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03-25-2014 07:50 AM |
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Originally Posted by Candy Kappa
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Yeah, Prometheus shouldn't have been made, in-canon at least. It's a funny bad movie, filled with stupid clichés but it ruins all kind of mystique over the space hockey's origin. And ruins it's design by making it into a suit, and the Engineers looks dreadfully generic and silly.
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Well, the article did say that it was an 'unofficial' prequel (whatever that means) so hopefully it's just shorthand for 'This movie is not canon, but we sort of acted as if it was."
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Originally Posted by Walkabout
Really?
I loved it :P (seriously)
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If it wasn't for the attempt to link it to anything Aliens, it wouldn't be too bad of a movie. All it might end up as without this distinction is looking like one of those generic made-for-tv sci-fi specials. However, it tries to undermine what makes the Aliens so terrifying, mainly their being true aliens and not some bastard cousin of humans. Plus it shoves in that humans are made by some alien race, for what? To make humans appear more extra special then they really are, which has been done to death umpteenth times already and in much better ways. Especially when the 'aliens' in question look too much like pale Blue Man Group rejects, and who seem to be expressly able to create threats to their own race strong enough to launch them into extinction (humans and 'Aliens.')
Even as I hate 'Aliens vs. Predator' I still hold them to a higher canon then I do Prometheus simply because they keep the Aliens as aliens and don't play about with how deadly the Aliens can be. Even the Predators know to be wary around the things at times. Trying to 'explain' their origins just ends up being a disservice the the franchise, and not something that benefits it. It risks ruining it, actually.
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