Red Letter review- Hillarious!

lol...! yeah, that is pretty much how i feel about this film excellent find there RickJones..!

"Why did the Engineer create us and then want to destroy us?" "Where we a mistake?" lol Perfect. Sorry website but the Prometheus film is a POS. And you got the Brits fighting in the comment section as well lol.

What was that black goo? The black goo is the film equivalent of this [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eitr]Your text to link here...[/url] It can create life, it can take it away, it can corrupt it, it can transform it, it can pretty much do anything. Was the black goo different than the sparkly green goo? Most probably yes. There was a green/emerald stone right in front of that xenomorph mural. We don't yet know how they relate to each other. Similarly we didn't know the origin or purpose of the space jockey in Alien. Take it up with Alien. Was the black goo always intended to use as a weapon or was it just alien cum? The engineers seem to be the only ones able to understand and control it. It doesn't seem to react to them like it does to us (our pressence awakes it, makes it active, lets it turn worms into hammerpedes... it kind of hates us basically). Why did Ridley Scott let his 12 year old son do the make up for Weyland? The make up wasn't that bad at all. I was more against Pearce's moves in the hologram 'post-mortem' sequence, he was pretty lively but he was also in a hurry so that explains that. Other than that, except bit exagurated, the make up was fine. It was complex too, it was just exagurated. Later on in the movie Guy Pearce did even better. How did hologram-Weyand know where the scientists are? He didn't, he was talking to the space in front of him. How did Holloway assume the air was ok to breathe just because they detected an oxygen atmosphere? The scottish scientist right next to him spelled it out that it's air and that it's cleaner than earth's air. That and he's a wild boy. What about alien diseases and microbes? Yes, helmet is safer. Also, just because it's a sci fi it doesn't mean you need to obey every rule, especially when you need some stuff for the plot and you can't explain every single thing scientifically BEFORE you put a character in danger that would lead to his death. Why the biologist doesn't seem interested in science? Why wasn't his psychological profile checked? I dunno, I think the whole character is stupid. What was the point of revealing Charlize Theron as Weyland's daughter? She's only Weyland's daughter if she's not an android. If she's human, that adds drama, gives us a controversial semi-villain which we end up feeling sorry about, adds up to the 'father-child' thing . If she's an android check this post: viewtopic.php?p=425349#p425349 Why did Weyland want to infect Holloway with the black goo? He didn't. That's the thing, David infected Holloway out of pure curiosity mixed with his personal annoyance and feeling of intimidation by him. Out of everyone he was the only one in that crew that he'd do it to and have a reason to pick. On one hand he wanted to create something, feel powerful, become a 'father/creator'. On the other, there was the sense of competition and back-and-forth insults/taunts between them. "Here's mud in your eye" Charlie says this to David as he toasts him, right after the bit of dialogue above, and I’d say it needs further exploration. It’s an archaic phrase, even now in 2012, much less in 2093. To have Charlie throw this out, as he’s about to be infected, is a complete anachronism, so what gives? This one is tougher, as the etymology of the idiom is massively unclear. It seems to have two possible meanings. 1) From a Biblical passage, John 9: 6-7 wherein Jesus cures a blind man by putting mud in his eye. 2) Horse racing, you would get “mud in your eye” when you were behind in a race. The Biblical version pleases me the most, as it would make sense if Charlie were wishing David good sight, pointing out David’s clear lack of humanity. But … as the phrase doesn’t seem to exist in literature prior to 1927 it seems unlikely that it would have a Biblical origin. Which leads us to horse racing, which could be accurate, as Charlie clearly felt superior to David, with the infection serving as his comeuppance. Either way, it’s hard to tell where Ridley Scott and the writing team are just messing with us, and where the actual meaning of Prometheus is hidden. Could it be … If the black goo alters human DNA, why did the little fish come out of Holloway's eye? The main confusion around the black goo comes out of the fact that people are used to observe a predictable and periodically recurrent AND STABLE cycle of an alien life-form. This is not an alien life form. This is the juice of life and death. That which created us and that which can do pretty much anything, depending on the circumstances, just because it's so powerful, potent and controversial. If (when controlled) it was able to lead to the creation and possible improvement of life on earth, along with human beings and every single other horrible parasite or disease on it, then being unpredictable and menacing and incredibly dangerous is simply one if it's main qualities. Ofc, people expect to understand and be able to predict how it functions. No you shouldn't be. We don't even know how the engineers learned to control it, we don't know why exactly it possibly hates us, does it hate any other being besides the engineers? See, there's questions, but how is that a bad thing exactly? I know that the black goo being unpredictable sounds as an excuse for 'insert monster here' scenes. On the other hand though it makes complete sense within the mythological influences of the movie and the 'scale' that the black goo is supposed to posess as an element in the movie. Did David know Holloway would have sex with Shaw? No. If we share the same DNA with the engineers that created us, why do other life forms on earth not share the same DNA? I was asking myself the same question after my first watch. That was one of the reasons why I didn't know what to make of the intro. Then I just understood that the intro not only doesn't need to be earth but it never implies to show us the complete and detailed/explained (duhhhhhh) process of 'designing' a species. We basically just see an engineer plant life, we don't see how he perfects it through the ages. Given that they seem to have experimented with bioengineering so that they'd come to perfecting the xenomorph it's only natural to think that just planting life trough a ritualistic sacrifice isn't all there is to their knowledge and ability to create and tinker with life. I mean, come on, Weyland created David by his own idea of an image, for his own amusement, for his own needs, by his own design. Weyland. You're telling me an engineer isn't supposed to know how to do that? This guy mentions the dinosaurs too. Well, who would've thought, there's this 'ancient aliens' theory of how ancient aliens destroyed the dinosaurs so they'd make way for our existence. Moving on. Why did the engineer chase Shaw