WTH is with the horseshoe design, it wouldnt be very aerodynamic. Worst movie ever.

Same universe my ass

I cant seem to find a pic of thee Weyland Message that they played to the crew, Im trying to confirm the architecture of the Blade Runner pic...

She showed alot emotion to be artificial. Cold maybe but artificial? Not seeing it.

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WTH is with the horseshoe design, it wouldnt be very aerodynamic. Worst movie ever.

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There's plenty of things to complain about in this film, but arguing about unknown alien technology from a species that is obviously much further advanced than us doesn't seem to be a solid one.

Aerodynamics... in a space ship... Think about that one long and hard.

just saw the movie so TTT so I can peruse this thread at my leisure

Downloaded on iTunes last night and watched it for the first time...I so wish I caught this one on the big screen.

It was definitely a sexy/shiny/glossy movie. Can't wait to watch it again when it comes to Blu-ray.

After I watched this in theaters, I went back and watch Alien 1-4. I thought the "feel" of the first Alien was represented well in Prometheus...the desolation; the use of "quiet" to keep you on edge. So good.

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Aerodynamics... in a space ship... Think about that one long and hard.

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Yes.

I finally saw this yesterday. Movie was pretty damn good, but it definitely had the Leviathan (Peter Weller movie) vibe going on. Invasive organism mutates scientists and military personnel sent to study said organism in harsh climate.

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Cool, a Leviathan reference.

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Cool, a Leviathan reference.

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i thought the movie was well done but I saw blatant reuse of other ideas. Yes, I actually expected more originality in a scifi flick. Sue me!

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Watching the 3 1/2 hour making of documentary on the blu-ray.

Just watched this on a plane, so I missed the apparently great visuals and was left with a pretty terrible script...but it certainly leads to discussion.

My thoughts:
- the black goo is not some universal magic fluid. I think they create many different varities - for any self aware animal - and what was on that planet, at that specific old building, was the Xeno strain. Maybe there was a human strain as well. Maybe many strains. It takes an engineer to swallow the goo and start the evolution process. This was shown at the beginning on an earth like planet. If something else comes in contact with the goo...look out.
- why would they create Xenos? Well, why would they create man? We are no better, just different. Especially to an Engineer. The flaw here of course is the whole 100% matching DNA thing but that was just stupid. Maybe the Xenos have the same DNA also. Maybe that's the point.
- there should be an entire planet of Xenos.
- of course, then the question is why do you need rooms full of Xeno goo. Are they seeding the universe with Xenos?
- David read the walls and knew exactly what he was doing. Why did he poison the guy? Hard to say...because he could? Wasn't that the human's response regarding building an android? But he had to know it wasn't going to be positive, it wasn't done out of curiousity.
- I don't get the WMD/Genocide angle. Where did that come from? I guess from the qty of goo and the lack of contact with humans? Maybe that lack of contact was because of what happened at that facility.
- the movie seems to imply that this was all of the engineers. If there were others on the planet still alive, or a home planet, wouldn't they have come back in the 2000 years to save survivors or clean-up/destroy the mess? This explains why they stopped visiting earth as well.

Or maybe the writers just suck and we shouldn't waste our time thinking more about this than they probably did.

I just saw the film recently as well. I thought some of the visuals were incredible, and I thought the universe that was created is incredible and has unbelieveable potential. However, the overall plot and some of the choices from the characters in this one was lacking. I am looking forward to Prometheus 2.

Anyone seen the directors cut and want to add? I just rented and saw this, this weekend. Great 8 pages of reading though!