Re: Official Alien Prequel/Prometheus Discussion Thread
of course not everything needs to be spelled out for you, of course not,
silent hill is a good example, district 9, the first matrix, is another good example, im not saying those movies are good or not, is just movies that didnt spell out everything and the audience had to guess some of it (although silent hill had its share of plotholes)
no one wants to be spoon fed, but like devil said, when you have to create an entire new movie in your mind to justify what you just saw is just bad writing, one thing is to not be spoon fed, but when you have to speculate as much as everyone has, pretty much creating entire movies in their heads to justify the bad writing, thats just not good
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Like i said before, not everything needs answers, and not everything needs to be spelled out for you. Some films want you to think about things beyond what the movie showed. A lot of avant garde films did that and im sure Ridley is a fan of those, like Bergman, Greenaway, Cocteau, and even ones older. Silent films did just that, the audience filled in a lot of blanks with their imagination. A lot of filmmakers will tell you that great films shouldn't even need sound.
Im not saying Scott is trying to do that here, Im not Scott, i don't know what his true intentions were, but I for one like movies that make you think about things and make you want to learn more.
of course not everything needs to be spelled out for you, of course not,
silent hill is a good example, district 9, the first matrix, is another good example, im not saying those movies are good or not, is just movies that didnt spell out everything and the audience had to guess some of it (although silent hill had its share of plotholes)
no one wants to be spoon fed, but like devil said, when you have to create an entire new movie in your mind to justify what you just saw is just bad writing, one thing is to not be spoon fed, but when you have to speculate as much as everyone has, pretty much creating entire movies in their heads to justify the bad writing, thats just not good
Had the same feeling as the reviewer, except there was no ambivolence when I left the theatre, NOPE, it sucked, and I felt like a zombie walking out into the night waiting for that well deserved cranial head shot to oblivion.