and Vickers when he could've completed his mission? He chased Shaw only, Vickers was dead already. I mean when he woke up he killed or stunned everyone in the room because of (if you've read some of the theories) how embarassing and humiliating it might feel to him to commune with apes (him being the ubermensch) and especially something he's (obviously) supposed to hate. What happens then? Prometheus crashes his ship, because he obviously hasn't killed everyone. So, Prometheus ship and crew dead, one last survivor that happens to be hiding in a 'life boat' right next to where he crashed. Really, why not kill her? Assuming he knows she's the last one and that she doesn't stand a chance and having in mind he has to walk the whole way to the next ship anyway, has she and her kind really not done enough to that engineer (whatever it is) so he wouldn't want to kill her? Why did those guys get lost given that there was a map being constructed in the same time and the Prometheus had a constant radio-connection with the ship? Assuming these guys were idiots, which, faulty writing or not, they were (they did make me laugh as much as David did though), they tried to find their own way and on their own and (obviously) didn't want to admit they've been lost too early (maybe that could've added to the sillyness of them being afraid to join Shaw and Co in their ventures in the first place so they tried to be pros and failed). Eventually they asked Cap for help, there was a storm and Cap couldn't send in any vehicle. It wouldn't have made sense to orient them to the exit anyway too since they'd still need that vehicle. Why does the crew get briefed right before the mission starts? Because on one hand it saves time of filming scenes on earth, duh. On the other tho, it makes sense for it to not stay in the contract at all. From here on if we assume that Weyland couldn't have revealed what the mission exactly is about until everyone's on the spot, the only option would've been to just gather a crew with people desperate enough to sign a contract without really knowing what the mission is (which in a sci-fi space-venture filled future with terraforming and stuff kinda makes sense). This kind of explains the partially 'clumsy looking' crew too, although, if you think about it, the geologist and the biologist are the only ones that are sucky at their jobs. Cap saves the day, Shaw is usually extra careful, Holloway is a wild boy but he's passionate and sacrifices himself, Vickers protects the crew by killing Holly, those other two pilots join cap in saving the day, the scottish scientist is pretty adequate too and David is a saboteur. I know why the crew appears clumsy, it's because the movie doesn't spend too much time on letting you know how serious they're taking this whole thing through extreme professionallity (which it probably needed and works against the seriousness in most moments of the script) and then again it's not what people make it out to be. Why did Weyland have to pretend he was dead? I said that days ago. He was already presumed dead on earth. If you think about it you'll figure out a possible reason BUT LET ME DO IT FOR YOU (talking to everyone who asks questions like it's completely wrong for it not to be spelled out). In addition to the fact that everyone thought he was dead, he was left with a few hours/days of life. Wouldn't he want to be awaken only if he has to? Like, not to waste those last moments? K. Why did engineers create a star map back to their research facility? First of all, it's understandable that if they gave us life and possibly, later on, gave us knowledge on how to build pyramids, how complex land cultivation works, how math and astronomy work, it's perfectly normal to assume that, in the middle of an astronomy 'lecture/class' the teacher engineer showed where they come from. If that engineer comes from LV 223 at the time then it's perfectly normal for him to show the star configuration of that system. Ofc going through the film in the first beginning it seems like they've been inviting us in, so the complaint about the big "WHY" connected to the fact that LV 223 is a military site, it's normal that poeple complain but they overdo it. The idea is that it might not even be a 'this is where we are, visit us maybe?'. A primitive human mind of that era would've been overly impressed with what the engineers have been showing us at the time which is why they started depicting the star system in so many artifacts, but none of that guarantees it being an invitation in every/any sense. Moreover, if the engineers were being in some way afraid that we'd know their true homeplanet, it makes even more sense to show this one. Why did no one give a shit that Weyland was alive or that he died? Yes I have a problem with that too. I hope there's something in the deleted scenes. Otherwise we'll just have to live with it. Why didn't Vickers run to the side? Her death was embarassing, but then again Shaw did run to the side and she got smashed too. The script needed the ship to chase both of them and one of them to die and then make then endanger the other one too. This can't have happened if they both ran to the sides. So one of them needed to run in a straight line, prefferably the one that does get smashed, possibly due to (i wouldn't excuse the scene with it but that seems to be what they wanted) miscalculation of when the ship would actually stop crunching ground. It should be also added that they obviously wanted that kind of death because, sillier or not, it's more dramatic than say a big chunk of the ship landing on Vicky's ass. All in all you can choose how much value you put into the sillyness of that death, because given everything else that's well thought out in this movie (mainly the thematic burden of it) things like this are forgiveable. It was cheesy and bit silly, then again totally not unforgiveable. I don't know, I experienced my first serious earthquake a month ago and I barely knew what to do at that moment and afterwards I realized the whole thing might've looked silly. Imagine an alien spaceship rolling down on top of you. Why did the engineers want to destroy us when they created us? This question is the very proof that the people that did this video are either totally missing the point of how that's supposed to be the thing revealed in the sequel, or are just adding it to only further add to the comic relief they're trying to achieve by piling questions and not encouraging people to think for themselves. You know what, my head hurts, I think I proved my point. By answering these questions I either (at some places) agreed with some complaints, or i've completely proved those questions to be either answered or irrelevant, once the idea of 'you doing your own thinking' is established. I already made the Inception comparison and how even with tons of exposition you can't explain everything or avoid 'possible' plot holes. If that's so, really why take away from the mystery instead of adding to it? Is it cheap? In places yes. In others it's part of the magic of the space jockey.