You might be of french blood, but that's still very insulting and way over the line here.
I'm not French myself (quite far from), but I assume there's French people visiting this board and reading that insulting statement, as we all know various part of the world are by now.
Also, France has a great history of moviemaking during the history, it's not like French reviewers has less knowledge on how to watch and make movie reviews than their US collegues. And that's being said with some possible cultural diversities aside.
Of course movie reviews might slightly differ from certain countries, but when I see insults drawn by cliches on the same level as primates like this, I can't but react. As far as I know, people has got probations here for simular statements..
I wasn't about to reply anything to his post, because... whatever. But I must say I'm glad someone noticed it was offensive. So, thanks I guess.
Now on to Prometheus.
I already posted a short non-spoiler review in the "last film you watched" thread, and it's pretty similar to the other reviews I've read so far.
The only real problem is that the writing seemed lazy at times, with characters we've already seen in one or two of the films from the franchise, and new creatures I did not quite understand. [BLACKOUT]I mean, I always assumed there were the facehuggers and that they gave birth to the aliens, and that was it. but in Prometheus you see snake-like monsters that enter their victims' mouths to do God-knows-what in them -they merely appear to die from it or turn into super-strength zombies depending on who they are-, octopus-like monsters that come out of bellies and then lay eggs down their victims' throats, which then in turn become kind of aliens but not really, etc. Why not stick to the already existing creatures?[/BLACKOUT] Didn't really get it. Anyway.
I also didn't like the fact that it didn't tie all the loose ends. At some point you think they've pretty much set up the situation for Alien, and then they all turn it upside down and make it different, and you kind of go [BLACKOUT]"so wait, is this the Space Jockey from Alien or is it another one? Cause he certainly didn't die in the same place as the one from Alien". [/BLACKOUT]But at the same time, it leaves room for a sequel, and I'm a sucker for this kind of film, so why not?
I also want to add for those of you who have read the "massive spoilers" fromp two pages back that the summary is at best incomplete, and sometimes inexact regardiung certain details [BLACKOUT](For instance :
Meanwhile, David learns that Shaw is infected and removes a Proto-Xenomorph from her, with orders from Weyland to freeze it and bring it back to Earth for further studies. is absolutely wrong, since David actually hoped Shaw would become impregnated with the creature and die from the "birth", so why would he remove it? Shaw has to remove it by herself, in what I think was a great scene). [/BLACKOUT]Anyways, details. But don't judge the plot by this highly-spoilerish summary. It doesn't necessarily do it justice.
As far as the rest of the film is concerned, I really enjoyed it a lot. Ridley Scott is my favourite science-fiction director (my two favourite SF films are Blade Runner and Alien), always offers us awesome images, a great atmosphere, and an art direction that's overwhelming at best, stunning at worst (back to school, James Cameron).
I didn't care much for the 3D, but I never do.
I give it an easy 8/10 and I definitely will go back and watch it again while it's still in theaters, and I urge you all to do the same and not wait for the blu ray unless you have professional quality equipment at home.
