Prometheus Review

Let me just warn anyone reading this post, if you want to see Prometheus, and you don’t want to know what happens, DO NOT read this post.  I mean it, stop right here because the first sentence of the next paragraph is going to be a major spoiler.

David is incapable of emotion, therefore he is incapable of any evil act.  There is no debate or theory about it, he gave scientist dude the alien substance to test what the reaction would be and if it would enable the old guy to live forever. (And I mean period!)  I laugh at the posts and discussions posted all over the interwebz about the unanswered questions about Prometheus.  Some of these questions are a little obvious if you just use your “Engineer-given” common sense… oh right, there seems to be a severe lack of that in most people these days.  People prefer to let other people think for them.  Guy Pierce was the old guy because he was the old guy.  Who gives a fuck why?!? Maybe he wanted the part. Maybe he was asked to play the part.  How does that have any bearing on the movie?? What was the first scene about?  If you paid attention through the entire movie, it would become pretty obvious to you what it was about… that’s how human life began.  Why they did it? That’s a more interesting question.

Anyway, putting all those questions aside, and all the geekdom debates, this movie was very well made.  The concept, the story, the writing was all just short of brilliant.  It holds a very special place in my heart because it’s concept is something I have a bit of a belief in.  It’s not an absolute belief in, but it’s an idea that I think is plausible.  We are here on this planet because of an alien race.  From the amount of movies and books written about this belief, I’m not alone.  Isn’t scientology based on that belief?  I’m not that crazy, but I definitely think it’s possible.  Will we ever really know?  Back to the movie, the performances were really the only failing in this movie.  Don’t get me wrong, there were exceptional performances in this movie, and I mean exceptional!  Michael Fassbender is quickly becoming one of my favourite actors.  Noomi Repace’s Hollywood debut was nothing but amazing.  It’s a very good thing that these 2 roles were basically the lead roles, because having to deal with Charlize Theron’s performance for the majority of the movie would have been gut-wrenching.  Normally I don’t mind her, but this was just so plain.  Maybe it was meant to be that way, but I didn’t enjoy it.  The rest of the supporting cast was ok, but nothing to write home about.  It was Fassbender and Repace that made this movie brilliant.  I seriously would not be surprised if he was nominated for his role.  Maybe not an Oscar, because the Academy general does not normally nominate science fiction in its major categories (save District 9 for Best Picture when the nominees went to 10).  Ridley Scott also set it all up nicely for a very interesting franchise, but I fear he will not get to continue because of the movie’s under-performance at the box office.  I think it was over-shadowed by the Super Hero movies out this Summer.  If you love science fiction, Ridley Scott, or want to see a brilliant acting performance… see this movie!  I give it an A for Alien prequel! ;)

Moneymoneymoney moneyyy

It’s funny how people react when they see money in public places other than stores and banks.  I mean bills, not change, and a few of them, not a single fiver.  The other day I experienced someone on the subway give what looked like $60 to her friend (for whatever reason).  There were two young women sitting close to them and one of the young women stared so intently at the money that she almost looked like she was trying to will it into her pocket.  I even thought I saw her mouth something like, “I could so easily take that”.  She didn’t appear poverty-striken at all, but she sure seemed to really want that money.  I want money as much as the next person.  I’m very financially challenged and struggling from paycheque to paycheque.  I’ve thought up schemes and heists in my head a lot… hahahaha… let me just interject here to say that as I am writing this, the man sitting next to me on the train just pulled out a wad of bills (20s and 50s), and quickly counted and sorted them.  I have to admit that my eyes lit up a bit, but I mainly tried not to laugh at the whole irony of the situation.  Hmm, I wonder if he was counting them to make sure I hadn’t taken any while he had gone to the bathroom.  I had no idea he had the money in his bag when he left, so I wouldn’t have done anything.  Now that I know he has it in his bag, he better not go to the bathroom again while I’m sitting here.  Just kidding… or am I?  As I said, it’s funny how people react when they see money in public places other than stores and banks.

P.S. Can anyone loan me a fiver?

Mmm... pizza

And now for something completely different… would be what I wish I could say before every post I make on this blog.  I do try to be original, but is anyone actually original these days?  Everything has been re-hashed, de-hashed, re-re-hashed, and hashed, blended, chopped up, then served to us to make us think it’s a brand new batch of hash. Mmm… hash.  I haven’t done hash for a very long time.  I think the last time I did hash was when I ate a hash brownie and starting tripping out big time and bad time.  I seriously thought I was going to die.  Then I ate pizza and all was right in the world again.  Mmm pizza, the food that brings the world together.  They recently allowed pizza to be served and eaten in Korea… North or South, I can’t remember… whichever is the bad Korea. Ha, sounds so funny to say that. “Bad Korea! Stop pissing on your brother! Bad!”  In other pizza related news, some Scottish scientists designed a healthy pizza, fortified with a quarter of an adult’s daily nutrients.  The pizzas are flavoured for your tastes.  See, even the Scottish love pizza that they took time out of their beer-swilling, sheep-humping, English-bashing schedules to invent a healthy pizza.  They weren’t content enough to provide us with the best James Bond in the history of movies, they had to invent a different kind of pizza.  Cheers to them! 

What IS funny?

Today I was going to write about all the funny lines that pop into my head, but then I realized that I am not a very funny person.  Not that I don’t have a sense of humour, I have a wicked sense of humour, but my attempts to be funny are usually met with laughs of another kind… but I don’t care so much because I accomplished my goal, which was to make the person laugh.  I will share the things that have come to me recently that have made me laugh (I’m my own best audience).

I have attempted to get my son to start using a very corny pick-up line… I know, I’m a great father… the line is: Girl, you should be on my windshield, cause you got fine all over you.  Very very corny, but coming from a 4 year old, it would be hilarious.  I also thought of a “candid camera” type of practical joke to play on people. Someone would be on the sidewalk handing out flyers for a store promotion where you get a free gift with purchase, so the person would be yelling out, “Free gift with purchase”.  However, he would occasional say, “Free tits with purchase” or “Free licks with purchase”.  He would say it fast enough to still kind of sound like “gift”, but clear enough to make people turn their heads and wonder if they heard what they thought they just heard.  These are the messed up things that come to me.

I was just killing myself laughing today at the One On One segment on the MTV Live show that airs on MTV Canada.  It’s the poor Canadian man’s version of Between Two Ferns with Zack Galafinakis (I wonder if I spelled that right).  I think it’s hilarious.  That’s my type of humour.  Someone in the office today told a story of a guy he worked with that would always be cracking up laughing at some show, which he watched on one screen while working on the other.  That show was Family Matters.  To each their own, I guess.  I hope you found some humour in my entry today, even if it was a “what a sad, pathetic, little man” laugh.