[Movie] Prometheus - Page 34

One thing that I was confused about is the opening scene where the Engineer drinks the that thing and falls off the waterfall.

Was that on earth or on the planet, and what exactly was he doing? It seemed too late (If I remember correctly they said 2080s or something) to be them creating humans. Was that a signal to kill everyone on earth?

First problem: these people get onto a ship going to an unknown planet with a bunch of people they've never met before, for a guy they've never met, for reasons they haven't been told. who the fuck would ever sign on for that mission? That whole orientation scene in the beginning was just really lazy exposition. also them just jumping off the ship and acting like being on an alien planet is just another day at the office was ridiculous. taking off their helmets because five seconds ago the creepy android who obviously has his own agenda said that the air was breathable? c'mon, are these scientists or children?

"But they had scanners that told them there were no microbes!"

uh... they are looking for alien life. how the fuck do they know that one huff of breath from their filthy Earthling mouths with their filthy Earthling germs and diseases isn't going to completely destroy any potential alien species they meet? or did these scientists that spent trillions of dollars and years of their lives to come to find these aliens not even think about that? it takes a college dropout with an IQ just below 99 (me) to figure out that you should probably not just go pissing in the primordial ooze of another planet, but these master scientists can't figure that out?

Second problem: if you think about it, the "fact" that the aliens created humans had no purpose in the story. it was just thrown in there to... i don't know why. maybe to introduce some "deep questions" but they didn't really pursue any of those deep questions at all so i don't get why they didn't just make them aliens that were unrelated to humanity.

Third problem: the geologist guy is the one who made the fucking probes that make the map and he gets lost? wtf? not only that, but they are freaking out whenever anyone touches one of the alien bodies or jars, and when the captain tells them that he's picking up a life-form, they freak out and run away from it. but then they see a nasty, viper looking thing that is hissing and snapping at them and the BIOLOGIST decides that he's just gonna keep trying to pet it? i wouldn't pet a strange dog that was snapping and hissing at me, much less a NASTY looking alien creature that looks exactly like a fucking cobra. why were these two so effing retarded?

and did you notice that they made these two guys the 1) cowards who run away, 2) doubters who are constantly telling everyone to be more careful, 3) assholes to the main characters. so are we supposed to care when these guys die, or are we supposed to be happy? when are film writers and directors going to learn that if you make the guy a stereotypical douche who gets killed first, the audience is going to stop caring when that guy gets killed first. especially when he gets killed in the most ridiculous way ever. they should have had some balls and made these the only two survivors. that would have been unexpected.

also, everyone else on the ship is just like: "oh well, whatever. they're stuck in there and we're getting signs of alien life (the whole reason we are here)? dum de dum de dum, let's all go have sex!"

Fourth problem: this David android makes no sense at all. i get that he's testing this substance and the conversation with the guy "i would do anything and everything" means to him that he should do the same, but that still makes no sense. this old guy is on board, right, and wants to get immortality from these engineers? so why would he program his personal android to bring a potentially deadly substance on the ship and then spread it around? how the fck does the android know that he's not condemning everyone on the ship to death by microbe by even touching the thing? stupid! and that one chick said in the beginning:

"you don't make contact, you don't bring anything back, you do nothing but report to me"

but then she is completely fine with that girl bringing a friggin alien head on the ship? wut? and they are operating on it with no masks... omg i want to puke at how stupid that is. that would be like a forensic scientist taking a huge shit on the dead body before he carefully places his own sperm all over it and then carefully destroys any possible DNA from the actual killer...

Fifth problem: the old guy being on the ship was obvious and unnecessary. his character was unnecessary to the plot. in fact, his whole storyline should have been cut along with the "we come from alien engineering" storyline. they should have cut his plot line and character and spent more time developing the android, because he desperately needed it.

Sixth problem: this chick knocks over these two people, and then goes into the surgery compartment thing, which is built for that old guy, and rips an alien baby out of her own stomach, and no one even bats an eye or mentions it ever again. they don't even react to it, or clean up the surgery thing which is the whole point of them being there: the old guy wants immortality. why would he not even wonder about wether his surgery thing is contaminated now, or has a thirteen foot long alien baby thing inside of it? this was both the best and worst part about this movie. the scene with her in the surgery thing was intense, disgusting, and perfect in every way. everything after was awful. she just walks in and i think they literally have someone just nod at her in acknowledgement. she's covered in blood with huge stitches across her stomach and they are just like "oh, you wanted to come along to? suit up then, girl!"

Seventh problem: this alien thing just rofl-stomps them, which leads me to two problems: 1) no one is going to spend over a trillion dollars on bringing a crew of people across the galaxy and not have some kind of security team to protect their assets and crew. 2) they know that something catastrophic went down, they know that these aliens are not necessarily nice or kind, and yet they bring no weapons, and act as though its a total surprise that the alien is hostile.

Eight problem: the entire scene where she barely escapes from the ship before it crashes into the other ship? useless because two seconds later she gets crushed in the stupidest way possible. such a crappy and lazy ending for a character that was interesting despite every attempt to make her as generic and cliched as possible. the horrible thing is that the other girl gets away by rolling once, and then by falling next to a tiny rock that somehow stops the trillion-ton ship from crushing her. it takes her all of two seconds to wiggle out from underneath it. ugh...

Ninth problem: the whole point of the alien movies always seemed to me to be the overriding fear that someone would get cocky and bring the aliens to Earth. the idea is that no matter how good or careful, you can't control the aliens, so bringing them to Earth would basically be the death of humanity. so these people are always trying to survive in some hostile situation where they are stuck, but the other fear is the idea that if they do escape and go home they might bring back the aliens with them. this story had none of that. for one, the aliens never even showed up until the end, for another, she isn't even going toward Earth. she's going toward their home planet.

these weren't the only problems, but they were the biggest ones, in my opinion. i liked the movie, it was enjoyable, but it was also as generic a sci-fi/horror as you could possibly get. every single character in it was an archetype of Alien movies, from the creepy android to the corporate exec. with unclear motives. it started asking "big questions" but never finished them, or even made the slightest bit of effort to answer them. the character's motivations were not only unclear but contradictory, the situations they found themselves in were ridiculous (the scene with the guy who turns into super-zombie was so bad), and you could predict every new plot development before you even walked into the theater. just list out every sci-fi cliche you can think of and you're ninety-percent likely to have laid out the basic story for Prometheus.

i love Ridley Scott, but this movie was a big disappointment