Alien Prequel - Prometheus - Page 68

Interesting. About the "Science" part, is black cat there or not there?
Edited by bcruiser - 10/21/12 at 11:16am

Will you admit that you are wrong about these? vv Unless you are doing what you accuse others of doing. vv

Thats usually up to the guy who pays for the battery to decide.

If it's Schrodinger's cat, maybe it is and maybe it isn't.

lol - head binding...... what about those huge jaws?



Edited by vision-master - 10/21/12 at 12:22pm

Also one thing the honest trailer clown easily forgets is that she keeps injecting herself with the anesthetic throughout the ending of the film but whatever... back to my cave now

Ok, I know some of you have. But one poster in particular seems to think this movie is born of genius and others simply can't comprehend its "hidden" meaning. Which is fine. I would just like some clarification on what it is I'm missing. Perhaps this movie is the end all be all of intelligent cinematic history and I'm just not picking up on what it's laying down.

All Si-Fi movies are based on some factual information.

I am not sure what you are doing with this, but whatever floats your boat.

Schooling the sheeple.......... lol

It's about 2012 and lifting of the veil..............

Oink, I'm trying a new spiced rum today. Oh my holy space Jesus it's good. A few more and I may think this movie makes perfect sense.

Yeah, TPTB love the idea of ppl drinking, dumbs em down real good. lsol

Trying to sweep it under the rug now. Post #1984 and 2004.

Some clarification would be nice by quoting that person's post. This whole thread is clarification of that and you are asking for clarification. No wonder you react the way you do about this movie.

Being in the "other" camp, if I try it maybe I'll end up thinking the movie is complete garbage, I'm sure there's a middleground somewhere where we would all agree! In the meantime we're gonna have a hell of a party (still thinking about those chicks I promised the other day!)

You keep attacking me. I didn't name names for a reason. Rather than make it personal, why not just try to prove wrong some of the points we "haters" are making by using a defense not based on something so outlandish as saying that the term "biologist" may have a different meaning in the future?

I'd like nothing more than for you to show me the light. I spent $10 on this thing and would love to get my money out of it. As it stands, however, I can't enjoy it.

Why a middle ground, I will not lie sleepless over that someone else somewere else doesnt like the same movie I do.

Certainly not after the White Russian (The Drink) I planning to have right about now.

You guys drink over there? I thought you just made meatballs.

That's not what I think. But, and I'm just being honest here, I do like the film a lot, I know it's not perfect and I never tried to say otherwise, I don't mind people who don't like it, but I think some of its most virulent detractors would say just about anything to enforce the fact that the film is, according to them, a total failure. In any case, I hope we'll all be able to continue this discussion in a civilized way. And your posts along with oink's and a few others do crack me up more than once sb1

It's people. Meatballs is made out of people.

OO I think that drink just kicked in.

Oh, absolutely. Listen, based on what I've said about Prometheus you'd think my movie library consisted of nothing but documentaries. Lets take a closer look, shall we?

I own all three Transformers movies, The Day After Tomorrow, Pearl Harbor, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Real Steel, Lost in Space, Battle: LA., and I love repeatedly watching Flash Gordon. I think my BD library shows that I know how to be mindlessly entertained. Or, at least, give my subs a workout. However, never once have I stated that Sam Jones deserved an Oscar. Some films don't pretend to be anything more than what they are. Some fail miserably at being far less than they should have been.

Nope, no middle ground here

It is indeed pretty clear that Weyland Corp hired the whole crew, based on Shaw and Holloway's discoveries. Since Peter Weyland isn't dead, it's still him who runs the show at his company, or at least makes the most crucial decisions. Now, the fact that some these scientists are behaving stupidly or not doesn't mean that, story-wise, Weyland hired a bunch of imbeciles, since it's us the audience who are coming to these conclusions. "Am I wrong? AM I WRONG??"

My God, I just noticed something!
That skull PROVES there was more than one human/alien hybrid on the Betty in Alien Resurrection!!!
Ripley is gonna sh_t bricks alway the way to LV-426....we're totally screwed now.

Don't know where you're at right now, but spice rum is too "tropical" for me at the moment.
It's threatening to snow on my Mountain Redoubt and that always means it's time for me to break out some of my brother's shine.

Gee, thanx for the invite...

LOL.

Just watched this for the first time last night. The movie was made well, great visuals and production. The general plot and the themes explored were cool; if they weren't going to do a "straight" prequel, this was a good approach to take.

All that said I think it was hugely flawed for two reasons: 1) the countless acts of stupidity by the characters, inexplicable behaviors, etc. They've been gone over ad nausem so I have little else to add except my opinion that they're so numerous that the attempts to explain them away or rationalize them come across as pretty desperate attempts to defend the film. 2) the number of things that were introduced but not (or insufficiently) explained. I'm not asking to have my hand held through the whole movie, and I don't mind open-ended thought provoking subjects in movies, but this was just full of them. And they were important. I guess if Ridley Scott wanted this movie to tough on the Big Themes with Deep Questions that could only be partially addressed through multiple viewings, background Nietzsche research, and home video extras, he succeeded. Making a coherent, self-contained film, not so much.

jeff