I was praying she was going to bash it in and say 'none of us leaving ever!'. But no... There's other ships and she doesnt want to go home and warn earth to stay away from this planet, oh no, she wants to go and explore further into the stars and find where the engineers came from and ask the question 'why?' All this despite them not exactly being too friendly towards her, seeing her lover become diseased, and the fact she's given birth to a giant squid! Ridiculous! Lets go explore with a head in my bag. I kept thinking of Sam Peckinpah and Warren Oates turning in their graves at this (if you've seen the superb Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia then you'll know what I mean!) 4. Smell The Cheese?
Is there such a thing as perfect dialogue in a movie? Unless it's written by Paul Schrader then probably not. There was the odd line of dialogue where it felt like a stranger had walked on set with a piece of paper handed it to the cast and demanded they read it though only occurring in a few moments it stood out more due to the otherwise excellent script. Examples include; David before having his head zipped up in that bag 'oh thats perfectly all right'... The two co-pilots finally deciding on who is going to win their bet as they are about to fly the Prometheus into the Engineers ship 'you can pay me on the other side'. Smell the cheese? I certainly did. 5. Someone Was Snoring Behind Me
Yes I'm clutching at straws here for number 5 but some bugger was snoring behind me for the first 30minutes! It's bad enough when sweets are being opened, drinks are being drank, and most annoying of all young kids have sneaked in and text each other during the film despite sitting next to each other.... But snoring?! Though not the film's thought I blame the studio for making it 15 and not building snoring detectors into seats where a giant crane smacks any snorer on the head violently. To conclude I believe Prometheus has the potential to be a masterpiece of the sci-fi genre and expand into a new franchise universe. But until I can watch it in 2D I wont know for sure if it deserves those potential plaudits. Any film that makes you want to re-watch it is doing its job. I hope on my next viewing it I will be texting my friend saying 9.5 out of 10 (no film deserves 10, the day I see one is the day I stop watching movies).