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Comment by dream_the_sandman on November 22, 2012 at 9:09pm

I hated this movie, here are some of the reasons why:

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Are your survival skills as finely honed as the scientists aboard Prometheus? Let's find out...

You, a scientist, have landed on a distant planet with a team of fellow scientists in search of alien life. What would you do in the following scenarios?

1. Upon first arrival and entrance into what appears to be a manufactured cave structure, you deploy very high tech scanning and mapping probes. Do you:
A) Also send out your android crew member to evaluate any possible danger and then wait for the probes to finish scanning and mapping before you begin exploring?
B) Brazenly charge forward into the unknown and maybe consult your equipment's discoveries later, shrugging off any blips of alien life as an equipment malfunction?

2. While traveling through the cave structure on this alien planet you discover the presence of oxygen in the air. Do you:
A) Keep your space helmet secured tightly because there may be any number of unknown elements, pathogens, bacteria, contagions, and other toxic substances in the atmosphere that are undetectable by your equipment?
B) Quickly remove your helmet AFTER stating what an idiotic idea it is because a fellow teenage scientist, who has properly tested the air by taking a few shallow breaths, peer-pressures you into it?

3. Your android crew member appears to have quickly learned the language of the inscriptions found within the cave. Do you:
A) Ask him to translate everything and share his wealth of knowledge from that point forward?
B) Treat him like a red-headed step child and ignore him for the rest of the mission?

4. As scientists on a mission in search of alien life, you stumble upon a deceased alien life form in the cave structure. Do you:
A) Restrain your excitement at the discovery and prepare to study, take samples, and test further?
B) Piss your pants in fear and then while attempting to return to the ship you run in random directions until you are lost within the caves, refusing to consult the mapping tools you brought with you even though you happen to be THE expert in their usage?

5. After becoming lost within the caves you learn of a storm outside that will prevent you from returning to the ship until morning. Do you:
A) Break out your mapping tools to help determine your location and plot your exit strategy; or still refusing that logic, simply ask the crew on the ship to help guide you through the caves with their 3D map which includes your location?
B) Decide that exploring deeper into the caves to frighten yourself further with more deceased alien discoveries is probably the most logical thing you can be doing with your spare time?

6. After wandering through the entire haunted-house cave structure you decide to enter the initial room that frightened you off in the first place; unfortunately you then come face to face with a living alien that resembles a large snake which begins posturing and hissing at you like a king cobra. Do you:
A) Shoot it in the face and run for your miserable life?
B) Decide that you are only afraid of dead aliens and not live ones, and then try to pet the aggressive alien snake with your hand?

7. Upon the discovery of a 2000 year old decapitated alien head which has been wondrously preserved, you bag the head in your trusty ziplock and return to the ship with your trophy for testing. Do you:
A) Take a sample and have a look at its DNA first?
B) Recalling your fond memories of Frankenstein, you inject stem cells into its locus coeruleus to re-animate it and increase the amps until the alien head explodes; and then you run your tests?

8. You manage to collect a small sample of a strange black goop in the caves, which appears to be alive. Do you:
A) Put a drop onto a slide and take a look under a microscope?
B) Decide that the scientific method of small children will yield the best and quickest results and so you secretly put a drop into a drink which you then give to a scientist to see what happens?

9. You have become incredibly sick with some unknown illness and witness an alien larva worm crawl out of your eye. Do you:
A) Quarantine yourself and ask the other crew members to help treat your condition immediately?
B) Pretend that nothing is amiss and you feel fine, then romp about as usual with the rest of the crew until you collapse half-dead?

10. After a contagion outbreak and another scientist lost to death-by-alien-snake, the missing scientist left for dead in the caves returns to the ship as a zombie spider monkey. Do you:
A) Leave the door tightly secured until you can determine the status of the unresponsive crew member with the variety of cameras located on the ship?
B) Open the door and go out alone to investigate, then kick the creature while turning your back to it until it smashes your face in with its zombie strength?

11. You come face to face with an Engineer, the creator of humans, after waking him from hypersleep. Do you:
A) Attempt to speak his language and introduce yourself, your crew, and your mission?
B) Barrage him with fat mama jokes until he becomes an enraged Neanderthal and tears your head off with his bare hands?

12. A disc shaped spaceship rolls towards you in the final moments of its crash landing. Do you:
A) Run ten yards to the right or left, perpendicular to the ship's path, and let it roll on by?
B) In the heat of the moment you forget about the steamroller scene from Austin Powers, and so for a full minute you attempt to outrun the crashing town-sized spaceship by following its trajectory as it slowly barrels towards you?

How did you do? Total your score and share it in the comments!
All A's = 1 point
All B's = 0 points

(Hopefully you managed better than the total of ZERO scored by the characters plucked straight out of a teenage slasher film to masquerade as scientists in the movie Prometheus!)

