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RE: strange

Posted by user510 on November 10, 2012 at 21:32:13

In Reply to: "Dare we ask why? The movie doesn't chose to answer why." Sorry, you actually have to think about it posted by Jazz Inmate on November 10, 2012 at 20:34:44:

I will concede that the movie has aroused enough curiosity to cause this discussion in this forum. Yet I remain a disappointed viewer. Probably because I was never that great of a fan of the Alien movies to begin with.

The glass is half empty. In an Alien movie, the glass is always half empty.

This movie,Prometheus, indicates that the monsters are actually living weapons designed for the depopulation of a planet. Ours. And that like us, the monsters were constructed by the engineers. But for some unknown reason, the monsters have turned on their creators at this remote installation and killed them all except for the one remaining survivor, who later is consumed by a monster and dies.

The Elizabeth Shaw character, the story's protagonist is, at the end, seen blasting off the planet in one of the Engineer's ships. She, along with the robot, David, are off to find the Engineers and have that talk with them that her dead husband originally so strongly desired to have.

Do I detect potential for the sequel to develop into a huge sweeping saga about planet Earth's desperate attempt to avoid extinction and find a way to defeat the Engineers.

Could we learn that there is something more that the monsters and us humans have in common? What did the Engineers learn that made them want to depopulate the Earth? Should we be? Or are their motives less than noble. Do they just covet our planet for their own population? A sequel could explore stuff like that.

But, having seen the other Alien movies I know it will be something downbeat. There will be corporate greed. There will be villainous, traitorous corporate officers. And actions that shows humans, by their own behavior, that they deserve nothing less than extinction. It will be depressing and demoralizing. Like all the other alien movies.

Compare it to 2001 where, at the movie's end, Bowman is rescued by the unnamed beings who left the monolith on Earth. The viewer then is allowed to see that Bowman grows old in comfort, dies, and then reincarnates into something different. And then the movie ends but leaving the viewer to wonder if the answers to life's biggest questions aren't about to show themselves.

I think we are putting too much thought into an "Alien" movie.

-Steve

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