Brain not good work coffee enough maybe perhaps.

Yes, it was the very last scene. Actually, the vid you posted looks sort of rough, like it has unfinished makeup and special effects.

No worries KC Fish. As for the second mouth/thing/wtf, it is different than the original Alien. Additionally, it has human teeth. Other than that, idk what the thing is shooting out of its mouth. Second human mouth?

Thanks. I guess I was a lot more inebriated than I thought when I initially watched it..... :D

It looked to me like a xenomorph ancestor so to speak. A less evolved version of what we see in the Alien movies.

Either ancestor or different strain from the jars/vases.

Or the same, because aliens always look different from what they chestburst from. Predaliens from predators. Maybe that octopus was a giant face hugger?

^^^Pretty sure that is what it was.

I saw Prometheus in the theater, and was thoroughly unimpressed. I decided to pick it up on blue-ray to give it another chance. I even watched Alien from the blue ray quadrology, which I highly recommend.

After watching Promo for a second time, I'm convinced that this is not a prequel to Alien.. and to go one step further, its best to watch this movie not knowing ANYTHING about the original Alien.

In original Alien the Jockey thing was straight up attached to the chair, and had a elephant trunk looking bone from its nose/mouth. Not a damn mask/helmet like Prometheus. Not to mention the helmet in promo has eye holes on the side of the helmet.. how can the jockeys see out if there eyes are in the front, not sides.

Straight garbage Ridley.

Finally got around to this on dvd and yeah, totally unimpressed... the effects of course were outstanding, but sadly they were the highlight of the whole affair.

I hated the characters & their dialogue, most of which was horrible... so this trillion dollar corporation just sent up a bunch of slapdicks that didnt know each other & act like a bunch of ****in tourists? they were acting like the people from jurassic park or something, just terrible characters & dialogue, too much of it also seemed like a straight up rehash of Aliens. The scene where they roll out of the ship for the first time, lol, they just take off at 50mph like some kind of race... he really did a shit job of portraying these people as credible scientists & the like.

The alien astronauts? wtf? i dont even know where to begin, none of it made any sense at all, nor was it explained, so i wont try to do it either. So yeah its some kind of weaponized crap they made, for what purpose & motive only ridley knows... he also really aped 2001 in several scenes, trying to evoke the same mood with certain shots & music.

This movie sucked balls, right up there with gigantomongous & profoundly empty Avatar, all cool effects & nothing else. I was really expecting some kind of deep meaning to it all, cutting edge, thought provoking sci-fi... boy was i in for a surprise, sooo glad i didnt waste $8 plus snacks on this piece of junk. Ridley Scott should be ashamed, probably his worst movie ever.

I personally loved the movie...but to each his own...maybe this helps you understand??

http://io9.com/5919306/another-theor...-of-prometheus

I loved it, too. Sure it had stupid parts to it - IT'S A HORROR MOVIE. If everybody in a horror movie was smart, nobody would die.

I'll pick up the blu-ray at some point and look forward to the next one.

And I hated Avatar.

Funny. I thought the highlight of the whole affair were the scenes in which Noomi Rapace and Charlize Theron wore mummy-wraps as bikinis.

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Thanks munkey, thats a solid list of possible explanations, it made more sense out of it than i could for myself.

But potential meanings of the story aside, i still hated the characters, they just didnt have any depth imo... "we're on this far distant planet, about to discover mankinds origins and we're going to act like a bunch of petulant, shallow morons"... it just wasnt what i expected from a carefully chosen group of experts, not to mention the huge ship itself, replete with crystal chandeliers & staterooms that would be the envy of Donald Trumps highrise apartment, maybe 80 years from now a breakthrough making that possible happens, but its hard to fathom.

Anyway, i appreciate that article, it really does help.

Yeah, he had to have a nod to the old films with some nice shots of hotties in white linen.

Lee Loo

http://www.alicia-logic.com/capsimag...eLooAwaken.jpg

Fwiw, I really liked it. :shrug:

Did you see Avatar in real IMAX 3D? Because that was the best amusement park ride of my life.

