Prometheus "there is nothing"

Rating: 4/10 (16 June 2012)

Yes folks I allowed the young girl at the counter to take my $14.50 for this 3D horror-less flick that was a Ridley Scott follow up to his original Alien and its sequel Aliens which are two of my favorite sci-fi films along with Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner". The other Alien movies that followed Aliens do not count because they were not created by Ridley Scott and because they are not worth mentioning here (they suck!). So, after the movie I left the theater thinking to myself, man those actors from Alien must have pushed Ridley Scott so hard while making that original movie in 1979. Not sure but perhaps Scott does not care about the acting anymore in his movies or Scott relied so heavenly on CGI that he felt the special effects would overcome the actor's acting or in-acting and one more or, or that Scott's CGI effects were so expensive that the picture could not afford real actors. Not sure what happened to the casting in this movie that is if there was casting. The only horror that occurs is the horrific acting. It is essential that the characters in any movie create the suspense which mixed with darkness creates horror. The film provides more than enough gore but perhaps not enough darkness (I mean darkness as absences of light) which helps to create suspense. Not many films today provide the Hitchcockian suspense which relies heavily on delayed timing which creates the suspense that an audience craves. So this viewer was not pushed to fear by the actors who are supposed to be entrenched in it in Prometheus. No matter how many excellent CGI effects or 3D visuals that can be packed into a Scott movie no one watching will care because it appears in the movie that none of the characters care about their supposedly horrific situation. What we have in Prometheus is clones acting through the script. The artificial robot "Dave" exuded much more life than any of the actors and he was dancing the robot through the movie. The story: The original stories for the first two movies were not really complicated scripts and neither was Prometheus. So we expected the story to be clear from the get go with the exception that we did not expect this two hundred year old man to be such an idiot who thought that he was going to meet his maker when he met the first being outside of the planet earth. In Alien and Aliens no one was worried about their maker they were only worried about a beak-en that was telling them that something was coming to plant eggs inside of them. This is where the suspense and then terror was built from in the first two movies that can still be felt decades later when viewing the films. That tiny little beeping sound from a two dollar prompt which of course was missing from Prometheus and was replaced by two space reptiles and a tall NFL football player who had landed his ship for a long nap thousands of years ago; I mean that is how it seemed to me anyhow. These replacement aliens wore heavily protected head gear so they probably never had a concussion in their life while playing space-ball. As you can read no matter how much I love Ridley Scott for making Blade Runner I cannot recommend this film :( PS: Hopefully special effects will not ruin Blade Runner II when and if it arrives. Was anything good? The special effects were very innovative and believable until an actor was applied. A few reminders of the first two films occurred within the backdrops and set designs here and there throughout the movie. Off the wall recommendations (not related to any genre): Strigoi "The Undead", Looker, Those Fearless Vampire Killers, and The Stranger.