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Prometheus sucked.

That is all.

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Prometheus sucked.

That is all.

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So where did the need biologist go? Did they forget about him or will he be back to infect the shop in the next movie?
Either they just left him there once they got told of the incoming storm or they took him back without showing it.  My suspicion is that he will show up in the next movie as a zombie stowaway.

What did David say to the alien?
The line that David speaks to the Engineer (which is from a longer sequence that didn’t make the final edit) is as follows:
"This man is here because he does not want to die. He believes you can give him more life"  I find that line particularly stupid.  They traveled 500 million miles to meet their maker and that is the 1st thing they ask?  

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The two things that bothered me most:

1.) What was the point of the opening sequence?  Why did it appear that he was left behind like that, and why was he doing what he did - at a waterfall?

2.) David triggered the hologram of the Engineers running (where one was decapitated at the door).  Why were they running in panic, and what were they running from?

There's a bunch of other stuff that can only be regarded as loose ends.  It's just annoying that they all seem so pointless.  

It's also important to point out that regardless of the fact that it parallels the Alien story so closely, Scott claims that it's a stand-alone tale.  

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There's a bunch of other stuff that can only be regarded as loose ends.  

Are loose ends bad?  Do loose ends prompt thinking in the audience?  Do loose ends leave options for future film makers to weave a story of their own?



It's also important to point out that regardless of the fact that it parallels the Alien story so closely, Scott claims that it's a stand-alone tale.  

Usually, the term "stand alone" is used to imply something that is a whole unto itself.  It can be viewed and appreciated without ever having seen the other Alien films.  I think this is a stand alone.  

There is a debate about whether it is a "prequel" to Alien.

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So where did the need biologist go? Did they forget about him or will he be back to infect the shop in the next movie?


Why did the alien ship crash? After it crashed you get a good overhead view and there is no damage from the Prometheus impact.

SPOILERS - - SPOILERs.. Ok, Prometheus, i was really excited to see this
in theaters, fortunately i DIDN"T. The movie was terrible, if you want
pretty special effects and mindless Sci-Fi than ya, it's miles ahead
better than anything on television. The spaceship is pretty, the special
effects are all really nice and nothing came off as too bad except
for... spoiler... spoiler... the alien, no i don't mean The Alien, i
mean the "Engineers" who look like large pale human men. Like with
everything CGI it's all too smooth and too pretty, although i think they
actually used a real go-cart and their large wheeled vehicle looked to
be real. So i'll give'm props for some real stuff. The landscapes in the
beginning looked mostly real, idk how much was real places or just CGI.
Anyway, enough about how it looked.





The story, omg the story, it's like they just wanted to do it and it
didn't matter HOW they did it, and they seemed to go out of there way
to do it poorly, and then in the end you find out, they still screwed it
up.





Ok so problems. Everyone wakes up from cryosleep and then they meet
each other. They went out into space for two years and they hadn't even
met each other yet... and right off the bat they have a character
displaying his having no interest in being another guy's friend. So
really? I'm expected to believe that $1 trillion dollar mission to a
planet that may have advanced intelligent life on it is being lead by a
bunch of people who largely never met, and did not train together? This
already is so absurd; consider the idea of astronauts going up to the
moon and not meeting each other until they were in it's orbit, yea,
that's beyond stupid.





Next thing, half the crew looks like they should be playing in some
indie band and right off the bat the two members put in charge display
some attitude at the notion that the company they work for actually had
some motivation for sending them out there even though they don't even
know what that is. Ok this is absurd because such an immense, risky,
costly, time-consuming, significant project as that is not going to be
given to people who aren't completely team-players, and devoted to the
companies goals. I just can't see this group of people being put
together and chosen for this mission.





Moving on, 2 years and a trillion dollars later and THEN they
receive their mission briefing, so again, this is the first time they'll
have met, worked together, and they didn't even know what they were
doing out there...it just seems like this is the sort of thing you would
do back on earth, in fact it would be at that point that many of the
crew would have weeded themselves out as unsuitable for said mission.
Dumb, just dumb, writers just did it for the sake of doing it apparently
without any consideration for the plausibility of such mundane aspects
of the movie which should not require suspension of disbelief. Aliens,
ok, i can suspend my disbelief; putting a bunch of strangers on a ship
and two years later telling them their mission, that's a little hard to
swallow.





