The original script was a bit blunt, but made more sense. Unfortunately there was a lot of studio meddling which resulted in a final draft that was confusing and left a lot of questions. Without going into too much detail, the original script was primarily about the humans being one of many failed attempts by the engineers to recreate themselves, having become infertile. They had attempted to correct humans, but their teachings were rejected (Jesus' crucifixion.) Earth was ordered to be sterilized, but an accident occurred and the ship never departed. ~2000 years later, the last engineer is awoken from his sleep to find an android and human selfishly asking for eternal life. He views the android as an insulting attempt by the unworthy humans to usurp the engineers as creators, and attacks them. It plays right into the title of the movie, Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods and was punished.
I have seen 2 consecutive Prometheus reactions where the reactor didn't notice David discretely insert the black substance into Dr Holloway's beverage. David's nefarious actions are even more enhanced in Alien Covenant.
@@MrCzerillo to be fair Logan’s character is treated as the antagonist in that scene and you can still care about the crew and not like one guy, lol. I don’t think David’s true motivations become apparent until Covenant. He also gives Holloway the choice - how far would you go - and Holloway consents - saying he’d do anything and that was logical enough for David to infect him.
@@popcornroulettereactions "Noone Knows" Really? YOU are very young and have zero clue @Thinking And Destiny by Harold Percival @The Word Foundation You can read the pdf free online About Transmigration,Reincarnation and the Metempsychosis. Next @ Mauro Biglino & The 5Th Kind channels and books Both are Authors @ Adam 1414 channel.
This is a pretty good movie if you overlook several instances of sheer stupidity: if you're on an alien world whose atmosphere matches that of earth EXACTLY you still do NOT take off your helmet - the atmosphere may be perfect but you've no idea what kind of micro-organisms might be floating around. Second, upon finding an alien organism, you do NOT approach it like you're approaching a kitten, and you certainly don't get within arm's reach of it. Next, although one may have sympathy for the crewmembers who were "infected", under no circumstances should they be allowed on board the ship - they might infect the entire crew (remember what happened to Ripley in the movie "Alien" because quarantine protocol was over-ridden?).
All bad movies would be good movies if you ignore the stupid parts. Problem is, those stupid parts are canon and infect everything around it. Personally, I think this movie wasn’t needed and it would have been better off if it weren’t made. The origin of the xenomorphs was something better left a mystery. There are a million different awesome potential explanations for it, and if left a mystery and up to the imagination, it could be any and all of them. Instead, they attempted to explain it and did a less than mediocre job, which, by virtue of canon affects the original movies, as well as any future movies.
I am the most hardcore mfr on this Earth. Nothing scares me. Nothing will ever make me tremble, not a man, not a beast, nothing. But holy crap, that scene where the girl gets the surgery literally makes me squirm like a tiny little bitch. I hate it. They did an amazing job with it, and the girl's acting was phenomenal. I cringe every time I remember.
Same here. I watched the movie completely ”blind” so I had no idea that this was part of THAT movie series. I was so hyped at the end lol! I thought the movie was fine, but I’m easily entertained anyways 😅
The engineers are an ancient alien super race. That is a call back to the first movie and the comics. They are responsible for seeding life on multiple worlds for various purposes. The black goo is their preferred multi purpose terraforming tool. Instead of building the atmosphere processors from aliens, they just spread the goo around and direct it to work. I say "multi purpose" because it has an additional setting that may be unlocked.... It is also a deadly bioweapon planet kilker.... It has a pre designated Endstate that no matter what it comes into contact with will eventually lead to Xenomorph forms... IF The weaponized setting is activated. Think of it like keeping a loaded gun rack, Herbicide, and Insecticide in one corner of your garden Shed. Unleashing Xenomorphs is what the engineers do when they decide to [CTRL+ALD+DEL] a project. David is definitely short the full set of Asimov protocols. 💀💀💀
This was the most interesting reaction I’ve seen. This is the first time ever that I’ve interpreted the movie very differently to the reactor. It’s given me a lot to think about
But it doesn't doesn't discount evolution. The opening scene shows how evolution started on Earth with that Engineer's body breaking down to the basic molecules. Eventually simple single-celled organisms began to form and multiply, then evolve.
Yeah, in a sense prometheus sets out to answer the question of the origin of life on earth. In this fictional world, evolution is still the result of what the engineers kick start with that weird suicide ritual.
It’s LV-426. But you are correct that the captain’s chair is the same outcome we see in Alien. This shows the infection happened other times on other worlds. But this planet is NOT LV-426.
i like the attention to detail when David has some of the black goo on his fingertip, it shows the company's ownership over him in that they have given him a fingerprint that is the Weyland company logo.
I loved this movie and the direction it was going and all the questions it was answering that i had thought since i was 7 years old with my poster of the space jockey (pilot engineer), I also liked the sequel to this and hoped for more but i don`t think it will happen. I was very shocked that these had such a bad rating with some fans but most just want a shootemup movie and not let their minds wander a bit but i can appreciate them both.
Prometheus fans didn't like Covenant because it failed to answer any of the questions Prometheus posed and it killed off Shaw making everything she went though pointless, They should have continued Shaw's journey properly. Covenant also annoyed fans of the original Alien by suggesting David created the xeno, which is a silly idea.
Such a fabulously unsettling movie! Noomi Rapace is fantastic. Speaking of Noomi, why don't more people react to the Girl with a dragon tattoo movies (the originals). Great stuff.
I absolutely love the entire look of this film. I won't make some long winded comment but it's worth studying how they did all this for anyone into that art.
