RESULTS: What Did You Think Of PROMETHEUS?

thought it was ok ... wasted potential imo

the first half of the movie was interesting but it went down hill,But one thing really got me is that the alien ship was in the first ALIEN movie

EXCELLENT movie...if you don't mind not knowing what's going on!

Mehh..cool movie..
Avengers still worth seeing more than this..

@Tainted87 I've never seen it, I never got around to it and then when I heard about Prometheus I thought I'd wait and watch it later, to see if Prometheus added anything for me. But after how disappointing I found Prometheus, I've decided not to go out of my way to see Alien. If I happen to get the chance to watch it one day in the future, then I will, but Prometheus did very little to convince me Alien would be a 'must see'.

it was better than avengers.

@Tainted87 like I said, I'm not disregarding it, I'm just not making a conscious effort to see it. If the time comes when I have the opportunity to watch it, then I will, but after Prometheus I'm not going to go out of my way. It would be ignorant if I said "I will never watch Alien because Prometheus sucked, I'm totally against that film even though I've never seen it". I'm not saying that, I'm just saying that on my list of priority films to see, Alien may have dropped down a few spots based on Prometheus.

Watched it again. Made more sense this time around. Still a lot of unanswered questions though. But near as I can figure, the Engineer went crazy at the end because he was infected with the black goo. You could see the effects on his face. Apparently that stuff also makes you go crazy. The same thing happened to the geologist dude. Still not sure what the final result is of their weapon of mass destruction is supposed to be.

Loved it i have no idea why everyone says its lacking in answers i thought it was all pretty well explained it just needed you to concentrate and think it over it was all their on screen, except for the only one that left me thinking was why did they want to destroy us? And that one is clearly within the film left for a sequel and even if they dont ever answer it who gives a shit, i think it answers much harder questions then that in the film anyway, their are millions of classic films out their where you dont get all the answers kinda like ummm,mmm in LIFE! The only thing i really disliked about the film was the ending purely because it felt like the film easily could of been a standalone film they could of just tied it up, instead the idea of their being a sequel kind of takes away from the feeling of this being standalone, so you feel a little disappointed at the end. But their was nothing wrong with creatures, it was fairly scientifically correct when organisms are created reptiles and fish are usually the first breeds formed, just like the way the creatures were similar to both of those.

I felt the movie was very good. People are not paying attention to what was said in the movie. They ASSUMED that they maybe the creators of the human race. Everything they was on an assumption not facts. The old artifacts that brought them to the planet did not state it either in the movie when they were explaining it. I agree with monkeyballs3 lol that there is two different fractions of the engineers. The one in the beginning looks more on the religious front and the others military.

For all of you who think that the movie was some great masterpiece with an intelligible story, I dare you to answer at least five of these questions without adding something that wasn't in the movie, or disregarding something that was.



The huge flaw of this movie is that it leaves the story up to the audience, this works sometimes when a movie does not contradict itself and is asking questions based on things the audience knows. Here's a little bit of a newsflash, humans have been pondering their origins for thousands of years, leaving the motivations of our creators up to the audience to figure out is just lazy, after the first 30 seconds of the movie, what did Ridley Scott and the LOST guy even bring to the discussion?

If you apologist answer is that I need to wait for the next movie to get anything close to a complete story, then I ask you, will the next movie be free? Was I supposed to get a 50% discount on this movie because it was only half of a story?

The movie is great visually, Fassbender does a lot with his character, and the opening scene is very intelligent; other than that there are absolutely no redeeming factors. The story is terrible. This may not have been a problem if people would just call it a simple popcorn flick like an "Independence Day" but people are treating it like an "Inception" which is just ridiculous.

If your IQ is over 100 you will be very disappointed in the story, otherwise I guess it is mind blowing.

@ACira - See Alien. To claim it went down a couple notches on your must-see list because of Prometheus is similar to this statement:

"Raiders of the Lost Ark dropped down a couple of notches on my must see list because I saw Kingdom of the Lost Skull first." (or whatever that shit part four to Raiders was called)


Alien is a classic, not just in the geek crowd, but any crowd. (But especially the geek crowd!!) So, never, and I mean never, hold off on seeing a classic because someone is rolling out a prequel 20 or 30 years later. Imagine if Star Wars was released in retard Lucas order, nobody would have stuck around long enough to see the Ewoks defeat the Empire if Phantom Menace was the first movie out of the gat.

The film just had a tad too much going on, as far as the writing goes... (SPOILER WARNING)

For starters, there were too many useless characters. For example, the two scientists who got lost in the caves/ship and died from the amphibious worm-creature served absolutely no purpose to the plot. Well, one of them did come back to life as a murdering zombie, but all he did was make his way back to the ship and kill more of the useless characters we didn't care about. These characters took away precious screen time from the characters we actually do care about, and their deaths diluted the impact of the main characters' deaths.

Second, the black liquid was used a crutch rather than an intelligent plot device. The following outcomes all resulted from the black goo: (1) If you ingest it, it will decompose your body, (2) If you are exposed to it, it will cause rapid evolution like the worms on the ground of that chamber, (3) If you're exposed to it after you die, it will bring you back as a murderous zombie, and (4) it will apparently turn your semen into miracle working mutants.

The combination of those two things led to just too many things going on in the movie, and it made the movie feel a little too mindless space-horror rather than the intelligent thinker it could have been. Other than that, I really had no problem with the overall story, the questions it asked, and the questions it raised. I thought those points of the movie were all handled wonderfully. And not to mentioned it looked amazing.

Also, the alien C-Section scene was just absurd. As much as I like the fact that the first (albeit giant) facehugger was born from a human, I think they were hoping that the audience would be cringing so hard that they would ignore how unrealistic that scene was.

Can anyone name any good movie in history that made absolutely zero sense until seeing the sequel?

I don't follow why people aren't understanding the plot.

Aliens made us, we go find them, they don't want anything to do with us (and they also have their own issues they're dealing with).

HarrisonBergeron - 6/14/2012, 2:58 PM
Report Comment Can anyone name any good movie in history that made absolutely zero sense until seeing the sequel?

History of the World pt 1.

Glorious work of a film. Modern Masterpiece.