So they land on the planet. I'm a nerd and i wanna point out some
technical problems I had with the movie... The ship has a glass canopy
on the front, bottom-side of the nose. So that canopy would be hit by
all the force and heat of re-entry into atmosphere...it's cool looking
but technically unlikely, and the other stuff...there's a radar dish on
the roof spinning and several antenna like projections...i suppose these
survived re-entry as well? Wouldn't it be more plausible that say, a
smaller portion of the ship, ie. like the drop ship in ALIENS, or like
the separate medical section, would land on the surface while the rest
of the vessel stays safely in space...ok i get it, they were giving
homage to Alien, fine. Since i'm on technical problems, this is a
pseudo-prequel to Alien set in 2091. Alien was made in 1979 and it
shows, but it's setting was the year 2179. Obviously the tech in Alien
and Aliens is dated, however, knowing that this is a science fiction
prequal in the universe of Aliens and knowing the technology portrayed
in Alien looks like equipment in 1979, why oh why did they make
everything sleek and advanced, far more advanced than anything in the
other movies; form fitting spacesuits, hologram screens, advances
hover-sensor things. As a huge Aliens fan it would have been more fun to
see them be consistent than to make it look like Avatar and the new
Star Trek. Show me green screen CRT's and panels of flashing light
switches darn it! Alright back to the story.





So they landed on the planet and immediately found a clearly
artificial structure, ok fine. They suit up and go to take a look
inside, once inside, they tell us the air has deadly levels of CO2,
however something in the structure is producing breathable air and...can
you guess? One of these scientists, who must have been highly vetted
before such a prestigious journey right, takes off his helmet. Like he's
some cool cowboy risk-taker, as if ones only concern on an alien planet
in an alien structure producing its own atmosphere is whether or not
there is a correct mixture of oxygen and CO2. Really? REALLY? What are
the writers doing to me? Did the actors just not want to have to wear
the helmets for very long or what? So, logically, after seeing him take
off his helmet with no ill effect the others follow suit. So we are to
suspend our disbelief yet again and suppose that these rational, highly
educated people, who have a 2 year journey, a trillion dollar ship, and
this amazing scientific discovery under their belts, are going
to...take..off...their...helmets... what..this might just be the hardest
thing to swallow in this whole movie, but then again, it might not.





Let me make a technical aside, the spacesuit helmets, you'll notice
the lights are on the INSIDE, both behind their head and facing down
almost into their eyes...so i think I've unveiled the real reason the
actors didn't want to wear helmets, they're design is stupid and
impractical. So what, they're supposed to walk around with glare totally
blinding them? Why would you put lights on the inside?! If i remember
correctly they also lacked any external lights, so not only do they have
lights pointing at their eyes but they aren't able to illuminate
anything else either. But never mind that, the cave is conveniently lit
enough to see and the glare is never an issue during the times they have
any sense to wear their helmets.





Moving on, they go inside and send out probes which begin mapping
the entire structure. It's actually something you would think a robot
could do more safely and would have been something you would do
matter-of-factly before doing anything else, because... if you can map
out an alien structure from complete safety why would you not do that
first? ...So at this point a map is being constructed in the ship which
the crew can see, meanwhile the guy who's an android. Ignore that this
android comes off as being far more sophisticated and human than those
of Alien and Aliens, forget that. The android touches a wall and for no
reason supposes some recesses are actually a sort of touch-technology
and touches them in such a way that a hologram occurs which portrays
some things which leads the scientists to a door where one of the
"Engineers" got it's head chopped off.





