HaHA! Well, now I'm kinda intrigued again. Also, when they kept talking about black goo, I'm glad they made the X-Files joke, because that was . . . a really confusing and pointless plotline in The X-Files too *g*
I read a pretty interesting article on this film, actually, that was wondering if Prometheus wasn't television finally looping around to influence movies again, adopting the open-ended, philosophical mystery that drives highly serialized shows . . . as an aesthetic in its own right? Rather than as a way to drive forward the series.
But the filmmakers may have missed the part where that's only interesting when you're going to get another episode next week, and that people get fed up with you if they realize they're just never going to get answers. You can't make a really, really expensive tv pilot, slap it on the big screen, and expect people to be impressed.
Re: Prometheus
I read a pretty interesting article on this film, actually, that was wondering if Prometheus wasn't television finally looping around to influence movies again, adopting the open-ended, philosophical mystery that drives highly serialized shows . . . as an aesthetic in its own right? Rather than as a way to drive forward the series.
But the filmmakers may have missed the part where that's only interesting when you're going to get another episode next week, and that people get fed up with you if they realize they're just never going to get answers. You can't make a really, really expensive tv pilot, slap it on the big screen, and expect people to be impressed.