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Prometheus (2012)
Was this was an FX Made-for-TV-Special?
Not "maybe". Yes, it contains spoilers.
Holy Cow, who wrote this drivel? I'm almost speechless. The stupidity in this movie knows no bounds. First, nobody on this ship acted like a scientist. Taking your helmet off in a foreign environment, touching the local fauna without a clue as to whether it's lethal or not, breaking quarantine, not wanting to use quarantine when it's warranted. Then there's the stuff that would lose you your job no matter where you worked: hopping into bed with whomever, animosity towards all your fellow workers, inability to work with anyone and be a team player. Really, the inability of anyone on this ship to act like a civilized grown up made it very difficult to care what happened to anybody or anything.
Weyland's "old man" makeup was laughable. Really.
I don't care what kind of medicine they have in the future, nobody is going to go running and jumping and fighting and climbing after having their stomach cut open and stapled back together if it was done like that. If they wanted to prove how tough she was, why didn't they just cut off three of her limbs and have her save the universe with one thumb? As it got more and more ridiculous, all I could think of was Monty Python's Black Knight, "It's only a flesh wound!" Then, THEN, we get to the final shot. The creature. Wait, I've seen this scene before. The chest ripping; the alien. Seriously? Two hours so you could show me THAT? This was a Prequel? Ugh.
Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster (2010)
Well, my kid was entertained.
(Yeah, there's a couple spoilers below.) But then, my kid didn't grow up with Scooby Doo. This is the sorriest excuse for a reboot/prequel/whatever-that-was I've ever seen. They can't be bothered to even get Fred's hair color right. Oh, wait. This is before he "went blonde", I guess.
The biggest annoyance is they mess with the core theme of all the Scooby Doo shows - there ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS GHOSTS/GOBLINS/Ghouls etc. But in this one, there's a real possession and real magic. Ooooo, spooky. NOT. The second biggest annoyance is the attempt at a "love story" between Fred and Daphne and between Shaggy and Velma. Oh, puh-lease. All those years of Mystery Inc, and there was an unrevealed "past" between them all? Not buying it.
This was so lame, they had to resort to the only cartoon character (that'd be Scooby)doing "cartoon" jokes, like painting a fake doorway and then going through it to get some laughs. These jokes were just stuck in at various times. The story didn't hinge on them.
Anybody under the age of three will like this, it's got Scooby Doo in it. A kid of five will probably wonder why they messed with a good cartoon. Anybody that grew up with Scooby Doo will consider it painful to have to sit through. My kid's a teenager. Their tastes are incomprehensible.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Segue to the next generation of Joneses
I'm sorry, but from the moment Henry III appears (and I could see that coming from the moment he sat down) all I could think of was, "Oh, this is how they're going to continue the franchise after Harrison's too old to do it." This movie was nothing more than a way to get another actor's face in front of us, get us comfortable with him, and get us to accept him as the next Indiana Jones. "The son is just like his dad." Uh, no. Indiana Jones was one of a kind, even if his name was a junior. Not even his act-alike kid can take his place. I'm afraid this wasn't a bizarre ending, it was a beginning.
And I really have to agree with another poster: G. Lucas, it's time to retire.
Star Wars (1977)
Still remember seeing it after all these years
Of all the movies I've ever seen at the theater, I remember this one the most. Not the actual movie really. I remember coming OUT of the theater. Why? Because we had just seen THE final frontier! We had seen space ships! We had seen other worlds! And not in black and white '50s style sci-fi. This was full color with incredible computer generated graphics. There were real live BELIEVABLE aliens up on the screen! We were flying at light speed across galaxies and star systems! And then the movie was over, the house lights came up, and we had to WALK on CONCRETE to our FOSSIL FUELED vehicles and DRIVE on ASPHALT to get home. How B-O-R-I-N-G. How mundane. I had just seen the future, and then when I left the theater it was all jerked away from me. I'll never forget that feeling. The disappointment of "reality". I've never experienced it with any other movie since, not even any of the other Star Wars episodes. I guess I was just the right age at the right time.
At the time I hated Han Solo. Now that I'm "all grown up" I love Harrison Ford and it's Luke and Leiah that make me cringe. But this really was a special movie. The gateway to a whole new wave of movie making. (for better or worse)