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I watched Prometheus this morning. I got to say it was a wonderful sci-fi movie which kept me intrigued for the entire duration of it. Fassbender was fantastic as David. I think this one was setup very well in the Alien universe. At one point i felt it was directly related to Alien during the climax but it didn't, no complaints there. The script was also good and nothing like what a lot of people were describing as a let down. I loved it throughly enjoyed it. I hope they follow Shaw's journey in a sequel. 

** SPOILERS AHEAD ** I really enjoyed it. The acting was a strong point; Fassbender stood out, he delivered the best performance of the cast in my opinion. Noomi Rapace was also good, as well as Logan Marshall-Green. Theron was decent, but nothing special; maybe that's due to the script. When she reveals that she is the daughter of Peter Weyland (a multibilionaire played by Guy Pearce), I felt it was a predictable, poor outcome that made me roll my eyes. Idris Elba provided some comic relief - the scene with Theron was quite hilarious - but there is more to the character to be seen besides humour.  The plot was interesting and ambiguous. It introduces some new type of aliens and the space jockeys are the main focus this time. I wanted to see the Xenomorph in action, but the space jockey(s) - or Engineers, their name given by humans - covered that part pretty well. They were truly awesome.  The visuals were top notch, as expected. The horror elements are present, some scares here and there, but the surgery scene definitely takes the cake. It has some minor inconsistencies with the original and the Engineers' motivations are not explained, but I guess the sequel will provide the answers... and some Xenomorph badassery hopefully.

Here's my take: (SPOILERS)No one can argue that Prometheus looks incredibly impressive. It has a convincing atmosphere and makes use of an old-school look of science fiction which still feels fresh and hits all the right nostalgic buttons. The film keeps creeping up in my mind, its vagueness making me wonder how everything fits together and its style bringing about a lot of nostalgia for the things I love about Alien, one of my all-time favourite films. This would be a bigger advantage if my recollections weren't a mixed bag of excitement and disappointment. It's hard to say whether Prometheus has landed or just crashed with style. There are aspects of the plot that are genuinely interesting, where its vagueness benefits to make you ponder over posed questions. There is, for instance, an aspect of the relationship with your father (or your creator in general) that I quite like. Your father is inevitably superior in hierarchy even though you might surpass him. He has to die in order for you to be fully independent. It is an ingrained consequence of the Prometheus myth without being previously (to my knowledge) explored. But there are at least as many other questions where the possible answers show a definite lack of imagination or intelligence.   One such question is how the aliens created us. The opening scene shows, if I'm correct, an alien sacrificing himself to grant the components of life to the waters of the earth. Now, either life evolves separately on earth from these components. If that is the case, then the human organism evolved entirely separately on a different planet, over the course of thousands of chaotic years (including the dinosaurs losing dominance over smaller mammals due to environmental impacts), into practically the same creature as the aliens (with almost the exact same DNA-code, mind you). This would be highly and deeply unlikely. Or we didn't evolve, but were created; our DNA-code was granted to us by this alien creature. That begs the question of why there are so many animals on this planet with whom we share huge amounts of DNA with. This bothers me, really bothers me. If it's a question of suspension of disbelief then don't be so vague about it. Neither is it something small that can easily be ignored. I don't expect all the science to be completely plausible in science fiction, but this incident isn't just some fictional science; it is engrained in its themes and its central question. The entire film soothes with questions that feel intentional to make you think, so don't punish us for doing so. It adds up to something somewhat incoherent and can feel a little underwhelming.   The structure of the story is familiar; perhaps a little bit too familiar. At times it feels like it's going through the motions. Some of those motions are awkwardly uninspired, but more often they are obviously cared for and still manage to thrill and bring about a sense of awe. The creatures are better than almost any monster or alien these days and although it is a big budget blockbuster, it still understands that tension resides in mystery. The ending, however, feels a bit too rushed at times for tension to build to its peak.   Noomi Rapace brings a wonderful performance, but truth be told, Fassbender steals every scene he's in. David is the star of the film. The most fleshed out character of the entire film is, ironically enough, the robot. Almost every other character has no development, no third emotion (the second emotion for all, except David, being fear) and they tend to just be plain stupid. Their manner of thinking is much more akin to a typical character of horror-films than a scientist. Jumping to conclusion seems far more logical in terms of the plot-development than as part of any scientific method. Reacting to what happens can at times seem foreign to them as well.  The actors, however, do a good job of making these characters feel like real people even though they fit so perfectly and obviously in the required stereotypes.   Prometheus lies somewhere between a creature-feature and hard sci-fi. Although sadly it isn't the best of both worlds, but a clash of the charm and flaws of both. It has some wonderful spectacle, interesting creatures and it has some big existential questions, attention to detail and mysteries. But it also has idiotic characters, badly recycled structures, ideas and generally falls short thematically. It's too well made to hate, but too poor to love. 

