Monday, June 18, 2012

I Loved Prometheus and am amused by all the poeple who hate it but can't stop talking about it.


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. 

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