That wasn't Shaw's partner Holloway that came back all mutated and on a rampage towards the end, that was the other guy - the red head - that got lost with with the other scientist for the night.
If we didn't mess with the unknown, we never would have discovered that fire is useful. Risks have to be taken, but they don't have to be taken stupidly. Dude should obviously not have been reaching for an alien lifeform with his own hand.
There was a deleted scene where they find one of those snake/snug things. Granted it was much smaller. But Milburn was holding it and was the one to place it in the specimen jar. That probably gave him a false scene that there wouldn’t be any danger. Still… pretty friggin dumb. That’s what this movie should have been called. Alien: People doing Dumb Shit!
The story of this is continued in Alien: Covenant. Dr. Shaw's father is played by Patrick Wilson. David is portrayed by Michael Fassbender, who's also in 300, Centurion, Inglorious Basterds and some of the X-Men films. Peter Wayland is portrayed by Guy Pierce, who's also in L.A. Confidential, Memento and The Hurt Locker. The ship's captain is portrayed by Idris Elba, who's also in The Wire, American Gangster, The Suicide Squad and various MCU films
This is a fantastic movie, not just endlessly blasting aliens, chase - hunt. This movie is my favourite in the whole franchise. It's too bad there won't be a third installment of Ridley's planned trilogy.
Thanks, Amelia! 👾 I liked this one and ALIEN: COVENANT (2017) since they gave us more insight into the 'Engineers'... which were a huge mystery since ALIEN (1979).
You really interpreted this movie very differently from how I’ve seen everyone else interpret it. David is not a good guy. He was less concerned about the safety of the crew and more concerned with the safety of the mission, which was to discover and find out about the engineers vis-à-vis his creator. That’s why he intentionally infected the scientist by putting the black goo in his drink.
Ok. I just realized why the scientist was so excited about the xenomorph snake. It has no teeth. It essentially looks like a giant worm. Who would feel really threatened by a worm, especially if it has no teeth?? In fact they did start out as worms. But the audience knows that every creature in this universe is beyond lethal. So we all think we know better and we treat the characters with disdain if they do something that goes against our better instincts. And about Charlie taking off his helmet, i mean, the instruments say that theres an atmosphere with oxygen. If theres no contaminants, why not? I cant believe critics get so petty as to attack Shaw and Vickers for not running out from under the falling ship. They clearly werent paying attention. The falling debris from Prometheus was hitting the ground like meteors.
You still shouldn't go around poking some unknown organism even if it seems safe, the guys field is biology and there are plenty of animalia on earth that look non-threatening but are pretty lethal. The instruments just tell them whether the atmosphere is breathable, they don't what kind of flora and fauna could be present or airborne viruses, they don't know what's in the water that was dripping on them. Breathable atmosphere does not warrant breaking your seal on a planet you literally just landed on and know nothing about. The debris could be just as easily avoided as being crushed by the ship, and it mostly fell in one piece from what can be observed in the wide shot and the Prometheus ship likely crashed some place else since it isn't seen for the rest of the movie, so yeah that was just a dumb writing decision. Not just critics think this, a lot of the actual audience is of the same opinion here. There's a huge disconnect in how the characters are written here versus Alien, Ridley should have spent more time on the script than he did in the end, cause there's a lot of great things about this film too but the bad outweighs them.
if you search in YT there is an original script deleted scene, translated in what the engineer really said.. really interesting and dumb mistake to take it out of the film, it answers questions to most of what the whole film is related to, the question about life and creation.. The engineer tells them, that they have tried to save human kind, and the last time they did they CRUSIFIED mankind's savior, the way of life. The one CHOSEN from a mother and taken to be taught by the engineers.. ring a bell? really cool conversation that wish they have left in the film..
The amazing part of ancient civilizations are just the things we don't know about them. In general neither ancient humans nor primitive humans were any more amazing than we are, but neither were they any less
This is actually a different planetoid in the same system. It's very close but not the same planet. And it's not the same ship either, the derelict craft in the original Alien is clearly ancient been there thousands of years.
I love-hate this film, for several reasons. What I despise most about it: it celebrates ignorance. We do actually know quite a lot about the topics of Prometheus; not everything, but so much that it is unwarranted to give any credit to the stance of Shaw in this film of "choosing to believe". The writer, Damon Lindelof, apparently didn't know anything about genetics, he didn't understand astronomy, or even distances in space (half a billion miles to get laid just gets you to Jupiter); he didn't even understand basic biology. Just staple a gaping wound closed and then run around and perform abseiling? Wouldn't work. The problem is, you could address it in-script, like they did with "Dredd" from the same year: they solved the problem of a gaping wound by applying some foamy substance to the wound that would close it. They gave it some thought, Lindelof didn't. What's more, the characters in this film are selfish and unlikable. Apparently, Lindelof has never met real scientists before, let alone decent people. A beautiful film in every respect, except the tiny little detail of the screenplay. What a wasted opportunity for a great film.
Lindelof is an idiot - no idea how they let him anywhere near such big movies. No wait, I have: previous projects of him have made money, and that’s the only way success is measured. It’s just weird that Ridley Scott allowed this to happen, he used to fight over every detail.
9:55 What? No. You have to give your own kind a little bit more credit: we don’t know a lot, and we may be wrong about things, but it’s not just stuff we “choose to believe”.
Can anyone tell me how a baby squid the size of a cat, can grow the size of a hippopotamus in 2 hours and building its mass out of thin air knowing it was cooped up in the surgery room with no food ? This movie is a good show, but it makes even less sense than the original Alien movie.