What? It was for her father... ofc...

 It was decent, while anyone can agree it was visually amazing i felt the flow of the story was lacking because of all the unnecessary scenes. we could have easily done with out the re animated head, the zombie guy, and a few other scenes that just did not need to be in there. i would throw the Squid baby into that category but it does kind of answer the questions of how the Xenomorphs are created and how the engineer on the original ship died.  I will say that after realizing that the Xenomorph we see at the end is only slightly related to the ones in alien, and that the whole thing took place on LV-223 not LV-426 making the prequel truly its own thing but with the alien DNA (as promised) i do appreciate it a lot more.  But its a visually stunning scifi flick with some great ideas, it just tries to do to much and ends up failing to deliver any true presence because of that. There is no jaw dropping moment, no time spent on the edge of your seat or any true wow factor to it all. It just ends up as another movie, and sadly people wanted it to be more then that.

Favorite movie of the year so far next to The Avengers

After seeing it I said it was an interesting story and I enjoyed the ride but ultimately didn't like it. I'm not sure though.  Then my friend said it was written by the same guy that did Lost.  Makes perfect sense now. 

The writers of lost are notrocious for leaving plot holes and keep you begging for questions, too bad this is a movie and not a tv show we are dealing with.

alien at the end was siiiiiiccccckkkkkk!!!!!!

I REALLY enjoyed it. Hopefully it does well enough to warrant a sequel, so it can answer some questions, and ask 1000x more as Prometheus did. As maddening as it sometimes gets, browsing various forums do feed you some theories that fill those holes for the time-being. My review for anyone who cares: http://gutsspill.blogspot.com/2012/06/prometheus.html

Here is my thought process to explain why the same black liquid both created life on earth and killed/mutated people. I do not believe it was a military installation, but rather a science station that dealt with dangerous components (which explains the move from their home planet). David says it best when he says that in order to create life, you must destroy life. The engineer sacrifices himself to create life on earth (by drinking a good portion of the black liquied). They then plan on destroying us with the same substance (perhaps the why will be answered in the sequel) by breaking us down to our most base components. The reason that did not work on the scientist is that the single drop was either only enough to mutate and not break down, or he was killed before the process could complete itself. Perhaps the reason we break down but the cattipilars did not is that their exoskeleton protects them from the breakdown, but instead mutates. That is why the fetus that mutates into an early form of a face hugger eventually creates a creature with an exoskeleton (rather than mutating due to the liquid, it adapts to the changes created by the  liquid.)

