Prometheus

[samvara]

Looked forward to it, enjoyed it, wanted more than it delivered, left me with questions.

Review of awesome

8/10 for enjoyment, most of which goes to Michael Fassbender for portraying personhood but not humanity, and Noomi Rapace for being the energiser bunny.

• Loved the David entry sequence, especially the Laurent of Arabia stuff, loved the body language and timing of the smiles, loved the drinking scene with Charlie Holloway.
• Dying to find out what Pinocchio David said to the Engineer.
• Loved how Elizabeth kept creating solutions and kept moving - especially with the medical unit

6/10 for plot and comprehensibility.

• The geologist, with the mapping tools, got lost after he left because he was nervous and only complained later? Seriously?
• I am Australian. Of the 10 most venomous snakes in the world, we have all of them. We do not cuddle snakes or kneel and coo to them.
• I will happily watch Meredith Vickers do angry pushups and set fire to people but I have to ask what her purpose was in this movie (no, shagging the captain so geologist can die in peace is not an acceptable answer).
• That goes for most of the crew - I know they are there to die, but what was such a motley group of weirdos doing on a massively expensive expedition to feed a dying man's vanity?
• Oh Peter, you were so much more interesting when you were giving TED talks, when did you go senile?
• Run sideways darn it.

Sequel please, if only to answer questions.

Comments

[transcendancing]

That's an awesome review link indeed!

Fassbender's antics were lost on me because I thought he was the bad guy for the beginning. Until it got confused.

I did love Elizabeth's ability to keep on going and solving things.

[samvara]

It made me laugh and nod a lot :)

Fassbender: Ah, I was very sympathetic because in Alien 4 the robots have become official 'people' but Annalee Call (played by Winona Ryder) has some serious self image issues. When she is revealed as a robot, her crewmates indicate prejudice is alive and well. David is the first sign of personhood for the robot race the poor, creepy darling!

The contrast of Elizabeth looking for her (unknowable) creator and David serving his (uncaring) creator and their eventual (no doubt uneasy) partnership made me happy.

Do you want to watch Alien 4 with me?

[transcendancing]

Yes - will happily watch with you :) (how scary is it? can there be handholding?)

[samvara]

Yay! I didn't find it scary so much as sad, there can be hand holding :)

[transcendancing]

Yay!!! I am looking forward to it :)

[fred_mouse]

I will coo at snakes. But only the ones they get out for the public to handle at the zoo reptile house, which are in no way poisonous.

[samvara]

...how would you rate alien snakes on alien planets?

[fred_mouse]

rather low - I like other people to test for poison. Sightings of snakes in the wild more likely to be accompanied with stamping of feet and being loud and obnoxious human.

Hadn't occurred to me that it was likely to be a completely unknown type of snake.