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Published: 2012-06-03 13:13:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 1570; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 1761
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Screen shots from Prometheus and Alien. Comparing the two. I didn't make any of the pictures as such. Just put them together.Prometheus - top pic. Alien - lower two.
As you can see, the circular dais the chair is on is different. The humans are really small to the Space jockey. But the Prometheus Space jockey is clearly not the same size. At all. Just see how small the humans are compared to the chair, and how not much bigger the Prometheus human-SJ is compared to the chair. He's bigger, but not nearly big enough. And the biggest fail... he's a human. What happened to the cool elephant alien?
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Well according To Scott the SJ in Alien is so large because it was dead Billions, maybe trillions of years before the Sacrifice Scene in Prometheus and the SJ in Alien was effected by the black Xenomorph DNA (Making Holes in the Pilot) and then crashed with the prototype Deacon, because apparently the Black DNA's reaction is different depending upon the substance and tried many ways to create "The perfect organism" one of these prototypes being the Alien Eggs which this Engineer crashed with. That's why this Engineer is so large and deformed, just like the "Amazingly Preserved" Engineer Helmet in Prometheus which had only began to rot over 2000 years ago according to the crew in Prometheus. Also the room is different for two reasons: Remember how the Pilot's chair rose out of the ground in Prometheus? That's because it rose out of this room and that the ship is an older design. Even Dallas comments that the Pilot has been fossilised and that it's bent outwards because of it's age.
Everything is explainable in Prometheus, but just like 2001 and Blade Runner and even parts of Alien, you just have to think about the answer, all the information is there.
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Well, I know that the ships are different ships, on different planetes and from different times. I find the idea that dead things should grow when they rot/decay. Decaying is the very opposite in nature as decaying means sometihng is being well... made into smaller pieces as it's being eaten by small organisms. And it if't fossilized as they say, it means it's turned into stone from age, just like dinosaur bones and such. They shouldn't grow. Unless it's alive. But never mind that. The hole in the SJ's chest is obviously from a xenomorph getting out.
Blade Runner is a totally different kind of movie and it explains itself a lot more in the end than what Prometheus does. I don't think I've seen 2001 though. But a lot in Prometheus is very different from Alien and Aliens. It's also ridiculous that the Engineers are "humans" and that they created humans and life on Earth. Anyways, I know when I posted these pictures I didn't know about some stuff that I know now. So some things have been explained to me since. But it doesn't all make sense at all. I also think it's less imaginative that it could have been. Engineers are just big, ugly humans. Yaaay, how original. And that constant stuff about belief and God and stuff they focused on in Prometheus is not something that I care to see in a supposed horror movie about aliens.
Anyway, I don't think Prometheus is a bad movie. Just a "Meh" movie. It has nice graphics but it doesn't live up to my hopes and expectations in way of story and characters. I understand if people like it though. If they haven't had the same expectations and hopes that I personally did.
Nice avatar btw. I see you like Dead Space. 
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Yeah, but you also have to remember this is in a Universe where such a thing as Molecular Acid exists. Plus the Pilot in Alien was not killed via infection by a Xenomorph, it was killed by the Black DNA (Xenomorph) infection, hence why it looks hollow and why it's unnaturally stretched and contorted his armour much like one of the bodies Fitfield shines his light on in the pile which looks stunningly similar to the Pilot from Alien, minus a hole in it's Helmet. This was obviously done to give context to why the pilot in Alien is larger and looks slightly different.
Most, no all, of the character stupidity in Prometheus is literally down to bad editing which Scott has never been good at, hence the many cuts of Blade Runner. I know that because of the many deleted Scenes and special features provided on the Blu-Ray set I have. (Prometheus To Alien: The Evolution)plus you should check Prometheus.com's forums if you still think it's even Average as a film, not saying that you aren't allowed to have your own opinion on the film. But as I see it, it's as much a masterpiece as is Blade Runner when everything is taken into context.