This really sounds a cluster****.

I hate Damon Lindelof after he ****ing wasted years of my life with that piece of shit "Lost".

I just hope he doesn't **** up Star Trek but odds are that he will.

Mmmmm Charlize :drool:

I enjoyed the movie quite a bit. Finally got to see it the other day.

Um, you posting from the past?

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The 5th element doesn't suck. As long as you're not expecting a totally serious masterpiece. I liked it. And Mila Jowhateverthe****hernameis. Is hot as shit.

MUL-TEE-PASS

SHE KNOWS IT'S A MULTIPASS!!!

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http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=98277

Hey, Dane. You can rest a little easier tonight.

When asked by Collider if he [Damon Lindelof] would be writing the script, he said: "I am not. Ridley [Scott] and I talked at great length during the story process of the first movie about what subsequent movies would be if Prometheus were to be successful. And I think that the movie ended in a very specific way that hinted at, or strongly implied that there were going to be continuing adventures worthy of writing stories. What those stories would be would not necessarily usurp or transcend the Alien franchise as we saw it because we know that the Nostromo hasn’t come along yet. So the idea was to set up a universe that… Is it a prequel? Okay. If that’s what we want to call it, sure. But the sequel to this movie is not Alien. The sequel to this movie is this other thing.

"The thing about Prometheus was it was a rewrite. Jon Spaihts wrote a script and I rewrote it. And still it was a year of my life that I spent on Prometheus, kind of all in. The idea of building a sequel to it—from the ground up this time—with Ridley is tremendously exciting. But at the same time, I was like, 'Well that’s probably going to be two years of my life.' I can’t do what J.J. [Abrams] does. I don’t have the capability. I’m usually very single-minded creatively. I can only be working on one thing at a time. So I said to him, 'I really don’t think I could start working on this movie until I do this other stuff. And I don’t know when the other stuff is going to be done.' And he was like, 'Well, okay, it’s not like I asked you anyways.' He and I are on excellent terms and it was a dream come true to work with him. But much to the delight of all the fanboys, I don’t see myself being involved in Prometheus-er."

NO SHIT

i love chiefsplanet. if a movie isn't the greatest piece of art ever created, its crap. watched this a couple times, and it isn't terrible like some of you think. i agree, there's no explanation for why they created humans, then tried to destroy them, but i think the sequel will do a better job tying it all together. this movie was entertaining, and not a bad place to start if you are creating a trilogy.

I thought it was great. I saw it twice in the theater and bought the blu-ray as soon as it came out. In fact, I'm watching it right now because one of my friends is here and had previously only seen it on a plane.

Is it flawed? Sure. Are there some stupid characters? Sure. It's a horror movie - if there weren't stupid characters in a horror movie doing stupid things, nobody would ever die.

Yes, it is a prequel. I feel confident saying that since we saw a facehugger implant an alien into a body of an Engineer, then watched it burst out of the Engineer's chest, JUST LIKE IN ALIEN.

If it isn't a prequel, it would make as much sense as Spock whipping out a lightsaber to fight Gary Mitchell/Khan/Whoever in the new Star Trek movie coming out.

Funny



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OK movie not the best of Scótt's though!

Uhh, yeah there is.

F**k this movie

Omg. What if humans were one of the first canisters. Maybe thats why predators hunt us and aliens.

Prometheus was not intended to be first entry in a new trilogy and Damon Lindelof has said so himself. Furthermore, he's off the project and if there is a sequel, there's no writer and no concept.

The movie was crap.

I liked it when i first saw it on the huge screen, etc.....but then it just didnt make any sense the more i thought about it.

I was immediately pissed once the stupid shit started happening on screen. To the point I wanted to walk out. It is just a big pile of shit. Horrible writing.

It was all right if your expectations weren't that high (and by the time I watched it last fall, mine weren't). The concept was interesting, Fassbender's character/acting was interesting. Is that enough to make a good movie? Probably not.

As soon as the biologist had no interest in the biology I was done. There were more turds before that giant pile of shit, but that did it for me.

