Why I loved Prometheus

lol, I had to jump a few times due to spoilers.

How do I 'spoiler alert' this?

Indeed, if possible, go see it in Imax, the visuals are stunning.

Weyland knew about Shaw's pregnancy as it was a ploy to take back a live specimen in stasis - so they wouldn't care, apart from being annoyed that she'd have spoilt their plan

I agree - I thought this movie was great - I thought it was quite thought provoking

"Thought provoking" Precisely. Well said. If it answered all the questions - it would have less of a life in the mind of the viewers, beyond the viewing itself. Best to be a little enigmatic with some open-endedness to it. Not to mention that if it answered all the questions they'd pretty worthless because it's fiction : ) Unless you believe all that Von Daniken stuff of course. John [url=http://alienage11.com]alienage11.com[/url]

LMFAO Please excuse me But I have to use this post of yours to teach EVERYONE a simple Lesson...there is NO question of believing his..."[b]Von Daniken's stuff"[/b]! In his book and at the very beginning of EVERY SINGLE EPISODE OF ANCIENT ALIENS...IT IS CLEARLY STATED THAT EVERYTHING HE SAID AND THE SHOW SAYS IS A HYPOTHESIS !!! THEY BOTH CLEARLY BEGIN WITH THE WORDS..."WHAT IF???" WHICH TO ME DISQUALIFIES EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO EVER MADE BAD COMMENTS ABOUT IT ALL FROM HAVING ANY CREDIBILITY WHAT SO EVER!!! SERIOUSLY ALL YOU PEOPLE HAVE DONE IS INSULT THE HAIR OF SOME OF THE PANEL INVOLVED!!! IT IS JUST ANOTHER CASE OF SO VERY MANY PEOPLE BEING INCAPABLE OF [b]READING PROPERLY[/b] !!! THAT ASIDE, HIS OFFERINGS ARE ABOUT , NO EXAGGERATION, "50 GAZILLION" TIMES MORE PLAUSIBLE AND REALITY BASED THAN ANYTHING EVERY SINGLE RELIGION ON EARTH HAS EVER TRIED TO SHOVE DOWN ALL OF OUR THROATS!!! AND THERE'S THIS LITTLE BEAUTY!!! NO ONE AND i DO MEAN NO ONE ON THIS FORUM IS EVER GOING TO CONVINCE ME THAT ANY OF THE WORLDS ARTIFACTS THEY SHOW US IN THAT SERIES WERE NOT CREATED FOR THE VERY PURPOSE OF BEING SEEN FROM SPACE...EVER !!! AND WHEN I HEAR PEOPLE TALK ABOUT MANKIND'S POTENTIAL FOR DOING BIG THINGS I HAVE NEVER ONCE SUSPECTED THAT THIS INCLUDED LIFTING 2500 TON PIECES OF ROCK OVER 500 FEET IN THE AIR WITHOUT HAVING LEFT EVEN 1 DAMNED PIECE OF EVIDENCE OF HAVING USED ANY MAN MADE TOOLS TO DO IT !!! IT JUYST MAKES ZERO SENSE AND I THINK THAT ARGUMENT IS BASELESS AND INCREDIBLY STUPID NBASED ON WHAT WE DO KNOW AS FACT!!! LET ALONE BEING ABLE TO CALCULATE AND MAP STAR SYSTEMS PERFECTLY AND ALIGN PYRAMIDS WITH THEM, YOU HAVE TO BE "NUTZ" IMO TO EVEN TO THINK THERE WASN'T SOME KIND OF OUTER WORLDLY INTERVENTION JUST AS SCOTT HAS MAINTAINED FROM DAY 1!!!

...i'll drink to that!!

Both me and the Wife loved it for what it was. A great sci-fi movie that was just stunning to look at in IMAX 3D. Had moments that I would have liked different but that does not make them wrong Just the whole space flight and landing of Prometheus took my breath away. Just hope Ridley will do another to continue some great questions and ideas posed.

NAZCA LINES: Yes, they are best seen from the air. But it turns out there is enough higher ground around the lines to enable folks to see them rather well from ground level. Look it up in NatGeo Magazine, there is a lengthy discussion by the lady who spent decades researching Nazca. They were proably ritual pilgrimage paths. MOAI: These are of a much latter date, and they are made from extra soft volcanic rock; carving it takes time, but is far from impossible, as it is a stone easy to work. VIMANAS: Yes, flying machines. Only problem is the word vimana can also mean chariot, palace, temple, or even well-proportioned harmony. Flying machine picks one potential meaning at the expense of all others; it may have something to do that the word was picked to specifically designate an airplane - in MODERN Hindi. HOLLOWAY'S ANCIENT STAR MAPS - Faked by copy-paste. Many of the artifacts mentioned exist (Stele of Naram Sin, Palette of Narmer) - and yet they conspicuously FAIL to show either Zeta Reticuli or any other recognizable star map. Some artifacts (such as the Nebra disk) show the PLeiades constellation, but this was of crucial importance to organized agriculture because the apparent movement of this constellation across the sky pinpoints the beginning of the sowing season. BIG GUYS - OK, many ancient carvings show the most important royal/divine figures bigger than the other human figures shown. However, this is merely called hierarchical perspective (in order to visually emphasize the importance of such characters, they are drawn physically bigger. Perhapos just a fluke, were it not for the fact that hierarchical perspective was still alive and well in the Middle Ages. Unless Charlemagne was an Engineer, of course... PYRAMIDS- No big problem to align them with the stars, assuming you don't start with rock. You can make a temporary wood/tent structure, calibrate it for alignment with the stars and to have the first morning light of the spring equinox enter via the...well, entrance, and hit the altar or whatever on the opposite side. You have GENERATIONS to calibrate this accurately, and then further generations to replace the temporary strucure with stone. Simple but workable hypothesis, huh? As for the importance of stars and constellations, they were used for navigation (the desert Bedouin still do, meaning that if the desert night sky is cloudy, they are as lost as any city dweller), and to estimate the time of day outside daylight hours (some old villagers in my country still demonstrate this skill). UNDERGROUND CITY IN TURKEY - Again, as with Easter Island, extra soft volcanic stone. Anyone could carve a chamber with a pick and a few days' (OK, months') time. And there is exactly NOTHING there to suggest any advanced technology. Been there and had a thorough look. No dice. HUGE MONOLITHS - Tough but not impossible to make using primitive tech. Baalbek is a puzzle, but if they started with such huge megaliths, why did they not use them to make the entire structure? As if they started with the huge ones, and then at some point decided they were not worth the effort, deciding to switch to smaller blocks after all (the unfinished megalith in the quarry would square nicely with this hypothesis). Also, Baalbek is in Libanon, THE ancient source for best-quality, big-size wood - the famous cedars. So there were raw materials to make some extra-tough rollers... As for ancient structures "too precisely" constructed for their age and the primitive methods and tools available, look up any medieval cathedral, and see just what precision was attainable using "primitive" tools and methods... (That said, I would love to watch the series!)

Wirrn - good post, very true. As for the film itself, have any of you seen (and enjoyed) it stoned? Because that's my plan for tonight.

Kudos to Wirrn.