Awfully disappointing to fans of the genre Often insulting, as well. Here's why. total lack of character development except Dr. Shaw who is a wimpy version of thw weakest female heroin. Dr. Hollaway was absurd. His actions mirrored a surfer bully more than a scientist of any kind. Weyland's make-up was totally unbelievable and overwrought. Scriptwise it seemed like they tried glueing together disjointed scenes with comic one line banter as characters fell even more out if scenes as if they were in a different movie. The entire self- cesarean procedure and afterwards were a complete assault on realism. No explanations or even aknowledgements between characters made events unimportant and irrelevent. The ship design would have been cool except it was barely featured. There are so many more inane points in the movie that I cannot waste another moment making without myself angrier. Will have to watch some Thelma &Louise to remind myself Scott does have talent beyond Alien. Horrible job Mr. Ridley.

everyone thinks this is in fact a direct prequel and it may yet be, if there was a dormant pilot on the ship that took off at the end and they go off course and in fact crashes on the correct planet that began Alien, well there is your answer otherwise just relax and wait for Blade Runner 2 to come out woohoo

Alien Abduction. I've been reading whole screeds of text about Prometheus and something occurred to me, maybe the Engineers abducted humans and tested out the bio-weapons on them? Imagine if that turns up in the sequel, I want some money.

Small gripes aside (like Elba's accent, Pearce's laughably caked on make-up, the character reveal that wasn't really much of a reveal), the only thing that got me was the end. True, most of the film faltered between being overly ambiguous and ambitious, but while I liked the first ending I loathed the second ending (which felt like the studio wanted it there). If it had to be in at all would have been better after the credits.  But it was just another small bit that had it, and others like it, been trimmed out, Prometheus could have been a tighter film. Also, I kind of thought even Pearce and Theron's characters could have used some editing, if not been eliminated completely. Rapace was good but Fassbender was beyond brilliant, although that's probably not news to anyone now is it?:P   Finally, personally speaking I think it would have been more interesting if Theron was revealed as an android (kind of like both she and David were vying for a father's affection). It would have been a better reason to have her around in the first place. Still, I CAN'T wait to see this again!

So it appears there are at least 4+ of those dome structures, like the one they explored.  What is their purpose?  They must have had a sheep connected by tunnels to each one...Maybe more surviving Architects?  The Stone Head room only had a small fraction of the vessels containing the black fluid, compared to the stock pile on the ship?  Makes it seem as they were dropping this stuff off, almost like we did here fro decades with aging never gas war heads, etc... Of course we don't the even know the true origin of the black goo, maybe these guys were disposing of something someone else made.  What bugs me the most is that this so called advanced species let the goo get the better of them.  Seems like that would have had the problem covered with a contingency plan of some sort. If a sequel does happen & I hope it does, they need to flesh out just two things for me...The original purpose of the goo?  And what's the beef the Engineers appear to have with mankind...

I expected so much more from this movie based on all the hype. The story development was very bad, lots of gaps. The character development was overlooked as well. It seemed to me the whole point of the movie was get to the blood and gore. Sorry to see that such a well known director would allow such rubbish to be released. I guess it is all for the money.

The shoe drops in the last act. Up until then, I was surprised because it was better than I expected ... but in the last 15 minutes it turns into a standard no brainer "let's wrap it all up so we can go home" story. All build-up, and an ultra-weak ending. They would have to pull off the greatest sequel of all time to justify the dud climax that Prometheus was. R.I.P.

Very perplexing. On one hand an amazing piece of film making. On the other, trite dialogue, poor characterization and full of holes ....BUT...it's enthralling nevertheless. Visually, it's a masterpiece with the 3D merely enhancing the movie rather than dominating it. There are lots of satisfying references to other Sci Classics not to mention Alien itself. For me there was enough of the Alien universe to keep any fan of the original movie happy. Yes I so wanted it to be more like the darker more adult Alien but that's Hollywood for you - full of dumb brains obsessed with audience demographics. I really hope there'll be a part two and that Scott directs it - with a bit more intelligence this time! 6/10.

I loved it beyond words. There is one thing, however, which I have interpreted differently than others. I don't believe the humanoid at the beginning of the film was seeding the Earth as many seem to. I believe he is actually the hero of the story. He infected his self with the biological weapon which was intended for us 2000 years ago and it subsequently caused the deaths of everyone at the base as seen in the holographs. He was not on Earth.

After the alien abortion scene it went downhill, I mean who thought that grab tool looked like a Bear claw machine...

Noomi Rapace and the actor who played her boyfriend were simply atrocious..