maybe the jockeys want to kill us because of our fire

I sure hope not. That's a theme in sci-fi so overdone, there'd be no way to salvage the picture.

just for the sake of it what other movies have done this there's the abyss..and ummm?

Stories about aliens that comment on man's self destructive nature... Besides 'The Abyss' 'The Day The Earth Stood Still' - movie 'The Arrival' - movie 'Childhood's End' - novel -Arthur C. Clarke Harry Turtledove's 'Worldwar' and 'Colonization' series - novels

It's not alien related science fiction......but who can forget the damning social commentary of mankind's selfs destructive nature in the Terminator franchise.

lol I know ...cheesy sci fi flicks start to get preachy day the earth stood still! thats what i was trying to think of..actually 2001 the novel ends in nuclear war as well but i own the arrival and the aliens are contributing to global warming using terraforming stations...at the very end one of them gives a speech about how we dont even deserve our planet but they were terraforming the place regardless..i dont think they even mentioned nuclear war but yeah day the earth stood still does deal with that theme there have got to be more it is a very overused thematic element

I know 'The Arrival' doesn't deal will nuclear war...but its the broader context of man's self destructive nature that's relevant there.....that's what I was getting at.

alright i guess so...not a bad movie..low budget though

Exactly...I'm just trying to say that I hope Ridley strays from that kind of message because it's been done in various forms and he even went there a bit with the corporate menace of 'Alien'. Let's see something new.

im just trying to guess what could that whole man having the god's fire be about...

That's the grand mystery isn't it?....I get the impression, 'Prometheus' being the title and all, it's one of those things that they will be sure to hide from us until the film's release. We can speculate all we want, but I'd almost wager we'd never be able to guess. But I also personally feel, and it's a guess, that the 'fire' is less literal and more symbolic, a technological knowledge of some kind.