What reasonable thing happens next? Two of the crew, the mohawk guy
who, earlier claimed to be "security" and was denied taking a weapon
because they were doing "science" but is actually a geologist, and
another guy, all of a sudden, for no reason, just FREAK OUT because of
the 2000 year old dead body and go running back to the ship. This is
just stupid and comes off as forced. So they manage to open the door and
go inside and they start screwing around with stuff. Remember they are
no longer wearing their helmets and they are touching alien goo stuff.
Ok so they start messing with things which begin coming to life but they
don't bother using instruments to collect any of it, then the ship
tells them they have 15 minutes to get back inside before a storm of
silica shards hits them. So were supposed to believe this structure
which has a human face carved outside of it is both 2000 years old and
hit regularly with 400 miles per hour glass shard storms? Really? ok,
fine, erosion doesn't exist in this universe. With that in mind, we see
our "heroes" scrambling to get the aliens head and get back to the ship.
Why are they scrambling? The head has been there for 2000 years and
they've spent 2 years getting there, there is literally no hurry to
start screwing around with what they've found and yet they're acting
like if they didn't get it now they'd never get another chance. Again,
it just doesn't make sense. Furthermore the main character almost dies
trying not to lose it in the storm and while they just told us the storm
would tea them up and fry their suits we actually see none of the
scientists gets harmed at all, they're suits don't even have any
scratches and the glass helmets are pristine. Woops, guess the storm
wasn't that dangerous after all. This is another perfect example of why
the ship would be better served safely in orbit and not exposed to
things like that.





Anyway, they take the alien "engineer's" head back inside to the
lab; things like bio-hazard suits, face-masks, goggles, are all foreign
to these people as they start messing with it fully exposed. This is
just... i mean what...are we, the audience, supposed to suspend
everything we know about the risks of biological and chemical
contamination from things we are not used to??!! If water from Mexico
can make us hurl and poop, i'm pretty sure a 2000 year old alien corpse
head is worth maybe covering your face. But they don't, instead they,
for reasons i did not catch, they decide to stick a giant needle that is
some kind of electric probe into the head so that it will make facial
expressions. I know, you discover their are intelligent aliens on a
foreign planet and the first thing you do when you find a dead one is
try to have it make faces. So they do, and it works, they get it to make
faces, but then they can't stop it and the head ends up exploding. Yes,
that's right, that thing worth dying for, that discovery of the ages,
they blow it up because they wanted it to make faces. Fortunately, they
moved it into a quarantine box before it spewed green brains all over
the place, good timing too, had that occurred sooner they would have all
gotten brains in the face and it would have been in the air too. One
might think that a hazmat suit would have been perfect for such an
occasion, but no, these are scientists and they have no time for that
nonsense, they have science to do!





So the android man does some of his own research on some of the
alien stuff. He discovers some sort of dark living liquid, which he, of
course, subtly drops into one of the other main characters drinks. Ya
know, just to see what happens i suppose, it must be a lot faster than
actually notifying the crew about it and doing real research, which none
of the crew seem actually capable of.





Meanwhile, remember those guys who got scared and ran back to the
ship, well, they never made it, they got lost. Remember those sensors
that were mapping the place out and how the crew could see this hologram
map, well, they knew where these guys were the whole time. So it turns
out these guys have actually been in radio contact with the ship despite
the storm and they're communicating with the captain who can actually
see exactly where they are and he tells them the probes found life
nearby. Something you'll notice in this scene is that...well.. THEY
NEVER ASK FOR DIRECTIONS TO GET BACK OUT! WTF, really, again, this is
just beyond stupid. So they wind up back in the room where the aliens
head was. Ya know, that dead thing that scarred them soooo much that
they left and got lost, ya, go back there and are all of a sudden
totally cocky and goofing around. Which, while puts them back in
character, makes no sense at all with the earlier scene of them running
away. Anyway, at at least they're wearing their helmets still because
they find an alien that comes out of some oily liquid and, one of them
decides touching this snake-like thing is a good idea. Well, it wasn't
and well, ok he dies, the other doofus with the mohawk gets oil splashed
on his face which promptly begins burning his helmet in homage to the
original Alien. Maybe i'm nitpicking here but why would he instinctively
grab at his face upon it getting liquid on it. Sure it was burning but
it's a helmet several inches from his face, as in, while the acid might
eat through the helmet it no longer has forward momentum so it wouldn't
come at your face. But anyway he dies.





