I was thinking...maybe the black substance the engineer ingested at the beginning of the film is the same black fluid from the urns containing the xenomorph genetic make up (as well as the same black fluid the droid dropped into the guys drink). In a way humans could be directly related to the xenomorphs. Depending on how the black goo is manipulated you can either create life or destruction. Whatever is in those urns got loose on the engineer's ship and destroyed the crew save one "creater". They probably realized the negative implications of using the black substance and decided to clean up all loose ends attached to it..... including earth. The black goo/humans could have been an experiment gone wrong considering they were headed to earth to clean slate that bitch. I don't know man...the movie was great IMO. Its was suppose to leave you with those questions that will probably be answered and bait you into watching later films. A must watch for fans of the franchise and scifi buffs.
if that IS true that would have to mean that the died thousands of years ago...
This dude here points out that, IIRC, the space-jockey from the first movie was fossilized(?).
This dude here points out that, IIRC, the space-jockey from the first movie was fossilized(?).
& Maybe the version I had was missing something but I actually never heard Idris kick his famous line from the commercials that the Prometheius has landed
Maybe reading that bowlshit script in advanced had you feeling some sort of way with preconceived expectations & whatnot.
I didnt really look @ it that way, was connected to how bugged & in their own zones each character was without a whole lot of character development but its an Alien type flick.
Who the FUCK was she gonna tell once she realized that that mofucka David was way too cool & collected to have any more of a concern than making sure it was in her the second he told her that she COULDNT see the pic of it? Her man aint even tell her shit about how his eye was bleeding/leaking iris matter into his whites when he 1st saw it. David did ask her if he hit that.
I definitely can relate to your last statement but hey
Nobody implied that it was even the same ship or jockey. How many times has it been said Prometheus is NOT an alien prequel. What you claim to be a plothole is actually your misunderstanding of what the movie is. Also, you said the captain is just "ok" with dying. In the movie, he clearly says he will do whatever he has to do to stop the goo from making it back to Earth, well before it comes time for him to ram the ship.Maybe they were in another part of the ship. Or maybe it's another different planet. Or maybe a gaping fucking plot hole!!!
All of the dead jockeys were either chestbursted or head exploded. did you not see the Xenomorph mural on the wall in the ampule chamber? the jockeys make these things. probably through sacrifice.That's why I gave y'all choices.
But, if it's a different ship, where did the chest buster come from?
I guess you guys are willing to stretch credulity because you're fans, I'm a fan too. I saw the first movie in a theater as a kid and this movie lacks so much of the first 2 it makes my sak hurt.
I'm not willing to overlook obvious plot holes in this movie. Don't call it a prequel? Fine, but to say it was good...well, that 3D must have been off the chain cause the story was bad.
nobody questioning shaw as to why she's bloody & knocked out 2 members of the crew? forget about her abdomen being stapled and is up and running, you mean she forgot to tell the rest of the crew "hey guys i just gave birth to a fucking squid"?
so david was 'experimenting'? to what end? why would it make sense for the android to experiment with a substance that nobody has a clue about, with one of the key scientists trillions of miles from home?
It's weyland's money, mission, and ship, yet he pretends to be dead for a significant portion of the story
they're on a mission to an alien world to hopefully meet with alien creatures. yet as soon as they find alien bodies, (not living creatures, bodies) two of the scientists, turn pussy and want to leave. strangely though they get lost, even though the cavern is digitally mapped out, (the rest of them are not too concerned though) and when they do encounter a live alien life form, one of them tries to pet it, even though it seems obviously aggressive (which is something i would expect in a b horror flick).
traveling light years to a strange world to meet alien creatures, and money's no object? why not hire more than a few ex soldier mercs, hell why not outfit the ship with some heavy artillery?
the engineer's dna matches human 100% WTF??? and not one of those "scientists" question the accuracy of this? human beings do not match each other 100% (very close but not 100%) except for identical twins. so let me get this straight; an engineer "seeds" life on earth, the evolutionary process happens, and a billion or so years later humans come onto the scene, yet somehow we're 100% them?
sj wakes up, kills everyone in the room without saying hello, and shaw's brilliant plan is to go to their home planet by herself to do....?
but hey, maybe i have adhd and couldn't focus on the plot of the film
nobody questioning shaw as to why she's bloody & knocked out 2 members of the crew? forget about her abdomen being stapled and is up and running, you mean she forgot to tell the rest of the crew "hey guys i just gave birth to a fucking squid"?
