Skip to main content
Skip to main navigation
Skip to talk navigation

Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Add post

Watch this thread

Save thread

Start a new thread

Flip thread

Hide thread

My feed

Saved Active Unanswered threads

Getting started FAQ's

Unanswered threads Acronyms Talk guidelines

Hide shortcut buttons

Talk

Flip

1 2 3 4

AIBU?

to think Prometheus was a rubbish film?

87 replies

Jux · 21/02/2013 23:23

The first tiny bit where the Earth is seeded with DNA was the best bit, and perhaps, the last few seconds, where the Alien of good films is born, was OK. Everything in between was crap.

So glad I only paid a couple of quid to borrow the DVD, instead of paying through the nose for the cinema as dh and I had intended to do.

Ridley Scot, you should be ashamed. ASHAMED. I am very cross with you, and I shall think twice before I bother with another film from you.

OP posts:

Report

TheSmallPrint · 22/02/2013 10:22

No Good actors??? Excuuuuuuuuuse me I think you'll find that Michael Fassbender is bloody gorgeous noramally a most excellent actor as is Idris Elba. But the film was shit.

OxfordBags · 22/02/2013 10:23

And how blatantly did they signal a sequel by having Guy Pierce play the old geezer? If there aren't going to be future flashbacks to his youth, why not use an actual elderly actor?!

TheSmallPrint · 22/02/2013 10:25

GregBishopsBottomBitch · 22/02/2013 10:25

I havent seen it, been told it was shit, even the pant wettingly handsome Michael Fassbender cant make me watch it.

SummerRainIsADistantMemory · 22/02/2013 10:26

It was complete and utter shite.

No plot, terrible script, completely nonsensical behaviour from the characters and no attempts made to explain any of it.

Ridley Scott needs a good talking to

OxfordBags · 22/02/2013 10:26

TheSmallPrint, everyone in it is a good actor, especially Fassbender, I concur. But apart from him, they were mostly crap in it, especially Charlize Theron. It's not their fault; you can't put lipstick on a pig!

GregBishopsBottomBitch · 22/02/2013 10:27

Small Im glad im not the only one who finds Michael Fassbender edible, oh the things i'd do to him.

TheSmallPrint · 22/02/2013 10:28

I'd watch any old shite that Fassy was in tbh! Greg, you have excellent taste my friend!

GregBishopsBottomBitch · 22/02/2013 10:29

Small It was Xmen that did it, him speaking german.....i will stop now.

TheSmallPrint · 22/02/2013 10:31

He is very edible in that I agree .

BelfastBloke · 22/02/2013 10:33

What do you mean, "were the unknown actors deliberate?"

Which actors didn't you know? Pretty good, experienced cast, I'd've said, from a decent range of interesting films.

RedwingOnFire · 22/02/2013 10:33

It was angry-makingly ridiculous!!

I love this Makes me laugh!!

RedwingOnFire · 22/02/2013 10:35

Obviously the above link contains all the spoilers!

DadOnIce · 22/02/2013 10:36

You may enjoy this - Prometheus title sequence as if it was a 90s TV show!

GregBishopsBottomBitch · 22/02/2013 10:39

Red That was hilarious, and the reason i'll never watch it, i noticed they didnt say much about Fassie.

ZolaBuddleia · 22/02/2013 10:40

Lots of good actors in a shitty script. Where did the bag come from to put Fassbender's head in? When the big thing was falling down why didn't Noomi Rapace just run 10 feet to the side?

Pile o shite.

TheSmallPrint · 22/02/2013 10:41

That honest trailer is hilarious!

RedwingOnFire · 22/02/2013 10:42

DadOnIce wow! That's cool! I want to watch THAT show!!

FrameyMcFrame · 22/02/2013 10:43

Oh dear I loved it but seem to be in the minority here...

I'm a sucker for any film where the lead is a strong woman though, and her performance was amazing.

Trills · 22/02/2013 10:45

Did you know that Mumsnet has a Movie reviews section? :)

YANBU, because it is never unreasonable to dislike a film.

I disagree, but that doesn't make it unreasonable.

MoreBeta · 22/02/2013 10:52

These sort of films are so formulaic but the studios make them because they are a low risk investment. It is about business not art.

They pick a genre that is popular with the public, hire a great director, hire a roster of great actors, push the film through their worldwide marketing distribution machine and they make some money. They also inevitably make a bad film.

Ridley Scott did a fantastic job with Blade Runner but based on fabulous classic SciFi book (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - which may just be the best or worst ever book title).

Its easy to see why he was hired for the job but I woudl not blame him or the actors.

BelfastBloke · 22/02/2013 11:01

"TrillianAstra: Guard of the Concept of Unreasonableness."

It's good to know she's out there, policing AIBU for all us pedants.

Don’t want to miss threads like this?

Weekly

Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!

Email address

Log in to update your newsletter preferences.

You've subscribed!

Trills · 22/02/2013 11:08

Hi BB, haven't seen you for aaaages.

Is it the science fiction that brings you out?

Moominsarehippos · 22/02/2013 11:11

I would tell you but I fell asleep. I usually fall asleep though. I even fell asleep during the last Bond film in the cinema with a full audience of shriekers.

BelfastBloke · 22/02/2013 11:16

'Spose it is the sic-fi that brings me out, Trills. Not on MN quite as much as I used to be. You know us SAHMs. A woman's work is never done.

Flip

1 2 3 4

Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.