prometheus!

[luninosity]

(Actually, just as a side note, because I'm realizing this: if I'm going to put up more of the original fantasy fic, I could use more medieval/fantasy/fairytale icons...suggestions, people?)

So, I was feeling well enough to venture out for a couple of hours, and Awesome Husband and I went to see Prometheus. Random observations under the cut; not in

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[telperion_15]

So I'm only going to respond to the points I actually have a response to - which is most of them, actually

[luninosity]

1. Seriously! I kind of just want to go see it again and marvel. (I shan't, because movies are expensive, but if someone else, such as my parents, decides to pay

[telperion_15]

1. I have to admit to going again pretty quickly - needed to see it without the weight of expectation on it to form a proper opinion (that's my story and I'm sticking to it

[luninosity]

1. Agreed about the expectations...though I suspect this is also related to #14!
2. It's the absurdist quality of that, I think--the movie constantly reminds you that he's not quite human. Same with the hair. It's too ridiculously like someone's idea of perfection. Which makes complete sense, of course, but I can't help thinking about elves

[luninosity]

Really? But he doesn't seem to like them much! Elizabeth, maybe. He was watching her dreams. Which is kind of creepy, but also a bit sweet.

But I could totally see him using sex to manipulate them, yes. And you know he'd be fantastic in bed...or anywhere, really!

[luninosity]

Plus there's his connection with Vickers - there's some obvious tension there, for good reason ...I thought of that one! But I was trying to figure out what they'd get out of it--as androids, they don't have the emotional ties, post-sex, that people do, right? (Or would they be attempting that...?)

Ooh. I could kind of see David/Bishop. They could have very cerebral debates about the role of an android and the relationships that are possible, or desirable, to have with humans. And by debates I mean naked debates in bed, of course.

[raffi]

All I can say is: I am so freakin' jealous (in a good way) right now, I want to explode. Prometheus, why in 3D only? WHY. ;~;

Other than that, I'm so glad that you feel better and was able to have a great time! ♥

[luninosity]

Aww! Maybe eventually it'll appear somewhere in 2D? Out here we had both, but we saw it in 3D because we'd heard it was gorgeous, and it is. Probably not worth the money a second time, but I'm glad we had the experience.

*hugs* Not 100%, but better, yes, I think. Hopefully this trend will continue!

[raffi]

I sure hope so D: Unfortunately, I cannot watch movies in 3D.. I get horrible headaches. Huh, really? You're not the first person to say that it's not worth the money a second time.

*wraps arms around you* Of course, it'll continue! Also, please keep us updated~

[luninosity]

Ah. I know other people for whom that's true, too, about the headaches. :-/ Definitely not worth that!

I'd see it a second time if someone else, like my dad, wanted to, but probably not just randomly (unlike, say, XMFC, or The Avengers). It's a decent movie, I just wanted it to be...more. (Also, I forgot Awesome Husband's final comment: "So...Michael Fassbender's really good at the inappropriately eerie smirk, isn't he?" me: "YES.")

About the same, today! Just lying here on the couch, alternately grading papers and writing fic...

[starlady38]

God what a terrible movie. But Fassbender was amazing in it, though. I am going to see it again in 3D (because of that scene with the holocordings) and this time I will bring a flask.

[luninosity]

Hmm, well, I didn't think it was terrible (obviously, from the above) (though I am an SF/F scholar), but it's definitely not perfect. It has ambitious aims, and collapses under the weight of them, sometimes.

Michael's definitely the best part of the movie, though. He's the most compelling figure in any given scene, and David is fascinatingly complex--it's not only Michael having the usual impressive presence.

I imagine it'd be fun with flask. Let me know what you come up with, for drinking game rules! (I assume an Alien-universe drinking game does, in fact, exist...)

[starlady38]

Oh, I thought it was terrible - have you seen Cleolinda's Prometheus in 15 minutes? If it wanted to be taken seriously as SFF, it should not have made most of its scientist characters too stupid to live. Clearly by 2091 Weyland Corp has acquired and shut down TV Tropes. And possibly also banned movies.

The David 8 plotline is by far the most interesting, and the most actually SFnal - it would have been a much better movie if they'd jettisoned the stuff connecting it to the rest of the Alien movies and Noomi Rapace's latter-day parable about Space Jesus or whatever. Those aspects have been done to death in SF already (who else remembers 2001?), but the stuff with David 8 hasn't. It's a lost opportunity.

But, that said, like Cleolinda, if they made a sequel that was the adventures of Elizabeth Shaw and David 8's head, I'd totally watch it.

[luninosity]

...did I not answer this? I should've. Getting behind...

And that is BRILLIANT. I wish I'd written it. Now I kind of want to watch the film again, with that in my head as commentary...

I completely agree that they needed more David 8. He was the most compelling, and most original, character in the story. And I'd've loved to see his evolution explored in more depth, and his relationship to Weyland, and Vickers...I didn't mind Noomi Rapace, as a character, exactly (other than the sheer implausibility of half her scenes); of course she's a cliche, but I can live with cliche if it's done well, and while I groaned out loud at the I-can't-reproduce moment, I found her likeable in a way that most of the other characters were decidedly not. (And I say this as more or less an agnostic person, married to a VERY lapsed Catholic.) It's a dilemma that a lot of people do face, so, if they want to tell that story (again), why not. But it should've been better than it is.

if they made a sequel that was the adventures of Elizabeth Shaw and David 8'

[penguingal]

Speaking of, look, she's got Michael's David's head in a duffel bag. As you do.

There should be an award for best acting as a head in a bag. And then Michael should win it. A lot.

[luninosity]

Ahahaha yes. I feel like that's probably a more expansive category than we think, if we also include, oh, other severed heads, and such (Sean Bean?). But Michael should still win. Even as a disembodied head, he can still 1) be pretty and 2) give advice to other characters!