Ok, now you’re just picking nits. Who wouldn’t abandon the bridge to bone Charlize Theron?
I would totally understand that and ask the Captain to make a video. You know they could make an awesome one with all that 3d imagining tech they had laying around, it’s not like it was any use to the two lost guys anyway; may as well make a porno with it. Maybe invite the Engineers over.
You know what they say, once you go giant, hairless, albino ubermensch, you never go back…or is it giant squid monster, I forget which. Either way, someone’s getting laid.
Y’know, I wouldn’t want to be woken up when the ships establishes orbit. Let me sleep in for another few weeks while the ship orbits and maps the entire surface, sending down those little mapping spheres at anything that looks interesting.
My opinion is, if you feel you have to accept Scott’s notions about the movie’s meaning, even though they are clearly constructed entirely from fail, just because he’s the director, then you are not too far from accepting Jenny McCarthy’s notions about vaccination and autism, because she’s a celebrity.
I’m going with, the BBG are bioengineered supersoldiers from human DNA, the BBG in the beginning was spreading the black goo nanostuff all over the weapons depot planet to save Earth cause he for one had a conscience and wanted to stop the destruction of the human race, and we have not yet met the Enginners … who might well be the Predators.
But remember, in the opening scene, the BBG was being watched closely by a huge hovering ship that began leaving only after he swallowed the goo. That doesn’t seem to fit with a lone BBG with a conscience deciding to infect the weapons depot planet; it fits better with the BBGs, as a group, deciding to seed Earth.
I knew when I posted that little nitpick that these would be the responses. But come on. We’re all joking around on an internet message board. Idris Elba was the captain of a deep space exploratory vessel. People had already died on this mission. Even if his lust was uncontrollable, surely he would have called one of his other crew mates to take watch. and surely Charlize would have insisted on that, given how deeply concerned she was for her own survival. Terror of imminent death is a strong anti-aphrodisiac.
Though it had been close for the people caught in the sand storm and there were crew members lost in an alien ship so heightened alertness was probably still called for.
I think the main points of irritation have been covered in this thread already - I’m certainly of the opinion that it was the potential vs disappointment ratio which made this film almost painful to watch, with the dazzling, immersive 3D visuals just heightening the paucity of script and sense, in contrast.
I think I’ve worked out the plot though. In 2015, old Biff Tannen finds an almanac of 20th century sporting outcomes, and a time-travelling Delorean. Having gone back in time and made trillions in winnings he goes ‘back to the future’ and funds a deep space mission, under the guise of ‘Weyland’ to find the alien elixir of youth.
I saw a promo viral video the other day that had a young Guy Pearce playing a young Weyland. I could NOT understand in the movie why they had a young man play such an old man in obviously fake makeup, but seeing him in the video at least they wanted to keep the same actor and have some correlation.
I am now catching on to something I didn’t understand before. It’s been a really long time since I saw Alien so I didn’t make this connection–are the Engineers supposed to be the same species as the pilot from Alien? Some google searching would seem to indicate this is so.
Still don’t know, even in that case, what is meant by saying they “couldn’t get the pilot right.” Is he saying it doesn’t look right?
Yes, the Engineers are the Space Jockey. “Couldn’t get the pilot right” might mean the movie didn’t end with the pilot in the same position as the space jockey from Alien? But it’s not meant to smoothly dovetail onto Alien, although that would have been nice. Having some of the same sets, chairs and the ship wrecking did cause some confusion.
It depends. Some think the ‘pilot’ wasn’t a just a ‘human’ in a suit and that it was really a different ‘elephant’ looking alien species. There are some books/comics that depict them as being elephant looking aliens.
Others are confused and are treating Prometheus as a true prequel to Alien and are upset that the Engineer in Prometheus, doesn’t end up in the same position/chair as the one in Alien. Which would make sense if Prometheus was a prequel as opposed to being a parallel tale.