So what'd you think of Prometheus?

[RJ 17]

A bit late...or perhaps even early...for this topic, but oh well. I don't like to download movies because my paranoia has me convinced that any site claiming to let you download movies is likely just one gigantic virus. However, that didn't stop my brother from discovering the magic of torrents and likely infesting his laptop with malware.

ANYWAYS! Saw the movie over the weekend at my brother's house and I wanted to come on here and talk about it since I'm a pretty big Aliens fan and this was - as it was billed - a prequel to the movie Alien.

And overall, I thought they did a pretty good job with it. It explains who The Pilot race is/was and the origin of the Xenomorphs.

Spoiler: I did, however, think that they started to rush things towards the end, such as...

Alright, I was enjoying the build-up throughout the movie. The thing about it being a prequel to the Alien movies kinda meant that it would be an Alien movie but without Xenomorphs, and that's essentially what it was. So I watched in eager anticipation to see when and how all hell would break loose. And when it broke loose....yeah, that's pretty much the best term for how the movie went as well.

Now we all know the two guys left behind in the dome structure where the token sacrificial lambs. SOMEONE'S gotta be the first to die, and it's normally the people that get isolated. I really did enjoy their encounter with what I would consider to be a "primative" face hugger. When he goes to cut it of the guy's arm and it starts spraying acid blood all over the place I was like "Fuck yeah! Xeno blood!" Buuuuuut this is where things started to become jumbled and rushed for me.

It starts when Dr. Shaw's boyfriend gets poisoned by the android with the alien DNA. He goes on to bang his girlfriend and apparently impregnates her with an alien. Not knowing this, they all make another trip out to the Dome before the boyfriend starts getting violently ill and they have to return to the ship, where he has started to fully mutated and must be executed via flame-thrower. From there it's straight to the med bay for Dr. Shaw to see if she has caught Space Herpies from her boyfriend, and it's discovered that she's been impregnated. The creepy android lets on just how creepy he is before sedating her and leaving her there for the med-crew to come and put her into stasis. Annnnnd here's where things REALLY get messed up. She wakes up, knocks out the two medical officers, runs to the life-pod that has the auto-med-pod which we're told is specifically for Officer Vickers, a female, yet the pod is calibrated for males only. So she tells it she has a foreign body that needs removing and pulls out what eventually turns into a GIANT primative face hugger. Now, this would seem to be a VERY large "WTF?!" moment for EVERYONE on the ship...........but nothing is mentioned of it.

Dr. Shaw never mentions her suspicions that the android specificaly infected her boyfriend. Never mentions that she had to cut a fucking alien out of herself, that she had to fight off the medical staff in order to do so. Everyone just keeps on going on with the normal routine. Were it not for the final scene in the movie, you could forget the alien c-section even took place! It's like they got to that point in the movie, checked their watches, and said "Oh shit, we've gotta hurry up and get to the end."

Anyways, I still thought it was a decent little movie. Heard they're planning on making it into a trilogy because why the fuck not? Everything else is a damn trilogy these days. Just wanted to give my thoughts on the movie and see what everyone else thought of it.

 

[Terminate421]

The best word to describe it? Gruesome. It was pretty good, and it wasn't perfect I still enjoyed it

 

[Dr. Cakey]

I personally hated it. Actually, give me a sec...ah, there it is...

 

[Diablo2000]

First half was good, the second half not so much.

 

[ImSkeletor]

I liked it. It was far from perfect, but it was the best mainstream sci fi film in a long time.Till Dredd of course. (Screw Looper. That movie was painful)

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Basically this. Nobody really acted like an actual person in that movie!

SPOILERS

They brought the old man to an Alien world instead of leaving him in hospital or, in his home. Once they got to the alien world an actual landing party would spend the first week at the very least getting soil samples, watching the weather, etc. This landing party doesn't wait an hour before going out into an environment where they know a storm is baring down on them. If the problem is one of resources (food etc) they can always just kip back into their sleep tubes for another month or several as the automated systems or their android records ecological data.

I wasn't planning on that last paragraph being that long...spoilers still stand but:

*The cartographer gets lost
*The biologists' first instinct when encountering alien life for the first time (ie: FIRST FUCKING CONTACT) is to POKE the thing.
*The android never once took an order given to it
*Learning ancient languages doesn't teach you how to operate alien technology
*Learning ancient languages doesn't teach you how to communicate with an alien
*The hospital pod was specifically set to operate for a male. Of course it can perform a C-Section!
*They didn't kill the abomination, alien-worm abortion monster and are surprised to find that it hasn't died all by itself.
*Running from a ship falling in a way so that the ship only really has one way it can fall...and running away from it in the only path that ensures you could be crushed by it (if you saw the movie you know what I mean)

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Anyway, all that aside I still liked the movie. It was fun to watch in the theater and it'll be a lot more fun to MST3K that thing when I find someone who has it on disc.

 

[SciMal]

I thought it was mediocre. For a Sci-Fi flick, it was better than average.

However, I felt it just wasn't targeted towards me.

As a Biologist and ardent Atheist, the philosophical quandaries the film proposed weren't relevant.

"What if God was an Alien race?" - Fine with me.

"What if humans were only meant to be food/slaves?" - Fine with me.

