...and even better third time!

I agree, this is an amazing movie! I saw it for the second time today :)

[quote]There's something about this film that makes it compelling viewing.[/quote] 3D? creatures? sadistic universe feeling?

Yes, I just saw it a third time over the weekend.. Everytime I go, I take someone new.. and I always notice a few new things..

You guys must be rich to throw your money away lol

Totally agree, ive seen it 4 times...and maybe one more time would be a good idea.

3 times here - I agree. My wife and i were looking around the actors at the rest of the screen trying to spot new things. I'd love to go again. For once I'm happy to throw lots of money at some major corporation bunch of bastards if I'm getting something great - and great value for money. I could go to see some band play for 50 or 100 euros or more - for a 2 hour show (if that). I can assure you that 3 viewings of Prometheus for 9 euros a pop was well worth it. Money very well spent, especially considering that it: A. Not only entertained me, but lived on in my imagination for weeks afterwards B. Got better every time.

[u]thebaron[/u]: I've seen the film 4 times and during the 4th viewing I caught something new about Fifield, something that also relates to Charlie's habit of drinking alcohol to excess. In the film there's a quick shot that shows that Fifield is the last member of the landing crew who enters the domed "pyramid". Before he does so he pauses and looks back at the daylight with an anxious look on his face. Consider that scene and the consider that there are only 2 scenes in the film in which Fifield is not anti-social or anxiety ridden. The first is when he shows off and releases his "pups". The second is when he is smoking up after he and Milburn return to the black goo chamber. When you consider those facts and also consider that leading up to his freak out the crew had just seen the "video" of the fleeing Engineer's and then found the headless body of one the Engineers then Fifield's freak out is actually totally in character and comprehendable. Think about it: is Fifield's reaction that different from the scene in "Aliens" when Hudson famously said "Game over, man. Game over."? The context for their respective freak outs were very different in terms of one the being in the midst of a battle scene. However, if you were an anxiety ridden, anti-social, self-medicating civilian scientist in Fifield's situation how much would it take to freak you out? Regarding Charlie, there's a shot that takes place during the "autopsy" scene in which Shaw looks over at Charlie, who is drinking from a large bottle of what seems to be alcohol. During my third viewing of the film it struck me that in Charlie's drinking we are seeing something that Shaw's character has lived with during her relationship with Charlie, namely his substance abuse issues. Some people have complained about some of the characters in "Prometheus" acting unusually or "out of character" once they land on LV-426. However, I'd posit that in Fifield and Charlie's respective "atypical" behavioral patterns on LV-426 we are seeing the actions of characters who before they signed up for "Project Prometheus" were risk taking, self-medicating individuals who were bold enough to be willing to be strapped into an interstellar starship that was going to points unknown. I'm not sure if you are familiar with the Burning Man "festival" but I'm a burner and I've spent plenty of time at BM with MENSA members. Abnormal human psychology, genius and substance use/abuse are not mutually exclusive and I've been around plenty of boy and girl geniuses who self-medicate.

positive: david, U-ship design, space jockey (SJ), SJ chair, SJ caves, trilobyte negative: christianity, they behave as children, some illogical things

@synthetic_69 Yes, you're right. Fifield clearly has a bad case of Aseperger's Syndrome. I know someone who behaves a lot like him, and he is prone to outbursts - despite being very clever.

[u]zz[/u]: You hit upon one of my personal passions, which is the study of human psychology. The autistic spectrum is a broad and nuanced thing and various forms/aspects of autism often present themselves in people who are exceptionally talented in the arts, sciences or study of the law. However, for reasons related to the social stigmas associated with various atypical psychological conditions I'm hesitant to offer up a term such as Asperger's in connection with Fifield's behavior. That said, I've met more than a few people who have been gifted with powerful brains and who also have empathy defects, a fact that can make it difficult for them to respond to situations that likely would not vex someone who does not have empathy issues. Here's a link to an interesting article from the NY Times that discusses Asperger's Syndrome. [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/us/navigating-love-and-autism.html]http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/us/navigating-love-and-autism.html[/url] Back to the film, I keep wondering if many of the people who are frustrated with the film would have felt differently if the film had been longer and had given more room for the viewers to be further introduced to some of the characters in the film. Would the smallest of additional scenes/footage involving Janek, Fifield or Milburn have helped certain viewers feel less displeased with certain characters or some of their actions? That said, there's a thin line between character development and a bloated film/script.