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a review (spoilers and religious references)

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alexeymosc

MemberOvomorphJun-02-2012 2:06 AM
I have recently watched the movie in Moscow. I am a fan, so my expectations were high and so was my deep dive into reflections upon the story told after watching the film, and I kindly wish to share these with you. This is my first post at these fabulous forum boards, but having read a lot of other fans' thoughts, theories and - finally - reviews, I have developed a sense that people mostly did not like the missing parts in the logical chain from the original Alien to Prometheus. I can also somehow relate to that feeling of abandonness, in a sense, while I nevertheless foresee the future wave of "theory-building" and further contemplating on the topics touched upon in the movie very positively. After all, people like to contemplate. So, going to the essence, I want to talk the team of Prometheus. They do not look like true pioneers stepping on the dangerius grounds of the incognito alien world. Oppositively, they are more like a bunch of geeks on a flashmob. The captain decorating the Christmas tree just after waking up from stasis is a joke. Then, who did allow the scientific team walk without guards inside the "temple"? This had been actually a tragic decision as the future demonstrated. OK, the script for the movie introduced the human curiosity as a trigger of all their misfortunes, as we had seen in Alien too. Looks trivial, but works well. The Pandora box style of adventure. Now, talking of found artifacts, the big question to me is the epic Alien-esque wall mounted fresco in the gorgeous super human art style. Why and what for? Probably the depicted creature is really the Alien species, maybe a queen, but how did the Engineers come to know that exactly this species will be born after several genetic transformations involving a human species? Were they experimenting with humans or they just knew because of the advanced technology that could easily forecast the final product of their creation? It is hard to say now. Next go the big dead bodies, well, actually, the first found one. Aged 2000 years, it points out to the date of the Engineer death being 89 AD. I do not think it is a coinsidence that the creators planned to visit Earth will their ship filled with bio hazard weapons right after the formation of Christianity as a world religion. Speculating about what I have seen even further, I assume the Engineers just wanted to exterminate the humanity due to the betrayal of the notion of them Engineers as creators for the sake of Christ, the one and only God. So to say, the experiment went out of control, the humans do not like us any more. The rest of the movie is a series of well made computer graphics scenes willed with quality action and sometimes scary scenes, but overall picture is missing the refined art-like taste found in Alien and, speaking of Ridley' other films, The Blade Runner. The movie is non-comparable to Alien whatsoever. We have seen a cosmic action with elements of philosophy which in fact looks faulty in light of what the Prometheus crew did face. Philosophically, is this an example of one another human misbelief and a bloody strike at the human confidence and naive mythology still pervaiding in the end of the 21 century? Oh yes, Ridley, you play the old and eternal motive so personal to all people: we are kids who want to be cherished, and we dot need a "higher" truth as it can be so DEADLY.
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Windood

MemberOvomorphJun-02-2012 2:14 AM
I think you might have missed the point on the 2000yrs/advent of christianity thing (although it's debatable). Yes, around 2000 years they decided to not kill us after all, one could assume that was because of the religion of christianity? Maybe they thought that there was a chance we'd stop killing each other in mindless wars eejits haha

alexeymosc

MemberOvomorphJun-02-2012 2:40 AM
2 Windood. Yes, possibly so. However, the Engineer they woke up was so irrationally violent, as though they hated all humans.

Custodian

MemberOvomorphJun-05-2012 2:23 AM
alexey, what did David say to the ENGINEER? windood, thou shalt not bear false witness? dinosaurs, [i]come on, dad, let's bury dinosaur skulls and f*** with 'em.[/i] Bill Hicks circa 1992. Planted dinosaur (or elephant heads) might not be that far from Lindelof's mind when he inserted that into the script. We STILL didn't see what the original Engineers were running scaredy-cat from, 2000 years hence. I also couldn't work out whether some (or all) of the 'derelict's memories' were unique to David or seen by all, especially that weird trippy multi-engineer TUTORIAL - I couldn't get my head around that, at all. It was all too strange, like a ghost at a party.
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alexeymosc

MemberOvomorphJun-05-2012 5:05 PM
2 FreePlanet, Thank you. I don't know about whether the crew saw the holograms of the Superhuman preparation for flight, but I suppose they did not. David actually knew the most among all the crew members, but I do not neglect that someone could feel more... Yes, we do not know why other Engineers were scared and running, but again I noticed they had sculls with holes probably caused by explosions - probably caused by by the same genetic thing causing the head in the lab to explode while the living process was started again by electricity. The weapon they created turned against them - this is what might be written in the scenario, and who cares what we think it really should be. Although I liked the movie (my score is 7.5 of 10), I am assured that the sequel to be will be even less surprising and novel.
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