• HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    7 minutes ago

    The story and ideas were great. I loved the abortion. Michael Fassbender was appropriately creepy.

    However, this is the movie where the Prometheus School of Running Away came from.

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    6 hours ago

    For its first four installments, the Alienfranchise was most concerned with offering up a combination of horror and sci-fi action, and less concerned with delving into lore. Prometheus, however, goes in a different direction, and Scott uses the prequel to explain the origin of the Xenomorphs and the Engineers. Though the film earned generally positive reviews and has a 73% score on Rotten Tomatoesthese explanations demystified the franchise, a move that, in addition to a focus on David (Michael Fassbender), an android, proved controversial.

    I’m in the minority, but I like the lore provided by Prometheus and the movie.

    The Alien movies didn’t come across as mystique to me rather that they left me hanging too much on a lot of background.

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      5 hours ago

      I liked Prometheus, and I enjoyed the one after it a lot more. But they were both mixed bags, the horror was half assed and the im14andthisisdeep parts weren’t thought provoking at all.

      But yeah the lore is fine, imo.