Well! Mr. DNA! Where'd you come from?
Jun. 11th, 2012 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rinueSaw Prometheus and found it deadly boring. The writing was so poor that the events on screen were essentially random; I couldn't feel anything about them. It was like the characters were written by someone who had never met a person. The exploration of themes barely reached the level of Power Point buzzwords.
I suspect (without any evidence) there will be a five hour director's cut to fill in some of the gaping plot holes and absence of motivation, a la Kingdom of Heaven, because that's the only way I can imagine a director justifying what I saw. (Never mind that some of that stuff couldn't be closed up with even eight hours.) If I'm right, it doesn't make me any more forgiving of the film, because it means I was expected to spend $8 to spend 2 hours to watch a commercial for the real film.
Ah well. At least I didn't have any investment in this being good; I know Ridley Scott is hit and miss, and Prometheus didn't take anything away from Alien. I didn't read any reviews beforehand; I don't, usually, with science fiction. I don't trust the sci-fans to know film crit, and don't trust film reviewers to have read the SF canon. I did check the reviews afterward and think they're mostly batshit, but am pleased with Empire's Ian Nathan for giving me the phrase "sterling Fassbinderiness."
I suspect (without any evidence) there will be a five hour director's cut to fill in some of the gaping plot holes and absence of motivation, a la Kingdom of Heaven, because that's the only way I can imagine a director justifying what I saw. (Never mind that some of that stuff couldn't be closed up with even eight hours.) If I'm right, it doesn't make me any more forgiving of the film, because it means I was expected to spend $8 to spend 2 hours to watch a commercial for the real film.
Ah well. At least I didn't have any investment in this being good; I know Ridley Scott is hit and miss, and Prometheus didn't take anything away from Alien. I didn't read any reviews beforehand; I don't, usually, with science fiction. I don't trust the sci-fans to know film crit, and don't trust film reviewers to have read the SF canon. I did check the reviews afterward and think they're mostly batshit, but am pleased with Empire's Ian Nathan for giving me the phrase "sterling Fassbinderiness."
