Ridley Scott's "Prometheus"

[RossMAN]

Since I'm a cheap ass.

Is this worth $20 ($15 IMAX + $5 popcorn with water snuck in) or should I wait for it on Redbox BD for $1.50 in a few months?

 

[randomrogue]

I paid $7.50 at a matinee. No imax but a huge screen. If you have that option, take it.

 

[RossMAN]

I paid $7.50 at a matinee. No imax but a huge screen. If you have that option, take it.

I think IMAX 3D is around $13 - $15.

 

[glen]

Just got back from it. Can someone explain the plot to me.

 

[Printer Bandit]

Just got back from it. Can someone explain the plot to me.

 

[randomrogue]

I think IMAX 3D is around $13 - $15.

Big screen? Good sound? Worth it.

However what they call Imax these days is kinda disappointing. Imax back in the day was a huge dome that was absolutely ginormous where you'd watch Animal shows that were filmed with an Imax fisheye camera. Today it's just a bigger rectangular screen and not by much. YMMV.

3D? Probably not worth it. I've seen half a dozen 3D movies in the theaters and I don't plan on seeing another one. The only one that was even remotely worth seeing was Avatar but even then the colors got washed out.

I had a great time for $7.50.

 

[n7]

Saw it.

Was pretty awesome.
As much as i hate it being basically forced on me, the 3D was pretty decent.

But man, it left me with so many questions, some of which this thread has been helpful with

And yeah, trailers gave away FAR too much, which i had thought when i saw them.

 

[BladeVenom]

Since I'm a cheap ass.

Is this worth $20 ($15 IMAX + $5 popcorn with water snuck in) or should I wait for it on Redbox BD for $1.50 in a few months?

I read the disc is going to have at least 17 more minutes. That might clear up a few things, or maybe not.

 

[BladeVenom]

Not sure if you saw the same movie that I did.

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Jesus was dead for a long time by the time that thing died. Jesus died in 29-33AD and was born in 4-2BC. They reach that planet in 2093 I think.

Pretty sure you're trolling though.

If only he was. http://www.prometheusforum.net/discussion/1575/ridley-scott-engineers-they-are-dark-angels/p1

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Movies.com: You throw religion and spirituality into the equation for Prometheus, though, and it almost acts as a hand grenade. We had heard it was scripted that the Engineers were targeting our planet for destruction because we had crucified one of their representatives, and that Jesus Christ might have been an alien. Was that ever considered?"


Ridley Scott: We definitely did, and then we thought it was a little too on the nose. But if you look at it as an “our children are misbehaving down there” scenario, there are moments where it looks like we’ve gone out of control, running around with armor and skirts, which of course would be the Roman Empire. And they were given a long run. A thousand years before their disintegration actually started to happen. And you can say, “Lets’ send down one more of our emissaries to see if he can stop it. Guess what? They crucified him.

 

[RossMAN]

I read the disc is going to have at least 17 more minutes. That might clear up a few things, or maybe not.

Tempting to wait for it on Redbox but I just might see it on the big screen.

 

[randomrogue]

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Let me see if I can get my head around this though. The 5 star pattern dates back to 30,000 years ago right? That planet is the military/WMD planet though and not their home planet right? So at what point did they target us for destruction?

They create us. They are disappointed with us. They want to destroy us. Maybe that's not it. Surely there have got to be more optimistic aliens somewhere? Then again they do share our DNA so maybe not

 

[sygyzy]

I can understand the use of spoiler tags but I have admit, for someone who has seen the movie and wants to discuss it, it's a pain in the ass to do the mouseovers. Is it kosher to start a new thread for people who have already seen it?

 

[sygyzy]

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Let me see if I can get my head around this though. The 5 star pattern dates back to 30,000 years ago right? That planet is the military/WMD planet though and not their home planet right? So at what point did they target us for destruction?

They create us. They are disappointed with us. They want to destroy us. Maybe that's not it. Surely there have got to be more optimistic aliens somewhere? Then again they do share our DNA so maybe not

Sorry I think you got a few things confused. The

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WMD is either the black ooze or one of the worm aliens that comes from it.

It is not the planet itself. The planet that the movie takes place on is simply a random place they chose to

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get their WMD ready.

It's like a staging ground. They decided to

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kill us around

or before 2,000 years ago. In other words ~ 0 AD. We know this because the

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dead Space Jockey is carbon dated to that time.

 

[BassBomb]

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I thought of it as defecting aliens decide to train humanity, the mass alien race finds this out and seeks to exterminate the illegitimate childs

but... on other hand could be the aliens who get sent off to die (like earth is the place bad aliens are sent to die, hence the suicide)

 

[sygyzy]

Since I'm a cheap ass.

Is this worth $20 ($15 IMAX + $5 popcorn with water snuck in) or should I wait for it on Redbox BD for $1.50 in a few months?

Your two choice are IMAX or watching it on Redbox. Mind boggles.

