Promethius questions....
1) Who was the guy at the beginning?
I took him to be Promethius and he was seeding the Earth with DNA that would eventually create us.
2) Why did you think the engineers wanted to kill the humans?
I took it as though we were never meant to exist - having been 'seeded' by Promethius - and the engineers were going to eliminate a species that wasn't supposed to exist....us.
3) But then....who told us about that specific star grouping to put into the ancient paintings/carvings, which obviously took place long after we came to exist? Was it Promethius, and what we saw at the start of the flick was him self-destructing after accomplishing what he set out to do?
4) Then, if we weren't meant to exist, why would Promethius point us toward the planet that was manufacturing our demise rather than the home planet of the engineers?
I'll stop now.
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Topic - Promethius questions....MEGA SPOILERS. Don't look if you ain't seen it. - Enophile 15:15:32 06/16/12 (83)
- Love it or hate it, it has generated more discussion than I've seen in a long time. - free.ranger 00:21:13 06/25/12 (3)
- RE: Love it or hate it, it has generated more discussion than I've seen in a long time. - mpathus 10:18:37 06/27/12 (2)
- Good acting, great CGI, and otherwise good to great production values - Mike K 17:45:18 06/28/12 (1)
- Story line seemed... - mpathus 16:11:50 06/29/12 (0)
- IMAX, if it's NOT the full wrap-around one (in other words, not the misleading ones installed in most - tinear 10:22:09 06/24/12 (4)
- Partly disagree.... - Steve O 20:46:43 06/24/12 (3)
- RE: Partly disagree....Mall IMAX 3D experience... - mpathus 10:40:28 06/27/12 (2)
- Shuddering? - Steve O 16:22:03 06/27/12 (1)
- RE: Shuddering? - mpathus 17:40:22 06/27/12 (0)
- My greatest disappointment: underwear in the future. - tinear 08:43:17 06/23/12 (1)
- Might have that design trend started with... - mpathus 17:14:38 06/23/12 (0)
- Really hated this movie... - MaxwellP 05:44:10 06/23/12 (0)
- Since this thread is still alive... - Steve O 18:37:47 06/22/12 (6)
- I agree that it all comes back to the myth of Prometheus, but the critique misses the main point - Jazz Inmate 19:31:06 06/25/12 (2)
- Nailed it again! ...I'm a subscriber from now on. ~t - mpathus 10:50:52 06/27/12 (1)
- Thanks. I don't see a ton of movies but it's fun to talk about the ones I see NT - Jazz Inmate 07:41:34 07/02/12 (0)
- Very interesting interpretation...(nt) - mkuller 21:02:54 06/24/12 (0)
- Nice, but... - mpathus 17:01:21 06/23/12 (0)
- Brilliant deconstruction, thanks. SPOILER: - tinear 08:31:18 06/23/12 (0)
- I read all your spoilers now I'm going to see it. should i see 2D or 3D? NT - violinist3 03:52:17 06/19/12 (5)
- DEFINITELY 3-D. NO question. Period. Absolutely. Positively. nt - tinear 09:35:16 06/22/12 (0)
- IMAX 3D (if available) highly recommended... - mpathus 11:21:41 06/19/12 (0)
- RE: I read all your spoilers now I'm going to see it. should i see 2D or 3D? NT - Steve O 05:50:51 06/19/12 (2)
- Agree, it's a very 'gentle' 3D movie. * - Enophile 09:01:43 06/19/12 (0)
- ^ this. nt - Prisoners 06:24:10 06/19/12 (0)
- Finally got around to seeing it. My take - Jazz Inmate 22:06:13 06/18/12 (7)
- Faith contradicted by knowledge is false. Lies never are good. nt - tinear 14:40:53 06/22/12 (5)
- faith is more about the unknowable, which de facto cannot intersect with empiricism NT - Jazz Inmate 22:13:12 06/22/12 (4)
- Absolutely. It is unknowable, JI, so flee from those who create fictions as "religion." nt - tinear 08:35:52 06/23/12 (3)
- Put a cork in it NT - Jazz Inmate 11:05:17 06/23/12 (2)
- The white flag shows yet again. nt - tinear 10:25:04 06/24/12 (1)
- No one has surrendered to you in your life, least of all me. Stick to the movie discussion NT - Jazz Inmate 19:03:17 06/24/12 (0)
- Beautifully distilled. ~t - mpathus 11:08:50 06/19/12 (0)
- Roger Ebert's take... - mkuller 19:33:57 06/18/12 (0)
- there is a HUGE MISUNDERSTANDING HERE - mbnx01 11:10:21 06/18/12 (4)
