Posted on 06/18/2012 1:21:42 PM PDT by pabianice
To each his own I guess. I loved it. Saw it twice.
I saw Battleship. My wife and I laughed and laughed at it. We at a lot of popcorn and killed a couple of hours, laughing and holding hands in the dark. But we didn’t expect anything from Battleship, I expected a lot more from Ridley Scott and was greatly disappointed.
We were picking a movie to see today and we watched to trailer form this movie and the one for the Marigold Hotel. I was shocked that hubby wants to see Marigold Hotel. After awhile all these big blockbuster 3D all start looking the same. We decided to pass.
Moonrise Kingdom is a great little film by Wes Anderson. He did The Life Aquatic, The Royal Tannebaums, to name just two.
And the maps were not addressable by the people that needed them... guess differential gps like equipment was not available ..or evan loran...
May have time seq wrong but I think she was talking to capt before they exited ship (and she suited up)
but you may well be correct.
Staying with plotdevicium
Major as in cost like an MRI you are correct it was rare too I don’t see daughter not dearist not having the code for females loaded if she really was that much into survival.
Still it was not a bad movie, just not up to what was expected by me, maybe I just expected too much.
The critics reviews called Prometheus “Brilliant”, “Stunning”, “Ground Breaking”, etc.
Well, it was certainly none of those things. But it was an ok movie overall. I don’t regret watching it.
The 3D effects were brilliant. It is an amazing movie visually.
But the script was marginal at best, the acting was sub-par (even the talented Charlize Theron seemed to be mailing it in), and the dialogue was very weak.
It was definitely not the movie event of the summer (”Avengers” all the way on that one). But it was a decent enough movie. If people are into the creepy Alien genre, I would recommend seeing the movie on the big screen.
It took me till the end of the movie to get it. I looked at my kid and said, “prequel to Alien.” My kid then asks how could the good Dr. Shaw give herself a cesarean and 500 years later, Ripley is telling the doctors to get this thing out of her.
It looks like they had GPS, but as we’ve already learned they’re of limited use. If you take a wrong turn you take a wrong turn. Their big mistake was not bothering to communicate to the ship until they’d gotten themselves good and turned around, then when they called they were told the storm was coming and to sit tight.
Maybe the daughter couldn’t get it, it’s a rare device, probably rare code too. And really unless you’re trying to get an abortion the difference is pretty small. Most of the arteries and important stuff are in the same places.
I thought it was a lot better than expected.
I thought it was a really good movie, I enjoyed the heck out of it, so did my friend. I intend to see it again.
And to everyone who can’t figure out why the creator alien wanted to whack mankind...if you created mankind, what would you want to do with it at this point?
I tell you I’d be mixing me up some black goo and packing it on my earth bound ship right about now, and if any of ‘em came along and tried to stop me, I’d beat ‘em just like he did in the movie.
That was the first face-hugger in her womb, not an alien implanted in her chest by a face-hugger.
There’s a difference there!
I HATED the movie. Almost every facet of the story had HUUUUUGE holes.
The film's only positive was the special effects. These were truly stunning in IMAX 3D.
If I hadn't paid extra, but saw it in just standard format, I would have REALLY hated the movie. Special effects and the IMAX 3D formatting brought my grade of the movie up to a C-. Without IMAX 3D, this movie merited a solid D.
If you want to see a movie to be entertained while you think about work, go see Battleship. If you want to see a movie to think about at work see Prometheus.
The subplot involving Dr. Shaw's cross (and faith) was intriguing. Remember that the reanimated Engineers head told "David" that they were going back to Earth to start over. That was 2000 years ago...........
Of course this is only a work of fiction. Truth, as always, will be far stranger.
“Now, the bad. This movie has been given over to CGI and FX. The plot is incoherent and the characters act so stupidly that it is impossible not to laugh at what are supposed to be the most dramatic scenes.”
It’s not just movies, it’s the entire country...
“Now, the bad. This NATION has been given over to CGI and FX. The politics are incoherent and the characters act so stupidly that it is impossible not to laugh at what are supposed to be the most dramatic scenes.”
Sequel coming this November.
I’m still going to see it, and I give this snarky review two thumbs down. Who wrote it, Rachel Maddow?
What did this guy think of “Avatar”? That was supposed to be some great movie, but it was just a ripoff of “Dances With Wolves” with blue indians. If you have to rip off Kevin Costner, you’re starting out losing.
Think of the "god" Enlil in the book "The 12th Planet" or the satellite Nomad in the original Star Trek.
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