Prometheus.
Great Movie, in my opinion.
Prometheus is an exciting romp in the minds of Ridley Scott and Damon
Lindelof that leaves the casual and well-read audience member both looking
forward to a sequel. Even the skeptics
are waiting, rubbing their sweaty palms together in anticipation, to enjoy the
next installment then spend the following week railing about how much it sucked
and why. Awesome film which, in usual
Ridley Scott fashion, did way too much-goo mutating the geologist and it
attacking the ship's crew-, had way too many unimportant characters given speaking
roles-Cherlize Theron’s character, the biologist, the geologist- but
had one thing his imagination needed; the technology to make what he saw come
to life.
Script could have
used a bit more attention, along with people in the bit parts who know how to act. With Theron’s
character running the show, can Scott rationalize having a weenie tree-hugger
biologist on the trip instead of the cold and calculating biologist who is
there to take samples and… study the flora and fauna? Something tells me she would have known if
this guy was there to do his job or was missing his room full of reptile-filled
terrariums just a bit too much.
I do, however, agree with a growing number of people that
Scott and Lindelof overreached a bit by appearing
to incorporate so many themes, many controversial, into the film. Now, most people aren’t intelligent enough to
even question or realize what they are looking at in this film, and a WHOLE lot
more of us have such a high opinion of our own intelligence that we read way
too much into the film, me included. For
those in the latter group, we are spending so much time and energy and emotion
talking about the film that, no matter what our words are saying, we loved the
film and will undoubtedly go see a sequel.
There is only one true theme, “Where did we come from and now
that where is trying to kill us.“ I
think the whole “Space Jesus” thing is too obtuse and too insignificant a
reason for them to kill us. I think
something more along the lines of the fact that we poison and kill everything
we touch, and will eventually attempt the same with them is more reasonable and
likely to be the truth. Instead of
creating the Intergalactic Best Friends they always wanted, they made
soul-sucking leaches that will devour everything in their path so long as it
allows them to keep up on the Jersey Shore.
They created a race that will, no matter what, attempt to kill them in
the future due to a huge fraction of that creation’s population being so
self-centered and bigoted that they will literally kill anyone and anything
that can destroy their personal belief system. <<< It can’t be anything as tawdry and simple as
that. C’mon, it’s from Ridley Scott’s
Imagination, right? Some may argue
that the Space Jesus thing is simply an indicator of what I said, as far as the
scope of the film is concerned, but, meh, who cares?
But, that is a point.
This film can be ruined by only one thing; asking too many
questions. Most of those questions are
only questions to people who find themselves questioning any- and
everything. Life is too short for that.
Ooh, we killed Jesus and they want to kill us for that… I
don’t buy it. Too simple a reason, put
out there by Ridley Scott for the sole purpose of distracting the simple. “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and
discard the intelligence of the intelligent.”
I can play the scripture thing along with the fanatic followers and detractors of the film.
People are looking past the most simple fact of the matter- we keep
trying to put the God of this world into the world where only Ridley Scott can
ever be God.
PS: Holy Crap, it's a new POST!
