Kerinthian's

What is it about Prometheus that makes it so quixotic? It seems Ridley Scott has set out to create a future landscape that is indistinguishable from reality itself. Hello, my name is David... Well actually its not really, but for a moment there I was absorbed by the extraordinary performance that Michael Fassbender portrays of the 8th generatoin Android of Wayland industries. I've just got home from this fastidious feat of film and my mind is whirling with impressions, the first of which is the most basic. I liked it. It was certainly no Alien, but then was it ever meant to be? While incorporating elements of the classic Space Horror that Ridley helped to define, this is a more thoughtful film. Rather than trapping a bunch of random characters together in a tight space to be systematically and cheaply hunted down by a vicious blood thirsty thing with two mouths, Prometheus takes time to introduce an actual story with a history and characters who have deep motives for what they ...

I was some where else, doing something else, in such a complete sense. My mind was firing signals like a fireworks display whilst I watched the whatever it was in my dreams as I lay like a mucus like paste in my cocoon of a bed. In case the metaphor is lost on you I was soundlessly asleep, snug, escaped, resisting consciousness like a running criminal resists arrest, when suddenly the screams from the room next door woke me up. Those blood churning, echoing cries of my almost three year old in the throws of a nightmare... Naturally I'm usually the one transported from sleep into the realm of semi-consciousness. My wife was built with ear muffs permanently attached to her inner ear it would seem. So like a broken slinky I sort of rise and fall our of my bed and then crumple along the floor to my destination, the kid's room with all its horrors. By the sound of the screams I'm half expecting to discover a kidnapping in progress but thankfully the only felony taking pla...