Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: I know it's neither clever nor is it profound, it's too dumb for that.

[quote name="Eurotrash"]The whole David thing was indeed completely wasted compared to the other films: Ash was a deceiving psykopath, we expected Bishop to be the same but the twist was that he was the complete opposite, instead it was Burke who pulled an Ash. David? If his true mission was to capture alien bioweapon specimens, why din't he just stash the urn somewhere safe, dust off his hands and say "mission accomplished, mein Führer"? Why not wait with risky, unethical experiments until back in a controlled environment on Earth? The only logical explanation is that, predating the Ash model, David was an even bigger psyko, and did what he did just for fun? I still maintain Prometheus qualifies as an art film. Not interpretable art with a deeper meaning, oh no, just pretty, whimsical, dream-logic, nightmarish, Magic The Gathering card artwork art. In this day and age, that's about as good as you can hope for. It's this or Alvin and the Chipmunks, I'm afraid. Ridley Scott and James Cameron both know that the current moviegoing majority will pay good money to watch something fucking stupid. Cameron hit the nail on the head with Avatar, which was exactly the kind of loud, stupid shit the broad mainstream was screaming for. Close to 3 billion grossed worldwide, bro. Here's Scott's attempt, obviously too insane to reach the same kind of success. But hey, it may end up beating Alvin and the Chipmunks.[/quote]