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Manticore

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After having just got back from seeing the movie I have to say I noticed no glaring plotholes. What were you referring to exactly? Contrary to what others believe, I firmly think this is a prequel. The ending demonstrates that pretty perfectly.

The more I think about this flick the more I think a sequel will make more sense of some questions/plot-holes etc.

Now they have the woman set up with her own private space ship and robot head to pilot it anything's possible.
 
Except in cases of obvious sagas, it is generally a bad practice for any story to rely on an untold sequel for exposition.

I liked the movie regardless, and what holes there were to be found were largely negligible or can be cast aside as irrelevant. The depiction of the Engineers was not what I expected, but I left the movie satisfied. That's all I wanted.
 

Lruce Bee

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Wrath of the Titans - 4/10 If you thought Sam Worthington was bad in Man on a Ledge, he's even worse in this movie.
He plays Perseus, a half human half god, being the son of Zeus, you'd think he'd have a few awesome powers up his sleeve but from the moment the film gets underway, he's constantly getting his arse handed to him in all his fights and you start to wonder when the actual hero is going to turn up and turn things around.
Story is all over the place but basically, Kratos is re-awakened from his 10,000 year slumber and start loads of hassle.
Hades & Ares are your villains and are hell bent on waking up Kratos by sucking Zeus's mojo from him to feed Kratos - blah blah whatever.
Perseus is constantly getting beat up by all manner of enemies and crys a bit when he takes a punch to the ribs from Ares but doesn't bat an eyelid when Ares rams his head through 5 or six stone pillars at once - stupid stuff.
Play God of War instead, because visually, it's leagues above this rubbish.
 

Sjosz

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Prometheus 3/10

What a mess of a movie. Very pretty, but a complete mess.

- Why would Weyland host an expedition that costs a trillion+ dollars where only 17 crew get taken along and put asleep for several years, yet most of them get kept in the dark about what the expedition is about?
- We can land unmanned probes safely and automatically on Mars today, so how is it that we are 80 years into the future and have no auto-pilot functionality?
- Why is the ship's captain insistent he's just a pilot, but then at a crucial moment discovers the military nature of what is being discovered, when nobody else on the crew manages to do so, including the allknowing robot?
- The spaceship carries enough fuel to fly over half a billion miles or however much more to get from Earth to LV223 (and is supposedly prepped for return as well), but then surprises everyone by exploding as a small airplane instead of several nukes.
- Scientists are top in their field to get invited to this expedition, yet they completely brainfart when they have to run away from a giant rolling spaceship. You could run off to the side, gals!
- Please let us not foreshadow things, let us show you EXACTLY in near pornographic lengthy panning shots where the Alien aliens come from. After very clearly showing you an engraving of them on a wall in that structure.

Undoubtedly there's more stuff to discuss there but it seems kind of ridiculous. Going in with no expectations wasn't enough apparently.
 

Kyllian

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Ok, that's the second gripe about the boom and...
while I don't know what kind of fuel the ship uses, I find it unlikely that they would use something volatile enough to equate a few tons of C4
 

IronMonkey

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The spaceship carries enough fuel to fly over half a billion miles

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If only!

The numbers presented within the film are mind-bogglingly large.

The figure given at the start of the film placed the ship some 30 light-years from Earth (=> range of circa 60+ L.Y).

Half a billion miles (500E6*1.609344E3/3E8/3.6E3) is approximately three quarters of a light-hour and just slightly more than the average distance from Earth to Jupiter.

We can barely send probes that distance (Pioneer 10, Voyager 1 & 2) and nearly 35 years after launch, Voyager 1 is only about 17 light-hours out from the Sun. They were launched on a Titan Centaur.

The amount of energy stored on the Prometheus must be colossal - after all it completed a powered landing using some form of reaction motor and did presumably expect to be able to escape the gravity well into which it had descended.

No matter the fuel source on the Prometheus, I would have expected there to have been a slightly bigger bang. However, as that would have wiped everything out over an area wider than that where the action was taking place, the script needed to ignore the annoying inconsistency.

(and we have yet to consider the fuel on the other ship!)

However, that sloppiness was typical of the script. It could have been fixed but the film makers chose not to do so.
 
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Tux Android

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Alien films:
Alien (1979, Ridley Scott) -- Grade: A
Aliens (1986, James Cameron) -- Grade: A
Alien³ (1992, David Fincher) -- Grade: C+
Alien Resurrection (1997, Jean-Pierre Jeunet) -- Grade: B-

Predator films:
Predator (1987, John McTiernan) -- Grade: B+
Predator 2 (1990, Stephen Hopkins) -- Grade: C
Predators (2010 remake, Nimród Antal) -- Grade: B

Alien vs. Predator films:
Alien vs. Predator (2004, Paul W.S. Anderson) -- Grade: C+
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007, Brothers Strause) -- Grade: C
Tux's Notes: I have no thoughts about the Alien and Predator crossover. I never pretty much hold with these two films once in a while.

Related:
Prometheus (2012, Ridley Scott) -- Grade: A-
Tux's Notes: Not an Alien prequel, correct ;). A huge hit. Central atmosphere, visuals, blooming discovery, and decent cast include Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender.

PS: Back for posting. I've watching these films a month ago (except Prometheus, expect for releasing the theaters two weeks ago), so possible to rate these movies for now on. :cool:
 
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Capt.Toilet

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You motherfuckers are too picky.

And tux android you must be on some hella bath salts if you found Resurrection to be better than Alien 3.
 

Tux Android

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And tux android you must be on some hella bath salts if you found Resurrection to be better than Alien 3.

Bath salts? Nah, I'm not......just got a few shots about visuals and characterizations.
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