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giulivo

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My take on Prometheus: 1) Visually stunning, impeccably directed and acted, "feels" very much like a Ridley Scott film, incredible 3D, CGI and non-CGI special effects, without it being simply a display of digital prowess. Full marks there. I have seen it on Imax3D and it's been a feast for the eyes. 2) As a prequel to Alien, it works; albeit very much in a Star Wars prequel kind of way (you've shown us what had happened before, we can see how it fits, but it doesn't make us any happier than not knowing). 3) As a story in its own right, it's fundamentally flawed. "Ancient astronaut" or "sentinel of the universe"; we'd seen that better executed in "2001: a space odissey", and we're not learning much that wasn't known from the (too many) teasers and trailers. Several characters do certain things and their motives are not explained. If it's a way to make people want to see the sequel (spoiler!), we've seen the technique in the 1960s Batman TV series; and frankly, I'd have thought Sir Ridley more professional than that. 4) In detail, the things that don't work for me (stop reading here if you don't want the spoilers); other forum members' opinion would be welcomed: a) Why does David do the things he does (to Holloway and Shaw)? What's his agenda? It does not seem to help towards Peter's agenda. So is it scientific interest? Does he see himself "taking over" Weyland Industries and does he want to pursue experiments at any cost? If he doesn't care about people (uses them as guinea pigs), then he wants to raise the bar of knowledge / science / commercial exploitation of the same for the benefit of... what??? And why do other crew members help him do that (say by putting Shaw into hybernation)? Are they also androids? b) Why the star map in the graffiti, pointing to a system that's not the engineers' home world in the first place? Is it kind of a "trap" version of the Space Odyssey moon beacon, "if you can read this map and come find us, you're too smart, and we'll destroy you"? c) Especially if that's the case, why were the Engineers going to destroy Earth 2000 years ago, when we definitely weren't challenging their scientific leadership? (OK, Sir Ridley wants us to watch Prometheus 2 to find out) d) Why, once they messed up that mission in the first place and they shot themselves in the foot (some Gods they are), did they not resume it over 2000 years? e) The sheer multitude of infestating / parasitic things (snake thing and what it does to the biologist, infectious blood that Fyfield gets and what it does to him, gooey thing in the urns that Holloway gets, giant squid, proto-Alien) is way too diverse; the biological lifecycle of the original Alien (director's cut) was perfect in its primitive simplicity.

Nuck Chorris
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June 18, 2012

I think thats the opinion of most viewers of the flick. but fortunatelly, the critic ratings on the internet are mostly well, so it will make enough $ so that there will a sequel. But if the sequel again is such a riddler shit with way to many open questions than they dont need to do a 3rd part... IMO... maybe question of taste..

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June 18, 2012

I shal try to atempt to answer these in my own understanding. A) all the synthetics had secret agendas that weren't 100% clear in all the alien movies, especially the first. B & C) I'm thinking there was some genetic flaws, evven though the DNA matched, you could see a physically different, maybe to small, to dark, not physically fit enough. D) I'm guessing that their race was dying aand they wanted to start a new one on Earth. By the time prometheus landed the race was long gone. I could be wrong though. E) I'm guessing these Aliens were engineered. But in their early stages they were still evolving. I personall like the spider/lung looking thing from alien as well, but I am thinking this is the reason. The full cycle hasn't been completely evolved yet.

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June 18, 2012

a) Maybe he is acting on behave of Weyland, Weyland wants to know what the Urns contain and what the stuff inside does when it comes into contact with a Human, i do not think he would have known it would lead to Shaw getting pregnant, uless Somehow he gained the full understanding of what the Goo does from reading the Engineers hieroglyphs. b)I dont know and maybe its unexplained.... one possibility would maybe be that the Engineers on LV 223 created mankind without the permission of the Engineers on the Home World, maybe they then tried to destroy us to hide all evidence of the creation they made because maybe by creating us without the consent of the Home World they was in essence stealing the Fire. I think this goes well with the plot because if the Home World Engineers know about Earth and also wanted us dead, then why had they not sent out a mission to LV 223 or indeed destroyed Earth themselves? c)Yes this could go with the above, as 2000 years ago we was no where near advanced to be able to find them. d)Again maybe points to my answer for b) that there was only one Engineer left who knew about mankind. e)My theory is that the Xeno was their Prime Weapon but it was hard to contain and store, it was a massive hazard holding Cargos of Eggs. Thus using the same method the Sacrificial Engineer dissolved his DNA into a form that can dissolve into water to create life, maybe they used same method to dissolve the Xenos DNA into a liquid form or form that can be mixed into liquid and then stored into Urns. Potentially the Engineers DNA may not only had created mankind, but other mammals and maybe other creatures on Earth, thus the broken down Alien DNA would have many more uses for creating many more kinds of Organism (especially when you see the unused original ideas for Fifeild and another Hybrid Humanoid).

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