"What if space is a cold, hostile place filled with aggressive species?" - Fine with me.

So I mostly watched it to drool over the Space Jockeys.

 

[Luftwaffles]

cartographer and the biologist(?) were high (smoking weed through the suits, coz raisins)
Fassdroid was working under oldmanweyland
Autodoctor pod was on the ship for oldmanweyland (mentioned somewhere on their site that pods are limited to only 5 in the world) Lifesupport boat for vickers? Yeahright
Removal of foreign body=C-section

Do agree though, some bits were kinda weird, like the running and getting hilariously crushed bit. The random infecting of whatshisname (or was it?)

All in all thought it was good, not great, but miles better than what came out that time. Obviously set up for a sequel too. Dont mind, was worth movie money

 

[FalloutJack]

So happens I enjoyed it. Some people just complain too much.

 

[TheIronRuler]

I had a smile plastered over my face because it waited WAY TOO LONG for such a film. No matter the director I freaking loved the technique here and the last time I was so giddy I watched "The Possession". That is ti say, I literally held up to middle fingers at the screen in the cinema when I saw "The Possession", I still fucking loved the style. Nowadays its all fucking shaky cams or some teenage love/mystery plot I am sick of. Even though I didn't like it as much it was fucking great just for that breath of fresh air. Its like watching 'Moon' after a marathon of Halloween. It makes your soul feel good and in that case the movie is even half-decent!

 

[cojo965]

And not a single person noticed that in the first Alien, the pilot chest bursted in the pilot seat. WATCH IT!!!!

 

[RJ 17]

*The cartographer gets lost
*The biologists' first instinct when encountering alien life for the first time (ie: FIRST FUCKING CONTACT) is to POKE the thing.
*The android never once took an order given to it
*Learning ancient languages doesn't teach you how to operate alien technology
*Learning ancient languages doesn't teach you how to communicate with an alien
*The hospital pod was specifically set to operate for a male. Of course it can perform a C-Section!
*They didn't kill the abomination, alien-worm abortion monster and are surprised to find that it hasn't died all by itself.
*Running from a ship falling in a way so that the ship only really has one way it can fall...and running away from it in the only path that ensures you could be crushed by it (if you saw the movie you know what I mean)

Spoiler: To be fair, some of those actually can be explained.

The first two, yeah, I got nothing on those. Trully a case of Dumb and Dumber. At least Steve Irwin had the common sense to poke at things with a stick, not his finger.

The android was working for his "father" the whole time, which is why he seemed to be acting on his own accord.

The theory was that the aliens taught language to man, as such a knowledge of ancient languages could lead to an understanding of the source language, that is to say, the alien one. (It's weak, I know, but still half-way valid)

The pod takes things quite literally, if you ask it for a c-section it thinks you want to pull a baby out of you. Last time I checked, males can't get pregnant.

To be fair, she DID hit the Decontamination button on the pod which in theory should have killed it. She just didn't stay around to make sure it was dead.

And then yeah, everyone that saw the movie was thinking "Ummmm....why don't you just run to the side?" But you forgot to mention that Dr. Shaw was running for her life...with her stomach being held together by a few staples.

Also, I did find it strange how no one seemed to give a damn when Weyland was suddenly wandering around the ship, or that Dr. Shaw just knocked out two of the med-staff and pulled a frickin' alien out of her body.

But it is stuff like that that I'm talking about when I say the ending felt rushed.

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Spoiler: Gotta say I did get a good laugh out of that comic. But just for fun, I do have a few answers for the question it asks.

Dr. Shaw wanted to meet the aliens that created humanity and ask them "Why?"

Weyland wanted to meet them and ask for immortality.

Vickers wanted Weyland to die so she could run the company.

The Android wanted Weyland to die because then there'd be no one to command him so he'd be free. That or he wanted to be Weyland's legacy, it's hard to tell if he openly betrays Weyland at the end since they're speaking alienese.

The fodder is there to die, which is why they're so stupid and need no motivation. As for the characters I named, those basic motivations are why they do what they do.

Like I said, I definitely see the point behind the comic and I did get a good laugh out of it, but I still enjoyed the movie. But that's probably because I'm such an Aliens fan, so I won't deny being biased.

 

[RJ 17]

And not a single person noticed that in the first alien, the pilot chest bursted in the pilot seat. WATCH IT!!!!

It also took place on LV 426, not LV 22(whatever, just remember the first two digits). That wasn't their home planet, it was just a military installation, and it's made clear that they have numerous such installations scattered across the galaxy.

 

[jackinmydaniels]

*Sigh* I just wanted to see some xenomorphs.

 

[Zantos]

I expected it to be an entertaining 2 hours, it was an entertaining 2 hours. Not really much more to say.

Though I'd imagine in a few generations it will become instrumental to the survival of mankind. As the bravest and brightest train to leave this planet to found colonies amongst the stars, they can be shown that film. Then their commander can stand in front of them and say "That? Don't do any of it. If you are tempted to do any of that shit report to me for a firm slap."

 

[Reaper195]

It was a sci-fi movie almost entirely not on Earth with mad sci-fi tech. I don't care if the plot was rather flimsy, it's still better than most sci-fi films that have been released in the last five years.