@@popcornroulettereactions Actually, some science is not fiction. Did you know that many species of aquatic life can change their gender, and a male species can give birth? Just because we humans don't have the data and information does not mean it doesn't exist or occur. There is so much more to this plane of life that we do not know everything.
I always try to find time to watch movies more than once, but I think you’re on to something. I think it may be a good idea for our reactors to do re-watches that our viewers vote on. It could be fun to point out things we remember and new things that we maybe missed during the first run.
Beautiful looking film. Stupid beyond belief. They make the whole point of mapping their environment and yet the guys mapping it get lost and nobody on the ship notices it until it's too late. Also, the security detail high-tail it outta there in the wagon with all the seats, leaving behind two buggies which can only carry 4 people - thus leaving two to be stranded, regardless. Charlie gets despondent after the initial failure, despite there being multiple structures to examine (shown when they land). Why is Mr Burns, i mean Weyland, kept hidden from the crew? He's funding the mission so what purpose does it serve, except to surprise the audience? How does Fifield get back to the ship with nobody noticing? Won't comment on the falling bone ship and DIY surgery recovery as that's been done to death. Still, better than Alien: Covenant...
For many years, Ridley Scott teased about going back and exploring the history of the "space jockey" in the chair. His return to the film series that he started was intriguing. This result with its crew of idiots and the ending that unexpectedly sets up a new series was not satisfying.
You missed so much in this movie. Like the fact that David put the DNA liquid in the drink to infect Holloway, the fact that the alien ship is the same as in Alien, that the dead creature they found in Alien that was in the chair, dead with its chest blown outwards was the same as "The Engineers" and that the birth of the baby alien was the beginnings of the Xemomorphs we know in the film Alien. It can be so frustrating to watch you sometimes.
The ship in this is not the same one as in Alien, just the same design. The crashed ship in Alien is on a different moon orbiting the same gas giant. Prometheus is set on LV 223 Alien is set on LV 426
Also the Deacon at the end is not the start of the Xenomorphs either. The Xeno eggs from the first movie had been there for thousands of years. They existed long before the events of this movie. Ironic you said she wasn't paying attention, when you got these details wrong.
Amelia, still hoping you'll continue the journey with Frodo and Sam to Mordor. They won't make it, I fear - they need your help to succeed...! The Shire and even the whole Middle Earth is at stake...
Actually, I think your much prettier than Charlize Theron, not that there's anything wrong with her, she's beautiful, but I just think you are so beautiful, and Amelia is such a pretty name. ❤
Now that you mention it, I can see how you look a bit like Charlize Theron, though I'd say you're prettier. And I see that you were completely fooled by David, at least for a bit. There's a fun little easter egg based on the names of the androids in the series, but in case you decide to watch Alien Resurrection, I won't mention it.
I remember laughing incredulously throughout the movie at the relentless stupidity of virtually every scene. I would have turned it off, but I had already paid for that month's Netflix subscription and I wanted to get my money's worth.
Extremely - to the point the movie becomes unwatchable. This is supposed to be the most expensive expedition in human history. Yet they send a team that is incredibly unprofessional and childish in every way. Imagine if they sent any of these people as a team on the Apollo missions...
This is where the franchise really started to lose me. I felt it shouldn't be up to me to get on the computer and do research about the parts of the story that they didn't include in the film.
That is what appeals to me, actually. I like that the movie isn't just a one-and-done moment of entertainment but part of an experience and jumping pad of discussion about tons of topics from politics, religion, ethics, science, etc. Most good Sci-Fi is good because of this. It goes beyond the actual watching experience and gets you thinking, researching, talking, etc. I'm one of those who embraces: "Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence, has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all."
@@ChibiHoshiDragon If that's all it was, I would've appreciated it. But you shouldn't have to research major plot points that were left out of the film, so you can fill in the blanks.
I get what u mean but as a avid book reader I love looking up the history of w.e I'm watching or reading. I'd literally spend a few hours doing it haha
Good reaction i have mixed feelings about this movie love it as just a good sci fi move but i just dont like it as part of the alien move even hafter all this time just dont
Your channel watched these movies out of sequence. It should have Alien, then Prometheus, then Aliens then Alien Covenant. I mentioned this but see u got different reactors. You already saw Covenat which is the sequel. So it would have made much more sense to you if you watched order I suggested. Now GET the 10 minute deleted talk between David and the Engineer. You should have played that at the end of this movie, u lost so much info. Because of all these things I have to give you a DISLIKE
I believe this movie was such a wasted chance to do a really great thing. Amazing concept, nice linking to the original Alien, good main character. But... so many illogic choices in the development (featuring the most stupid scientists in the universe, more or less like Covenant). It just became an horror parade of ugly mutations. A shame.
Prometheus is a guilty pleasure. Technically it's awesome, but the characters are intolerable idiots (except Shaw) and writing is too unrealistic even for sci-fi... and then it got even worse with Covenant, like "what were they thinking" -bad.
Interesting how at the beginning of the movie they give "evolution" a pass as if it's an afterthought and an accepted fact by (ex-alcoholic) Charles Darwin.
@@jarls5890 I was being too vague and I dislike being vague. 'Human evolution' is what I meant to specify Darwin was in error about. He was correct concerning plants and vegetation IMHO, but can you say where this human evolution first began?
@@gigantorize In what way was he in error? There may be many details he was not correct about - that has later been clarified as the field have been further studied since he wrote his book. But by and large he was correct. When you say human evolution - are you talking about abiogenesis as in when life started? This is NOT part of evolution. Nobody has a clear idea how the very first life began. And we may never know. Perhaps we may gain valuable insight if we find remnants of basic life on other planets and moons. Or are you talking about evolution from the first mammals until homo sapiens? Or are you talking about current and ongoing evolution of the human species?
