[Movie] Prometheus - Page 37

On June 11 2012 08:47 Rakanishu2 wrote:


No, I haven't read a book that required me to read an article to explain all the plot holes. Please, share with me some of the books you have been reading.

Yes, movies and books should make you think. But they shouldn't make me think "This is stupid."

On June 11 2012 12:55 xeo1 wrote:
if you want to understand the movie, read:

http://cavalorn.livejournal.com/584135.html

On June 11 2012 09:06 Belisarius wrote:


lol, exactly.

I'm all for a movie that gets richer when you walk away and think of it. That box contains some of the greatest movies ever made. The thing about those movies is that you also think they're excellent movies from the moment you walk out of the cinema, because the story and the resolution satisfied you right at that moment, and then appears even stronger later on.

Prometheus doesn't do that. Prometheus relies completely on each viewer conducting a great battle between fridge-logic and fridge-brilliance (or sequels, or reading some dude's blog) before it starts to hang together at all. That's not good storytelling, no matter how justified it might later appear.

On June 11 2012 05:32 deepfield1 wrote:

Great film. Yes it had some plot holes and questional character actions, but that is pretty standard in film.

If you hated this movie, you aren't a fan of sci-fi.

On June 11 2012 13:16 Zooper31 wrote:

As stated several hundred times, it's a prequel to Alien. And theres more movies to come (all being prequel to Alien). Hopefully the last leading up Alien itself where everything goes full circle.

Was originally conceived as a prequel to Ridley Scott's Alien, but Scott announced his decision to turn it into an original film with Noomi Rapace (who was already set to star) still in the cast as one of five main characters. Some time later it was confirmed that while the movie would take place in the same universe as Alien and greatly reference that movie, it would mostly be an original movie and not a direct prequel.

On June 11 2012 17:47 Fourn wrote:
Wow

I guess I'm just really smart since I was able to understand what was going on during the movie.

Did you guys even get that the worm face hugger (the one that breaks the botanist's arm and turns him into a zombie) came from the earthworms you saw being mixed with the black goo? Because that was simple enough to understand.

You also don't need to read an article to understand what the engineer was doing at the beginning of the movie. It's left up to your interpretation since it isn't blatantly explained to those of you who lack thinking skills, but the obvious/correct answer is that he is creating life, not accidentally/stupidly drinking something he shouldn't be drinking as someone foolishly suggested.

On June 11 2012 18:22 snarl wrote:

Ok, so what were the Engineers running from? and why did they create us and then design biological weapons to wipe us out?

On June 11 2012 18:22 snarl wrote:

Ok, so what were the Engineers running from? and why did they create us and then design biological weapons to wipe us out?

This was taken from a comment I saw on another site, and I did a little research and everything seems to check out! :

To give some historical/mythological background that may shed some light, Ridley stated the SJ culture was based on Persian Myths. This would be Sumerian/Akkadian/Hindu. This is all taken from the Atra Hasis.

Creators - "G"ods- Annunaki - Dragon Humanoids (Naga, Dragon Kings,)

Helpers - "g"ods - Igigi - Engineers. (Android like living beings....BIOmechanical humanoid. Key features- Pale skin and large black eyes. Also known as watchers, Grigori, and Archons) (in many summerian texts they are actually referred to as "Pilots". Pretty much the Annunaki Air Force.)

When the Annunaki began terraforming the earth, they had the Igigi do the work for them. After a few thousand years the Igigi revolted and went on strike. The Annunaki then decided to create humans to do the work for them.

They sacrificed one of the rebel Igigi named Geshtu to use his blood and dna to make human beings, by mixing it with elements native to the earth.

(In the movie, this can be explained by the the different oval spaceship at the beginning representing the spaceship of the Annunaki)

(It can also be explained by the concept art that leaked from the official book this week)

(According to wikipedia it also says this about the Igigi: "Though sometimes synonymous with the term "Annunaki," in one myth the Igigi were the younger gods who were servants of the Annunaki, until they rebelled and were replaced by the creation of humans." This is reflectled exactly in the concept art below!)



