Why prometheus didnt make sense

Presumably, from what is said later, David sits there pushing buttons and lights willy-nilly "figuring out the broad strokes" and this alien spaceship doesn't budge an inch.

Holloway is having a bad time of it and is having a serious bout of man-flu. Shaw wants to save him but Holloway has realised that he's a threat to the gene pool, literally, and begs to be flame-throwered.

He poses like Christ because hey, religious movie, even though his sacrifice really isn't on a par and Charlize obliges by turning him into extra crispy Holloway wings.

It's about damn time, I was getting bored with Mr "Tom Hardy was busy doing Batman so we got this guy instead". Shaw falls suddenly pregnant.

David has got back onto the ship and is suddenly the medical expert. He takes her cross off of her because hey, religious movie. He wants to put her into cryo. Is any of this in his orders? Wasn't Weyland after eternal life? What the hell has this subplot got to do with anything other than to give us a "virgin birth" sequence in the movie because this is all supposed to be terribly religiously profound.

Shaw is understandably upset. So she slugs some of her crewmates who thoughtfully decide never to hold it against her when they recover, or ask about her alien baby when they come to take her away and runs to a medibot thingy in Vicker's quarters. I should have mentioned that was there earlier, but my brain was occupied by other lunacy so it slipped my mind. The medibot thingy is male-only, because that's how these things are built in the future.

Presumably it's there for Weyland. Shaw has an abortion. Despite having her abdomen sliced open she seems remarkably able to engage in physical activity beyond this point. It's suggested by fans her meds are really potent future meds. I bet they are, everyone else in this movie seems to have been abusing future meds recreationally judging by their stupidity.

The alien baby squid is then gassed. Which does absolutely bugger all to it. This is curious since the exploding engineer head I think was similarly treated and yet that cleared up that infection. But there's so many inconsistencies in what the alien goo can do that inconsistencies in how decontam treatments affect it are par for the course. A zombie turns up and they stupidly open the doors so it can slaughter people willy nilly.

Apparently the only weapon which works in the future are flamethrowers. Some expendable people who had little say die along with the idiot geologist whose second demise seems only too fitting considering what a dingbat he was.

Shaw stumbles into Weyland's chambers. David is washing his feet because it's in the Bible a few times. Nobody asks Shaw what's happened to her apart from David who has mastered deadpan sarcasm, an unusual skill for an android. Janek stumbles out of a deleted scene to tell Shaw that this is a weapon's facility. Inviting the question as to why, exactly, the aliens told us where their weapons facility was. And inviting the question why, when they need a stable environment, they chose to build a weapon's facility on a seismically active, tidally affected by gravity moon which should have massive extremes of temperature.

It seems like the Engineer's are idiots, but as can be seen, so is absolutely everyone else in this farce, so they shouldn't be excused. Charlize Theron delivers the worst piece of acting in her entire career. It's on the clock and the absurdity of this movie isn't done yet. Nobody seems surprised to see Weyland alive and nobody seems to want to tell him where to get off considering the, ummmm, umpteen deaths there's been already.

Because when you're the money man everyone instantly obeys you, even if you want to do things which don't make sense. The captain on the bridge, for the first time, decides to monkey with the hologram and reveal there is a ship in the pyramid. It's a ship with which our "gods" are "damning" us.

FFS, Ridley, go boil your head, please. Meanwhile David is playing a flute, despite not being able to breathe. He's mastered this ship already because you can totally do that despite only certain things being labelled, random button pushing having no detrimental effects and there apparently being a full load of holograms which you can watch and learn how to pilot and navigate an alien spaceship.

Shaw figures out the Engineers were going to kill us. The implication it's because of Jesus as mentioned earlier. When these guys have a grudge, they really have a grudge. They wake the Engineer. The Engineer doesn't seem terribly surprised to see us and instead seems kind of annoyed to have been woken up. You might think he'd be curious, but that's really expecting intelligence from this movie and you really should have had that expectation beaten out of you after what you've seen so far.

No, the Engineer goes mad because an insane doddering old codger says he's a god and wants eternal life. That might be the deleted scene version, if it is then in the theatrical cut the Engineer just flips out for no reason that actually seems reasonable.

He kills people and lets Shaw run away. He must carry on with his year old mission! You don't check the time, or ask how long you've been out. You follow orders. Hey, that's the Nuremberg defence. Didn't work there either. Vickers comes to her senses finally and realises they really ought to go home when she sees everyone die. Hooray Vickers, finally you got brains. Though not for long. The Engineer climbs into the giant penis gun thing and presses buttons. David is supposed to know how to pilot the ship from this.

