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What The Heck Did I just Watch

MemberOvomorphJune 09, 20121828 Views5 Replies

Have have several questions and gripes in regards to the movie Prometheus. This post may contain spoilers so read at your own risk. These questions/gripes are in no particular order. 1. In the opening scene of the movie the giant blue dude (Engineer?) drank some nasty looking liquid which disintegrated him. He fell off into the waterfall his DNA was shown to disintegrate and then for a split second rebuild itself. I assume this scene was showing the kick-start of the an evolutionary process that resulted in man. But seeing as this was one of the scenes I heard a lot of people questioning I have to say it wasn't done well. And it was a scene that probably wasn't needed at all. 2. The black liquid the android slipped into the drink of the scientist. How did he know what it would do? And why did he slip it into the drink? I assume that's what allowed the scientist to impregnate the women but that raises more questions. 3. David seemed to know that the scientist lady would get pregnant (from the black liquid) and he wanted to put her in cryo sleep and bring her back to earth. Why? Was he secretly working for the giant blue engineer people, wanting to help kill the humans on earth? I didn't feel they explained any of that well. As far as I knew David was there only to help the old wrinkly guy. 4. The cryo blue dude feeling up David's face then going berserk and ripping his head off and trying to kill everyone. Why the change in attitude? Bipolar much? 5. Why are all the blue dudes all dead and in a nice neat nice pile? What killed them? How did they get in the pile? How the hell did one blue dude manage to get into cryo sleep and survive? 6. How come two scientists got lost in the cave and couldn't find their wait out? They left first. And aren't they the ones that threw up the balls to map the cave? How did they get lost and the others found their way out with ease? And what the hell happened to the geologist that ended up making it out but looked possessed or something? That made no sense. But at least when that worm thing got in his body he at least gained a freaking sense of direction. Though who the hell knows how. 7. When Darth Vader said to Luke Skywalker, "I am your Father" That was an awesome scene when you saw it for the first time. You were like OMG. When Charlize Theron said to Guy Ritchie, "...Father!" at the end of their conversation what was the point? It sounded like it was supposed to be some crazy reveal or something, but it was like who cares. I have expected when she said it for Guy Ritchie to quickly stair at the camera with a smirk, and camera quickly zoom in and you hear "dun dun dun!" It was a pointless addition to an already pointless scene. 8. Little miss c-section. I don't think I need to say much about this. She just cut open her abdomen, removed an alien from it, and stapled it back up. She's running around like freaking American Gladiator. Getting punched in the stomach and crap. It was beyond ridiculous. 9. The giant round space ship is rolling towards the two female characters. Charlize Theron has a good lead on the other lady. Little miss c-section falls down. OMG she's gonna get crushed :( Oh... I guess I can just roll a little to the left and avoid the whole thing all together. Charlize Theron turns around, screams and gets crushed! If only she knew if she took one step to the left she'd still be alive... 10. Now, I may not be completely familiar with the Alien lifecycle, but I thought a human gets attacked by a facesucker, the facesucker impregnates the human with a xenomorph, the xenomorph pops out of the humans stomach. What was going on in this movie? We had snakey things, black liquid, a women giving birth to NOT a xenomorph, but rather the biggest freaking facesucker I've everseen, and the blue dude giving birth to a full grown xenomorph... I thought they were supposed to be babies. 11. The whole scene surrounding Little miss c-section going to get her c-section, then after her c-section wandering into the room where the old dude happens to be getting a pedicure seems ridiculous too. How come no one went to find her? How did she just stumble upon the old dude? When she did how come no one really seemed to care? Or worry that a half naked women with giant staples in her stomach just came waddling in?

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June 09, 2012

In regards to number Two: I don't believe David knew what was going to happen, he just wanted to see, remember, Weyland was on the ship, so it may have been a test just for Weyland's safety..... In regards to Number Three: I don't believe the "black goo" necessarily impregnated her per se, but was able to "fix" her infertility, after they shared their sexual experience. When this happened, the goo, mutated the fetus into the new "facehugger" which she then extracted.

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@What The Heck Did I just Watch I'm right there with ya buddy. Just got home from seeing it and was really put off by the whole thing. I think this movie suffered from the "George Lucas" effect. When you're (Ridley Scott) surrounded by people who won't tell you what you're doing is retarded, what you end up doing is ... well ... retarded. The movie looked great, but had little story depth, continuity, character development or any real horror or suspense. You're right about the geologist who mapped the whole complex, then got lost. Must have been all the weed in is respirator! (lol really?). Then you have the biologist who acts like he's trying to impress his girlfriend by trying not to show any fear towards a potentially hostile and dangerous species. We have wormy, snake like things here on Earth ... they're called snakes, and many will kill the living shit out of you! The story resembled what a preliminary story board would have looked like. Just a bunch of concepts for scenes, but no concern for an overall story. Ridely just jumped the brainstorming phase to production without any process in between. Alien and Aliens are still the big dogs in the franchise. Everything else, including this turd, is just riding those movie's coattails.

