A certain scene in Prometheus [MAJOR SPOILERS]

[Sean Hollyman]

It had me on edge for some reason, like my ass was tingling

Ditto, I am very squeamish though.

I just can't stand things being cut, slit, bit, stabbed, slashed *shudders*

 

[Casual Shinji]

http://cavalorn.livejournal.com/584135.html

Give that a read, its a pretty interesting breakdown.

That was a pretty interesting read, thanks!

I'm sure there's a fair share of "reading too much into it" going on, but informative nontheless.

 

[LightspeedJack]

Did exactly what a horror movie is supposed to do; put me on the edge of my seat, made me squirm, made me look at my friend and say "Eeeeew". Great stuff. Loved the movie.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I thought it was fine. As the creepy robot dude said "Remarkable survival instinct."
But seriously, stop being so uptight, world. I'd have wanted that thing out of me by any means as well and I actually thought it was a clever, original scene.
Why exactly do you think the dialogue/plot was so poor? I thought it was a really clever but not in your face about it kinda movie. It let you think about what was going on and I had a very long conversation about the movie with my friend after seeing it, trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle it gave you together. Are you even a fan of the Alien franchise? This entire movie was pretty much meant for fans to enjoy and speculate over.
I feel bad for the poor teen that had a seizure from it, but anyone that has seen an Alien movie before should know to expect lots of flashing lights.
Overall, the best thriller movie I've seen in years. And probably the best movie to do with alien life since District 9. When you think about that OTHER movie with aliens in it that shouldn't need to exist, I think we got it pretty good.

while I completely agree on your opinion, and couldn't have put it better, what "other" movie are you referring to?

OT: I would have grabbed one of those flamethrowers and cooked that thing to dust, there is no fucking way I'd have trusted the machine's gas thingy to work. Those fuckers would be roasted by the time I was done. Also, why did she leave the planet when there were clearly more of those ships left and shit down there? I would have glazed that side of the planet with all the firepower I had on there.

 

[Xerosch]

I wasn't really shocked, more interested in seeing what kind of spawn was cooked up in Noomi's womb.

However, the woman next to me was a tension-wreck once we reached 50% of the playtime. Once the surgery started, she wasn't able to look at the screen and rocked her seat because she was extremely uncomfortable.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

That scene creeped me out. Badly.

Not many things actually do creep me out in films any more. So that's a point to Prometheus.

 

[fireaura08]

Eh, it wasn't that bad really compared to some other stuff in movies/games.

Dead Space 2 comes to mind, as does Passion Of The Christ, that torture porn Mel Gibson made a few years back.

>.> I wasn't at all fazed by DS2, to be honest.

 

[salinv]

The whole movie leaves it wide open for a sequel. I want to know whats the deal with David instead. He finds slime on the walls when they first entered the temple and says "impressive" like he knows where it came from. He comments on how "its every childs wish to kill their parents". He was the only one who could read and operate the glyphs inside the temple and ship, he heard the space jockeys conversation in the hypersleep/pilot chamber, hell he even talked to one of them. (we dont even know what he said, it may not be in the interests of Weyland too)

AS for why he infected Holloway in the first place. Remember how David asked Holloway, what would he be willing to do for answers, "everything" maybe he took that as the go ahead to experiment on him. Find out what it does because Weyland commanded him to "Try harder". And on par with Dr Ash in Alien, it was clear that company bots treated the crew as expendable in favour of the companies agenda. Not until Bishop-bot in Aliens were the droids implanted with (what i assume) are the 3 laws of robotics.

If I remember correctly, David was observing the goo between his fingers when he said "Impressive." It was glowing, or seemed to have electricity (or something) flowing through it, especially when distressed. From I gathered, he put two and two together and realized it was some sort of contact liquid that made the stone symbols a touch pad. Sort of a big leap, but, meh, he is an android, after all.