I'm not sure what universe they live in where people don't make blunders in the edge of discovery, even scientists. Look at Madam Curie pioneer of x-ray technology, dosed herself so much that even her notes are still too radioactive to handle without a radiation suit.
@@reptomicus There's a difference between discovering / pioneering a new tech, and seeing an ALIEN LIFE FORM, and deciding to PET IT. Like, the difference in common sense, and survival instincts is vast. The only explanation for some of the actions in this movie by the 'scientists' is that they are incredibly reckless and/or stupid. That's okay to have in a movie, humans are like that all the time, but don't pretend it has anything to do with 'pioneering science' haha. They just did stupid things.
If I were human and found out aliens made us and then wanted to kill us, I wouldn't be interested in giving up everything to know why. I also wouldn't want to meet the aliens just to hope they give me the secret to immortality. So this movie was a solid miss for me. It started strong but dropped the ball. As usual, I chalk it up to movie makers changing their tastes as they age.
@@rumrunner23 he wasn't really a bad robot though. David was just doing as he was told by Weyland. He was the most interesting part of prometheus and covenant imo. Unfortunately, that just didn't really go anywhere and the writing lacked creativity. The setup was there, but no real follow through.
@@phillydelphia8760 There would be no reason for humans to explore space if robots/synthetics were as advanced/self aware as these in the the Alien movies. It is a terrible premise and lazy writing to make robots the bad guys when there could have been so much more interest if it was about just humans exploring and their struggle to survive.
@@rumrunner23depends how you see it i guess. Maybe i'm stupid but i don't see david as a bad guy really... he does what he thinks is best for himself exactly as humans... Humans created them so how can the androids ever really be the bad guys?
@@johnbeans2000I agree in spirit with your logic, but I think the movie definition of “bad guy” is generally any entity that is posing an imminent threat to the writers’ intended protagonist. By that definition it can posited that David is the “bad guy” in this film.
@@stevesheroan4131 ofc, agree very much that david is the antagonist/bad guy and very much so intentended as such. I only mention that in the larger picture of things if you think about it the androids can never be bad if created by humans. But if strictly saying androids/robots are "lazy" antagonists I can agree on that for every movie after. Too much focus on androids since Prometheus... it has become a android franchise...
Nah this movie is great. Resurrection is brain dead 😂and that's from the late 90s. Thanks to prometheus the alien movies were reintroduced to a new audience
@@thedudebryan98, the Alien movies were barely introduced to a new audience through "Prometheus." Alien fans went to see it and were aggravated by it. People unfamiliar with the Alien franchise didn't care beyond it.
@beevezeepe6615 Resurrection was the final movie, and prometheus brought the interest back. Even covenant got people back into the Franshise. Trying to act like prometheus sucks and "time should have stopped before 2000" is actually brain rot.
The original script was a bit blunt, but made more sense. Unfortunately there was a lot of studio meddling which resulted in a final draft that was confusing and left a lot of questions.
Without going into too much detail, the original script was primarily about the humans being one of many failed attempts by the engineers to recreate themselves, having become infertile. They had attempted to correct humans, but their teachings were rejected (Jesus' crucifixion.) Earth was ordered to be sterilized, but an accident occurred and the ship never departed. ~2000 years later, the last engineer is awoken from his sleep to find an android and human selfishly asking for eternal life. He views the android as an insulting attempt by the unworthy humans to usurp the engineers as creators, and attacks them. It plays right into the title of the movie, Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods and was punished.
I have seen 2 consecutive Prometheus reactions where the reactor didn't notice David discretely insert the black substance into Dr Holloway's beverage. David's nefarious actions are even more enhanced in Alien Covenant.
Did you miss the part where David intentionally infected the scientist? It was after that when you were saying that he "cares about the crew".
@@MrCzerillo to be fair Logan’s character is treated as the antagonist in that scene and you can still care about the crew and not like one guy, lol. I don’t think David’s true motivations become apparent until Covenant. He also gives Holloway the choice - how far would you go - and Holloway consents - saying he’d do anything and that was logical enough for David to infect him.
Have somebody ever slipped something into your drink? How would you feel about that?
@@popcornroulettereactions You're a truly bad judge of character.
@@popcornroulettereactions "Noone Knows" Really? YOU are very young and have zero clue @Thinking And Destiny by Harold Percival @The Word Foundation You can read the pdf free online About Transmigration,Reincarnation and the Metempsychosis. Next @ Mauro Biglino & The 5Th Kind channels and books Both are Authors @ Adam 1414 channel.
@@popcornroulettereactionsWhere WE come from @ The Pale Fox by French Anthropologist Marcel Grauile.
Very underrated movie
Elizabeth Shaw is a great character without being a Ripley clone
jes and they did so dirty to her -.- i HATE Covenant..
This is a pretty good movie if you overlook several instances of sheer stupidity: if you're on an alien world whose atmosphere matches that of earth EXACTLY you still do NOT take off your helmet - the atmosphere may be perfect but you've no idea what kind of micro-organisms might be floating around. Second, upon finding an alien organism, you do NOT approach it like you're approaching a kitten, and you certainly don't get within arm's reach of it.
Next, although one may have sympathy for the crewmembers who were "infected", under no circumstances should they be allowed on board the ship - they might infect the entire crew (remember what happened to Ripley in the movie "Alien" because quarantine protocol was over-ridden?).
...if you overlook that this is a pretty terrible movie - it is a pretty good movie! 😁
And the 'yolo hell yeah!' suicide space ship crash at the end where suddenly the teammates agree exactly on stopping the spacecraft.
