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Prometheus is better than this.

posted 7 years ago by PresidentAckbar (1289)
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Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $126,477,084 31.4%
+ Foreign: $276,877,385 68.6%
= Worldwide: $403,354,469

Prometheus is way better, the numbers don't lie.

[–] CraigJamesReview (1460) 7 years ago

I agree with you in theory, yet I feel like Prometheus is the movie that asked the hard questions and was mostly engaging when it did. This was supposed to be the movie that gave us the answers and it didn't really do that. When taken together it's disappointing.

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[–] LetThemEatCake (2717) 7 years ago

Prometheus is one of the worst films ever made, and Covenant is another installment of Scott's bamboozling of the audience.

[–] Bubbathegut (17225) 7 years ago

That honor goes to Covenant.

[–] FordFairlane (299) 7 years ago

Numbers dont make a movie good or bad. Shitty writing does that.

[–] Bubbathegut (17225) 7 years ago

But at least Prometheus is better.

[–] crc32 (2584) 7 years ago

I'm pretty sure the let down of Prometheus led to jaded fans not bother to see Alien Covenant. It just felt like another psudo religious film just on the title alone.

[–] grindovermatter (380) 7 years ago

Prometheus has its share of problems, but at least it has focus and maintains a consistent tone throughout. Covenant isn't sure what it wants to be, and the harsh tonal shift in the third act was just sloppy.

[–] Bubbathegut (17225) 7 years ago

bubba agrees

[–] komrad (148) 7 years ago

Prometheus was going to include Blue Engineer Jesus, but some not completely brain-dead execs stopped Scott from doing that :D

[–] blindfolded (1492) 7 years ago

Transformers is better than Shawshank because...numbers?

[–] MikeCable (1662) 7 years ago

I thought the same thing...!

[–] PresidentAckbar (1289) 7 years ago

You are comparing apples and oranges.

[–] blindfolded (1492) 7 years ago

Yeah, OK.

"Numbers don't lie"
...except for when you decide it doesn't matter?
...only applies to films within a franchise?
Your arbitrary box office rules are, well, arbitrary.

Box office is a measurement of money. People who bought a ticket. People who spent money based on hype, trailer, actors, etc. It is not a reliable measuring stick of quality, story, acting, or artistic merit.

You can easily make the same correlation that people didn't spend money on Covenant because Prometheus was such shitshow letdown.