Ok, so can somebody explain this movie to me?

Ok, so can somebody explain this movie to me?
From the very first scene of the big guy drinking some poison (what's up with that) and onwards.
For instance, why did Fifield appear as a mutated freak instead of giving birth to a xenomorph? Why didn't Millburn give birth to a xenomorph?

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it just werks

The black goo is a like virus capable of entering into a host and mutating its DNA into whatever the engineers desire. So, at the start of the movie they sacrifice that prison (Adam) and he falls and becomes all of life on Earth; rats cats and octupi etc.

The engineers decide that humanity was a mistake. They reprogramme the goo to create monsters and plan to send it to Earth. This is the really cool/disturbing part. The engineers would not have dropped a load of alien eggs on Earth. Instead they would have just rolled up and aerosoled the stratosphere from miles up and leave the black goo to settle on the unaware populace.

Those directly infected would become horribly mutated zombies, and become even more monsterous and unrecognisable with time as the black goo rewrites their DNA. However, organism like Shaws baby, who are just forming have the most rapid and unpredictable mutations occur to them. This is the terrifying bit.

Got you, pham

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Can't you just accept something for what it is?

There is a decent Youtube video out there explaining the movie. It gets a few things wrong, or just makes assumptions, but most of it is good material. Google it fagget.

It's just a bunch of stupid bullshit for idiots who can't accept evolution, but want to pretend that they aren't science-deniers.

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The tentacle creature that Shaw gives birth to is in fact just one possible mutation of the human genome. The actual number of possible monstrous mutations are countably infinite. After the creature impregnates the engineer it creates the xenomorph, the nemesis of Ripley in the later movies. But on Earth the breadth of the genetic canvas would have been much larger. The planet would have been effectively overrun by zombies and horrific monsters of all shapes and sizes within a matter of hours with the xenomorphs, facehuggers and chestbursters that we know of only being a tiny and unimportant footnote in the true horror that would reign supreme over the Earth.

Bad writing.

You're welcome.

That's stupid, because the engineers would still have to have evolved on their home world. The story of alien doesn't negate evolution, it just explores what is possible within the realm of interplanetary genetic engineering and terraforming.

>the black oil from X-Files
Lost my shit

Prometheus explained.

youtube.com/watch?v=D7CChfYoO_I

>bad writing
It is a movie not a book, user.

Its weird. How can intergalactic master race of creators spawn ugly brainless monster?

It wasn't supposed to answer anything. It was supposed to leave you wondering so that you will go to sequels.

Why did that guy stick his face in the alien's face? Wasn't that dangerous?

When the android poisoned the biologist, did he do it with the intention of getting the girl pregnant and freezing her? what if she was in her period and they didn't have sex soon enough?
and why didn't they actually fight to hold her? she got away too easily, and it's like no one except her noticed the alien she got out of her womb, it was just left there in the surgery room.

No because she was barren. The rest is mostly suspension of disbelief.

Pure coincidence.

Your post gave me AIDS.

what a mong

You just made Prometheus not only make logical sense (lets just ignore the dumb ass character decisions and focus on the antagonist) but you've turned the Alien franchise into an Lovecraftian nightmare.

Fuck you.
I love you.
But still fuck you.

They should of just stuck with the alien prequel thing instead of crying "ITS ITS OWN FILM" it probably would of made a lot more sense

well it wasn't exactly a xenomorph, it was the "deacon" xenomorph. I think the original xenomorph was a product of some cross breeding with the engineers, or maybe with something else too.

but did it really detract from being an alien prequel? I fail to see your point

They changed some stuff and it just made it make less sense

It's just a fucking movie. Stop thinking about it.

Which leaves some of the biggest plot holes for a scifi movie to me. In the Greek legend, Prometheus tricks the gods into giving lowly humans fire, and basically gets punished eternally for it, along with Zeus cursing us with toil and... women. (Oh Greece, how you loved your pederasty...)

> Spend God-knows how many resources to populate a planet in a bum-fuck nowhere spiral arm of the galaxy with life.

> Get pissed not terribly long after the development of life (because the alien ruins they explore were quite old if I'm remembering the movie correctly).

> Spend God-knows how many resources to create a terribly inefficient biological extermination on said bum-fuck planet before it eats you instead.

I'm having trouble finding much parallel structure here.

You better be Ridley Scott and this is not just speculation because this would redeem how shit and by-the-numbers Covenant and whatever comes next looks.

why are you on Sup Forums m8?