I had heard that the 2012 movie Prometheus was bad and had avoided it until the one Saturday when there was nothing else on. Then I decided to watch it as one watches a train wreck. As I watched the movie, I wrote notes about my observations.
- I liked the opening scene with the chiseled guy drinking the metal stuff, his body DNA disintegrating and then recombining.
- The typing overlay of place and time explanation was too small to read. It may have worked in a theater but not on a TV.
- The robot’s pants are too shiny.
- The crew went to sleep for a 2 year trip? That’s hardly worth it. Couldn’t they have just entertained themselves for 2 years?
- Rubics cube projector.
- “I’ll take vodka. Up.” – Charlize Theron
- Robots have to touch-up their roots?
- Snake-like thing going in the mouth was gross.
- At 75 minutes into the film, the robot goes into a planetarium kind of hologram. Cool.
- Alien pregnancy.
- A robot that watches your dreams. Great for psychotherapy.
- Like they would put controls on the INSIDE of a surgery machine. snark.
- Like how she can get up from an intrusive abdominal surgery. snark.
- 40 second warning. To get into the equivalent of a wet suit. snark.
- And the final creature is the alien from Alien?
This last point gave me pause. Sure enough, the film takes place in the same universe as the ‘Alien’ movies. Sometimes even bad movies are entertaining, it depends on the definition of entertainment.