All bad movies would be good movies if you ignore the stupid parts. Problem is, those stupid parts are canon and infect everything around it. Personally, I think this movie wasn’t needed and it would have been better off if it weren’t made. The origin of the xenomorphs was something better left a mystery.
There are a million different awesome potential explanations for it, and if left a mystery and up to the imagination, it could be any and all of them. Instead, they attempted to explain it and did a less than mediocre job, which, by virtue of canon affects the original movies, as well as any future movies.
@@Fyrecide "All bad movies would be good movies if you ignore the stupid parts" must be the most inaccurate statement I've read all day.
I am the most hardcore mfr on this Earth. Nothing scares me. Nothing will ever make me tremble, not a man, not a beast, nothing. But holy crap, that scene where the girl gets the surgery literally makes me squirm like a tiny little bitch. I hate it. They did an amazing job with it, and the girl's acting was phenomenal. I cringe every time I remember.
Poor, poor Amelia. Falling for the lies of the robot. Little does she know...
no, she missed the part where Micheal dropped the black fluid in Logans drink
@@neilaslayer well David never actually lies in this movie
@@dannore8077 No, he only roofies someone and MURDERS... And THEN what does HE DO after this movie is over? Jeez...
Lmao man. Her fate. Just shoot me.
I watched this on tv without knowing the premise. I was quite surprised as the movie went along.
Same here. I watched the movie completely ”blind” so I had no idea that this was part of THAT movie series. I was so hyped at the end lol! I thought the movie was fine, but I’m easily entertained anyways 😅
@@FifthOfNovember_Original I had to check to make sure I wasn’t the one who typed your comment, because it took the words right out of my mouth.
The engineers are an ancient alien super race. That is a call back to the first movie and the comics. They are responsible for seeding life on multiple worlds for various purposes.
The black goo is their preferred multi purpose terraforming tool. Instead of building the atmosphere processors from aliens, they just spread the goo around and direct it to work.
I say "multi purpose" because it has an additional setting that may be unlocked.... It is also a deadly bioweapon planet kilker.... It has a pre designated Endstate that no matter what it comes into contact with will eventually lead to Xenomorph forms... IF The weaponized setting is activated.
Think of it like keeping a loaded gun rack, Herbicide, and Insecticide in one corner of your garden Shed.
Unleashing Xenomorphs is what the engineers do when they decide to [CTRL+ALD+DEL] a project.
David is definitely short the full set of Asimov protocols.
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"It's not exactly a traditional fetus",
How would you like to hear that from your Obstetrician?
FYI, the film that David likes, it's a really good one. I highly recommend it.
Peter O'Toole in Laurence of Arabia. A classic cinema adventure.
This was the most interesting reaction I’ve seen. This is the first time ever that I’ve interpreted the movie very differently to the reactor. It’s given me a lot to think about
But it doesn't doesn't discount evolution. The opening scene shows how evolution started on Earth with that Engineer's body breaking down to the basic molecules. Eventually simple single-celled organisms began to form and multiply, then evolve.
Yeah, in a sense prometheus sets out to answer the question of the origin of life on earth. In this fictional world, evolution is still the result of what the engineers kick start with that weird suicide ritual.
@@FLQueerLiberal1982 this is why i love prometheus and the original alien. the science fiction is based
Love this. It brought what had become an action movie franchise back into horror.
39:53 Do you recognize this "Captain's Chair"? It's the same design as what they found on LV-427 in the movie "Alien".
It’s LV-426. But you are correct that the captain’s chair is the same outcome we see in Alien. This shows the infection happened other times on other worlds. But this planet is NOT LV-426.
i like the attention to detail when David has some of the black goo on his fingertip, it shows the company's ownership over him in that they have given him a fingerprint that is the Weyland company logo.
I loved this movie and the direction it was going and all the questions it was answering that i had thought since i was 7 years old with my poster of the space jockey (pilot engineer), I also liked the sequel to this and hoped for more but i don`t think it will happen. I was very shocked that these had such a bad rating with some fans but most just want a shootemup movie and not let their minds wander a bit but i can appreciate them both.
Prometheus fans didn't like Covenant because it failed to answer any of the questions Prometheus posed and it killed off Shaw making everything she went though pointless,
They should have continued Shaw's journey properly.
Covenant also annoyed fans of the original Alien by suggesting David created the xeno, which is a silly idea.
The movie shows how curiosity can bring good or chaos. Now you must see the Alien Covenant
Such a fabulously unsettling movie! Noomi Rapace is fantastic. Speaking of Noomi, why don't more people react to the Girl with a dragon tattoo movies (the originals). Great stuff.
I absolutely love the entire look of this film. I won't make some long winded comment but it's worth studying how they did all this for anyone into that art.
That wasn't Shaw's partner Holloway that came back all mutated and on a rampage towards the end, that was the other guy - the red head - that got lost with with the other scientist for the night.
If we didn't mess with the unknown, we never would have discovered that fire is useful. Risks have to be taken, but they don't have to be taken stupidly. Dude should obviously not have been reaching for an alien lifeform with his own hand.
Maybe he thought it was just his pet snake Reggie?
There was a deleted scene where they find one of those snake/snug things. Granted it was much smaller. But Milburn was holding it and was the one to place it in the specimen jar.
That probably gave him a false scene that there wouldn’t be any danger.
Still… pretty friggin dumb. That’s what this movie should have been called.
Alien: People doing Dumb Shit!