"On behalf of scientists everywhere, I am ashamed to count you among us." -Milburn
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Comment by Nightmayor on July 24, 2012 at 11:59am

I think that the Engineers were creators that lost control of their creations. An while the Aliens are dangerous. The saw Mankind with its ability to create as well as being an even greater threat. So they sought to destroy us if we ever acquired space travel with instructions to a facility that would destroy us.

I thought that Weyland was under the opinion that the Engineers would be benevolent and would immediately take pity on him. Cryosleep or Stasis isn't immortality, Its longevity. Ripley went into Stasis for 57 years however she did age. (the 7years it took to make the sequel) With that in mind maybe the doctors of earth told him he could exist another 2-3 years in stasis. Enough time to get to the planet but not enough to wait for the Prometheus to get back. A desperate dying man can't wait. So he went along in hope of a cure sooner. 

Comment by Maverick on July 14, 2012 at 12:52pm

Man, Co-host just confused me more than this film did with his long-ass explaination at the end.

Comment by Jelly on July 12, 2012 at 3:48pm

Best movie ever

Comment by DaveTheBrave on July 12, 2012 at 2:04pm

Thank you guys so much for doing this discussion!!!!!!!!
That being said, I think Korey and Cyrus are being really, really hard on this. I totally agree with Co-Host and Leon that the plot "problems" with this film are totally explainable with a little thought, and like Leon I was processing and making conjecture about the backstory as the movie went along (although I am a big ALIEN fan). The problems with character motivations are justifiable, and the only failing I found with the film.

****The central theme of Prometheus (which I think Korey and Cyrus miss) is creation and destruction, which I feel is a perfect metaphor for the xenomorph since it is born from the death of its host. Creation motifs are all over the film in obvious to less obvious forms: Shaw’s infertility, consistent references to religion, the black bile creating hyper-aggressive life, the hall of alien murals, Weyland's obsession with death, and all the various issues raised by the “artificial person” David. The question you are left with at the end of the movie is magnificent: "They (the Engineers) created us and then they decided to kill us. I want to know why!"

--> My theory about the maps and the Engineers' motives is that the Engineers recognized humanity’s ingenuity and destructive potential, which would obviously frighten them enough to destroy it. The star maps left on Earth were an insurance policy: should humanity advance far enough that it could accomplish interstellar travel, then humans would be led to the facility. If humans had evolved to a rational level then they would recognize the destructive potential of the black bile and leave; on the other hand, if they had remained hostile and warlike then the weaponry on the planet would surely wipe them out (just as the Weyland-Yutani Company attempts to do with the xenomorphs, although they are thwarted by the sacrifice of Ripley, a rational and decent human being).

The fact that you guys felt compelled to even HAVE this discussion proves the point that this movie, while it may not be brilliantly philosophical, still effectively explores great philosophical themes; rather like Inception and The Matrix were blockbusters that made people think about reality and perception. I am so glad that Ridley Scott chose to return to this series, and I hope they make this a trilogy!

Comment by Mike Salcedo on July 9, 2012 at 10:21pm

THE BLACK GOO:

           The black goo didn't just do "what the script needed it to" like Cyrus said (no rudeness intended).  It just makes you the weapon version of yourself.  It gave Noomi Rapace's boyfriend Zombie dick, so  when he put his infected seed inside of her infertile womb, it created a weapon version of her miracle baby; meaning SHE became the FIRST ORGANISM to do an Alien-style gut bust.

            Noomi Rapace is the mother of all "GUT-BUSTING" Aliens because black goo wasn't ever linked to birthing belly babies.  Anything before HER pregnancy was Zombie-style, like the worms or the on-fire guy with the gross head.

          This means that the Xenomorph at the end of the film would have to somehow later get to LV426 in order to birth the eggs from "Alien", possibly at the expense of the Engineers on that ship.  That's the only way I see Noomi Rapace being the direct mother of the Xenomorphs. 

          Oh snap, maybe because she's the momma and an Engineer is the pappa, that makes the Xenomorph like symbolism-Jesus: the product of God and his Creation (the human Virgin Mary).

 

Comment by Mike Salcedo on July 9, 2012 at 10:20pm

THEORY:

          I think that humans were created as weapons just as much the black goo was.  The difference is that humans were created in "god's own image" (modeled off of the engineers themselves).  The problem with making weapons based on intelligent organisms is that they can build their OWN weapons and become unruly.

          Then HUMANS built robots in THEIR own image and looked what happened.  David can be as threatening to humans as humans can be to the engineers.  The relationship between David and his creators (humans) will straight up parallel the relationship between humans and THEIR creators (Engineers).

Comment by Herman on July 9, 2012 at 12:31pm

@Carrot

You're being extremely rude.

Comment by manton harding on July 9, 2012 at 10:48am

why do i keep hearing people say that the black goo in Prometheus made the snakes. the goo mutated the worm that was shone into the snake thing. the goo is a mutagen that changes everything into a weapon

Comment by Robbie Atelier on July 9, 2012 at 2:50am

@Carrot

Bravo sir on your masterful display of trolling. Good day, ser.

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