- Don't know what you saw but I thought I saw the DNA beginning to reassemble at the end of that sequence... - Steve O 12:05:49 06/18/12 (3)
- That's right, DNA was re-formed... - mpathus 17:28:35 06/19/12 (0)
- My RCB instincts saw it as a failure of us to be like them.... - mr grits 14:44:48 06/18/12 (0)
- ? - mbnx01 12:24:12 06/18/12 (0)
- Last moment thought about wiping out Earth . . . - mr grits 11:56:44 06/17/12 (1)
- RE: Last moment thought about wiping out Earth . . . - mpathus 21:50:25 06/17/12 (0)
- "Backfill" time... - mpathus 22:42:59 06/16/12 (6)
- RE: "Backfill" time... - mr grits 12:04:56 06/17/12 (0)
- Nice, if not for the science of paleontology. nt - tinear 08:38:57 06/17/12 (4)
- It's a movie....a mental masturbation...... - mr grits 12:06:16 06/17/12 (3)
- Nice to know he's okay with ion drive, hyper sleep, and all the rest - Enophile 12:51:57 06/17/12 (2)
- All of those are possible. Dismissing human history is not. nt - tinear 15:26:45 06/20/12 (0)
- ......and made in 1938. * - mr grits 14:45:42 06/17/12 (0)
- Hint on #1-- the hovering space ship. - free.ranger 19:03:27 06/16/12 (3)
- First time around I saw it as a near religious thing....... - mr grits 20:29:40 06/16/12 (0)
- I thought the same thing on second viewing of that scene... - Steve O 19:08:52 06/16/12 (1)
- The Prometheus website refers to him as a sacrificial. * - mr grits 20:18:19 06/16/12 (0)
- Cutting room floor super MEGA spoiler . . . . - mr grits 18:32:24 06/16/12 (5)
- Superior beings that dress like shit? nt - tinear 08:40:35 06/17/12 (1)
- Maybe Tin Blackwell can regale us with some pseudo-objective best dressed aliens list. - Enophile 12:43:48 06/17/12 (0)
- Looks like he had the same make up artist... - mpathus 21:22:43 06/16/12 (0)
- OMG, where did that come from? - Steve O 18:40:47 06/16/12 (1)
- From the Prometheus website . . . got there from Google Images. * - mr grits 20:17:18 06/16/12 (0)
- Saw it again today and . . . . - mr grits 18:21:23 06/16/12 (3)
- "... they can sure as hell keep score". No shit. - free.ranger 22:03:55 06/16/12 (0)
- Good points . . . . - mpathus 21:40:48 06/16/12 (1)
- Of course the squids purpose in life was to drop an egg then..... - mr grits 11:50:01 06/17/12 (0)
- I got yer movie intell right down here . . . . - mr grits 18:08:19 06/16/12 (13)
- RE: I got yer movie intell right down here . . . . - mkuller 12:27:43 06/17/12 (1)
- Just had to put a little something in there for you haters. * - mr grits 18:27:39 06/17/12 (0)
- Two comments re your Prometheus "theories" - Steve O 18:37:46 06/16/12 (10)
- RE: Two comments re your Prometheus "theories" - mr grits 20:24:52 06/16/12 (6)
- "there were a lot of pot shots taken at Judaeo-Christian belief"--not really - Jazz Inmate 06:39:02 06/19/12 (5)
- Yes indeedy!! - mpathus 18:01:42 06/19/12 (4)
- RE: Yes indeedy!! - Jazz Inmate 20:12:55 06/19/12 (3)
- Shaw as Mary bearing Jesus and Jesus is a monster of incredible destructive force. - tinear 15:57:07 06/24/12 (1)
- RE: Shaw as Mary bearing Jesus and Jesus is a monster of incredible destructive force. - mpathus 07:51:22 06/25/12 (0)
- Humm... - mpathus 08:50:14 06/20/12 (0)
- The sci fi genre always has holes. Nature of the beast. - free.ranger 18:53:49 06/16/12 (2)
- Enter my world of infinite imaginative possibilities - violinist3 21:16:21 06/16/12 (0)
- Just let another planet have a 100K head start on us and this could be true. - mr grits 20:33:34 06/16/12 (0)
- The dude had histrionic personality syndrome. That's how they dealt with it. nt - free.ranger 18:00:43 06/16/12 (0)
- The guy at the beginning is the average sucker that just shelled out the big 3-D - tinear 17:30:48 06/16/12 (5)
- So...some aspects of human existance are beyond human comprehension? - Steve O 17:51:50 06/16/12 (4)
- What aspects are? What comprehension? nt - tinear 08:47:17 06/17/12 (3)
- It seems paying 9.50 to see a movie is beyond your comprehension. - Enophile 08:15:35 06/18/12 (2)
- I paid senior rate $9.50 first time; $4 (non 3D) second; and today.... $12.50 IMAX 3D. - tinear 13:49:19 06/23/12 (0)
- Paying $9.50 to see a movie is beyond MY comprehension... - mpathus 09:00:13 06/20/12 (0)