What else what else, so the rest of the crew suit up to go back out
there, they find the dead guys and the oil and return to the ship,
however our main hero guy has been infected, and Charlize Theron won't
let him back on the ship. So she tells him he can either stay outside or
she'll burn him up, naturally, he forces her to burn him to death
instead of wait patiently outside and perhaps use scientific research to
grasp what is going on. It's almost like none of these people are
scientists...So the main female character wakes up, the android tells
her she's 3 months pregnant and that it's not exactly human, but that he
won't take it out of her. So instead of, idk, lying to her or not
telling her anything, he puts her in a real hard spot. Sh he drugs her
and takes her to surgery where her two ship mates turn out to, all of a
sudden, be part of an evil conspiracy to get an alien out of her. Bear
in mind they've never been to this place before or interacted with any
of these alien things, and thus have no idea what they are dealing with.
Yes suspend your disbelief again, they know co-worker is infected with a
creature and they want it. Things don't go as planned because it turns
out she's awake and somehow manages to knock-out both scientists, who
are both strangely wearing hazmat suits all of a sudden. This is even
more ridiculous because they'd established earlier that if the oxygen
and CO2 levels are right then air is safe to breath, period, and that
dissecting alien heads if perfectly safe too. So why they are now
wearing suits when dealing with their own crew-mate who'm they
themselves had interacted with earlier, doesn't quite make sense. Oh
well, la la la, the girl breaks free and gets to the automated surgery
machine and programs it to cut her open and pull the alien out, it does,
it crudely staples her back up and she is good-to-go for the rest of
the movie. She proceeds to leave the alien in the room and wonders back
to find that the Company owner is on the ship with some extra crew
members, surprise! Oh ya, remember how they were just trying to do
surgery on her, well, they don't care any more, they don't even seem to
mention it, and then never bother to even ask what happened to the alien
inside her...oh and don't worry, she doesn't really have any hard
feelings about the whole drugging her attempted surgery thing, water
under the bridge. Did i mention the Company owner came all the way out
to the alien world to find eternal life, as if he was just going to
stroll in and they'd have a cure for human aging waiting for him, all
based on some old hieroglyphics of stars. Where's my "Jump to
Conclusions" mat?





So that dead burned up guy appears at the spaceships main door in a
weird position and so, of course, a guy goes out to check it and the man
promptly smashes his face. Ok so, when they burned their friend to
death apparently it wasn't so much to have even burned up the suit, let
alone keep him from...resurrecting and going on a rampage. Anyway, he
runs taking bullets, getting lit on fire, and crushed and eventually
dies but not before killing several more unnamed crew. Did i mention he
looked like one of the "engineers." So the black stuff turned the human
being into a completely different but already existing species. This ,of
course, garners no follow up questions from the crew.





So our lead female character suits up and goes out with the unhinged
Company owner and his lackies back to the alien structure. Meanwhile, I
think i'm keeping this pretty well in chronological order, the ships
captain explains to Charlize Theron's character his hypothesis that the
alien engineers do not live on this planet at all but that it is an
installation for creating bio-weapons which were meant to destroy earth
and thus they must not let the alien ship escape. At first glance this
scene seems ok until you actually put thought into it and realize the
captain has very little information and is entirely jumping to
conclusions...did the captain read the script?? How could he know these
things??





So they go inside the ship and wake up one of the Engineers sleeping
in the ships control room and our evil android character begins talking
to him. That's right, for no reasons given the android can talk to the
alien. I forgot to mention earlier the android brought up a star map
hologram by accident in the room, again just by hitting buttons, and it
showed earth. So maybe that's how the captain jumped to conclusions like
he did. Anyway, the Engineer tears the androids head off and beats up
the rest of them to death, except for our female hero. He does get shot
once by one of the goones but it, again for reasons unexplained, is very
strong and unaffected. So it starts up the ship and the woman escapes
and tells the crew back at the ship what's gonna happen. So the captain
decides he's gonna crash the ship and the other crew can leave, the
captain is confident he can crash the ship with no help and yet for some
reason the other two crew members with no reservations about killing
themselves, decide to stay and help. So we're to believe that when told
they essentially aren't needed and could save themselves these two guys
are gonna err to the side of caution, and get themselves killed
too..really.. idk man.





