Prometheus?

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

The Engineers are supposed to be nine feet tall. That's a foot shorter than the Na'vi. And Hot Toys underscaled them by like, 2-3 inches.


sooo.....

 

[stoods77]

Saw an interview with Ridleyand he said this film was supposed to have some essence of Alien in it(hence the early style Alien bursting out of the jockey and the canisters with Alien DNA in them). However the next one(yes he is making a sequel) will have no references to Alien at all.

 

[Kain's Ancient Blade]

I hated Lost and loved Prometheus.

I hated Lost's ending and loved Prometheus.

 

[Niceman]

It's no surprise, the people who were not offended by lost and its treatment of the viewers are the same people who liked prometheus.

I am all for a complex sci fi thriller that explores the meaning of life with a nice mixture of theology & morality. This is not it.

Lost was crap. Prometheus is brilliance. You missed it.

 

[Niceman]

I could care less about the human characters (however cool the main ones were), but a Space Jockey and/or Engineer would be nice. Even in 1/6 scale, they'd be fairly big. I'm guessing around fourteen to fifteen inches.

Actually, I want everything from this movie: scientists, explorers, aliens, engineers, playsets.

I really want a big fancy statue of the wrestling match between the engineer and the squid in the door.

 

[gagaliya]

Saw an interview with Ridleyand he said this film was supposed to have some essence of Alien in it(hence the early style Alien bursting out of the jockey and the canisters with Alien DNA in them). However the next one(yes he is making a sequel) will have no references to Alien at all.

so what does that mean? they will never explain the alien & jockey connection?

 

[Niceman]

so what does that mean? they will never explain the alien & jockey connection?

What connection do you feel is still unexplained?

 

[demorathis]

so what does that mean? they will never explain the alien & jockey connection?

I think he means no references to the FILM Alien -- (Premotheus had numerous storytelling references to the film itself -- the shot of the jockey in the seat, the hyper sleep awakening scenes, "face hugging" scenes, presence of an android who gets decapitated, "chest bursting" type scene, flame throwing element, entering the atmosphere elements, etc --I don't know if they had any of those perpetual motion whirly gig type things either...(in alien, it was the birds that dip their beaks in a bowl , in Aliens it was the metal ball things that keep hitting side to side....

The alien and all the other creatures that resulted from being exposed to the "germ" of destruction are just that -- the point was to show that these are weapons of mass destruction and that they were intended to destroy human kind -- the real goal is to stop them from doing it. The dramatic goal of Shaw now is to go to their planet and destroy them before they destroy us

The importance of the alien itself is not very high -- it's one of many biomechanical weapons of destruction - another tool for humanities extinction -- (the irony is that the alien franchise shows humans trying in vain to control that which ultimately was created to destroy them in the first place.

 

[Niceman]

I think he means no references to the film Alien -- (Premotheus had numerous storytelling references to the film itself -- the shot of the jockey in the seat, the hyper sleep awakening scenes, "face hugging" scenes, "chest bursting" type scene, flame throwing element, entering the atmosphere elements, etc --I don't know if they had any of those perpetual motion whirly gig type things either...(in alien, it was the birds that dip their beaks in a bowl , in Aliens it was the metal ball things that keep hitting side to side....

The alien and all the other creatures that resulted from being exposed to the "germ" of destruction are just that -- the point was to show that these are weapons of mass destruction and that they were intended to destroy human kind -- the real goal is to stop them from doing it. The dramatic goal of Shaw now is to go to their planet and destroy them before they destroy us

Exactly. We now know everything we need to know about the Xenomorphs except maybe WHY the Engineers wanted to use them on us.

 

[gagaliya]

What connection do you feel is still unexplained?

1) What is the jockey/alien relationship, did they create the alien dna? found them on another planet? what?
2) Why does the jockey have the black alien goo crate/weapon that creates aliens
3) Why/how does the jockey mess up & ended up with alien in themselves
4) Why is the alien that busted out in the final scene look so different than the traditional aliens
5) Why/how did the geologist turn into a freaking zombie
6) What does the jockey wants to do with the aliens? let them loose on earth?

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

1) What is the jockey/alien relationship, did they create the alien dna? found them on another planet? what?
2) Why does the jockey have the black alien goo crate/weapon that creates aliens
3) Why/how does the jockey mess up & ended up with alien in themselves
4) Why is the alien that busted out in the final scene look so different than the traditional aliens
5) Why/how did the geologist turn into a freaking zombie
6) What does the jockey wants to do with the aliens? let them loose on earth?

He didn't turn into zombie. And the Deacon looks different compared to the traditional aliens because he's not a traditional alien. Use your imagination for the rest.

 

[Niceman]

1) What is the jockey/alien relationship, did they create the alien dna? found them on another planet? what?
2) Why does the jockey have the black alien goo crate/weapon that creates aliens
3) Why/how does the jockey mess up & ended up with alien in themselves
4) Why is the alien that busted out in the final scene look so different than the traditional aliens
5) Why/how did the geologist turn into a freaking zombie
6) What does the jockey wants to do with the aliens? let them loose on earth?

#1 It was suggested that the Engineers created us. We can safely assume they know a lot about DNA. Of course you were supposed to conclude they created the infectious black fluid.

#2 They explained pretty clearly in Prometheus that it was a WMD which they were planning on using to wipe out humanity.

#3 Your grammar is rough in this one. I think you mean, how did the engineers' plans go to pot? Well, this is always what happens to anyone who tries to control the xenomorphs isn't it? Or the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, etc. They screwed up and were attacked by their own creation, obviously. The details of that aren't terrible important. The evidence was everywhere.

#4 He's not a traditional alien. The goo clearly causes monsters to evolve in various forms. If you've seen Alien 3 and 4 you've seen this happen before. Remember the Dog alien? Remember the newborn? They evolve and mutate pretty frequently.

#5 Never happened. If you wanted to ask why a crew member who had had an alien inside of him went crazy.... I'd say it was an effect of having an alien inside of him.

#6 You answered your own question. Our synthetic-American friend in the movie told us this explicitly.

Sorry, no unanswered questions in your list.

 

[gagaliya]

lol...brilliant.

 

[Niceman]

lol...brilliant.

It was all kinda obvious, really....

 

[Darth_Pain]

I'm going to see this again this weekend. Love this movie!
Come on Sideshow get moving on the license and sneaks!!!

 

[Niceman]

Looks like NECA are first: https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=NEC11894&mode=retail&picture=out

 

[demorathis]

Oh -- and why Vickers didn't run sideways:

that ship is huge -- her trajectory sideways would've slowed her down and it wasn't any guarantee she'd ever clear the ship's width...especially if it decided to slow and fall sideways

her only hope was if the darn thing slowed down enough to outrun...

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

Not to mention the tons of fiery debree from the Prometheus falling to the ground.

 

[uscmhicks]

Oh -- and why Vickers didn't run sideways:

that ship is huge -- her trajectory sideways would've slowed her down and it wasn't any guarantee she'd ever clear the ship's width...especially if it decided to slow and fall sideways

her only hope was if the darn thing slowed down enough to outrun...

I thought this also. It seems most people assume it's as simple as a side step.
When something that huge is rolling after you , you don't have the time to start running to the side hopping over whatever rocks may be in your way.

 

[Niceman]

Yeah, but I still say its an unconfirmed death. We didn't see a body. We didn't even see her die. The camera just cut at a suggestive moment.