Prometheus [Spoilers]

[Water Bob]

What I don't quite understand is if they created us humans, why they then try to wipe us out (at least, that's the assumption the characters make when the Space Jockey heads for Earth).

That's the entire point of the film; and why it ends with the archaeologist heading off in search of the Engineer home world with that exact question: "Why did you change your mind?"

Hopefully that means there will be a sequel.

According to that article (which quotes Ridley Scott from an interview), there was an event, 2000 years ago, that made the Engineers want to kill us.

2000 years ago? Jesus Christ.

I'm not kidding. Read the article. Ridley is putting it out there that Jesus was an Engineer, and we crucified him.

Thus, the Christian motif in the film.

More about this in the article linked above.





EDIT: Just thiking out loud, I took the planet where the film takes place, LV 223, and I thought....I'd see what Leviticus 22:3 says....

22:3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.

Hmm...interesting. Goes with the film.

 

[Droogie]

As Morrus pointed out, not sure what Fassbender's David was thinking of when he implanted the alien gene.

He gave us his thoughts right before he did it: "how far would you be willing to go just to find out more?"

 

[Starman]

- Vickers is an idiot, and so are engineers on Earth. Who the frack designs a multi-million, or billion, dollar automatic surgery machine, and then makes it only work on one gender? And why the frack would Vickers have one in her room? Sure, it could be for Weyland, but isn't he in a different part of the ship? And if the stupid thing can't operate on women, how come it can't tell the difference, particularly IN THE MIDDLE OF ABDOMINAL SURGERY?

This was odd to me too. The only thing I could come up with is that Vickers was an android as somewhat hinted at and the machine was only meant to be used by/on Weyland. Her special quarters were meant to be Weyland's when he woke up from cryo.

 

[Starman]

He gave us his thoughts right before he did it: "how far would you be willing to go just to find out more?"

David was probably also thinking that Charlie was an ass the way he spoke down to David.

 

[Joker]

Good article Water Bob. While it does add a little depth to the movie it doesn't take away from a lot of the criticism leveled against it.

On the Med Pod. It's not made exclusively for men, this unit was simply calibrated for them. Which probably has less to do with the physiological differences between men and women and more to do with giving the viewer another hint that Weyland is on board.

 

[Morrus]

He gave us his thoughts right before he did it: "how far would you be willing to go just to find out more?"

Yeah, but it was a dumb thought.

"Mission Control, this is Manned Mars Exploration vessel 1 reporting in on our ninth day on Mars. Hope you got the data from those geological samples we took yesterday. Today's report includes the discovery of life on Mars; repeat: we have discovered life on Mars. We know you guys will want to find out more, so I'm gonna slip it into Lietenant Baker's drink tonight while he isn't looking and see what happens!"

 

[Mark CMG]

"Mission Control, this is Manned Mars Exploration vessel 1 reporting in on our ninth day on Mars. Hope you got the data from those geological samples we took yesterday. Today's report includes the discovery of life on Mars; repeat: we have discovered life on Mars. We know you guys will want to find out more, so I'm gonna slip it into Lietenant Baker's drink tonight while he isn't looking and see what happens!"

He might have been sending reports back to Earth but his marching orders were coming from a closer source.

 

[Morrus]

He might have been sending reports back to Earth but his marching orders were coming from a closer source.

The distance really wasn't the point of my comment. The slipping new alien life into a drink as the initial form of investigation was.

 

[Mark CMG]

The distance really wasn't the point of my comment.

Nor mine. More along the lines of considering the source.

The slipping new alien life into a drink as the initial form of investigation was.

The old man who was giving David orders was taking many shortcuts to figure things out as quickly as he could. He might not have known that the two nerds were making the beast with two backs, but he might have been fine with using the male nerd as a guinea pig for the goo. It's not impossible that he even believed there might be some copulation though the resultant accelerated pregnancy would have been a shocker, no doubt.

 

[Water Bob]

Good article Water Bob. While it does add a little depth to the movie it doesn't take away from a lot of the criticism leveled against it.

From my POV, the article makes the movie more interesting in knowing that there was a method to Ridley's madness. But, I think that a movie where you've got to read an article to understand fails.

Or, in other words, the flick may well be deep with symbolisim and meaning, but if the viewers don't catch it--or worse, don't care when they do catch it--the film fails as a piece of entertainment.

Maybe Ridley aimed for a movie that's too high brow for its own good.

On the Med Pod. It's not made exclusively for men, this unit was simply calibrated for them. Which probably has less to do with the physiological differences between men and women and more to do with giving the viewer another hint that Weyland is on board.

I didn't have a problem at all with the Med Pod. Charlize had her own, completely equipped, self-contained life boat that could detatch from the ship. It wasn't a stretch to think they she'd have an auto-med, too.