Janek – who is right about everything, remember – advises him not to leave the spaceship when they’re so close to dark. As Holloway ( Logan Marshall-Green) says to Janek upon arrival, “It’s Christmas, Captain…and I want to open my presents”. Yes, Prometheus is gorgeous, in many of the same ways that Dune would be a decade later, with Interstellar and The Martian (another Scott joint) in-between, envisioning – with a mix of CGI and national park locales – a desolate, mostly habitable alien world as the expansive and unspoiled natural wonder that it surely would be in person. Or so I thought dismissively until this week when I finally revisited it. I recommended it on a purely visual basis for a few months while the big screens and 3D glasses were still available, but always with an asterisk that all of the human characters aboard the starship Prometheus are extremely dumb except for Captain Janek ( Idris Elba), who is correct about everything and even hooks up with corporate overlord Meredith Vickers ( Charlize Theron) merely by asking nicely. Seeing it in 2012, saddled with the baggage of being one of the only post- Avatar 3D films that put in the visual effort to be worth seeing, it was hard to conjure up much of a reason to watch it again after the theatrical experience. This retro review will be a bit more free-form, recappy, and profanity-laden than usual.Īlright, the truth is, I had a bit more fun with Prometheus this time. This review originally appeared as a guest post on 10 Years Ago: Films in Retrospective, a film site in which editor Marcus Gorman and various contributors revisit a movie on the week of its tenth anniversary.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |