Prometheus
Posted: May 15th, 2013, 8:33 pm
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I just watched this 2012 sci-fi and can only say - "What a mess"!!! It's a complete theft of ideas from some original Star Trek episodes, Alien I and III, even believe it or not, From the Earth to the Moon, and a little bit of just about every sci-fi movie ever made. Even the monsters are straight out of Alien, and Earth to the Moon. Why in the world Charlize Theron agreed to be apart of this thing is beyond me. She is a brilliant Oscar winning actor and all I can assume is that much of her role was edited out.
It's about a dying man who claims that some ancient writings lead to the theory that aliens created us, but actually he just wants to find out if they know the secret of life and prolonging it. So he funds this huge space ship to be built to go to the planet which is over 2 years travel time away. The crew naturally travels in frozen pods (straight out of the original Khan episode on Star Trek), and WOW the robot who looks just like a human, turns out to be a bad guy (only his name is Dave not Bishop), and can talk even after his body is ripped away from his head. (Sound familiar sci-fi fans?) I THINK the old, dying man is played by Guy Pearce, but the makeup is a really good cover-up. He's the only other name I recognized. I stuck with it for the whole torturous 2 hours thinking "It's got to come into it's own story sooner or later", but I was disappointed. I'm curious about what any of the rest of you think and would welcome your comments.
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I just watched this 2012 sci-fi and can only say - "What a mess"!!! It's a complete theft of ideas from some original Star Trek episodes, Alien I and III, even believe it or not, From the Earth to the Moon, and a little bit of just about every sci-fi movie ever made. Even the monsters are straight out of Alien, and Earth to the Moon. Why in the world Charlize Theron agreed to be apart of this thing is beyond me. She is a brilliant Oscar winning actor and all I can assume is that much of her role was edited out.
It's about a dying man who claims that some ancient writings lead to the theory that aliens created us, but actually he just wants to find out if they know the secret of life and prolonging it. So he funds this huge space ship to be built to go to the planet which is over 2 years travel time away. The crew naturally travels in frozen pods (straight out of the original Khan episode on Star Trek), and WOW the robot who looks just like a human, turns out to be a bad guy (only his name is Dave not Bishop), and can talk even after his body is ripped away from his head. (Sound familiar sci-fi fans?) I THINK the old, dying man is played by Guy Pearce, but the makeup is a really good cover-up. He's the only other name I recognized. I stuck with it for the whole torturous 2 hours thinking "It's got to come into it's own story sooner or later", but I was disappointed. I'm curious about what any of the rest of you think and would welcome your comments.
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