Meanwhile Charlize Theron ejects in an escape pod while the medical
"life boat" ejects as well and, go figure, smashes part of itself into
the ground. How inconvenient right? So alien takes off and the humans
take off, they crash the aliens ship and take it down and it lands on
it's side and begins rolling...of course, our two female characters
happen to be in the narrow path of this rolling space ship. And what do
they do? They run straight away from it...i mean come on... COME ON!!
it's rolling after them and they need only run to the left or to the
right and be clear in second and they don't do it. Charlize ends up
falling and getting crushed, bringing her dry irrelevant character to a
frustrating unnecessary end. While the other woman...can you guess? She
runs sideways, in fact almost as soon as she does she clears the thing,
so actually they could have both done that at any point earlier and been
fine. But then it looses momentum and falls on top of her. Fortunately a
small bolder appears to prevent the ship from crushing her, yep the
rock she falls next to ends up apparently stopping the whole ship.. ok.





You think this is over? It's not over, i will tell you when it is
over! So the main female is that last whole character left and she
proceeds to the life pod only for the android head to warn her via radio
that the Engineer was actually alive and coming for her. Bam, there it
is, she has an axe but doesn't end up using it and right when the
engineer is going to kill her it turns out that little alien that
everybody forgot about had turned into a giant octopus monster and it
ends up grabbing him while she gets free. She goes back to the alien
ship, gets the android and they go to another alien engineer ship to fly
away happily ever after in search of the alien homeworld, don't get me
started on how stupid that is, lets just say, i hope there's food and
water on that thing but i wouldn't err, hold my breadth. Aha, ahaha. And
so the alien octopus ends up mouth raping the alien engineer and then
the engineer is shown being split open and what looks like our classic
"Alien" from the Aliens movies pops out of him. End Movie.





That ending, really wraps everything up nicely right, i mean we have
the crashed alien vessel and we have the alien...and the woman flew off
but not to earth so they can make a Prometheus 2 without further
damaging the Alien Quadrilogy. Problems: When the alien engineer ship is
found on LV426 in the Aliens series the Engineer is seated in the seat
with his chest burst opened. There are a couple problems here. Obviously
this isn't how Prometheus ended, so you might say it's a different
ship. However the ship found in both Alien and Aliens was a crashed ship
on the surface. So why would they clearly lead up to Aliens with the
crashed ship if they didn't intend it on being the same. What's really
frustrating is that they had it sort of right, they had the Engineer
implanted and all they needed to do was have him go to one of the other
ships and then get chest bursted and die, except this would necessarily
really him to also crash that ship, which would have been stupid and
redundant and taken too much extra time. Another problem with the
ending, or i should say, the entire story, is that they never bothered
explaining the black oil which seems like homage to the X-Files, and the
writers apparently had never seen Alien or Aliens because the Engineer
control room wasn't supposed to have black oil and tall
stone...things... do you remember what it's supposed to be full of? Yes
that's right, ALIENS, Alien eggs, that is what they find, that is what
plants itself onto John Hurt's face in Alien, and that plot point is
what leads to the second film. So they have the ship crash but then
neither the engineer is in or nor the alien eggs, furthermore, had their
been human remains or a destroyed human spaceship, or other alien
surface structures/spaceships they would have found them in either
Alien, or Aliens, both in the ship and around it. Obviously that is not
the case. Which conveys the idea that while this movie alludes to being a
prequel with strong signs that that is exactly what they wanted it to
be, they went out of there way to make sure it wasn't. Which only leaves
me to wonder if this was on purpose or if they truly are so incompetent
as to not be able to fit their story in with the other movies. Judging
by how terrible the story and the plot devices were, i'm gonna say, they
tried to make it a prequel and really did totally screw it up.





Ok i'm done.

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I would waste too much time, and most of the criticism is very poor, reflecting a possible lack of comprehension of what they were shown in the video.  Just one example, the paragraph about examining the alien head - the head was scanned for "contagion" and none was found, therefore they proceed with a level of caution consistent with a non-contagious specimen.



The lights are INSIDE the helmets so we can see the faces of the actors and know who is who.  It's that simple.



They run in line with the rolling spaceship so you will sit there and scream, "Run sideways!"  It is a gimmick to get your adrenaline flowing.  Based upon the emotional nature of that rant, I'd say it worked.

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Man you're really going to make me watch this film again...



I'll do it to see if I can find the deeper meanings of it; i will report back to this thread once done.