ATP
Joined: Jul 19, 2009
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ATP
John, 2001: A Space Odyssey's main theme of Alien contact,intervention & influence on our evolution
then taking a further step ,maybe evening causing that jump to a new level (The Star Child)
are themes hinted at in "Prometheus" (Notice the Visual nod to 2001 in the movie also? Even the Android David
has H.A.L. as a part of the characters DNA)
But Arthur C. Clark was keen on keeping religion out of the 2001 plot, (Thank God!) intended pun!
and while rich in symbolism & subtext, It's there to serve the story instead of convolute it, Like in Prometheus.
And for the record I did not hate the movie "Prometheus" as John did, I think it was entertaining
It had some good scary moments, A few good ideas & a couple of good performance's (Michael Fassbender is great)
It is the poor writing (Many of the characters are just plain stupid & unrealistic) and subtext instead of a solid plot
that make this just an OK movie, mainly because of the potential was there for it to be a great movie
but it just ends up falling on it's face in the end.
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