The Official Prometheus (Alien Prequel) Thread
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Just got back from seeing, it started off so good and then dwindled into plot holes ville
Another film that could have been great but just want for stupid reasons
Another film that could have been great but just want for stupid reasons
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Just got back,excellent film IMO and worthy of being under the same name as the others. Mrs also liked which was a bonus.
Some great scenes in this film , the main one being the surgery!
I don't understand some of the critism though, to me most of it made sense and it definitely bridged the alien film well.
Sfx were outstanding, good characterisation and an interesting plot - will be picking this up on bd for sure and look forward to a possible continuation of the story.
We should be embracing that this film even got the go ahead, not chastising it bc for once it's an alien film tha doesn't follow the repetitive formula of 1-4
Some great scenes in this film , the main one being the surgery!
I don't understand some of the critism though, to me most of it made sense and it definitely bridged the alien film well.
Sfx were outstanding, good characterisation and an interesting plot - will be picking this up on bd for sure and look forward to a possible continuation of the story.
We should be embracing that this film even got the go ahead, not chastising it bc for once it's an alien film tha doesn't follow the repetitive formula of 1-4
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Soldato
In what way?
They weren't experimenting were they? It was an arms dump.
The stuffs got to be made somewhere, there could have been contimination in some form at the factory or lab, that planet might be the ONLY planet where the ships were based and The ship that crashed into LV426 might of crashed thousands of years ago, taking off just after the outbreak on LV233.
The engineers might even of been wiped out by a ship flying back from LV233.
Given more than 2 minutes we could could tie all these ends up.
Soldato
Not rocket science is it? The ship, how the aliens came to be, how the corporation became so obsessed with the planet and what was on it etc.
Not difficult to understand any aspect of that after seeing the film, it doesn't demand a thesis.
but it doesn't really do any of those things.
Soldato
Hmm... But it's not that ship, not those aliens, not how THE aliens came to be, not that corporation and it wasn't that planet, THE corporation became so obsessed with.
the more i think about it, it was a real, cobbled together mess. it seems to me that it was made purely to cash in and boost interest in part 2.
i get the evolution side of things but the other stuff; the b list actors, the way some of them died, mutated etc and the 'engineers', whatever it was, were, quite frankly poor.
the alien 'connection' why flirt with it so badly?
the droid, weyland, his cut throat daughter, the operation? nonsense
i get the evolution side of things but the other stuff; the b list actors, the way some of them died, mutated etc and the 'engineers', whatever it was, were, quite frankly poor.
the alien 'connection' why flirt with it so badly?
the droid, weyland, his cut throat daughter, the operation? nonsense
Try as I might, I can't follow what you've just written there.
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I think he means the film need some loose ends tieing up as the ship in alien is on LV426 not LV233 - so in effect this not an alien prequel and scott has already expressed another film will be needed to tie the two together.
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well I am lead to believe it was - there was far to much imagery/similarities in the movie between this and Alien that it would pretty hard to believe other wise. Yeh i get some of the Alein geekoids are upset that certain bits have been changed (like the corp logo) or its not the same planet at the time but to me this is a question that will be solved in the sequel or if anything the end scene ship is the one later found. or some ****...ok now im confused. haha
anyway good film
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Erm... The entire film is about LV 233 an arms facility the engineers built to house their WMD.
Alien/s revolves around LV426, a planet on which an Engineer ship which crashed. Completely different stories, only link being the engineer and the WMD(alien base level).
Most people are ****ed because basically, it's a similar situation, yet it's not THE situation that lead to LV426, they could easily have had the film end with the Engineer, tussling with the squid after have it's tentacle down his throat, then he gets in another ship, flies off with the intention to destroy earth. But on his way he goes into shock from the alien hatching, crashes ship into planet, planet is LV426. Alien hatches,it's a queen, queen lays eggs in ship, but without any life forms to continue from, she dies, eggs stay in preserved hibernation til Ripleys crew find them... There is your simple connection, yet they didn't...
Weyland Corp and Weyland-Yutani, are people really saying that's a change? Clearly Weyland Corp and Yutani Corp merge in the future.
The film was pretty good I thought, except the whole cesarean thing. Particularly the fact that there is no reaction to it and it's never mentioned again
Really? No wonder people didn't like the film if they missed the main point of the story.
The black stuff was a biological weapon the Engineers made to wipe out humanity. It escaped and killed them all before they could do it. Hence the last surviving one trying to finish off the job at the end.
other than earth being in the sat nav what else is there to make the humans think the aliens are going to kill everyone on earth
also why assume its a weapon, maybe they found it, maybe its somethign else... if you go stomping round chernobyl and take back shiny things for your friends you and they will probably die...
me thinks there is a lot of material thats on the cutting room floor...
Soldato
They were wiping out a mistake, an abomination. Did you not watch the film?
Engineer suicides in a ritualistic fashion on a planet with no intelligent life, one strand of DNA survives in the water, from this strand of DNA we evolve (As is our supposed actual creation). Years later they realise that we exist, and are going to get rid of us, as we in there eyes are blasphemous, unwanted creations, did you not understand why the Engineer flipped out when David started talking, he was offended by the presence of them.
The biological weapon wasn't just for us, it is their way of extinguishing life, it adapts to the environment it is placed and eradicates all other life. Saves the engineers getting their hands dirty.
The engineers are biologists in a lab, but instead of being a room, it's the universe and instead of having petri dishes they use planets.
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I think the start of the film makes it clear that the planet was completely devoid of any life altogether.
We just don't know what David actually says to the engineer. The scene when they open the door has a massive scripture on the wall that David reads, but doesn't tell anyone what it says, he just goes straight ahead and opens the door. He seemed hell bent on finding out what it did by infecting Holloway, but also then trying to take it back to Earth in Shaw.
Who's to say that they seeded the planet to use as a bio-weapons testing ground but when humans evolved in their own image they decided to leave them be.
We just don't know what David actually says to the engineer. The scene when they open the door has a massive scripture on the wall that David reads, but doesn't tell anyone what it says, he just goes straight ahead and opens the door. He seemed hell bent on finding out what it did by infecting Holloway, but also then trying to take it back to Earth in Shaw.
Who's to say that they seeded the planet to use as a bio-weapons testing ground but when humans evolved in their own image they decided to leave them be.