Why do all Sci-fi films have to include something gross? I just watched Prometheus and although I do admit how exciting and consuming the movie is, I am also grossed out.
So when two archaeologists, Dr. Shaw and Dr. Holloway, found some 35 thousand year old drawings of giant humans pointing at some sort of galaxy, they believed that the makers of the human species must be on a galaxy of the same pattern.
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| Pictogram found in a cave in Scotland |
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| Prometheus about to land on LV-223 |
When Peter Weyland, who later we come to know as an old man who simply doesn't want to die, funded them and gave them a team, they found a galaxy with the same pattern 34.56 light years away from Earth. There was a planet in that galaxy that resembled Earth and a moon encircling it. “Prometheus” is the name of the spaceship they rode to that moon, named LV-223. Why the moon? Because the moon had conditions that could sustain life.
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| LV-223 |
So, the whole crew got to that moon and they were all hoping like there would be the “Engineers” of the human species on that moon. All was excited except Meredith Vickers (she's not a scientist; she's just there to look pretty and give her father, Peter Weyland, more lines) was all Victoria Beckham (unsmiling).
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| Charlize Theron playing Meredith Vickers |
But, uh-oh, first problem in the sci-fi problem pattern, they found amazingly preserved bodies of the “engineers” who have the same DNA as humans! The engineers are just disgustingly muscular Voldemort-skinned space screwballs really.
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| Lord Voldy face (but this guy has a nose) |
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| An engineer probably going to create life on earth |
In the first scene, one engineer drank some liquid from his bee-hive style container. This liquid immediately broke his DNA strands but the strands form new DNA as they combine with water. I saw some weird form of cell division that happened in his changing cells - weird, because the mitosis didn't seem to end and I didn't see any cytokinesis.
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| DNA strands breaking |
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| Weird mitosis |
So when they got on the moon, there was no trace of a living being on it. Perhaps all beings on this moon created bio-weapons (the slimy creatures and the infamous “black goo”, the term that everyone is using now for the black stuff in the movie). It seems that the weapons got creative and turned on the spacemen themselves, leading to eradication of every spaceman- sorry, engineer- on the whole moon.
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| Black goo oozing from the mysterious urns |
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| The sick deadly reptile |
Ooh, ooh, did I tell you about the zombie part? Ya-ha! There were some reptiles (think grey, unfashionably patterned, slimy, blunt snakes) in a cave that all the scientists go into. These things are capable of rapid regeneration, have sort-of-acidic body fluid (or blood; I’m not sure. There's no hemoglobin in it), coil around limbs of prey to crush bones, and enter esophagus of prey. I think they enjoy human's esophagus a lot because one stayed in it overnight until other scientists discovered the dead body of the said prey. A geologist kind of died because of its poisonous body fluids but then came back as a moaning zombie-looking maniac killer with ninja moves when the movie had nowhere left to go but the ending climax.
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| Zombie (he's on fours; he's not spider-zombie) |
There was also called a robot named David (there were lots of others like him back on earth so he isn’t that cool) who came along and he's like the smartest of all. One downside? He wouldn't obey all your commands entirely. He kept a lot of secrets and I think he’s intelligent enough to develop feelings. He didn’t like Dr. Shaw’s boyfriend, Dr. Holloway, so he infected him with the black goo. Dr. Holloway ended up with red eyes and bad skin and was later incinerated by Charlize Theron - sorry, I meant Vickers.
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| David,the android; the first to know about the black goo |
And then, and then, did I tell you how the main character, Dr. Shaw, got pregnant by the black-stuff-infected Dr. Holloway although she was sort of infertile? The fetus grew the size of a 3-month-old human fetus in just 10 hours. But don't expect Dr. Shaw to pull a Bella Swan, people. She practically removed the "foreign body" from her abdomen by herself with a robotic surgical machine (they call it the “med-pod”; it's quite advanced, being made around 2091.) After the surgery, the fetus did not die but grew gradually all by itself! Nonetheless, I do think it still needs a host to develop into adult form of human/goo hybrid.
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| the gross fish-like creature is the fetus |
David found that there was still one spaceman alive (but preserved in a hyper-sleep mode of course) and he/she ended up being the host for Dr. Shaw's baby! So I'm thinking ,usually the host is supposed to be the actual mother but the fetus was able to adapt to whatever human-like creature’s body to undergo metamorphosis.
Do you want to know what happens in the end? What happened to the scientists, the robot, the last engineer, Peter Weyland, Dr. Shaw, and Prometheus? What were the “engineers” planning to do? It's an entertaining movie so I'm not against people watching it. I'll just leave it to you. If you have the guts to watch slimy stuff in human bodies, you’ll be fine. If you're too busy to watch, then read Wikipedia to see how it all turned out.
All Sci-fi movies have its holes in the story. That doesn't mean it won't give you a good thrill. I probably won't watch Prometheus again for the third time (I had to watch it twice to take pictures) but I don't regret watching it. I had fun to watch how unprofessional the “scientists” were and how impossible the plot was.
A biologist ran away from a dead body of a Spaceman! Not kidding.
Some of the scientists got onto “Prometheus” from Earth without knowing why they were going. Not kidding.
Prometheus got to their destination, LV-223, that was 327,000,000,000,000 km away from Earth in 28.5 months, which means that it was travelling with 17.13 times the speed of light. Not kidding.
Dr. Shaw carbon-dated the body of a Spaceman without knowledge of the 6C14 percentage in LV-223's atmosphere and used the carbon-dater from earth. Not kidding.
Dr. Shaw carbon-dated the body of a Spaceman without knowledge of the 6C14 percentage in LV-223's atmosphere and used the carbon-dater from earth. Not kidding.
Everything on LV-223 was grey (and more than fifty shades of it too!). Not kidding.
You will only see the interior of Prometheus, the interior of the cave and the way between most of the time in the movie. Not kidding.
And don’t even get me started on evolution.
If you believe in evolution (No, I don’t “believe” in evolution. Evolution is the truth!!!), then think of “Prometheus” as a child’s imagination going wild. Because there is no way we can crunch the numbers “Prometheus” gives into our evolution calculators.
Before you watch it, be prepared to see “scientists” talking “science” without any proof. It bugged me so hard I had to force myself to stop thinking about it. If our future world is going to let people like Dr. Shaw be called “scientists”, then there’s no point of education at all. Damn it, I thought about it again!
After watching it, you will have all these questions. Most of them can be answered as followed: “Because they had to die” and “Because they wrote it like this”. For the rest of the questions, there’s no answer except a sequel, if there is going to be one. And being the fool that I am, I’m probably going to watch it, and of course, write a review about how much it sucks.
Good luck deciding!