 

[randomrogue]

Sorry I think you got a few things confused. The

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WMD is either the black ooze or one of the worm aliens that comes from it.

It is not the planet itself. The planet that the movie takes place on is simply a random place they chose to

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get their WMD ready.

It's like a staging ground.

This part I know.

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I'm saying though that if that's their WMD planet and that's where they've been visiting us from for at least 30,000 years, at what point did they choose to kill us? Just because that guy died 2000 years ago doesn't imply he was coming to kill us then does it? The two chambers that the dead Engineers are running to are not part of the ship are they? Are we to assume that the different projections we saw all were at the same time? See this is another continuity problem with the movie. The decapitated guy died 2000 years ago. The pile of bodies at the door we don't know but it's probably the same time and their death is implied to be due to something exploding from their bodies. Hmmm? Alien already or not? Also, the probe that got stuck and pinged for Alien life was at the door of the craft so that's way down the hall and for some reason only detecting the one living Alien every minute or so.

They decided to

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kill us around

or before 2,000 years ago. In other words ~ 0 AD. We know this because the

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dead Space Jockey is carbon dated to that time.

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Second projection in the space ship cockpit doesn't necessarily have to be from the same time as the guys outside. It could be, and the ship is clearly headed for Earth, but do we know the time or mission for certain? Since there had been so many previous missions to Earth from this planet how do we know (beyond the stockpiles of weapons in the hold) that they are returning on the next mission to destroy us?

 

[sygyzy]

I assume you are thinking that they do everything from the planet. Just like all military operations don't happen from Camp Pendleton, I think it's safe to say that is true in this case.

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They were building the WMD there and decided to launch but then got overrun/killed. I think it's safe to assume that all the dead bodies were from the same short time period and were all the result of a single event and this event was around 2,000 years ago ... the same time they were harvesting or organizing the WMD to be launched.

 

[coloumb]

Saw it.

Was pretty awesome.
As much as i hate it being basically forced on me, the 3D was pretty decent.

But man, it left me with so many questions, some of which this thread has been helpful with

And yeah, trailers gave away FAR too much, which i had thought when i saw them.

One of the writers also a writer for LOST - so it's no surprise you left with a lot of questions [and no surprise the DVD/Blu-Ray will have more answers!].

I've yet to see the movie as I'm waiting until the hype dies down a bit so I can go at a time when there might be 3 or 4 other people in the theater [usually during a weekday first showing]

 

[Ichinisan]

Sorry I think you got a few things confused. The

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WMD is either the black ooze or one of the worm aliens that comes from it.

It is not the planet itself. The planet that the movie takes place on is simply a random place they chose to

Spoiler

get their WMD ready.

It's like a staging ground. They decided to

Spoiler

kill us around

or before 2,000 years ago. In other words ~ 0 AD. We know this because the

Spoiler

dead Space Jockey is carbon dated to that time.

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It's just strange that they would lead us to the planet that's nothing more than a WMD staging ground. Why didn't the symbol lead us to the Engineer homeworld?

 

[SP33Demon]

My biggest problem with the movie is one scene:

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The two guys who are initially "scared" and wanted to go back to the ship are the ones left in the caves overnight. It makes no fucking sense, they are linked up and knew a storm was coming, they didn't lose communications with Prometheus so it's not like they could get lost, just makes zero fucking sense. Hell, Fifield was the one in charge of the stupid mapping drones so they really couldn't have gotten lost.

I took off a star from my rating for this, otherwise it was a great great movie and on par with Alien because it didn't spoon feed us the answers.

 

[glen]

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It's just strange that they would lead us to the planet that's nothing more than a WMD staging ground. Why didn't the symbol lead us to the Engineer homeworld?

This.
And, when

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Woody Harrelson looking guy was released from cryo storage, why did he kill everyone? Even if his mission is to send Aliens to Earth, he could have explined things to the Humans.

 

[SP33Demon]

This.
And, when

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Woody Harrelson looking guy was released from cryo storage, why did he kill everyone? Even if his mission is to send Aliens to Earth, he could have explined things to the Humans.

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I'm guessing it was because David said something hostile. That is the burning question, what did David say to the Engineer? It could have changed the entire sequence of events.

 

[dbk]

I heard that the movie wasn't shot in IMAX but 3D only so IMAX 3D will have black bars. anyone confirm?

 

[MisterJackson]

saw in imax last night. no black bars. kick ass 3d and I've not been a huge fan of the new 3d. They did it right here though. Everything looked so crisp, and instead of stuff popping out at you (which most movies are trying to do with this new 3d), the characters in the movie just seemed to have more dimension to them. It was bad ass in my book

 

[BladeVenom]

One of the writers also a writer for LOST - so it's no surprise you left with a lot of questions [and no surprise the DVD/Blu-Ray will have more answers!].

The same guy also wrote Cowboys and Aliens.