Prometheus [Spoilers]

[Morrus]

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.

Yep, I know what was happening. I'm just saying I thought what was happening was dumb.

 

[Morrus]

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.

Meh. Just because one guy read a whole lot of stuff into it doesn't mean he's right. If I had the time and inclination, I'm sure I could read a whole lot of stuff into anything I cared to.

He's probably hit on a few points (and his one quote from Ridley Scott shows that Scott considered the Jesus angle but rejected it as too "on the nose"), but his article is filled with "presumably this" and so on. It's mainly just his opinion. I wouldn't judge the move based on the fact that you didn't read the same things into it as that guy.

 

[Nellisir]

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.

Comes to the same thing. Stupid design. Personally, I don't want anything poking around inside me that can't distinguish testicles from ovaries.

 

[Nellisir]

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.

Having a med-pod made sense. Charlize having a med-pod she couldn't use makes no sense.

 

[Water Bob]

Having a med-pod made sense. Charlize having a med-pod she couldn't use makes no sense.

Admitedly, I saw the midnight showing on Thursday. That's way past my bedtime. And, I did nod a few times in the film--not because of the film, but because I was so danged tired.

I guess I missed something about Charlize. Why couldn't she use the med-pod?

 

[Mark CMG]

Yep, I know what was happening. I'm just saying I thought what was happening was dumb.

From what perspective? Seemed plausible from the perspective of a desperate man who was dying to try anything as quickly as he could. Plus, he even thought talking with the "creators" could gain him extended life, so we see how misguided he was by the end. So maybe, retrospectively dumb for him to think the way he did but as far as the film was concerned it added up well enough, IMO, and was sufficiently explained.

 

[Mark CMG]

The Med Pod was in the lifeboat. The old man had doctors in his other facility on board. It might be better asked why the old man wasn't in a life boat of his own or in the one that was there but it could be explained that those who knew about the lifeboat might discover the old man in it if he was there. Where the old man was on board might be disguised as a closed off cargo hold to those on board who weren't supposed to know the old man was there. I am guessing the reasoning was that moving the Med Pod to the lifeboat should the old man need to escape would have presented difficulties. I agree that a Med Pod shouldn't be simply male or female in the first place. That was an obvious plot device to let the audience know the old man was on the ship.

 

[Morrus]

From what perspective? Seemed plausible from the perspective of a desparate man who was dying to try anything as quickly as he could.

From my perspective as a guy watching the film.

For me, "slip the new life form into somebody's drink" doesn't seem remotely plausible as the first idea that a desperate man would come up with. It seems to me to be a dumb idea, and that he could have had much better ideas.

I get that you don't think it's a dumb idea. I won't be taking any trips to alien planets with you anytime soon!

 

[Mark CMG]

From my perspective as a guy watching the film.

For me, "slip the new life form into somebody's drink" doesn't seem remotely plausible as the first idea that a desperate man would come up with. It seems to me to be a dumb idea, and that he could have had much better ideas.

I get that you don't think it's a dumb idea. I won't be taking any trips to alien planets with you anytime soon!

Ah, I see. You believe in a more traditional sense of alien med-tech and thus think that to introduce a foreign substance to a human body, rather than to have it ingested (as the film allowed), or to find a way to use a needle (too suspiscious), or to get him to inhale (might be too suspiscious and tricky though Rapace did use incense on board so not out of the question), you believe in the time-honored UFO-lovers' tradition of probing through the rear hatch, a suppository, as it were. I guess I never took you for a traditionalist.

 

[Shemeska]

Fasbender deserves an Oscar for his performance as David8.

I just saw the movie last night (Imax version), and for having been super hyped up for years now, I enjoyed it with zero reservations. It's far more of a Sci-Fi movie than a horror movie, but there's enough doses or horror to keep my tastes satisfied (says the person with a life-size xenomorph prop standing a few feet away from him).

Some people will object, but the last scene with the proto-xeno birthing was pretty damn awesome in my mind. I want one.