just watched prometheus

Never really got into the alien movies, star wars all day, upside down, sideways backwards and forwards. in a way star wars was what influenced alien to even get made. So in that sense as a kid i watched the movie in some kind of brotherly spirit to star wars without even knowing that they had a connection... Hell, just watch the movie, obviously alien was heavily influenced by star wars in a lot of ways. one wonders what would have happened if ridley scott got his hands on an actual star wars film or james cameron. it's not too late to have one of them direct episode 9 is it?

So I've been back and forth on whether to watch prometheus or not. I tried watching it years ago and just was dying from boredom. Its truest failing as a film is that it's so dull and by the numbers modern sci-fi aesthetic to it... I mean, it's the same shit wash rinse repeat. Big fancy prequel star wars looking cgi shit we've all seen a billion times.

If Ridley showed more restraint (yeah I know, we're talking ridley scott here, doesn't know the meaning of restraint) would have been a far more effective film because the story is top notch stuff.

if you look beyond the modern age glitz and sparkles it's actually an intersting story that does have a meaning behind it, one Ridley is contemplating every day in his older years. What's going to happen when he dies.

It's an amazing film when you think about all the complex philosophical questions it posits. It gets you thinking even if it's too damn vague for its own good.

The key driving force of the film is that peter wayland doesn't want to die and in his remaining days, puts himself into cryo sleep until a mission to find alien beings finally goes forward and he plans to go get the fountain of youth. That's essentially what the film is, the search for the fountain of youth... Just it begs the audience to bend logic a lot of times and spin and twist to roll with the punches the script throws at you. So if you can't be bothered to get creative then no soup for you. But yeah it's fascinating to think about why the characters do what they do... Like the scene everyone on youtube is on about, when the guy provokes the worm to bite him instead of fleeing. In the cut I watched, the guy's fascinated by the worms he finds before they mutate and captures one.... If you twist it to mean he's thinking this bigger one is just as docile you might be able to buy it. I ultimately understand it in the same vein as those movies from the 80s where the character practically hands themself to the villain.

It's amazing to think about it... the engineer wakes up out of his cryo sleep to see this rat squeaking at him holding up a cute little puppet and claiming to be equal to him... it's the same as a lab mouse doing that to a scientist. What the fuck made Wayland think the engineer would look at him as anything more than a rodent like we do to mice. This is where you have to spin it or leave this movie behind imo. Forget all the other questions you have. Why did wayland assume the engineers would be like "ok bro. just take this immortality pill, my man. good to go."

In the deleted scene the engineer does talk to wayland and the android. Ridley cut this out to give us the sense that the engineer would not talk to mice. He'd crush them and go about his business.

But what he says is interesting. He asks wayland WHY he wants to have immortality. GBagahoujire!!! I mean I never thought about it.... that's a big damn question... why would you want to live forever, if that's even possible. I think in that moment Wayland knew he was going to die because he never really asked himself that question, why he wanted immortality. he just pursued it blindly. And that's how you understand why he would foolishly expect the engineer to care about his mission in life out of all the shit the engineer has to do today.... wayland is blindly leaping in hoping to get the answers without forethought....

I mean, but yeah that one scene takes a lot of forgiveness to help twist it to make sense. It just doesn't... it's just half of the reason there's a movie is because the characters are idiots. That's it, not that they were forced into conflict and survival... they're just dumb.

There's a superior film inside of prometheus that's for sure. One where there could have been complex interesting motives behind the actions and maybe sabotage attempts by someone in the crew etc. But no, we basically watch a movie where everything that happens is the character's own fault. It's a scooby doo episode at heart... hey gang, should we go into that haunted mansion. Sure guys, nothing gonna happen in there!!!

Let us all hope the next one is a lot better.