PROMETHEUS | How to Fail at ALIEN | EXPLORED

When this movie came out, I didn't know it was an Alien movie, and I wish I still didn't know...

I prefer Alien and Aliens is better because it's more developed story. Plus I love Colonial Marines.

It asks universal questions humanity has been grappling with for thousands of years both on civilizational and personal levels, and then answers them with the tact and wit of a teenage atheist posting on Reddit on how God hates us because dad didn’t love him enough.

I'm a huge fan of all things alien. I wasn't totally in love with prometheus and covenant like I am alien and aliens, but at least both are better than alien 3 and alien resurrection. Just my honest opinion.

Alien wakes up: immediately wants to wipe out human life….why?

This movie had so many good ideas, it’s a shame they were poorly executed. And like everyone says, there was so much potential for an amazing sequel but we got Covenant instead…
I wish in this film they played more with the idea of being a scientist, but still being religious. Like, expecting to find God, but finding an advanced being hellbent on the destruction of humanity instead.

I am still waiting for the follow up to this with Alien Covenant :(

Prometheus was not what we wanted but it was what we got... it was a good film but a bad Alien film... then came Covenant... A good film, a bad Alien film and a bad sequel to Prometheus.

Good films... Terrible continuation.

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Mentioning the rule of mass conservation has no use here, because alien could have great mass inside, and then just grew losing it's density.

“”how to fail at Alien.” just wait till covenant.

see compared to Covenant i actually really like this movie lol

This is how I feel abot Jim Camerons Aliens....poorly written, riddled with plot holes & dumps on the original

Prometheus is gold-plated shite.

I think I solved the problem with providing a good creation story to the Aliens. I have the solution.

Should have been a trilogy

Everyone hated Shaw.

Yeah I'm taking this movie over the original alien. It's better looking, and has a better story.

Terrible, stupid movie!

"Contact" by Carl Sagen showed that math is the true universal ♾️ language.

Watched the film recently, definitely one of the worst films I've ever seen. Horrendous writing.

did you notice that the snake creature looks like weyland yutani logo ?

see, the engineers can no longer reproduce, the stuff he drinks at the begining is the blood of their god. not the black glue but the black goo is not just biological its part machine. watch kroft talk movies, see the scripts and deleted video. engineers live 100s of thousands of years.. your picking at things without knowing what was supposed to be..

before i watch this, i just paused to say, the people that edited this movie ruined it. there is a channel called kroft talks movies. if you saw how much they removed from the movie its a crime. he shows you not only the video that was removed but the script too. people hate it but, i wanted to know more about the engineers. i believe that if the things they removed were left in, people would of seen this totally different. even covenant, they removed video of David sending messages back to wayland yutani, which explains why the android in the original alien had that order he was following. deffo worth checking out what he can show you all.. not saying this is an amazing movie but, i deffo saw it in a new light knowing what the engineers were saying at the start and then when the engineer talks to david and wayland when they let him out. you get to know the black goo and why the planet was not their home, neither as the planet in covenant, it was just the last place that ship had come from. i can not explain it all here. knowing why they do what they do at the begining, what they have the black goo for makes a world of difference. ridley scott should of just stuck to what he was doing..

Ridley Scott is now ruining the franchise. An old man is an old man, how creative he was in the past, shouldn't be a scale to measure his current activities. Even Resurrection was better than the last 2 parts 🤮

For me this is the best syfy/ alien movie of all time.....I didn't miss the xenomorph ....instead it made me appreciate previous alien movie in a more advance understanding....it's the reason I love past alien movies....

A android machine is probably capable of deciphering languages is the only thing this shit turd of a movie is getting credit for!!!

The so called "brightest of the brightest of the brightest IQ Scientists who would NEVER and I mean NEVER tried to pet a Lion in AFRICA, will pet a Hammerpede species, THEY literally NEVER EVER SEEN BEFORE"!! That's like me saying, "wow, what I nice pool of lava, let me dive in knowing lava will kill me instantly"!!!

Soooo you made a whole bunch of videos years ago, praising and explaining the films… and now because people don’t like it you change your tune? That’s weird.

Who told the cavemen where they came from? Big daddy disintegrated in Niagara falls

Aliens is such a awesome movie. I still watch it annually. They should just forget about these movies and remake the old ones beat for beat.

Guys have you watched the original alien 🤦🏻‍♂️ they always make dumb decisions in these movies lol

Everyone shits on this but gives Star Trek a pass on protective gear.

not sure what is canon or not, but as Xenomorphs was introduced in Alien vs Predator, I find it a bit hard to connect it with the movie after with David being the creator, when Promethius is clearly in the far future from AvP

Ok so you didn't like 'anything' about the movie, calm down dude. Bloody critics eh?

"The scans showed the air was safe to breath, he stepped outside, and discovered that safe to breath and pleasant to breath to breath weren't the same thing. he re-entered the ship trying not to throw up."

~ my hazy memory of one of the red dwarf books.

next time a sci fi horror crew remove their helmet for no reason, ask for an alternative edit based on the above.

Certainly a much more advanced analysis than some of the drek I've seen on here. You do well on the science stuff you've called out except the DNA comments - if the Engineers have the same DNA as humans (which can only come from Earth) than they are humans too. And not much analysis on the cinematic anomalies.

