In those sequels, it would be an all-out war with the Xenomorphs, Luke would spend half the movie training with a green Muppet and the ultimate baddy would become the protagonist. Even so, the aliens would still be performers in latex suits, the Millennium Falcon remained practical model, and the terminator exoskeleton would be full-size puppets.
And so it was with Prometheus. Scott was hell-bent on constructing, in reality, as much as possible, quite literally extending the largest soundstage in Europe — found at Pinewood Studios — by an extra third, to maintain the same sort of texture and realism found in his original. For similar reasons, many of the creatures and gore effects were done in camera as well — the infamous med-pod scene featuring a fully realized animatronic alien. But having laid that foundation and established that connective tissue visually and aesthetically, the most fantastic aspects of Prometheus — like the aforementioned sequels — were what it then did differently.
They were humans in confined spaces, battling Xenomorphs. Who are the Engineers? Why did they create and influence life on Earth? Why did they want to destroy humanity? And why did they go to all that trouble to lure us across the galaxy with cave paintings spread across the planet? Perhaps they did so intentionally, but to not even imply or approximate some kind of answer to these mysteries just isn't good writing.
For all its visual triumphs, "Prometheus" suffers because of the open-ended questions the script asks but never bothers to answer. Of course, "Lost" fans probably aren't surprised that a script co-written by Lindelof fails to answer questions But that's another blog post entirely.
It's not just on those big questions that "Prometheus" falls flat. There are a number of smaller mysteries that are never settled, as well as some forehead-smacking leaps in logic and character behaviour that weaken the film overall.
Here are five things in "Prometheus" that simply didn't make any sense. Yes, there is a requisite creepy-crawly quota that a movie in the "Alien" family of films has to fill, but Fifield Sean Harris and Millburn's Rafe Spall behaviour on the ship goes against everything the film has already established about the characters. Fifield, a geologist, tries to book it out of there at the first sign of extraterrestrial trouble, while Millburn, though curious, is also hesitant to tangle with any unknown life forms.
After wandering around the ship for most of the night, the pair soon end up back in the weird chamber with the giant head and oozing jars, and come face-to-face with the extremely phallic cobra-tentacle ceature.
Instead of running the heck away like they both did only a few scenes before , Millburn and Fifield inexplicably start trying to touch and interact with the creature, with predictably deadly results. Granted, Fifield was stoned at the time, but what was Millburn's excuse for acting like an idiot?
Their buffoonery results in a zombiefied Fifield taking out a good number of the cargo bay's crew in a brutal rage later in the film. Not such a cute little alien now, eh? Toward the end of the film, things really start to fall apart and we're not just talking about the total breakdown of the plot!
With the awakened Engineer preparing to fly to Earth in his giant, U-shaped ship full of nasty bio-weapons, Captain Janek Idris Elba selflessly decides to sacrifice himself to stop the extraterrestrial vessel. But it's not so much selfless as it is kind of a jerk move.
There were actually three other people on board the Prometheus at the time, and the accordion-playing commander gives them approximately two minutes to get off the ship before his kamikaze run. Icy corporate rep Meredith Vickers Charlize Theron immediately takes Janek up on this offer and rushes to the nearest escape pod, but Janek's co-pilots Chance Emun Elliot and Ravel Benedict Wong bravely decide to go down with their captain and vessel, despite not having a clue as to what is going on.
Shaw Noomi Rapace screams that Janek has to stop the Engineer ship, and he acts on it because the two characters have previously discussed the stakes of the situation. But Chance and Ravel, who have been privy to none of this information, just kind of go along with the plan -- making them either extremely loyal crewmembers, idiots, or both.
One of the central themes of "Prometheus" is how far living things will go to survive just look at the ancient Weyland's trillion-dollar, cross-galaxy trip to extend his life.
These two pilots, however, give up on their own lives pretty easily, and even have time to crack a joke about a running bet they had going moments before their fiery demise. And the Darwin Award goes to Vickers' dramatic escape from the doomed Prometheus is a pretty cool moment in the movie, but the fact that it was an awesome set piece seems to be the only reason she was allowed to escape in the first place. Theron's character is promptly squashed by the crashing Engineer ship mere moments after her escape pod touches down on the surface of LV Why let her get off of the Prometheus if you're just going to kill her?
God I really hated those fuckfaced scientists Clearly had some features similar to the Alien series actress. I'm sorry but Scott fucked up here. They streamlined the movie for you guys.
And if you have multiple possible answers for certain inconsistencies and that it repeats constantly in almost every scene,then this is clearly a series of plot holes.
It was not intentional. You can see it was very much unintentional,hence why this movie is such an engorged piece of poo. I totally agree, in a sense. For me, I guess I'm a bit impatient when it comes to films. Part of me wants answers; just in case a sequel never comes.
But I guess it is personal preference and as you've rightly said that some great films do leave a lot to the imagination. Part of me hopes that Prometheus turns out to be a very well thought out film that can have unanswered questions answered in interesting ways through various means directors cuts, future films, novels etc but I guess only time will tell.
Thanks for the input anyway! Fans of Ridley Scott think he is such a genius ,he could have not made a bad movie Being late to the conversation. I agree the potential wasted is had to believe. One thing that stuck out for me is the Geological Scientist hired to do the mapping with his advanced pups I think they were called, gets lost walking back to the ship when the rest of the party makes it back it less then 15 minutes too beat the storm. That said the Engineers goo they created probably has the same similar steps it takes in destroying what ever life form it's released on, including the engineers.
So I don't agree that what happened here is the birth to the Alien in the other movies. It's only similar to what happens anytime the goo or spores comes in contact to a life form. The spores being a weapon is okay but not the direction I would have gone.
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