Oh, I have to say that I liked the C-Section scene.  It was just the leading up to it and afterwards that was gash.

Thanks for the direction to this thread G.man.

Basically my spoiler review covered pretty much everything that has been said here. I enjoyed the film but it ultimately had so many horrendous issues that it really let the film down.

It's been interesting reading the comments here as it highlighted some issues I hadn't thought about.

My biggest annoyance was when the scottish guy came back to the ship. What had happened to him? Why was he there? It just seemed an excuse to mass-kill some of the pointless characters. The actual attack scene was great, it just made no sense. All the film needed to be was:

Thay go to the planet, they see the space jockey, they find some data showing the space jockeys being killed by an alien weapon they have created that then attacks the crew one by one in a series of tense encounters spread out over the ship and the temple. One alien creature that is an early form of the one we all know and love. The film could then end with them finding a surviving Space Jockey who thens flies away to escape, gets attacked by a face-hugger and crashes onto the other planet. Mystery solved.

However, I guess it would then be criticised for being too much like Alien.

Or they could have just sorted the bloody script out and not turned the Space Jockeys in big albinos.

Thinking more about this...

I'm inclined to think that the screenplay would have been about a million times better if it had been Meredith Vickers that was infected by David rather than Shaw.

There is an interesting dynamic between David and Vickers. Weyland refers to David as the closest thing to a son he'll ever have, whereas Vickers is apparently Weyland's daughter. Weyland clearly doesn't want to die and leave the corporation in his daughters control and there are some interesting allusions made to David being among his creators. Weyland is both his father and his God. Both David and vickers clearly resent each others position in the Weyland universe. 

Sadly, this all kind of peters out and goes nowhere in the screenplay as it exists, but imagine David had infected Vickers, the daughter of his creator, rather than Shaw. That makes for a far more interesting story from both a logical and theological viewpoint.

Given that it is also heavily implied that Vickers has sex with Janek during the course of the mission, this would have meant she could have infected Janek, and upon his realising he was doomed by the presence of the parasite inside him, would have given him a credible motivation to pilot the Prometheus into the alien spaceship at the end.

regards

g.man

G.man I think you should write a remake. That idea would have made a fair bit of difference to the overall film. The whole father/daughter dynamic was also never explored.

I was hoping she would be synthetic. There were so many hints to it that it would of made sense.

Aaroncupboard wrote:

I was hoping she would be synthetic. There were so many hints to it that it would of made sense.

It could have been really interesting if she had been half human half synthetic.

sigh

g.man

Precisely. It does make you wonder, when a few very obvious changes to what they ultimately ran with could have elevated their screenplay to god like status.

weeps

g.man

The temple Pyramid in Prome is based off the temple Giger drew up for Alien, the idea was the eggs were originally found in the temple. I've got a great big book on Alien all about that shit. Good book.

This one:

It's ok.

Even this long later, Alien is amazing - especially now in HD.

The design is incredible. Just got to the bit where they discover the eggs and the facehugger attacks. The aliens are just so real. It's fantastic.

Sounds like a solid Wait For The DVD.

I posted that picture up there interesting stufff though. I need to properly sit down and read my book on it, it's full of brilliant looking things.

I have a piece of memorabilia older than me too, it's a press pamphlet that from the first handful of screenings. A girl bought it for me, she was the one... until she went weird and stopped talking to me. Ah well.

@Workid But you'll miss all the amazing Scifi gorgeousness! I paid £11 for IMAX 3D but I don't regret that, despite everything I've said over the past two days.

Yeah, I thought it looked fabulous in 2D, but I'll probably try and grab a trip to the IMAX 3D showing out of curiosity.

regards

g.man

I might be tempted to go see it again in IMAX. The VUE Extreme screen is big but not that big.

How are the glasses they sell you at these 3D showings Tempy? Can you get them on over your regular specs? If not it's a bit of a fail for me.

regards

g.man