And yet you can clearly see he can't see what the Engineer is pressing from where his head is lying on the floor. This causes Shaw to mutate into a parkour expert, despite her surgery. She talks to the ships captain and says he's got to stop the alien vessel reaching Earth. Charlize is having none of it. She leaves.

The crew members all pose like Jesus as they fly their ship into the ascending alien croissant. It's religion people. It's sacrifice. It's everything. It's a deeply profound Hollywood blockbuster isn't it? No it's stupid is what it is. The croissant then falls. I must say here, the second time I watched this movie I watched it with an engineer.

An engineer massively into aeronautical engineering. He can make your eyes glaze over with tech details about planes. The croissant crashes and, as my engineer chum points out, would actually have disintegrated on impact. It's taken a hit right on the weakest point of it's structure which has damaged it so it will fall.

If it lands on the same point it will collapse. It doesn't because - science fail, okay one most people wouldn't spot, but it's still a science fail.

We're then treated to the ludicrous scene of it rolling. Which it really wouldn't do either. But Ridley thinks this is cool and he has the money so it rolls. Hundreds of people are screaming for the two girls to run to the side. Charlize doesn't. She gets squished. Hurry up and kill everyone else off, please. Shaw goes to the lifeboat with 30 secs of air left.

In the airlock she grabs a handful of tubes. What are these? Air I'm guessing, she was short of the stuff. Then she hears a noise. It's her baby squid. Except now it's a big squid. Wasn't it dead? Oh ffs, pleeeaaasse make sense movie, it's not too much to ask is it? Read More About: Alien: Covenant. Jon M. Chu Jon M. All Rights reserved. Close the menu Logo text. Another question you may have been asking when Prometheus was over: why did the Engineer, having been stirred from his slumber by Peter Weyland and his sidekick David, suddenly go berserk?

In the context of Prometheus , Weyland has travelled to LV on his own quest for power: he hopes the Engineers have the means to extend his life. So if Prometheus and Alien: Covenant really are a futuristic retelling of these old, epic stories, where is the franchise likely to go?

Of course, our theories may be all wrong, but given we already know that the Alien franchise has already taken inspiration from the works from such disparate authors as HP Lovecraft, Joseph Conrad, John Milton, AE van Vogt and Erich von Daniken, while Prometheus drew on the Greek myth of a Titan who stole fire from the gods.

We certainly know that Scott has a lengthy story he wants to tell, with the director stating in interviews that he plans to make three more movies following on from Alien: Covenant. This certainly hints at an epic saga akin to the Ring cycle, which was so long that Wagner spent a quarter of a century composing its four chapters. Skip to main content area. Mortals, giants and gods On the 29th October, AVP Galaxy published a brief report claiming that Guy Pearce is set to reprise his role as Peter Weyland, the billionaire industrialist who appeared in wizened form in Prometheus.

By giving into in fans' desire to flesh out a fictional world, films like these sacrifice the sense of wonder that made the original work so enjoyable.

In Prometheus , Ridley Scott's return to the Alien franchise he began in , a crew of scientists and corporate drones head off to the far reaches of the universe in search of an extraterrestrial race they believe is responsible for the creation of humanity.

It's a movie about hubris and the realization that seeking out answers to existential questions can lead to horrible discoveries. Funnily enough, this theme doubles as a sort of meta argument against prequels like Prometheus , which eagerly offers up a backstory for elements of the previous Alien films that never needed to be explained.

Prequels take one of the most engaging and imaginative aspects of fandom—obsessing over the inconsequential details that give a fictional world its character and texture—and move it off of message boards and onto Hollywood back lots, turning it into something poisonous to the art of storytelling.

Plot points become pedantic info dumps, drama is diminished by the audience's awareness of stories taking place in the future, and writers and filmmakers end up rehashing the flashiest superficial elements of their source material while draining of it of mystery and metaphor. Whether it's Prometheus , the Star Wars prequel trilogy, or DC Comics' thoroughly unnecessary line of miniseries filling in the back story of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's pointedly self-contained Watchmen graphic novel, the projects have the visual hallmarks but cast aside the tensions, themes, and tone that made the classic works resonate.

Prometheus wouldn't be quite as disappointing if it were not made by Ridley Scott, the director of the original Alien film.