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Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Posted by: annoyinginge
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
We don't really need another Prometheus, do we?[/quote]
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Edit: Also sad to see they're making another movie.[/quote]
Well, seeing as Prometheus didn't actually answer anything...Yeah, we kinda do.
Then you completely missed the point of the movie. They weren't supposed to answer anything. That's the great human drama, that all of our questions may not have answers but through either ignorance or faithg--or maybe even both--we will keep searching for those answers to the greatest question of all: why are we here?
With that in mind, remember the last line of the movie: "My name is Elizibeth Shaw, and I'm still searching." That's the message. We are all still searching, and that is where the brilliance of the movie comes in.
A sequel answering those questions would only void that message.
Please don't try and argue that Prometheus was anything other than a brain-not-required alien flick.
It's impossible to deny it, because that's what the entire movie was structured around. Literally every scene in the movie are people trying to find the answers they seek, one way or another, or otherwise talking about how when they find their answers they are only faced with more questions. Right up until the very last scene in the movie does the story maintain those central themes, even throwing a man>machine message in there.
It has plot holes, yeah. But plot holes and theming are two different things. For what it was, it was a great movie for other reasons.
If you can deny that this movie had a message, you can deny any movie had a message. Prometheus practically hits you over the head with it.
Sure, Prometheus "had a message", in the same way that James Cameron's Avatar "had a message", and Transformers probably "had a message" somewhere. Okay, that last example is a level below the other two, but you get my point. Some people go on about Prometheus as if it was some super-intelligent exploration of the human psyche. Which is equivalent to thinking Twilight is a work of literary genius.
[Edited on 12.20.2012 12:56 PM PST]