Ridley Scott's Prometheus

[Forever Flames]

Does anyone know if it is necessary to watch the Alien movies to get the most of this movie? Or at the very least watch the first one? It's been so long I don't remember any of them.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by Forever Flames

Does anyone know if it is necessary to watch the Alien movies to get the most of this movie? Or at the very least watch the first one? It's been so long I don't remember any of them.

No, but you should rewatch Star Wars episode 1 beforehand.

It will make this movie even more enjoyable.

[YYC in LAX]

Thought it was very entertaining. My interpretation is that human brings (the many forms of them) created aliens indirectly and unintentionally. Great.

Question though: why did Wayward (sp) (Guy Pearce old man) want to sabotage the mission through David. Or was it Carlize Theron who was commanding David?

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by 3 Justin 3

My man crush on Michael Fassbender is larger than yours. I've watched Shame 18 times. I agree with your "deeper" comment too, from what I heard before the movie this movie was going to have a lot of questions by the end and I didn't feel that at all.

Fassbender is an amazing actor.

Going to it tomorrow.

[cDnStealth]

Originally Posted by Yasa

I enjoyed it. Definitely entertaining but there were some pretty funny plotholes. Like the

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mentally unstable geologist. And how they found what they were looking for within minutes of entering the atmosphere. Earth-sized Planet? Oh look, there's a landing strip! Cool bro."

I hope there's a P2, and I hope it goes into the details of LV 426 as well as the eggs vs the vases.

Even worse is

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The geologist who makes maps gets lost in the cave structure. And then the two guys who bail because they don't want to enter that room end up camping there? WTF?

[Bertuzzied]

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What was the point of the beginning with that potion?

Can we talk about whats in the movie yet?

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

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What was the point of the beginning with that potion?

Can we talk about whats in the movie yet?

Yup, enter thread at your own risk now.

[Flame Of Liberty]

What a waste, utter crap. No story (Ebert must be senile if he thinks this movie explores "origin of mankind" and "who created us" i mean lol they wake up their creator and he proceeds to beat the #### out of them for no reason other than they "hate humans") none of it made any sense, it was just a random sequence of CGI effects. In a classic Lindeloff Lost style one scene that seemed important at that time was made completely obsolete or forgotten few minutes later. I had to double check who directed this movie, i swear i was watching Uwe Boll movie.

[trackercowe]

^ Well that question will likely be answered in the sequel, but it's likely that the Creators despised what they made (mankind), as we are ruining our Earth and creating life ourselves (such as David, the android). Then you have Guy Pearce asking for immortality which was guaranteed to make the situation even worse.

Heck mankind also seems to be responsible for the creation of xenomorph's which is just another reason why the creators would want to end our existence. They likely feel we our not only causing destruction of Earth, but also possibly the entire Universe. I imagine they are not too pleased with that.

[Yeah_Baby]

I also wonder if potion guy at the beginning wasny supposed to seed Earth with DNA. Maybe we're just an accident. A mistake that needs correcting.

[pylon]

Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby

I also wonder if potion guy at the beginning wasny supposed to seed Earth with DNA. Maybe we're just an accident. A mistake that needs correcting.

Can you please put spoiler quotes around this stuff? Thanks.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by pylon

Can you please put spoiler quotes around this stuff? Thanks.

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

Yup, enter thread at your own risk now.

Don't come to the thread if you don't want spoilers.

[CofR]

Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby

I also wonder if potion guy at the beginning wasny supposed to seed Earth with DNA. Maybe we're just an accident. A mistake that needs correcting.

Spoiler!

That's what I got from it, at least that's what I'm assuming... But its still kind of a confusing scene to me.

[3 Justin 3]

What was the point in killing Charlie? Wayland ordered David to try harder, so he just kills him? How does that have anything to do with meeting one of those Engineers and getting answers to life's question? Maybe he figured the black stuff could give him immortality.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Blaster86

Don't come to the thread if you don't want spoilers.

Yup, the movie is out to the public, it's only normal people who have discussed it are talking about it now. Spoilers are fair game at this point.

[Jason14h]

What was the point in killing Charlie? Wayland ordered David to try harder, so he just kills him? How does that have anything to do with meeting one of those Engineers and getting answers to life's question? Maybe he figured the black stuff could give him immortality.

Like most of the movie, because killing the main scientist makes no sense

[Bertuzzied]

That c-section scene is prob the most exciting surgery scene to ever hit the theatres!

Yeah not sure why Niles Crane killed the scientist guy. puzzling.

[Machiavelli]

Didn't think the movie was that great. A lot of it didn't make sense to me. It would have been better with stronger protagonists.

[bugsy]

Feel it should be judged as an Alien film. In a lot of ways, in terms of 'origins', it is the Alien film. Don't understand that continuing (on behalf of some sites/reviewers/producers themselves) need to try and distance it from what is absolutely is. It is a truckload of Alien dumped all over the screen.

[rubecube]

Am I going to be the first one to point out that the alien burst out of space jockey's chest in the escape pod, but in Alien it showed him sitting in his chair with the chest ripped open?