Prometheus - Ridley Scott's 'Alien Prequel' (or not)...

[hedgefinder]

i think the largest jump of belief was arriving at the exact destination on a huge planet and immediately flying over an alien installation, no survey from orbit, nothing..
The rest of the movie is, as others have said a bit of a mess, and if it wasnt just badly edited then it was simply badly written.

[Pesty]

The Beaver King said:

• Why the ancient drawings on Earth would direct you to an alien military installation?

It's just occured to me. With regards to the engineers going to destroy Earth and the reasoning behind it, could it be possible the engineers purposely left markings on Earth that lead to the planet so that once humanity reached the techological level required to get there, it was time to 'sterilise the petri dish'?

Assuming it was all just an 'because we can' experiment, they wouldn't want humanity evolving too far that they lost control so they set it all up and used reaching the planet as a benchmark to judge when it was time to kill humanity before it went too far?

Another theory anyway....

What did you join the army for navigator to fight sir.

well good news and bad news.

good news you may well get to deliver a WMD

great whats the bad news

well you have to be there for 2 million years on a rock in the middle of nowhere just in case an experiment evolves enough that we need to destroy them

but sir what if they never evolve that far?

[DrTre]

It's a beautiful looking and fantastically realised crock of appallingly written st is what it is.

[JonRB]

hedgefinder said:

i think the largest jump of belief was arriving at the exact destination on a huge planet and immediately flying over an alien installation, no survey from orbit, nothing..
The rest of the movie is, as others have said a bit of a mess, and if it wasnt just badly edited then it was simply badly written.

On that point, an extra 2 mins would have solved that. Just show the Prometheus in orbit with David scanning the surface, and *then* have him wake the crew.

[rhinochopig]

JonRB said:

hedgefinder said:

i think the largest jump of belief was arriving at the exact destination on a huge planet and immediately flying over an alien installation, no survey from orbit, nothing..
The rest of the movie is, as others have said a bit of a mess, and if it wasnt just badly edited then it was simply badly written.

On that point, an extra 2 mins would have solved that. Just show the Prometheus in orbit with David scanning the surface, and *then* have him wake the crew.

Whilst he was doing that he could have created a better plot and script too.

[slartibartfast]

The Beaver King said:

• What David said to the engineer to cause it to attack?

My thoughts are that the engineer realized that David was synthetic and that we had come to such an advanced stage of evolution that WE are now the gods!....and he didn't like the idea of this.

[KaraK]

The Beaver King said:

• What David said to the engineer to cause it to attack?

That answer and more covered here

[slartibartfast]

KaraK said:

The Beaver King said:

• What David said to the engineer to cause it to attack?

That answer and more covered here

funny as fk

[Johnny]

slartibartfast said:

KaraK said:

The Beaver King said:

• What David said to the engineer to cause it to attack?

That answer and more covered here

funny as fk

Thats's fking quality

[DamienB]

This one's much, much better...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFYmv6t_Xyg

[JonRB]

KaraK said:

That answer and more covered here

Usually HISHE is brilliant, but that one seemed a little weak.

[KaraK]

JonRB said:

KaraK said:

That answer and more covered here

Usually HISHE is brilliant, but that one seemed a little weak.

Agreed it's not their best it just seemed pertinent

If you haven't seen it yet the Terminator one is fantastic

[Pesty]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3BV2u8YWps&fea...

[JonRB]

KaraK said:

If you haven't seen it yet the Terminator one is fantastic

Oh yes totally. That one is brilliant. As is the Iron Man one when he is talking to Superman and Batman in the diner.

[im]

DamienB said:

This one's much, much better...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFYmv6t_Xyg

Didn't I post that weeks ago???

[Halb]

JonRB said:

Oh yes totally. That one is brilliant. As is the Iron Man one when he is talking to Superman and Batman in the diner.

I'm Batman!

[im]

Blu-ray and DVD have an alternate beginning and alternate ending included.

[davepoth]

im said:

Blu-ray and DVD have an alternate beginning and alternate ending included.

No alternate middle though?

[im]

davepoth said:

im said:

Blu-ray and DVD have an alternate beginning and alternate ending included.

No alternate middle though?

A good point, well made.

[NDA]

davepoth said:

No alternate middle though?

Bad man...