The story of this is continued in Alien: Covenant. Dr. Shaw's father is played by Patrick Wilson. David is portrayed by Michael Fassbender, who's also in 300, Centurion, Inglorious Basterds and some of the X-Men films. Peter Wayland is portrayed by Guy Pierce, who's also in L.A. Confidential, Memento and The Hurt Locker. The ship's captain is portrayed by Idris Elba, who's also in The Wire, American Gangster, The Suicide Squad and various MCU films
This is my favorite Alien movie
Same with me. cheers!
Alien Covenant is a Sequel with new Sip, new Crew but one old `` Friend´´.
I´m curious for Alien Romulus. The Trailers are really thrilling.
The opening location is 'Old Man Of Storr' Isle of Skye - Scotland.
This is a fantastic movie, not just endlessly blasting aliens, chase - hunt. This movie is my favourite in the whole franchise. It's too bad there won't be a third installment of Ridley's planned trilogy.
Thanks, Amelia! 👾 I liked this one and ALIEN: COVENANT (2017) since they gave us more insight into the 'Engineers'... which were a huge mystery since ALIEN (1979).
Nice Reaction, A little factoid, The quote from David about the dessert is from "Lawrence of Arabia".
Speaking of Aliens, I recommend Men in Black trilogy. It's totally worth it 👌.
@@joshuacampbell7493 Thanks for calling it "trilogy". What it actually is.
You really interpreted this movie very differently from how I’ve seen everyone else interpret it. David is not a good guy. He was less concerned about the safety of the crew and more concerned with the safety of the mission, which was to discover and find out about the engineers vis-à-vis his creator. That’s why he intentionally infected the scientist by putting the black goo in his drink.
Ok. I just realized why the scientist was so excited about the xenomorph snake. It has no teeth. It essentially looks like a giant worm. Who would feel really threatened by a worm, especially if it has no teeth??
In fact they did start out as worms.
But the audience knows that every creature in this universe is beyond lethal. So we all think we know better and we treat the characters with disdain if they do something that goes against our better instincts.
And about Charlie taking off his helmet, i mean, the instruments say that theres an atmosphere with oxygen. If theres no contaminants, why not?
I cant believe critics get so petty as to attack Shaw and Vickers for not running out from under the falling ship. They clearly werent paying attention. The falling debris from Prometheus was hitting the ground like meteors.
You still shouldn't go around poking some unknown organism even if it seems safe, the guys field is biology and there are plenty of animalia on earth that look non-threatening but are pretty lethal.
The instruments just tell them whether the atmosphere is breathable, they don't what kind of flora and fauna could be present or airborne viruses, they don't know what's in the water that was dripping on them. Breathable atmosphere does not warrant breaking your seal on a planet you literally just landed on and know nothing about.
The debris could be just as easily avoided as being crushed by the ship, and it mostly fell in one piece from what can be observed in the wide shot and the Prometheus ship likely crashed some place else since it isn't seen for the rest of the movie, so yeah that was just a dumb writing decision. Not just critics think this, a lot of the actual audience is of the same opinion here.
There's a huge disconnect in how the characters are written here versus Alien, Ridley should have spent more time on the script than he did in the end, cause there's a lot of great things about this film too but the bad outweighs them.
Miss Amelia, are you a robot?
Lol I wish that line actually worked
Underrated film. Thanks for reacting to it. 👍
Rush hour 1,2 and 3, lots of laughs and and action packed scenes, staring Jackie Chan and Chris tucker. Please react to them.
if you search in YT there is an original script deleted scene, translated in what the engineer really said.. really interesting and dumb mistake to take it out of the film, it answers questions to most of what the whole film is related to, the question about life and creation.. The engineer tells them, that they have tried to save human kind, and the last time they did they CRUSIFIED mankind's savior, the way of life. The one CHOSEN from a mother and taken to be taught by the engineers.. ring a bell? really cool conversation that wish they have left in the film..
The amazing part of ancient civilizations are just the things we don't know about them. In general neither ancient humans nor primitive humans were any more amazing than we are, but neither were they any less
Amelia, your hair looks great ❤
Not going to lie but I cheered when Charlie got roasted. Dude had it coming.🤣
this movie is so good it gets a lot of hate it deserves more credit
And just think that became LV-426...reason why? The ship if you remember is in the beginning of Alien.
No...this is LV-223. LV-426 is another planet in the system.
It is also where the good movies are made.
This is actually a different planetoid in the same system. It's very close but not the same planet.
And it's not the same ship either, the derelict craft in the original Alien is clearly ancient been there thousands of years.
this is best alien movie after the original. aliens is just a tropey bug shooter movie and the rest are rip offs
David is one of the most vile characters all the films
I love-hate this film, for several reasons. What I despise most about it: it celebrates ignorance.
We do actually know quite a lot about the topics of Prometheus; not everything, but so much that it is unwarranted to give any credit to the stance of Shaw in this film of "choosing to believe".
The writer, Damon Lindelof, apparently didn't know anything about genetics, he didn't understand astronomy, or even distances in space (half a billion miles to get laid just gets you to Jupiter); he didn't even understand basic biology.
Just staple a gaping wound closed and then run around and perform abseiling? Wouldn't work. The problem is, you could address it in-script, like they did with "Dredd" from the same year: they solved the problem of a gaping wound by applying some foamy substance to the wound that would close it. They gave it some thought, Lindelof didn't.
What's more, the characters in this film are selfish and unlikable. Apparently, Lindelof has never met real scientists before, let alone decent people.
A beautiful film in every respect, except the tiny little detail of the screenplay. What a wasted opportunity for a great film.
