Not a good idea...

Yep. Based on the trailers - and apart from putting on helmets for, what, 5 whole minutes - it doesn't look like hardly a consideration is given to self-preservation and decontamination from the first second they open their eyes. I don't know why they even bother put on those handsome suits, they may as well run through that wasteland naked. I have just rolled with it.

Yes, they're as giddy as teenaged girls in a chainsaw massacre.

CHEEEE WIZ!! With that attitude we'll never go to Mars. Yeah send a bunch of fancy remote control go carts and see what we find under a rock. Has it occurred to you people that the Med/Lab section of the ship could be self contained, I'm sure they will have some kind of decon protocols in effect but remember Alien that didn't stop Ash from letting Kane inside the Nostromo.

All hype aside, I may give this movie a pass if it's mainly an 'alien as virus' or 'the alien inside of us' meme. Also, I'm all for films that take on religious fundamentalism but if Prometheus's revealed premise is that humanity is just some cruel, bioengineered joke, then I'll _really_ pass on this movie. I appreciate a good horror film but not "gorn." I love a well-done space thriller, but not at the expense of crushing all of humanity's spiritual hopes. It's one thing to leave the theater exhilerated after a good healthy scare and totally another to leave the theater completely drained of hope. I hope 'Prometheus' ends on a hopeful note. Otherwise, I admit to being too scared to see it, as much as I'm curious about it. Sigh.

Xenophobia, in all honesty, that aspect of this movie is complete BS......just as it was BS for Kane to stick his face where it didn't belong and BS that they didn't freeze him after Ash allowed them back on the Nostromo. At the very least, you'd send the android in alone first, and [i]no one[/i] would be foolish enough to take off their helmet, even after the android checked every last square inch of the place.

To quote Ripley, "(They) also forgot the Science Division's basic quarantine law."

@Darthmongo, obviously the Prometheus incident is WHY...we now have a Science Division Basic Quarantine law , before it was just a Science Division Basic Quarantine guidline

@darthmongo Maybe this mission is the reason the Science Division created the quarantine law.

No, you wouldn't need a catastrophe to follow such protocols. Simple, basic prudence would dictate a great number of precautions. In the case of alien biological materials, the Apollo quarantine protocols would pale in comparison.

How about...none of this is real, and the movie would be boring if it was a bunch of toasters with legs with vagina snakes bouncing off them...actually that would be pretty funny

@Newt79... What is a "spiritual hope?" Whatever it is, I don't have any, and don't need any. While finding out that humans weren't "created" by some "spiritual" being (whether God or Allah or a Star Trek Amorphous Being) may drain you of hope, it has no effect on me given that I no longer believe in things of which there is no evidence for. What does drain me of hope is encountering other humans who can find no reason to "hope" without the idea that we were created by some spiritual being. I take joy and awe in the universe around me, in reality. That said- I think the idea of we being bioengineered pretty silly, too. We don't have to have been engineered. Evolution works well enough without any Space Jockey input, thank you very much. I apologize for Off Topic Ranting, everyone. Ahem. *steps off soapbox*

Im just happy I invested in Soap Boxes before this website began

I'm glad they're dead.

"My god, it's full of platitudes."

@ Grindolf Vagina snakes? Roflmao!

@Grindolf hahaha...toasters with legs and vagina snakes...love it!

[quote]Couldn't the entire mission have been done by robots?[/quote] wow, it never occured to me...once again...brilliant.

I'm hoping Prometheus is not a completely nihilistic exercise. A horror movie that's completely draining in that way just doesn't sound fun to me. So I [i]am[/i] hoping I'm wrong.

I've kind of thought the bringing of some alien alive or dead life form on a ship is a bad idea and probably wouldn't go down in an actual scientific mission. Also, I thought that sending a bunch of Davids would be a good idea but not a good movie. If I was a rich dude like Weyland I'd send my group of robots instead of humans. Like why didn't they send a bunch of Ash robots in ALIEN? It makes sense but not good movie making. Same as following protocol for contamination on a space mission would be a boring movie. Only dumb reckless abandon allows us to have a good movie. If there was no recklessness we would have movies like that show called "how things work" it's like factories every episode. They should have called it my "$hitty job"