This movie was awful
lets not pretend otherwise
shareI thought it could have been better, for sure, a missed opportunity.
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Yeah, poor man's Alien movie to say the least.
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The thing is, there is also meant to be another prequel which would make it a trilogy sometime in the future, Awakening, so maybe they are leaving the best till last.
Still, like I said before it could have been so much better, which is a shame.
I doubt that last film is happening after how much of a debacle this film was. Prometheus was not bad. However, it's like they took all the complaints from that movie and said, "I think we need to make these characters dumber!" Sigh.
shareIf this film was considered "art" then out would not matter how much the movie made at the box office. If it made 0$, the artist would still want to complete the trilogy, if that was indeed the intention. However, Ridley Scott does not have this integrity in him. If no studio finances the next alien movie, he won't put his money at stake and fully pay for it himself, the way Mel Gibson did when "Passion of the Christ" came out. That's the difference between a true filmmaker who is a visionary and believes in making important films like Orson Welles for example who financially backed every movie he made, and a profiteer like Ridley Scott.
shareI definitely follow the theory that this was an eff you to the fans who hated Prometheus.
shareNobody goes out and intentionally tries to make a bad movie, but most movies in Hollywood are an ensemble endeavor where you have several scriptwriters, editors and producers all opining on how a movie should be made. This is always bad. So what happened with this film is that there a number of boxes that had to be checked: more diverse alien forms or variations, less philosophy and more action, dumbed-down dialogue for the masses, clear and easily spelled-out plan for characters to follow, easy "evil" characters "David" to boo, and heroes to cheer "Daniels". This was so cookie-cutter, that in my view of the film, if they replaced Alien's with any other monsters you would not notice. A generic sci-fi movie, might as well have been another "Doom".
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