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Originally Posted by masterj

My honest opinion about this film:
Prometheus has good special effects, really nice CGI, but very weak story and some really bad acting especially from secondary characters (like the "pissedoff" guy). Why the hell he was so pissed from the beggining? It looked so fake and exaggerated :( Also there was almost zero prestory to each character so we could actually like them or really hate them.

Secondary characters were a bit weakly developed than the main characters. That's a flaw in the script, and I blame the scriptwriter more than the director. As for the "pissed off" scientist, he was a foreigner and distinctly gave off the vibe of "I don't like Americans, and I don't like American corporate honchos. I am just here for the cheque." Guess he didn't like the Weyland company much.

You don't need much of a pre-story to like/hate a character. There wasn't much offered in Alien either, neither in Aliens. All had pretty strong, likeable characters.

Originally Posted by masterj

Near the end ship captain decides to blow alien (or gods or engineers or whatever) ship apart by sacrificing his ship. It supposed to look like heroic moment right? I don't know why but it didn't feel right... Whole crew onboard died but I didn't give a damn about them... I didn't care about captain, his two companions and all the others on the ship. Most films give atleast some screen time to these characters so they could show us why they're heroic, sad, lucky, bad, angry... How they became so-and-so (ideal example to me would be Armageddon - I actually cared about every single died crew member!).

Not much of a crew was left in the Prometheus by then. The captain only had two of his pilots with him, and he gave them the option of jumping ship. And they both declined it and chose to stay with him till the end. The only other person on the ship, Meredith Vickers, ejected out through a pod.

Originally Posted by masterj

Also, why the heck they choose GUY PEARCE over real old actor??? His character felt so unnatural and fake. I think now I understand why I like older movies better than newer ones. There were much less fakeness in them: real explosions, real old actors, real young actors, real fire, real car crashes...

They chose him because they had long scenes of a young Weyland in the original script by Jon Spaihts (which was later changed quite a bit in the rewrites by Lindelof). A viral video depicting young Weyland was also shot for the promo campaign preceding the release. And there are assumptions being made that the sequel will have scenes of young Weyland added into it as flashbacks, so that's the reason.

Originally Posted by masterj

Oh, and one more thing... David (Michael Fassbender) was the most likeable character in this film. I mean he was android but actually felt like he was the only real human in this spaceship. I don't know about others here, but I really liked him and he was the only character that I cared about at the end of this film.

On the contrary, David quite clearly had a hidden agenda throughout the film, and gave off hints that he might not be faithful even to his creator, Weyland, as well. Wait for the DVD release with all the deleted scenes which will make things clearer. He is a distinct anti-hero of the piece.

Originally Posted by masterj

So all in all this film felt like a fastforward cassette with too much cutoff content. I'd give prometheus something like 5/10 just because of FX and David, but that is not enough for me to watch this film again.

The rewrites did leave a lot of questions unanswered, but most answers are provided in the film itself, if watched carefully. I think the uncut version (or possibly the director's cut version) will give all of us a clearer picture of Ridley Scott's vision of Prometheus. He himself is not satisfied with the finished product, specially the reaction from the fans. That's why he's promised to redeem himself in the sequel. We might see a lot of our unsolved queries answered in Prometheus 2. Meanwhile, get the DVD/Blu-Ray with all those added deleted scenes (worth an extra 40 minutes).