Re: Prometheus SUPER Spoilers!
I really enjoyed the movie, it was visually stunning and I thought the two leads, Rapace and Fassbender, gave great performances. Shaw's badass surgery scene was one of my favourites, which certainly reminded me of Ripley and her strength during the Alien films.
I agree there were certain plot holes and a few strange things going on. I also couldn't understand why Guy Pearce was playing Weyland. Honestly, I didn't even realise it was Guy Pearce, when the credits rolled I had to find his name to see whom he was playing and was kinda wondering WTF when I saw that it was Weyland. Firstly, the age makeup looked fake, you could clearly tell it was a younger person made up to look old. For that reason I was thinking it was Fassbender and that they David model was designed in Weyland's image as a younger man. That would have made sense to me, but for it to be Guy Pearce, I can't understand why they would have done that, unless there are deleted scenes showing Weyland as a younger man.
Also, sorry to say, but I didn't see the point in Charlize's character. She gets out of the ship, only to get squashed by the Engineer's ship? What was the point in that? I don't know if they just got her because she's a bigger name than the rest, but really anyone could have played that role, hardly the calibre of an Oscar winner in my mind.
Then of course there's the two scientists that get lost. Shouldn't they have realised that they never left when all the buggies were still waiting outside for them? Did they think the two of them just walked all the way back to Prometheus?
They were my main complaints, but overall I really liked it and was happy that David and Elizabeth escaped, they were well and truly the best characters in the film.