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June 10, 2012

1 - I thought the scene was done just fine, but yes, probably wasn't needed. 2 - David probably infected Holloway just to see what would happen. Or to see if he could use it to help Mr. Weyland. 3 - David was there just to help Mr. Weyland. He infected Holloway just to see how the black goo would affect him. I don't think he expected Holloway to sleep with Shaw and infect her too. Don't forget, after Shaw cuts herself open and gets the thing out of her, David shows no interest in the creature. In fact, he never really mentions it at all. 4 - He was angry at being woken up by inferior creatures. 5 - Movie mystery. Maybe they huddled together for safety, or for warmth. Whatever the case, it didn't help. 6 - That part didn't make much sense to me either. They left first and still didn't make it out, meanwhile everyone else had no problems getting out before the storm hit. 7 - Didn't seem like a huge reveal to me, it was just a little something to add depth to the character. Didn't really bother me. 8 - True, but its a movie. How many times in movies do we have characters standing a few feet away from an explosion, then getting up and continuing on with their day like nothing happened? Same story here, but at least she showed the occasional sign of being in pain. 9 - Vickers was unimportant and they had to make an excuse to kill her character off. They used the "she's stupid" excuse, simple as that. 10 - The xenomorph that is shown bursting from the Engineer's chest at the end of the film is not the classic xenomorph from the [i]Alien[/i] franchise. It is somehow different, which explains the strange course of events that led to its "birth." 11 - David seemed to know what Shaw had just done to herself and only wished to help her. Better question: If David knew what Shaw had done to herself, which he hinted to have known, then why did he or no one else go to try to secure or kill the creature that she just gave birth to? They just decided to leave it in the room?

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11. David only knew it had worked BECAUSE HE SAW IT ON THE SCAN. Shaw, "Can I have a look?" David, "That's not a good idea." LOL

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@XenoJohn First off, thanks for responding to all my points. 3. David did seem to show an interest in the alien. He didn't want Shaw to see it, but he also wasn't interested in helping her cut it out. He wanted to put her in cryo sleep and send her back to Earth. Maybe I just misinterrupted the scene, but that's how I felt about most scenes in the movie. They didn't seem to answer even the simplest of questions and so every little thing in the movie felt like some great mystery. 4. I can get behind that. Sure. And we know his race wanted to kill all the humans (for some unknown reason). But it just seemed weird that they wake him up. He jumps straight out of bed. Takes two seconds to catch his breath. Stares and listens to Shaw. Then listens to David say something that wasn't translated that we can only assume was asking about how to help Old Dirty Bastard. He starts fondling David's face.... Then he snaps, like OMG I just remembered I hated you guys. 5. It just made no sense. They were all wearing their Flight Suits (?) making their way to the ship. It seems like they were going to try to escape the planet. It made no sense to me how just one guy made it into cryo sleep but all the rest myseriously died just outside the still fully functional ship. 7. This wasn't a big deal so much as some of the other ridiculous things, but it just seemed forced and uneeded. It didn't add to the story. I didn't feel more connected or empathy for her character. It wasn't surprising. But it almost seemed like it was SUPPOSED to be surprising. Maybe it's just the way the dialog was and how the lines were delivered. If that was the only thing in the movie that bothered me I would have probably liked the movie. 8. Oh, no doubt. Movies aren't 100% realistic and I don't expect them to be. But this was beyond unbelievable. It was hard to suspend disbelief. It was just _that_ unbelievable in a film that is meant to be somewhat believable. 9. I have no doubt she was unimportant. I was fine with killing her. It was the way she died. If she just took a step to the left she'd be OK. I've always wondered why people don't just run out of the path of the object going to crush them. But then Shaw falls down and realizes she doesn't need to run. She can just roll a couple times and be out of the path of the ship. Vickers didn't _seem_ like a mentally challenged individual. But she died like one. 10. "Somehow different" I can get behind you on that, but to bad the movie didn't really explain the somehow or the different. 11. Everyone in the room seemed disinterested in the woman who just cut her abdomen open. The scene mostly revolved around the old wrinkly guy. Though your question is a good one. And I have many more about this silly movie that although there may be explanations for, there don't seem to be any explanations in the actual movie. @FreePlanet: I know he saw it on the scan. But he also slipped the male scientist that drink with the black goo in it. And he asked her if she had intercourse with him. Plainly stated, he seemed to know a lot more about what was going on then anyone else. He almost seemed to have his own agenda outside helping mr weyland. His character did and said a lot of things that didn't make much sense based on what had been revealed about him in the movie.