Lamia
November 14, 2015, 4:46am
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The Alien prequel Prometheus springs to mind. We had a 13 page thread about it back when it was in theaters and I said my part then, but here’s the short version:
The movie repeatedly gestures at Big Philosophical Ideas but doesn’t follow up on them. The early portion seemed to be building up to something a lot more interesting than what we actually got. Things happen for no apparent reason, or happen and then are forgotten. The supposedly intelligent characters behave like total idiots, spending scene after scene doing dangerous things for no reason, failing to react to events that should seem important, and drawing elaborate conclusions (at least some of which we are apparently supposed to accept as correct) based on very little evidence.