The Dictator's Cut

Rating: 3/10 (9 June 2012)

I was there at the beginning, watching It! The terror from Beyond Space when I was about 10 late at night on TV home alone.Only Invaders From Mars was scarier. So I saw Alien when it came out in the theater and I loved it. The Grunge of it , the pettiness of money, Ripley, Ash, but most of all the Paradigm Shift it represented.In IT! Marshall Thompson et al speculate that IT is a degenerate form of the once high Martian Civilization. It sees us as nothing but food much like Hawk's original The Thing from another World. Alien changed the game. Humanity is just a vessel for instar changes of a Superior Insect much like the wasp or the wasp relatives the ants in Them! So at this point humanity becomes disposable to a Corporation interested in better weapons. Ridley did a good job an Alien , but Cameron blew him out of the water with Aliens and Ripley blossomed. Alien3 sucked. It felt like German Prison Sex which it was. Alien 4 had great potential-human/hybrid Ripley the more ultimate weapon alright. And then Cameron gives her Godhood in Avatar. What's a RS to do? Well his Director's Cut of Bladerunner superimposed his Unicorn Vision and turned Harrison Ford into a replicant.Too bad for PKD who after all wrote DADOES? So when Prometheus came calling I was all ears and the trailers looked good. But it is an empty husk at best and more like black mass at worst.AVP 1 was better than this. If this is an answer to Avatar it is a joke. Cameron has done the same film ever since his student days. Aliens and The Abyss are all Moby Dick elsewhere. Loyalty, mania, danger. Ridley knows the ground. Blackhawk Down is as unrelenting as Aliens. So what is Prometheus about? My only guess is that God is a Deceiver. But the joke is the same for The Director. And so you are telling us to treat you as food or organic rental, but in reality no it's Building Better Worlds all over again with a synthetic on board . Is he a replicant? I'm shocked, but almost convinced that something has curdled in that mind's eye that burned so bright like Blake.