Lindelof is an idiot - no idea how they let him anywhere near such big movies. No wait, I have: previous projects of him have made money, and that’s the only way success is measured. It’s just weird that Ridley Scott allowed this to happen, he used to fight over every detail.
Still the 3rd best Alien movie.
nice job. always fun
9:55 What? No. You have to give your own kind a little bit more credit: we don’t know a lot, and we may be wrong about things, but it’s not just stuff we “choose to believe”.
Can anyone tell me how a baby squid the size of a cat, can grow the size of a hippopotamus in 2 hours and building its mass out of thin air knowing it was cooped up in the surgery room with no food ?
This movie is a good show, but it makes even less sense than the original Alien movie.
Science!
(fiction)
@@popcornroulettereactions Actually, some science is not fiction. Did you know that many species of aquatic life can change their gender, and a male species can give birth? Just because we humans don't have the data and information does not mean it doesn't exist or occur. There is so much more to this plane of life that we do not know everything.
Charlize Theron movie suggestion "Aeon Flux".
I believe she's ashamed of this "movie"
Bruh, skip everything and go right to Mad Max Fury Road. She kills it in that.
Next chapter after this is Alien Covenant 2017.
2:16: and Annette Bening.
she needs a second run...
I always try to find time to watch movies more than once, but I think you’re on to something. I think it may be a good idea for our reactors to do re-watches that our viewers vote on. It could be fun to point out things we remember and new things that we maybe missed during the first run.
David is the enemy. In case you missed that part.
Very good movie.
Imho, the best “alien” movie aside from the very first 2…
Beautiful looking film. Stupid beyond belief. They make the whole point of mapping their environment and yet the guys mapping it get lost and nobody on the ship notices it until it's too late. Also, the security detail high-tail it outta there in the wagon with all the seats, leaving behind two buggies which can only carry 4 people - thus leaving two to be stranded, regardless. Charlie gets despondent after the initial failure, despite there being multiple structures to examine (shown when they land). Why is Mr Burns, i mean Weyland, kept hidden from the crew? He's funding the mission so what purpose does it serve, except to surprise the audience? How does Fifield get back to the ship with nobody noticing? Won't comment on the falling bone ship and DIY surgery recovery as that's been done to death. Still, better than Alien: Covenant...
For many years, Ridley Scott teased about going back and exploring the history of the "space jockey" in the chair. His return to the film series that he started was intriguing. This result with its crew of idiots and the ending that unexpectedly sets up a new series was not satisfying.
Agreed. Such wasted potential!
You missed so much in this movie. Like the fact that David put the DNA liquid in the drink to infect Holloway, the fact that the alien ship is the same as in Alien, that the dead creature they found in Alien that was in the chair, dead with its chest blown outwards was the same as "The Engineers" and that the birth of the baby alien was the beginnings of the Xemomorphs we know in the film Alien. It can be so frustrating to watch you sometimes.
The ship in this is not the same one as in Alien, just the same design. The crashed ship in Alien is on a different moon orbiting the same gas giant.
Prometheus is set on LV 223
Alien is set on LV 426
Also the Deacon at the end is not the start of the Xenomorphs either.
The Xeno eggs from the first movie had been there for thousands of years. They existed long before the events of this movie.
Ironic you said she wasn't paying attention, when you got these details wrong.
Amelia, still hoping you'll continue the journey with Frodo and Sam to Mordor. They won't make it, I fear - they need your help to succeed...!
The Shire and even the whole Middle Earth is at stake...
It is coming!
Stay tuned!!!
still gotta find the DNA
well it is the prequel to alin
Not possession and not tombs.
You would enjoy Vedic Cosmology
you look more like Michelle Williams than Charlize Theron
Actually, I think your much prettier than Charlize Theron, not that there's anything wrong with her, she's beautiful, but I just think you are so beautiful, and Amelia is such a pretty name. ❤
You should ask her out
We came from element's, molecule's and cell's, and we don't " go" anywhere.
her understanding of the events of this film are all over the place
Now that you mention it, I can see how you look a bit like Charlize Theron, though I'd say you're prettier. And I see that you were completely fooled by David, at least for a bit. There's a fun little easter egg based on the names of the androids in the series, but in case you decide to watch Alien Resurrection, I won't mention it.
I’d say you look more like Abbie Cornish myself very pretty all the same check out the movie Limitless Abbie plays in it you’ll see what I mean.🌹
I remember laughing incredulously throughout the movie at the relentless stupidity of virtually every scene. I would have turned it off, but I had already paid for that month's Netflix subscription and I wanted to get my money's worth.
Some of the crew members were behaving extremely stupid.
Extremely - to the point the movie becomes unwatchable. This is supposed to be the most expensive expedition in human history. Yet they send a team that is incredibly unprofessional and childish in every way.
Imagine if they sent any of these people as a team on the Apollo missions...
"some"?
Visual Masterpeice - Plot and character wise - not so much LUL nice cast but under developed characters that honestly do very little
Imagine an Alien movie without aliens in it.
That is this movie.
This is where the franchise really started to lose me. I felt it shouldn't be up to me to get on the computer and do research about the parts of the story that they didn't include in the film.
That is what appeals to me, actually.
I like that the movie isn't just a one-and-done moment of entertainment but part of an experience and jumping pad of discussion about tons of topics from politics, religion, ethics, science, etc.
Most good Sci-Fi is good because of this. It goes beyond the actual watching experience and gets you thinking, researching, talking, etc.
I'm one of those who embraces:
"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence, has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all."
@@ChibiHoshiDragon If that's all it was, I would've appreciated it. But you shouldn't have to research major plot points that were left out of the film, so you can fill in the blanks.
