Revisiting PROMETHEUS...

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

I thought the "Jesus was an engineer" angle was cool but it was under baked. That should've been a central focus of the movie.

As far as Lovecraft, he wrote that in 1931. Not saying the idea didn't exist prior to that story, but as far as putting it in fiction and developing an entire mythology around it, he was one of if not the first to do it. The only other horror author more influential is probably Poe.

Fred.

Did Lovecraft simply present the idea that aliens created the life on earth or did he also present the idea that they helped us evolve or somehow sped up the process? I'm not very well informed in the literary world.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Well they also didn't have a scene or line of dialogue prior to that where they acted as if they weren't touching anything and just wanted to go home or knew better not to

There's a scene in the deleted scenes of PROMETHEUS where they come in contact with like a little alien worm or something and it doesn't mess with them, I guess after that they had their guard down

 

[MartyMcFly]

There's a scene in the deleted scenes of PROMETHEUS where they come in contact with like a little alien worm or something and it doesn't mess with them, I guess after that they had their guard down

Well then it's on them for leaving key stuff out. I can't judge the movie for what's left on the cutting room floor breh

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Well then it's on them for leaving key stuff out. I can't judge the movie for what's left on the cutting room floor breh

true.. it's all in that CBG19 review. It's 45-minutes long but it's good. She gets on my nerves sometimes but for something like this where she's real invested she does a good job.

 

[Sauanaffe Tustunnagee]

first of all fukk the cac whom directed this for whitewashing the Ancient Egyptians in Exodusas for while 2/3rds of yhr gilm id boring the action really picked up toward the end and actually had wanting more/anticipating the sequal

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

true.. it's all in that CBG19 review. It's 45-minutes long but it's good. She gets on my nerves sometimes but for something like this where she's real invested she does a good job.

I think I've seen that video, bytch makes great points and its a well done video.

Well then it's on them for leaving key stuff out. I can't judge the movie for what's left on the cutting room floor breh

it's so strange to me that it seems to be a theme with Ridley. You'd think a director of his prominence would be able to make the movie he pleases but again and again it seems like studios make him cut his movies run times down. Literally almost all of his movies have directors cuts that in at least one case make it literally twice as good as it was (Kingdom of Heaven) but at the very least better overall.

 

[MartyMcFly]

I think I've seen that video, bytch makes great points and its a well done video.

it's so strange to me that it seems to be a theme with Ridley. You'd think a director of his prominence would be able to make the movie he pleases but again and again it seems like studios make him cut his movies run times down. Literally almost all of his movies have directors cuts that in at least one case make it literally twice as good as it was (Kingdom of Heaven) but at the very least better overall.

Yeah I don't get it either. Isn't fox the common thread?

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Kingdom of Heaven is ridiculous because the theater cut is fukking awful but the director's cut is a legit GOOD movie. Maybe even very good.

I never seen such a difference between versions like that

 

[hex]

Did Lovecraft simply present the idea that aliens created the life on earth or did he also present the idea that they helped us evolve or somehow sped up the process? I'm not very well informed in the literary world.

Short version:

In "At The Mountains Of Madness" The Elder Things are the source of all life on Earth, mostly for their food/amusement/use. They appeared around a billion years ago.

They had a race of slaves called Shoggoths that could turn into anything with a thought. They used them as beasts of burden, tools, even building material.

When the climate of Earth started to change it weakened their civilization, which led to the Shoggoths rebelling. Eventually the Elder Things retreated to an underground sea.

Millions of years pass, and what they originally created eventually becomes humans.

Humans plan an expedition to Antarctica in 1930, where a giant mountain range is discovered to be the walls to an ancient city. Inside the city the explorers find carvings on the walls that depict the history of what I just described. The carvings also show something existed on Earth prior to the Elder Things, that they feared and hated. It was trapped behind the mountain walls.

Eventually the explorers find some Elder Things and Shoggoths and that doesn't go too well. Lastly as they're leaving one of the two surviving explorers looks back and sees something trying to escape the walls of the city....whatever it is makes him lose his mind. The story ends with the final sane explorer pleading with scientists to never go to that region again.

Fred.

 

[HHR]

Honestly, my appreciation for this movie gets better every time I watch it.

Really looking forward to Covenant.

 

[Art Barr]

She breaks this down so lovely and tells you how the movie was suppose to originally go. Too many people in the room with ideas fukked this up and it should have been a classic

She is so much fun to watch.


Art Barr

 

[Geek Nasty]

I liked it, but it definitely should have been better.

 

[FlyRy]

Honestly, my appreciation for this movie gets better every time I watch it.

Really looking forward to Covenant.

I'm not an Alien fanboy like most posters on here so I liked the movie from the jump

 

[GzUp]

So this was a prequel to the alien franchise, I'm just this finding out

 

[Easy-E]

Finally saw this; the "why run straight, not turn?" thing is overblown. Some big thing fell out of the sky. How were they supposed to know why it was supposed to fall? It's huge and falling.

Still not explanation for not having their damn helmets on.

I just realized (after watching a bunch of YouTube vids on the film, the other films, explanations) The Engineer had a alien in his gut

I'm late to the entire series. I own Alien, now. But, I'm prolly gonna end up seeing Covenant in another 3 years. Doesn't sound promising.