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Prometheus
Topic Started: Oct 12 2012, 11:13 AM (191 Views)
Hoss
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Don't make me use my bare hands on you.
Watched Prometheus, the Alien prequel. Hmmmmm, mediocre movie. Two big complaints:

1) Main character gets impregnated with an alien squid thing and so goes into the automated surgery bed to have it removed - fine. The surgery bed did this with a local anesthetic, what? Takes deep anesthetic to tolerate that much of a severe operation. Cuts across her abdomen, severing all of those important muscles, pulls out the alien squid and then uses a high-tech staple gun to close her up. Didn't close up any of the internal stuff. But that's not what really bugs me. She then gets up, runs, jumps over crevasses, climbs over cliffs, repels down an alien ship, fight an alien, and flies off in an alien space ship with this recent surgery wound in her gut. Unbelievable in any future. Just ridiculous.

2) They made the sound, like so many action movies these days, so that the special effects are loud as hell and the dialog is barely audible. So, you fight with the remote control the whole time instead of watching the movie. Explosion noise nearly destroys speakers, turn TV down to 15, cut to dialog scene, can't hear it without TV dialed up to 45, sudden explosion sound nearly damages speakers, dial back down to 15. So frustrating that I can't even focus on movie, just futzing with the volume. I probably missed 30% of the dialog, but it didn't seem to matter to the movie plot that much.

3) Hey, we're on an alien planet in a strange alien space ship. Let's just all take off our helmets. What could possibly go wrong?

Ok, there were 3 big complaints.
Edited by Hoss, Oct 12 2012, 11:15 AM.
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fireh8er
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I agree with one and three totally.

The whole medical pod idea was cool, but running around after that kind of surgery is insane.

Taking your helmet off in a alien spaceship was just stupid. I thought they were supposed to be scientists.

Other than that, I enjoyed the movie.
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Swidden
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Hoss,

Re: Point 2 on the sound.

I've taken in the past couple of years to turn on the English captions on films. My main reason for doing this has been because many of the movies have coarse language that I really don't need the five year old learning yet. That's what school playgrounds have been for since day one! The words usually flash on screen a couple of seconds before you hear them.

The unintended benefit has been that the words flashing on screen have allowed me to catch dialogue I might have sometimes missed due to the FX sounds being so loud. I don't really sit there and "read through" the film, but it has an almost subliminal effect.
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