Even though the humans were created and did the work, 1/3 of the Igigi still werent satisfied and sought revenge for Geshtu, so they rebelled again against the Annunaki Lords and began breeding/mixing with the human females creating Nephelim. This is what sparked the Prime Lord Enlil to flood the earth. Some humans were saved by Enki, the Lord responsible for the sacrifice of Geshtu and the creation of humans. Enlil and the rest of the annunaki decide to return home and let the humans develop on their own. Enki and his family stay behind. The Igigi are forced to leave earth as well. The remaining rebel Igigi are imprisoned on a planet on the way back to the homeworld and it is said as punishment and as a mark they are altered into a demonic appearance, no longer retaining the Angelic appearance.

Enki and his crew are probably the ones leaving the maps for humans to find, along with the ones helping humans advance throughout time.

The sacrfice engineer is Geshtu

The lone engineer is most likely Marduk or a servant/worshipper of Marduk.

The xeno is Mushussu, a creature Marduk fashioned and used as his pet.

The "Engineers" we see are trying to destroy Earth are of the Igigi rebels who view earth as their own. They have always despised humans because the Annunaki saw us as more in their likeness than them. IT's possible that the Igigi have long since destroyed or taken over the annunaki and the homeworld, and Earth was like going to claim the prize or spoils.

They mustve used to the Xeno's to win this war and through its perfection it has began to destroy and infect the Igigi who manufacture and transport it, creating more Mushussu.

the xeno in Alien is most likely an older pilot igigi birthed Mushussu egg crossed with human or a future Annunaki birthed one which would explain the size difference in hosts.

It is mentioned in several lesser stories that Marduk created the Mushussu out of using the essence of the Gods' (Annunaki) he killed as a symbol of his conquering and being able to control them... ie the mural.

On June 11 2012 18:30 Fourn wrote:


They were running from xenomorphs or some other abomination created from the black goo. There was clearly some form of xenomorph as shown by the space jockeys with their chests bursted.

They created us for the same reason that humans create androids. Because they could. They didn't need a reason. We were there experiment/playthings and they were done watching over us so they were going to dispose of us. It is also my own personal belief that they might have feared we would acquire the technology to find them and possibly harm them. Try to recally some of the conversations between Shaw, David, and Halloway. It is explained/inferred through those.

They didn't create the black goo to kill us. The goo can be used to create life when mixed with the DNA of a the space jockeys. When mixed with a form of life that has already been created by the goo it turns into an abomination or kills it. For example, Halloway getting sick , Shaw's "baby", and the earth worms turning into the worm-like facehuggers.

They were going to use the black goo on the ships to wipe out life on earth (either by killing everyone or creating creatures to kill everyone), but something went wrong and all the Spacejockeys on the ship (except the one's sealed in cryo) were killed.

On June 11 2012 17:47 Fourn wrote:
Wow

I guess I'm just really smart since I was able to understand what was going on during the movie.

Did you guys even get that the worm face hugger (the one that breaks the botanist's arm and turns him into a zombie) came from the earthworms you saw being mixed with the black goo? Because that was simple enough to understand.

You also don't need to read an article to understand what the engineer was doing at the beginning of the movie. It's left up to your interpretation since it isn't blatantly explained to those of you who lack thinking skills, but the obvious/correct answer is that he is creating life, not accidentally/stupidly drinking something he shouldn't be drinking as someone foolishly suggested.

On June 11 2012 08:45 Poyo wrote:



LATEST failures refers to Body of lies and Robin hood, the latter being actually terrible.

American Gangster was his last successful movie in my opinion, everything since went steadily down hill.

I was really hoping its just a little stumble on the road, but Prometheus continues the downward trend.

Hopefully he bounces back with his next project, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.