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MemberOvomorphJune 05, 2012793 Views9 Replies[b]Great movie.[/b] Thanks to all the negative reviews I had low expectations and even though I knew what will happen I enjoyed the film.
[b]The characters[/b] are well created, despite what most fans say. It's true that most of them were there just to be killed by Fifield monster (a really dumb one), but so was a lot of the soldiers in Aliens. The main characters have some very interesting relationships.
I especially liked Vickers and her relationship with Weyland. Seems to me the father likes his robot better than his daughter (David s the closest thing he has to a son - his android, not his daughter). I know great, powerful man that achieved everything they want. Ant still they can't accept their failures in having a boy child. And treat their daughters bad. Maybe that's why Meridith tries to be more robot-like. To please her father, to be like the one thing he loves.
In fact I liked Vickers so much that hope she is not dead, but safe in some kind of hole between the rocks or something like this. Why? Because she has an escape pod with oxygen and food for 2 years - enough for a rescue mission to come and find her. But the pod is inhabitated by the newborn xeno, which is not an alien-queen like in Aliens, but is more like Enginalien (as we have a Predalien). Seems like a fine rivalry between the robot-like beauty and the beast.
The other relationship that deserves credit is between Holloway and David. The human act arrogantly, like he is superior to the robot and makes jokes of him. When David chooses him as a target for the black fluid you can almost feel the conflict in him, the soulless robot (great acting by Fastbender). Conflict that Holloway resolves himself. And gets it.
[b]The story[/b] isn't as incoherent in my opinion as most fans see it. It's a little bit predictable, has some cliches and stupid moments, but almost everything has an explanation.
Well we don't get to know what killed the Engineers in the big pile of bodies, why there was a gigantic head in what seems to be a temple of some kind, why there were ampoules that leak deadly fluid if someone open the door (defense mechanism?) and why the fuck is there a mural of a xenomorph on the wall!
But In the end the captain made it easy for the less intelligent audience and explained everything that we are allowed to know from this film. 1 - This is not a temple, but a military station. 2 - The Engineers created here a weapon that is meant to destroy life on Earth. 3 - Something happened and their ship couldn’t take off with the deadly cargo.
The thing we do not know yet is why this Engineers engineered us in the first place, and why they want to destroy us now. Guess they have a reason that we will learn in Prometheus 3, after giving enough money to the producers.
If you ask me - I don't really want to know their reasons. It was a great to watch movie and I was satisfied after Shaw went looking for answers. Good luck to her. She is a strong believer, but I do not believe in Scott and Lindeloff that they can produce a quality, logical reason for the Engineer's motives. Reason that no one else can come up with. The best they can do (as in Lost) is to build mystery over mystery and never give any important answers.
Or they can prove me wrong. I'll be waiting.
Never the less [b]the movie did its thing[/b]. It conquered the imagination of every fan, even (mainly) the ones that didn't liked it.