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Matt,
yeah, you are Beau (Ph.D. in Lit) had a similar reaction. My bar is a bit lower with regard to strict adherence to plot coherence. But Beau is still yelling about there being no plot.
Say what you will about the weaknesses of the Matrix trilogy, but even the last 2 weren't as big of a hot mess as Prometheus.
When the opening credits rolled, I thought, oh, hey, Guy Pearce is in this movie!
During the movie, I never thought, hey, it's Guy Pearce!
When the closing credits rolled, I thought, oh, hey, Guy Pearce was in this movie!
I want to see this movie.
Ha ha ha, gingerhaze and Kate Beaton need to collaborate on something.
Prometheus Unbound: What The Movie Was Actually About.
That kind of makes me want to see it again.
I want to see this movie.
Heh. Me too.
Not to mention that as fucking expensiveas that self-surgical thing is, it fucking better work on men and women. WTF is the point then. in the theater, when the machine said that, I said out loud "fucking typical."
I thought that was just foreshadowing that the shuttle was meant to hold a male passenger, who we discover later is Welyand, NOT Vickers. It would only be programmed for that one person, screw the rest of the ship, not just females.
I don't think there was any evidence that pointed to it being an issue, an auto-doc being for just a specific person. Yes, it was an anvil that it wasn't Vickers, but Weyland's, but why would you think they're programmed to work for one person?
ita,
why would you think they're programmed to work for one person?
Eh, I just didn't think my sentence through well. Male=Weyland=one person came out being all the same in my head.
Oh! Another big issue I had apart from the general lack of common sense or survival instinct among the crew was the complete ignorance of basic physics and biology on the part of the writers. Like aliens whose DNA is just like ours except they apparently react to mild electrical stimulus by instantly rotting and exploding. Funny, I don't remember hearing about people doing that. Or a freaky fetus that can make someone's womb run at 200x speed and not cause all sorts of complications beyond a couple of cramps. Or said freaky fetus then being able to gain hundreds of kg of mass out of thin air over another couple of hours post-extraction, as that infirmary didn't seem to have big crates of supplies it could have fed on.
Finding out that one of the Lost writers got a screenplay credit explains a lot...
Prometheus sounds like I can just pretend I'm having an awesome freaky dream and it's so over-the-top and unreal that it doesn't bother me that it doesn't make any damn sense.