Personally I enjoyed covenant

As you pointed out, the crew of the Nostromo were a little stupid but human when they wanted to break quarantine with Kane, but Ellen overrode them and maintained it until Ash overrides her and let's them onboard. Not for a stupid reason either, but because that was his mission.

Very simply put, Prometheus is nothing more than a concoction of fake intellectualism with fragmentation in meshing different themes together.

Lmao at the own alien fans destroyed their own franchise 🤣

Its just like Greek Myth- Cronus Overthrew Uranus, Zeus Overthrew Cronus.

The movie aesthetic is amazing, but it breaks so many of the filming rules messing up the story and the continuity.

I personally enjoyed Prometheus and convenant, to those that say these movies tuning the franchise I recommend watching aliens 3 and beyond including avpr

This review is great. I swear I did not leave this film as any kind of "Prometheus" fan, but I've seen the thing at least five times. Ridley is hit and miss for me, but when I check out of the story and the characters, EVERY TIME, there is an absolutely beautiful set, design elements and cinematography to look at. I am fascinated with the look and design of the Engineers. Part of the story with David endlessly watching and modeling his look on "Lawrence" was that Ridley had wanted to cast Peter O'Toole as Weyland, but he was too ill to take the role.

And this: THANK YOU for your comments regarding Shaw's "Emergency C-Section" (which it can't perform, for your stated reasons, and yet is equipped with obstetrical forceps.) I have HAD this surgery due to tumors and some cancer that decided to also move in. (This year I am a 20 year survivor). And I sent up the "I CALL NO WAY!" flare when we hit this scene, I assure you neither Ridley NOR John Spaihts (whose work I often enjoy) and then came Damon Lindelof (whose heavy-handed fingerprints are all OVER this film, I loathe his writing, and thereby I will hazard a guess that the change was in his rewrite) ... have NEVER met a woman who has just received a Total Abdominal Hysterectomy and is still in the Post Surgical Recovery Phase. I do not care how advanced medical procedures have advanced, or the existence of state of the art ("Don't touch that!") surgical pods are in the latter part of this century. Human anatomy HAS NOT CHANGED and this ENTIRE film is about "Who ARE our makers" and "Who Watches The Watchmen". It is about the DISCOVERY of HUMAN design and the exploration of Intelligent Design. 

This particular surgery, involves an abdominal incision which is either vertical or horizontal. Muscles, ligaments and blood vessels are all detached from the (trying to not be too graphic or offensive here) as 'organ in question' is completely removed, this ALSO involves an internal procedure that a surgical pod calibrated "only for men" (booo) would not have been possible to perform as it requires a reconstruction procedure, closed with precision and internal sutures. I ASSURE you, no upper grade pain killers could get you LITERALLY up and running, the fact that the incision is closed with staples, etc. proves that abdominal human anatomy and its surgical area has NOT changed by the 2090s. You are not going to just 'hop right up' after that last staple, and with a new gash in your lower abdomen you have severed nerves which take over a year to reconnect, and yes you are convinced that the first time you stand, your guts will spill onto the floor. 

There is NO running, there is no BENDING, there is no COMPRESSION of this incision and NO a jack tight EVA suit is not going to fix it. Recovery from this surgery is commonly six to eight weeks. It's true. Ten days after, I was able to make short trips, but a walk through a store rapidly involved a 15 minute sit, in order to stand again and leave. Three weeks in, I could not walk a regular city block. You learn to sleep near sources of entertainment and have a small cooler with some 'drinks and snackies'. You are NOT going to be outrunning a rolling spacecraft, fighting off Engineers, or packing up and lowering David to head off to Planet 4.

But for some weird reason, largely the beautiful design of the Engineers, Idris Elba (always fun to stare at), Iceland, and the nod to root languages by way of Proto-Indian-European (and yeah, you nailed that too) simply fascinate me. "Derelict" a fan edit of "Prometheus" combined to "Alien", color dropped to black and white and runs at three hours, is superb, the overlap when they wake the Engineers was spectacular. Find it if you can.

I remain the Girl Who Loves Horror and Monsters, I love this franchise because since its introduction it has always been a closely written honor of women. What we will do when we fight. When we take command. And when our worst opponent is another female who is just as determined to defend her offspring as Ellen Ripley is to save Newt and redeem her broken promises to her lost daughter. "Alien" and its successors have always been about how deadly the female of the species can be, and I've watched the dawning expression of several "Alien/Xenomorph" fans when presented with this reality. It's the ultimate Chick Flick. Having said that, I really want a version of "Covenent" that includes Mark Watney (who could absolutely tell you why wheat is growing on 'Swing By For Repairs Planet on Way to Origae-6") and Rick Martinez running and screaming like little girls at "WHAT ARE THOSE THINGS?!" Which they consistently kill completely by accident, especially when fleeing full bore in the rover. I would never NOT watch this and stand up and cheer for the first inadvertent Alien comedy utterly comprised by the horrified escape attempts of Watney and Martinez. Honestly, I would love it. Your break down and your story holes are valid and your review is great. I really enjoyed it. Thanks for singling out the absurdity of the Surgical Pod.

I really liked this movie

Prometheus is a brilliant movie, on the narrator has obviously got too much time on his hands and if he's going to scrutinize this film to it's very end. Just enjoy it for what it is and shut the hell up