Prometheus Spoiler Fuckstorm thread

[miracle fruit]

im gonna watch prometheus 2

[FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK]

They didnt entirely expect a sequel while making this. The reason a lot of things were unanswered is because thats how horror works. Shit has to stay strange, foreign, and unknown. You let people understand something entirely for impact, and they gave us some realizations for that purpose. The original Alien movie didnt explain jack shit about the xenomorphs and the intentions of Weyland were still fairly vague yet sinister, yet nobody complains about that.

im gonna watch prometheus 2

If it happens so am I, I really hope it does. They said they will if people want it and they get funding.

[VuBawlsClock]

I never understood the intentions of weyland

[BoomStick Clock]

old bitch wanted to liiiiiive.

[GearBoxClock]

I never understood the intentions of weyland

be the worst employer ever

[FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK]

What nobody realizes is that the Weyland corporation just wanted the xenomorphs to advance stem cell research so we dont have to experiment on human fetuses, and then use them to grow new organs and body parts for people. Ripley was the true villain all along. MOST SHOCKING TWIST YET

[Munglai]

The main issue with Prometheus was that the crew was 90% unlikable. Idris was cool as the captain but barely got to do anything; Charlize was pretty intriguing as some kind of super badass but she never got a chance to use her secret badass abilities and Noomy only became at all likable after giving herself a robot abortion about two thirds into the story. David was the only one you liked the entire way through and he was kind of meant to be a bad guy. The rest of the crew just became more and more unlikable the more we saw of them, especially Noomy's boyfriend/husband who was the biggest tool ever right up to his death. I think Ridley was probably going for a kind of "hey this is real life and in real life you might end up with a ship full of assholes" approach but the real strength of the original Alien was that even though the crew were realistically assholey, you liked them all and you felt strong relationships between all of them whether it was friendship/camaraderie/respect/whatever.

The only real plot hole was why David put the alien juice in Noomy's boyfriend's drink. I mean I get that he was a huge dick so David picked him to use it on, but what was it all meant to achieve?

And yeah I think they could have done with clearing up the alien life cycle a bit. If they wanted to have loads of different creatures they could have just established that the alien juice stuff was unpredictable and did different things to different people in different situations. Having an already existing alien vagina snake and all that junk just threw everything off track. I really wanted to know more about the engineers and was a bit disappointed that he just went nuts and tried to murder everyone without revealing any secrets at all but as long as they do a decent sequel I can live with that.

Overall I thought the world and ideas were interesting enough to make up for the plot problems. I got the feeling it would be a lot more enjoyable the second time round when you're prepared for the weird pace and you can look out for all the hidden stuff they jammed in.

They didnt entirely expect a sequel while making this. The reason a lot of things were unanswered is because thats how horror works. Shit has to stay strange, foreign, and unknown. You let people understand something entirely for impact, and they gave us some realizations for that purpose. The original Alien movie didnt explain jack shit about the xenomorphs and the intentions of Weyland were still fairly vague yet sinister, yet nobody complains about that.

The reason a lot of things were unanswered is because Ridley changed his mind about what the film was half way through and got the writers to put together a new script in the middle of filming. Alien had a certain amount of mystery but all the workings of plot were fully formed in the creators' heads and you could really tell.