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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8944552" data-attributes="member: 18">I get what you're saying but it's not a script pass - it's deletion of huge chunks of the script and the main subplot - all the godawful religious ancient aliens bollocks needs to go. Like, there can be ancient aliens, but not who started intelligent life on Earth and all that utter drivel. And everything that comes out of Shaw and Holloway's mouths is absolute brain-dead drivel. As is a lot of Weyland's stuff - and he needs to be renamed because that's just "Everyone is a Skywalker" bollocks.Disagree. Scott intentionally shoved that aside for ancient aliens bollocks of the cheapest kind, and just forgot any real horror, especially existential horror, by making the Engineers basically just be giant humans in both appearance and behaviour. Basically Stargate-level stuff. By making it so obvious and so talky and so full of brain-damaged rants trying to "important" the horror was absolutely zeroed. Honestly so many lines just drag the movie down. If they deleted 75-90% of the lines in the movie it would be so much better.Resurrection was more "bleh" than irritating to me. Alien3 irritated the crap out of me - but I could see what it was doing at least. Prometheus was just giant towering pile of stupidity piled on insulting notion piled on brain-damaged dialogue piled on scenes which require the characters which to be literally be small children with no instincts. And in no case is it just one or two incidents - it's over and over and over and over. I've never seen anything like it. You couldn't easily replicate it. It's like it was making a huge, concerted effort to be as bad and dumb as possible. So compared to Resurrection, which was just "bleh", yeah, I was blown away by how bad and dumb Prometheus was.</blockquote>

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