He was a geologist.


Watched it today. Good time wasting movie. Nothing more.


My favorite scene in the movie is that they apparently had no idea what their mission was, what their ranking was, and that one of them was a robot until 4 years after they started flying to the planet.

I think he's referring to when the biologist flipped out at the engineer corpse.

Yeah. It just really pissed me off/annoyed me.

I actually liked the movie, the problem was it was completely different than what I felt it was being built up to be.
That could be 100% the fault of the marketers, trying to tie it into to Alien

I left the theater a little disappointed; but I admit that is most likely due to my expectation for "Alien" stuff

Definitely not boring that is for sure

Oh.


Thought he was talking talking about the guys who were so chicken shit they wanted to leave and then 10 minutes later were trying to pet a mutant snake.

The movie was pure eye candy, but the story was disjointed as hell. Could have potentially been a bad ass movie, but just didn't get there.

I watched this last night and enjoyed it. Here's my theory:


The Engineer at the beginning is terraforming Earth. The problem is that the sacrificial drink that he uses to terraform earth is contaminated with the black mutagen (which he doesn't realize, hence his look of surprise when it works differently than he expected). The spaceship goes ahead and leaves because it doesn't realize that anything has gone awry.

Meanwhile, The Engineers back on the moon base have now realized there is a contamination outbreak that's out of control (thus the fleeing holograms and massive graves). The mutagen takes over the facility and corrupts all the "normal" material in the storage areas except for the ones in the actual ship (which are arranged differently and don't appear to have the leaking/condesnation issues).

The surviving engineers on the moon go into survival mode, trying to figure out if any of the contaminated mutagen had escaped the planet. The whole holographic scene where they're scanning the universe with 5 of them and find Earth shows them where it escaped to. What I don't understand is why they wouldn't launch an attack no Earth at this point. Maybe they're trying to clean up the contamination on the moon first? Anyway, moving on.

What this means is that humans are actually a result of the mutated/corrupted DNA (similar to an Alien). This is why the Engineer reacts so strongly to them when they wake him. It's not that he hates his creations, it's that humans are a corrupted version of that creation because we were created from a terrafarmer who accidentally used the mutated DNA to create us. I also like this because it explains humans resilience and destructive nature (after all, we end up beating the Aliens, right?). The mutagen just "weaponized" us differently and more subtly than the other creations.

Anyway, I read other explanations after I went to bed last night which also make sense, but I kind of like mine as an alternative way of looking at it.

Here are the answers to your questions if you have a spare 28 minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpEx7pdp2-Q#t=21

NewChief's post is why I like the movie. It makes you think.

NewChiefs explanation is as good or better than any other I've ever heard.

It was a gorgeous looking movie, but still could've been so much more IMO.

Sounds real

This movie still disappoints me. It could have been so much better. The characters were shallow attempts at best. Ripley is such an amazing character in the original series. It felt like watching Lost, where there ultimately was no coherent attempt at anything real. Just the creation of strange occurrences to initiate speculation to questions that could not be logically answered (especially with the minor amount of detail given to the audience).

It was also a complete waste of Idris Elba, which is a terrible sin in and of itself.

For any faults the movie did have, I am seriously hoping Scott gets around to the sequel that picks up when she escaped on the ship.

I'm still genuinely interested in him exploring the whole Architect plot line.

It's still absolutely visually stunning, and the concept is strong- it just needed to be tightened up on some the of the loose ends, and some of those gaps could have been purposely left to explore in future films.

I think they'd do better cutting ties with the guys involved with Lost , Damon and Co.

So did the Engineers on home planet say "screw it" when they learned the moon base mission was ****ed? No attempt to nuke earth from space thereafter?

And how did Prometheus' captain even think to bring along a mini christmas tree along for the ride?

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Overall a good flick compared to all the other garbage.

it's an AWESOME movie
underrated

Just watched this movie, and it wasn't bad.

The story/premise is off the charts good, but parts of the movie caused me to facepalm so hard that I feared collapsing my skull.