tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7390190125340323607.post7278700396473820068..comments2024-01-20T10:59:05.037-05:00Comments on DRD's Movie Musings: Prometheus: the prequel that raises more questions than answersDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09781924305051169635noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7390190125340323607.post-39756648474678646592012-10-12T00:44:59.698-04:002012-10-12T00:44:59.698-04:00Just a Quick update, just recently purchased the 4...Just a Quick update, just recently purchased the 4 disc deluxe video of this film, that comes with a directors cut, and 2 alt. beginings AND 3 alt. endings....should be good, and might shed a little more light on this film as well. I will let you all know later...M.Wandererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11357373044433213176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7390190125340323607.post-38934162892439520052012-07-16T15:12:44.694-04:002012-07-16T15:12:44.694-04:00M. Wanderer, you make an excellent point. If the a...M. Wanderer, you make an excellent point. If the alien is a parasite requiring a face to hug and a chest in which to incubate before bursting out, what are they going to on a barren planet, and how do they survive traveling through interstellar space on their own? Bwahahaha! We might get tired counting all the stupidities in this film.DAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09781924305051169635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7390190125340323607.post-50707435555557695402012-07-16T15:04:15.751-04:002012-07-16T15:04:15.751-04:00Heh.. Well I think there might be some promise tow...Heh.. Well I think there might be some promise towards this prequel...IF they do another sequel to this prequel, and IF they address this connection of the Aliens with both the eningeers and humans, or at least something closer relatead to where the first Alien movie starts. <br /><br />Like you said, even as a stand alone there are alot of holes in the plot and unanswered questions. And as a prequel, even more unanswered questions with its continuality with the Alien franchise.<br /><br />I mean for example. That proto-alien at the end of the film..unless it somewhow produces asexually, how exactly will it breed? theres nothing else alive on that planet. And I think initially the alien race are at least so a degree a parasitic species. Were they ever going to show how this proto-type suvives? or breeds? And how so?<br /><br />Also following the protangonist Elizabeth Shaw, she wants to find out answers to the engineers, and uses one of their ships to head to presumingly their home planet for answers to why they created mankind, and why they want to destroy them. That too needs to be addressed as a loose end.<br /><br />By the way, speaking of Shaw, A friend of mine was theriozing, she could potentially become a early "alien queen". His theory is based on the suggestion that whatever remenence of that black liquid that was passed on from her husband to her, might be still in her dormant. He thinks based of what she was pregnant with (which evenually turned out to be a very large proto-face hugger)could potentially happen again. Remember you once told me, compared to the Predators whom have a more masculine genre, the Alien hierarchy, is more feminine. With the Queen being at the top, much a insect colony. Its the queen that lays eggs and produces those facehuggers, much like Shaw just did (though not willingly). Its a interest theory..but personally I'm skeptical.<br /><br />Granted generally sequels or prequel rarely do better then the orignal film..there are some exceptions. (The Chistopher Nolan Batman series is a good example you left out). Sadly it doesnt seem this one is not one of them...at least not completly. But expect a sequel-prequel nonetheless!M.Wandererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11357373044433213176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7390190125340323607.post-39039720313004309042012-07-15T20:18:57.406-04:002012-07-15T20:18:57.406-04:00I'm reminded also that you've talked about...I'm reminded also that you've talked about prequels, and we noted that Hollywood appeared to have "figured it out" with a string of prequels that were better than previous efforts that fell flat.<br /><br />Well, I think Prometheus takes us back to that previous lower level - we already know that sequels are not guaranteed to do as well as any original. Now we are fairly confident in saying that prequels are no guarantee either.<br /><br />I guess that, sometimes, a movie catches lightning in a bottle and is a surprise hit such that decoding what made it successful and then emulating that formula is not as simple as movie-makers feign to expect.<br /><br />Having said that, I can argue that there are several great movies that were indeed followed up by even better sequels; and the let down came in installment 3: Blade, Star Wars original trilogy, the Godfather, and The Terminator are all series that had a great opener, an even better sequel, but a third installment letdown. Why such appears to be the case remains to be examined.DAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09781924305051169635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7390190125340323607.post-75361572584274318272012-07-15T17:19:12.458-04:002012-07-15T17:19:12.458-04:00I think I'll have to see it again with you to ...I think I'll have to see it again with you to get some of what I apparently must have missed, but my general take on this sequel is thumbs down.<br /><br />Yes, M. Wanderer, it's quite possible that we need at least one more installment after Prometheus and before Alien; however, on the face of it, I think Prometheus' dabbling in the whole "human origins" topic is totally not what the Alien franchise was ever about.<br /><br />I think they'd have been better to make no mention nor connection to the Alien franchise at all, and just make a movie that explores this fundamental question.<br /><br />And, hey, your comment on the connectivity among the DNA of the engineers, aliens and humans isn't a far stretch - recall in Alien Resurrection the development of Ripley as "its mother" at a level far above simply that of incubating host for the chest-bursting thing.<br /><br />Even so, however, it's got to be noted that conversation about "the origin of humanity" does not come up so clearly that it is a conversation. I recall talks about using the aliens as biological weapons and other such claptrap...but some connection between our origins and them...? That's an entirely new contrivance that, as such, was evidently and perhaps rightly difficult to stitch into the prequel world because it was a new contrivance, and does not mesh well withe the Alien franchise as we know it.<br /><br />All in all, as a prequel, nope. As a standalone? Meh. Special effects? Rarely a selling point for me - the most important part of a movie is story, after which we measure the degree to which the special effects help or distract from the story.<br /><br />If only George Lucas could understand this.DAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09781924305051169635noreply@blogger.com