Prometheus [Spoilers]

[Morrus]

errrrr, what?

Yeah.

 

[Mercutio01]

So I can safely wait for the DVD, then?

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

So -- not having seen or followed it closely -- does this movie explain the origins of the ship with the big dead alien and the Alien eggs from the beginning of Alien?

 

[Morrus]

So -- not having seen or followed it closely -- does this movie explain the origins of the ship with the big dead alien and the Alien eggs from the beginning of Alien?

Yes.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Yes.

So, spoil me. What is it?

 

[Morrus]

So, spoil me. What is it?

I pretty much described the whole film above; not sure what else I could add! The ship's identical, the Engineers are the space jockeys, they're making Aliens.

 

[Joker]

They don't make the aliens directly, they make some kind of biological weapon which, as one of its effects, can create a facehugger type thing, which makes an alien-esque creature.

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). Perhaps we were created to farm these weapons, maybe he thinks that we're a threat. I don't know, it's a bit wonkey.

 

[Morrus]

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). Perhaps we were created to farm these weapons, maybe he thinks that we're a threat. I don't know, it's a bit wonkey.

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.

 

[Krug]

Visually it was great, but I wish Scott was not so reliant on the Alien connection and made something new. The idea of the Engineers wanting to destroy us and using the planet as a manufacturing area for WMD was an interesting one, and could have been pushed further.

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

After a while, it just seemed an exercise in lining up the various elements in Alien but just creating a movie that's full of holes and head-scratching moments. And the only answer we have in this search for man's origins? We find out the origin of the Alien. Ho hum. Frankly, Scott should have, like those facehugger eggs, left it untouched.

And if I see an alien tentacle waving around in a snake-like manner I don't think I would find it "cute".

 

[Mark CMG]

I'm gonna try to catch the early 3D IMAX showing of Prometheus.