Now I devastated. Monsters look like real crap (I mean, sharktopus, really?). The Space Jockey scene was SO rushed that it felt stupid. Music is too loud/happy... so far, it looks to me like something out of an AVP movie, not a Ridley Scott film.
I hope the plot is interesting and Fassbender's character makes the movie worth watching. But I cannot understand why the monsters in the film are so cheesey......
To me, so much of the trailers and clips already said 'AVP'. The powerpoint lecture scene, the flatness of the landing sequence...(and now it seems there isn't even a high-tension, fully-engaging second half, something the trailers
did suggest).... how can these disasters be explained? By the fact that Scott hasn't made a proper, fully-functioning film in decades. He lost his
classic touch long, long ago, while Gladiator and Robin Hood are messy films with such shocking lapses in narrative taste and visual acuity that even his basic
competence is called into question at times. So, for me, it was always going to be an absolute miracle if in Prom he suddenly, despite decades of decline, recovered his form overnight and produced even so much as a fully-functioning, satisfying movie, let alone a classic on the level of Alien.
Yeah, yeah, I know I should see it before I can judge it, but honestly I don't think I
can... I don't think I can put myself through the torture of seeing these cheeseball cg-desecrated jockeys we're hearing about (I
knew Scott would mess up badly here - this is the man who gave us Crowe's 'gladiator helmet' - an object which constitutes the single biggest piece of cheese I've seen in the cinema in the last 30 years...)