I enjoyed Prometheus a whole lot, but only once people started dying.
I get that this is supposed to echo the original Nostromo crew. Let's think about this for one second. Can you tell the difference between a hand-picked group of specialists sent out to discover the origin of life, and a freighter full of swarthy miners? This movie can't.
Nobody is ever going to remember Meredith Vickers in the hall of Great Cinema Characters in History. These clowns aren't even functional as background flavor like Ripley's original crewmates were. They don't seem interested in the mission, even. Halloway is a token racist, pointlessly referring to David as "boy", and undergoes a redemptive death that is pretty phony. Perhaps the intent was to make David the only sympathetic character by virtue of being the least human?
Eh, it's been done better.
Anyway, not to harp on about that. I liked the DNA-hopping of the black goo, creating proto facehuggers right and left. I also like the Engineer's armor, which draws on the old H.R. Giger designs. And it's nice to see Shaw, a scientist, seemingly totally unprepared for a life-or-death struggle. She seems real, a nice break from Ellen Ripley.
I hate this crew.
I enjoyed Prometheus a whole lot, but only once people started dying.
I get that this is supposed to echo the original Nostromo crew. Let's think about this for one second. Can you tell the difference between a hand-picked group of specialists sent out to discover the origin of life, and a freighter full of swarthy miners? This movie can't.
Nobody is ever going to remember Meredith Vickers in the hall of Great Cinema Characters in History. These clowns aren't even functional as background flavor like Ripley's original crewmates were. They don't seem interested in the mission, even. Halloway is a token racist, pointlessly referring to David as "boy", and undergoes a redemptive death that is pretty phony. Perhaps the intent was to make David the only sympathetic character by virtue of being the least human?
Eh, it's been done better.
Anyway, not to harp on about that. I liked the DNA-hopping of the black goo, creating proto facehuggers right and left. I also like the Engineer's armor, which draws on the old H.R. Giger designs. And it's nice to see Shaw, a scientist, seemingly totally unprepared for a life-or-death struggle. She seems real, a nice break from Ellen Ripley.