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New 3 minute trailer for Prometheus

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Epic over-produced promo for "Storage Wars" on AMC, followed by a "making-of-the-trailer-for-storage-wars" featurette.
Interesting? I don't know. I was busy typing the previous post.
 
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I've been watching a lot of ESPN with the NBA finals and the non-stop marketing including plugs by Stephen A. Smith and lame product tie'ins (Coors Light...really?????) are turning me sour to it.
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Glad to hear I'm not the only one sick to death of the Coors tie-in crap for the movie and how it's saturated ESPN's advertising.
 
I am not sure which is the main discussion thread, so I will post this here as well:

So which is the official discussion thread?

I saw it last night.
It was not as epic as Alien or Aliens but it was entertaining. Fassbender carried the movie. As did Theron's body suit. All in all, a 3.5/5.0 for me.

So, where do I begin?

Lots of spoilers/questions below...
Is the planet in Prometheus the same as LV-426?
I think so because "Shawn" leaves the warning at the end of the movie...
BUT the warning is in English? And the mission was sponsored by the Wayland Corporation...so why does the Nostromo's computers have such a hard time decoding the warning in Alien? It too is a Wayland ship.

Big Continuity Error?
In Alien, the crew of the Nostromo find the "Space Jockey" or Engineer "frozen" to his seat, yet in the end of "Prometheus" he gets killed chasing after Shawn in the escape boat. They therefore cannot be one in the same.

Thoughts on race of Engineers
Let me get this straight. The Engineer mission is as follows?
Step 1: Find planet able to sustain life but as yet devoid of intelligent life.
Step 2: Send an Engineer to said planet, where he is left alone to sacrifice himself (dies to save the sins?) by drinking a magical elixir that causes the body to dissolve and yet at the same time forms the building blocks of new, intelligent life.
Step 3: Wait a few billion years for intelligent life to evolve, come back to visit every millennia or two, and leave traces of where you're from (hieroglyphics).
Step 4: When a certain point of evolution has been reached, quit visiting.
Step 5: Wait for said intelligent species to evolve to the point that it decides to come visit you on your "military proving grounds" planet.
Step 6: Either you've brought them there to be killed or you take it as a sign to return to Earth and go kill off the entire species you created.

Thoughts on Aliens
-The bottles of ooze do not contain Aliens, correct?
-Or do they contain some sort of liquid bio-chemical weapon that transforms/kills/infects those that consume it? (This is how Charlie is killed, right?)
-When the crew of Prometheus enters the "head chamber" and the bottles are not even yet open, we see a tiny worm in the soil. Is this Alien?
-After the crew of Prometheus enters the "head chamber" the sudden change in environment causes the bottles to decompose, spilling the bio-chem weapon into the chamber. Are we then to assume that the tiny worm becomes affected by this liquid? They grow larger, an early type of "facehugger" with concentrated acid for blood, and later kill the two stranded crew members?
-Similarly, the bio-chem weapon can also immediately mix itself with a hosts's reproductive organs, thus permitting it to reproduce through human intercourse.
-So it has two methods of reproducing itself. But each time it does, say in the case of a human, it grows larger? Are we to assume it starts as a tiny worm and then becomes the massive, multi-mouthed creature at the end of the movie?
-In the process of reproduction it also assumes traits of the host? Hence, why after impregnating the Engineer, the first Alien-like, bipedal creature, is born?
-Finally, there is a HUGE disconnect between the Nostromo finding eggs in its cargo hold versus thousands of bottles of ooze. Are we to assume that some sort of alien evolution takes place between the end of Prometheus and the beginning of Alien?
 
There are many disconnects at the end of this movie that don't make sense if it all ends up being the same place and ship.

I do not think it's the same planet. It definitely is not the same ship or engineer. There is only what..30-40 years between this and Alien? There are still mounds etc at the end of this movie and none of that is in Alien.

Ridley Scott talked that he might make a 2nd part, which is why I wasn't sure I liked the ending of this movie. It leaves you trying to decide if this is supposed to be the same ship as Alien or not. My opinion is that it is NOT the same ship and that the ship in Alien was a different planet (name of planet is different), a different ship (it's shaped different, has a pilot, and has eggs with a "warning system"(the lasers) and also is sending a beacon. Granted the crew in Alien may not have actually looked at the entire ship, and it is even possible that if it had the canisters they all broke and dissolved after the crash, i just don't think it's the same ship.

As for what the engineers do, I am not really clear. I did not really take the intro scene the same way you did, but couldn't say if it's right or not (or if that was even supposed to be Earth.). They left all that with questions on purpose.

The vases do not contain aliens. They contain some sort of DNA changer (I am guessing the same stuff that the engineer drinks at the beginning). They elude that something had an outbreak, which makes me wonder if the same thing didn't happen to them as happened to the crew of the Prometheus. One of the worms got into the batch of ooze and one thing led to another until an Alien was born.

The beacon at the end of Prometheus would (I assume) last only 2 years because the escape pod only had enough resource for 2 years..however it's unclear if that includes power.

The biggest issue I had with the entire movie is how spry Naomi was after the surgery and of course her flying off in one of the ships never to be heard from again.
 
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I guess I shoudl also mention that the mural in the cave basically says that the xeno's existed prior to this and that the engineers not only knew of them, they also bred them and the goo had something to do with it
 
I just got back from seeing the movie. It was slow to get started and the plot seemed full of holes but once the mayhem started in earnest, wow, there are some classics in there. The imagery was fantastic and the 3D not overly done. Go see it, well worth the watch.

For some reason it was rated 14A here. I thought it was supposed to be rated R.
 
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