Not Really A Prequel And Now I Know Why

I'm back lol, I've been on this site since last October, started out as GigerFace, then GigerFace 2.0 now I'm GigerFace 3.0 lol Anyways, I stopped myself from posting for months just because I wanted to wait until after I'd seen the film to post once again. So... @Mundus, I want to edit to your post and say that Prometheus was more of a prequel than meets the eyes. I think what a lot of people are missing is that most of the ties to ALIEN are in visuals and not in boring blatant exposition. And yet there are enough pieces of dialogue to fill in any of the blanks that aren't shown in the visuals. A great movie is one that shows and doesn't tell and that's exactly what Prometheus does. I'm not surprised that the movie is getting mixed reviews and mixed reactions from people because so did ALIEN lol. In fact ALIEN was mostly panned at first by critics which is ironic because Prometheus does have more positive professional reviews than ALIEN did back in 1979. It wasn't until many years later that ALIEN received its cult status and was deemed a masterpiece of film. It did well at the box office based on the shock and awe of the film's impression upon the general public, but it wasn't praised for it's stellar performances and story depth, although, Weaver did get lots of praise similar to what Repace and Fassbender are getting right now. Therefore I think those that are complaining or are panning the film are not getting it just like those critics didn't get ALIEN back in the day. In retrospect ALIEN left just as many questions as Prometheus has, frankly that's the reason why Scott decided to make Prometheus in the first place because all other film makers overlooked the questions left with ALIEN. Scott never said where the xenomorph came from, never confirmed if LV426 was the homeplanet of the xenomorph, never told us why the Nostromo was out in deep space mining in the first place, never told us who the company was, and certainly didn't tell us how the derelict got there, but hey none of that really mattered to the audience watching ALIEN back then, they just watched and allowed themselves to be entertained and visually assaulted. Which is the same thing Prometheus has done for those that allow it to be the movie it's meant to be. The problem is nowadays audiences are so instant gratification and so spoiler happy that they don't get where Scott is coming from no more than the "know it all" critics got ALIEN. These displeased people are going into the film looking for a carbon copy of ALIEN that gives them all the answers to everything, when watching a rehash of ALIEN would have been truly horrible. I applaud and appreciate that Scott showed us the opposite spectrum of what ALIEN was. If ALIEN is a slow burn nail biting who goes there film, then Prometheus is surely a breakneck Indy race where the finish line is in sight but isn't the final race. Prometheus didn't have to have a better xeno than the xenomorph from ALIEN because that would have just been more of the same just for the sake of trying to one up one's self. Prometheus instead showed us something much more dangerous than the xenomorph, it showed us an intelligent species that is millions of years more advanced than us of whom we can't even begin to understand their reasoning. And by introducing us to the Engineers Scott has given us a potential for endless stories and endless questions. Like for example, did every urn contain a different set of dna building blocks?! When you think about the Engineers capacity for creation, you got a pretty expansive spectrum, from us, to xenos, to you name it. Prometheus brings questions to the table that may never be answered and yet it provides explanation for the things like the relationship between the xeno and the Engineer. The Engineers and the xenomorph appear to have a master to tool relationship and using a loose analogy, the xenomorphs are like the guns of our world, in that they only weapons and when used unwisely they can tear a society apart from the inside out, no pun intended. I can only imagine that in the timeline of the Engineers there once was a time when the Engineers effectively used the xenos on a regular based and probably got sloppy in their use of them until things got out of hand like any weapon of mass destruction is bound to do. I could certainly go off on even more of a tangent, but regardless, I think Prometheus was the most efficient prequel to ALIEN that could have been done and in the end plays as a great companion piece to ALIEN without taking away any of the mystery of ALIEN because we still have questions in the end.

Wow! Great thoughtful comments GigerFace. This movie has really had my mind buzzing for a few days now. I even dreamed about it after the midnight premiere. I never dream about movies! I saw it a second time today and got ever more from it and picked up things I had missed. Now I'm just gourging myself on all the resources I can for this film.

Mundus, Your grammar is awful. Please try and proof-read it a little before posting. It's hard to understand what your talking about when you're trying to discuss such an obviously complex subject.

Gigerface, are you you trying to make me go blind? Just leave Penelope to Joyce, please dude.

Yea thanks for pointing that out lol. I think I was out of it a bit when typing or I was trying to shorten it down so much that the post wouldint be so complex but I'm guessing things just got really out of hand great Scott! Hooray for making things more complicated my fault guys dont hate. XD Anyways yea its not like I'm judging or anything about what I was trying to say in my thread but man this movie was mind blowing amasing of awsomeness and if they are even thinking about making more sequels god speed and hell I'll just jump on board like the rest of everyone else and call it a prequel now. Anyways sci fi is always fun to watch and it gets me all excited. P.S. Ty Ridley Scott for making this a smash hit wonder!