David caused the infection that led to her impregnation. He was in contact with his highers the entire time. The lack of surprise from those attending the elder Weyland suggested that group was all more than aware of her ordeal. By that time everything had turned to shit. I'm sure the rest of crew didn't need to know, or they'd have quarantined her, especially Janek.
Which would make some sense except that Shaw doesn't seem interested in the slightest to let anybody know that she gave birth to this monster and what implications that may have.
so david was 'experimenting'? to what end? why would it make sense for the android to experiment with a substance that nobody has a clue about, with one of the key scientists trillions of miles from home?
Weyland-Utani has always been about power, and the Engineers and the Xeno-goo represent ultimate power. David could read the language and could conduct his own experiments on Weyland's behalf. Mainly because of David's ablities, Holloway and Shaw were not essential to the expedition anyway. They were just extra bodies there for if nothing else, Weyland's peace of mind.
So this trillionare who could in theory afford to have 3 or 4 experts of the same field for the purpose of 'sacrificing' a few, chooses to have the android use this unknown substance without any idea whatsoever on how it may affect the ability to get back to earth.
It's weyland's money, mission, and ship, yet he pretends to be dead for a significant portion of the story
He was in stasis. He figured he only had a few days left and didn't want to be up longer than he needed to be. And he certainly didn't want to deal with any BS. That was David's job. He didn't want to die on the ship before he had a chance to meet his makers.
Fair enough about being in stasis longer. However, why go out of the way to make the crew believe that he was dead?
they're on a mission to an alien world to hopefully meet with alien creatures. yet as soon as they find alien bodies, (not living creatures, bodies) two of the scientists, turn pussy and want to leave. strangely though they get lost, even though the cavern is digitally mapped out, (the rest of them are not too concerned though) and when they do encounter a live alien life form, one of them tries to pet it, even though it seems obviously aggressive (which is something i would expect in a b horror flick).
The guy with heavy accent said rather bluntly that he was a geologist. They really weren't a contact team, just a bunch specialists. Some of them were bound to freak out. The probes mapped the caverns, but they still needed to be explored and documented. The one guy found himself in awe of the alien life form. Scientific curiosity got the best of him.
So this trillionare could not afford for these 'specialists' to be trained before the mission started so that they would be an actual contact team? So they left cuz they were creeped out by a dead alien, but one was intrigued enough by a live one to touch it despite it showing obvious signs of aggression?
traveling light years to a strange world to meet alien creatures, and money's no object? why not hire more than a few ex soldier mercs, hell why not outfit the ship with some heavy artillery?
They had to raise a trillion dollars to fund everyone and everything that went on the voyage. More people and mercs would just have complicated something that they didn't need to be any more complicated than it already was. Besides, they apparently really didn't anticipate hostility. It was supposed to look like an archaeological expedition though and through.
Shaw and her boyfriend are convinced that the ancient paintings are invitations. They convince the old man to send an expedition trillions of miles from home to meet 'our creators'; he agrees. I don't remember any dialogue that gives the impression that they were strapped for cash for this expenditure. The old man doesn't strike me as a dumbass, so it would make more sense to have more weaponry, and security personnel on board, just in case. That ought to be nothing to him. Except the dumbass who wrote this didn't think so.
the engineer's dna matches human 100% WTF??? and not one of those "scientists" question the accuracy of this? human beings do not match each other 100% (very close but not 100%) except for identical twins. so let me get this straight; an engineer "seeds" life on earth, the evolutionary process happens, and a billion or so years later humans come onto the scene, yet somehow we're 100% them?
They said we're identical. The point was that we are obviously closer to them than we are to other apes, but not 100%. Also at many stages in early development, a lot of animals including humans look very similar. You could reason that in the world of Prometheus, humanity's evolution was assured from the nature of the original seeding. It was just a matter of time before we popped up.
That's just bad, shoehorning of reasoning. Identical means 100% the same. If they meant 'almost' the same, then they would've said almost the same
sj wakes up, kills everyone in the room without saying hello, and shaw's brilliant plan is to go to their home planet by herself to do....?
She was pretty much done for by that point anyway. She also knew going back to Earth with one of those ships was a no go, so why not?
Cuzzzz she's carrying a freaking android's severed head as proof of hostility. She convinced the ship's captain to kill himself and his co-pilots to stop the sj from destroying earth - or so she believed.WHY would she want to go to a planet full of them unarmed when she has no proof whatsoever that the rest are any less hostile?