As for the language barrier, if you remember at the beginning of the movie, David is studying ancient human languages trying to find their origin while everyone is in hyper-sleep. As the theory went, if they put us here on Earth, then maybe our early languages are derived from theirs. Once David "learned" the language, it would be basically useless for anyone else to even try.

 

[Furioso]

I thought it was incredibly stupid, the machine that a woman owns only performs male operations...ok what the fuck. And then when she gets it to do an operation it doesn't use any form of anesthetic? Just cuts her open and then staples her shut? THE FUCK? Ok well it injected her with something, but they couldn't have been painkillers, because they clearly did jack shit in the way of pain, maybe the machine should have let them take effect before taking the thing out with some probably un-sanitized crane

Edit: If the machine was for Weylands use, don't you think they could have added some sort of voice recognition software to the machine so it could actually check if the person using it was male or female?

 

[Luftwaffles]

I thought it was incredibly stupid, the machine that a woman owns only performs male operations...ok what the fuck. And then when she gets it to do an operation it doesn't use any form of anesthetic? Just cuts her open and then staples her shut? THE FUCK?

It has been said in this thread and other places. There are only a few automeds produced in the entire world, and the lifepod isnt meant for Vickers but for Weyland.

The whole movie leaves it wide open for a sequel. I want to know whats the deal with David instead. He finds slime on the walls when they first entered the temple and says "impressive" like he knows where it came from. He comments on how "its every childs wish to kill their parents". He was the only one who could read and operate the glyphs inside the temple and ship, he heard the space jockeys conversation in the hypersleep/pilot chamber, hell he even talked to one of them. (we dont even know what he said, it may not be in the interests of Weyland too)

AS for why he infected Holloway in the first place. Remember how David asked Holloway, what would he be willing to do for answers, "everything" maybe he took that as the go ahead to experiment on him. Find out what it does because Weyland commanded him to "Try harder". And on par with Dr Ash in Alien, it was clear that company bots treated the crew as expendable in favour of the companies agenda. Not until Bishop-bot in Aliens were the droids implanted with (what i assume) are the 3 laws of robotics.

If I remember correctly, David was observing the goo between his fingers when he said "Impressive." It was glowing, or seemed to have electricity (or something) flowing through it, especially when distressed. From I gathered, he put two and two together and realized it was some sort of contact liquid that made the stone symbols a touch pad. Sort of a big leap, but, meh, he is an android, after all.

As for the language barrier, if you remember at the beginning of the movie, David is studying ancient human languages trying to find their origin while everyone is in hyper-sleep. As the theory went, if they put us here on Earth, then maybe our early languages are derived from theirs. Once David "learned" the language, it would be basically useless for anyone else to even try.

That...makes sense. Didnt notice how he suddenly knew how to use the glyphs.

Makes me want to go and watch the movie again....

 

[Stryc9]

and it actually would've been if the machine hadn't been sexist

The machine was never intended to be used by anyone other than the old ass man Weyland when the Engineers gave him the secret to eternal life.

I wasn't disturbed by that scene at all, in fact nothing int Prometheus really bothered me all that much. What creeped me the fuck out was the trailer for "The Possession" fuck that movie to death with a rusty spoon.

 

[NinjaRabies]

I kinda freaked out from it a little, but without some kind of alien coming out of someone's body with blood and gore, it really wouldn't be as good. Besides, it gave a chance to make you puzzle a little about why the machine was there, if it was made for males and the captain, who had residence in that part, was female. Which all was explained in the end of course.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

I was actually pretty impressed with that her in that scene, remarkably fast thinking on her part to not only use the pod, but to work around the cesarean idea with the whole "foreign body" thing. The part I couldn't believe is near the end, when the ship is falling? The guys at Penny Arcade conveniently put it into a strip for me.

Spoiler: Observational comic ahoy!

Do people just not know how to avoid rolling objects? You always run at an angle away from it's direction of roll, how hard is that?

 

[HAVERSHA]

Ah it wasn't that bad. I thought the chestburster scene was way worse.

If only Prometheus wasn't such a disappointing movie overall though