@@BouillaBased
I prefer that you have to look up Paradise Lost to understand the major plot point of Covenant, but that is just me.
I get what u mean but as a avid book reader I love looking up the history of w.e I'm watching or reading. I'd literally spend a few hours doing it haha
Good reaction i have mixed feelings about this movie love it as just a good sci fi move but i just dont like it as part of the alien move even hafter all this time just dont
Your channel watched these movies out of sequence. It should have Alien, then Prometheus, then Aliens then Alien Covenant. I mentioned this but see u got different reactors. You already saw Covenat which is the sequel. So it would have made much more sense to you if you watched order I suggested. Now GET the 10 minute deleted talk between David and the Engineer. You should have played that at the end of this movie, u lost so much info. Because of all these things I have to give you a DISLIKE
I believe this movie was such a wasted chance to do a really great thing. Amazing concept, nice linking to the original Alien, good main character. But... so many illogic choices in the development (featuring the most stupid scientists in the universe, more or less like Covenant). It just became an horror parade of ugly mutations. A shame.
If you're looking for a more entertaining movie about putting heads in bags, check out Joe Pesci in 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag.
Prometheus is a guilty pleasure. Technically it's awesome, but the characters are intolerable idiots (except Shaw) and writing is too unrealistic even for sci-fi... and then it got even worse with Covenant, like "what were they thinking" -bad.
Interesting how at the beginning of the movie they give "evolution" a pass as if it's an afterthought and an accepted fact by (ex-alcoholic) Charles Darwin.
Huh? You do know evolution IS an accepted scientific "fact" (there are no such things) - regardless of what your mom told you in homeschool.
@@jarls5890 I was being too vague and I dislike being vague. 'Human evolution' is what I meant to specify Darwin was in error about. He was correct concerning plants and vegetation IMHO, but can you say where this human evolution first began?
@@gigantorize In what way was he in error? There may be many details he was not correct about - that has later been clarified as the field have been further studied since he wrote his book. But by and large he was correct.
When you say human evolution - are you talking about abiogenesis as in when life started? This is NOT part of evolution. Nobody has a clear idea how the very first life began. And we may never know. Perhaps we may gain valuable insight if we find remnants of basic life on other planets and moons.
Or are you talking about evolution from the first mammals until homo sapiens?
Or are you talking about current and ongoing evolution of the human species?
Bro what
Huh? Most educated people accept evolution, actually most major christian churches accept evolution too.
Not everyone likes this movie as they complained about the scientists being idiots that shouldn't mess with something that they never leave alone.
I'm not sure what universe they live in where people don't make blunders in the edge of discovery, even scientists. Look at Madam Curie pioneer of x-ray technology, dosed herself so much that even her notes are still too radioactive to handle without a radiation suit.
@@reptomicus There's a difference between discovering / pioneering a new tech, and seeing an ALIEN LIFE FORM, and deciding to PET IT. Like, the difference in common sense, and survival instincts is vast.
The only explanation for some of the actions in this movie by the 'scientists' is that they are incredibly reckless and/or stupid. That's okay to have in a movie, humans are like that all the time, but don't pretend it has anything to do with 'pioneering science' haha. They just did stupid things.
Great movie filled with some very stupid characters.
I really thought this movies sucked.
If I were human and found out aliens made us and then wanted to kill us, I wouldn't be interested in giving up everything to know why.
I also wouldn't want to meet the aliens just to hope they give me the secret to immortality.
So this movie was a solid miss for me.
It started strong but dropped the ball.
As usual, I chalk it up to movie makers changing their tastes as they age.
I lost interest when it was clear they were going to do the same old tired bad robot story plot. Completely unbelievable.
@@rumrunner23 he wasn't really a bad robot though. David was just doing as he was told by Weyland.
He was the most interesting part of prometheus and covenant imo.
Unfortunately, that just didn't really go anywhere and the writing lacked creativity. The setup was there, but no real follow through.
@@phillydelphia8760 There would be no reason for humans to explore space if robots/synthetics were as advanced/self aware as these in the the Alien movies. It is a terrible premise and lazy writing to make robots the bad guys when there could have been so much more interest if it was about just humans exploring and their struggle to survive.
@@rumrunner23depends how you see it i guess. Maybe i'm stupid but i don't see david as a bad guy really... he does what he thinks is best for himself exactly as humans...
Humans created them so how can the androids ever really be the bad guys?
@@johnbeans2000I agree in spirit with your logic, but I think the movie definition of “bad guy” is generally any entity that is posing an imminent threat to the writers’ intended protagonist. By that definition it can posited that David is the “bad guy” in this film.
@@stevesheroan4131 ofc, agree very much that david is the antagonist/bad guy and very much so intentended as such. I only mention that in the larger picture of things if you think about it the androids can never be bad if created by humans. But if strictly saying androids/robots are "lazy" antagonists I can agree on that for every movie after. Too much focus on androids since Prometheus... it has become a android franchise...
this movie is basically braindead, and the sequel is even dumber.... time should have stopped before 2000...
Nah this movie is great. Resurrection is brain dead 😂and that's from the late 90s. Thanks to prometheus the alien movies were reintroduced to a new audience
@@thedudebryan98, the Alien movies were barely introduced to a new audience through "Prometheus." Alien fans went to see it and were aggravated by it. People unfamiliar with the Alien franchise didn't care beyond it.
@beevezeepe6615 Resurrection was the final movie, and prometheus brought the interest back. Even covenant got people back into the Franshise. Trying to act like prometheus sucks and "time should have stopped before 2000" is actually brain rot.
I guess it's a question of where your "bar" is.
@@MickeyStartraveller 💀