Prometheus

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This past Saturday I went to see the movie Prometheus. It was a really good science fiction movie, but I believe the trailers and the hype were a little exaggerated to how good this movie would actually be. I understood that this was a prequel to the "Alien" franchise, and that the monster aliens, xenomorphs as they are sometimes called, would make a small appearance if at all. This film was supposed to be an origin story for why there was an alien space ship on this foreign world and why killer aliens inhabit it instead of the intelligent aliens who built and flew the space ship as depicted in the first Alien movie. It had succeed on some of those parts, but it left a bunch of other questions as well. There were interesting concepts put into the movie, but there were new mysteries given to the audience.

I did really like the H. R. Giger's designs used in this movie as they have been used in the previous films. His artistic concepts are very dark and interesting. A film needs more than just visualizing beauty.

I like the acting of the main cast. Noomi Repace was a good lead, Micheal Fassbender was awesome as an android, Charlise Theron was a good antagonist, and Idris Elba made a good captain. Everyone else was just expendable. As soon as the film stated that there was a space crew in the teens, I knew that was too many people to keep track of and that most of these people would be killed off. It becomes a little difficult to feel sorry for characters that are not established very well when they die.

I have some theories to explain some of the unanswered questions generated from this movie, but maybe it would have been better to have some clarifications. Maybe Ridley Scott was stuck in a bit of a rut after taking a long hiatus from science fiction movies.