And the theory that we were Engineered/Engineers aren't ridiculous, when people stop believing in a magical, invincible man that created everything, the Engineers will be higher up on the scale of ridiculous. And while I agree the Engineers appearance isn't exactly original, everything else about them is unique and also because of extended context, the Engineer's DNA mixing with the Xenomorph DNA Infection ends up with the result of the basis of life, so in that as Shaw says they are "Everything."
Plus Ridley has stated time and time again, that while it's based in the Alien Universe it's a completely different type of film.
Thank You. It is a great game as is the second, I am concerned for the third however due to what happened to Mass Effect 3 also owned by EA, also changed in the third instalment to be more action-orientated due to Electronic Arts.
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Hated the Engineers. The Space Jockey isn't an Engineer.
The Space Jockey has teeth in it's mouth. It is fossilized, not rusted like the Engineer suits were.
H.R. Giger said the Space Jockey was a truly alien creature. Prometheus messed up the Space Jockeys. In a short novelization(not the original novel) the Space Jockeys were said to be elephantine humanoids and not tall, albino white people. The Space Jockeys were also said to be much larger than Engineers.
The Space Jockey were even said to be very friendly, whereas the Engineers and Xenomorphs were the complete opposite. Hopefully they add the real Space Jockeys to the new Alien film. Even in one of the scene in Prometheus one of the characters tells Shaw to take the necklace of the cross of because if the Engineers created humans, then who created the Engineers?
Personally(just personally) I think the Engineers killed off the friendly Space Jockeys and mimicked their technology and suits. And want to kill humans off because either we evolved are were created naturally or we didn't follow what we were meant to follow.
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The trick when watching Prometheus is remembering that it's not a prequel. It started out as one, but then it just became something inspired by Alien. With this in mind I can see it as a sort of decent action movie with good visuals and one good scary scene. The plot is still worthy of some facepalming, but I can watch it. The way I see it only Alien and Aliens are proper Alien movies, with Alien 3 as an optional boring conclusion. (I can accept Predator 2 as part of the same universe.) Other movies with Alien in the title should not be included in the canon, and that useless film that Jeunet made in 1997 should never be mentioned by name.
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But it is a prequel. 
I could accept it as an ok movie, if they had totally skipped all references to Alien altogether. But not now. Nope. 
Same here! 
Haha, the movie whose name must not be mentioned! 
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Exact, the size are different between prometheus ingeneers and alien's space joskey.
And the planet is not the same, LV426 in Alien, LV223 in Prometheus.... the sheap is just the same model.
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That's not even the worst of it in my opinion. I went and read some of the interviews with the writer and the explanation as to why the Engineers hate us made me want to facepalm so hard that my hand flew through my skull and blew my brain matter into the next galaxy.
I will give props for the visuals though. I saw it in 3D too and it was pretty seamless with no gimicky tricks.
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I haven't read those... what was the reason? (I don't really wanna know, but I'm curious anyway!)
Haha, that was a funny description though!
That is was!
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Okay, so when the Engineers were returning back and observing mankind, they saw us misbehaving. So in order to get us back on the right path, they sent an emissary... named Jesus... that we crucified.
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"Okay, so when the Engineers were returning back and observing mankind, they saw us misbehaving. So in order to get us back on the right path, they sent an emissary... named Jesus... that we crucified."
I think it is the writers that should be crucified.
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Ridley is partly to blame as he approved this junk. 
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That's, that's... sooo lame! I don't know this... but I think this is a recent idea he had. If he'd imagined the engineers as human from the beginning, surely he'd have give some slight hint of that already in Alien? And not made them so big. No, I'll stick with the version in Steve Perry's books: Earth Hive, Nightmare Asylum and The Female War.
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Hopefully it's another misleading info, to not blow the whole story backround, same as when RS said after release, that there's not gonna be director's cut, and yet, it's going to be.
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Honestly, I don't want the Alien universe to be like LOST. Don't make us go hunting online for hidden websites or telling us things to throw us off. The Alien franchise never did that before, and it shouldn't start doing this now. I just want the truth behind the world development and the story even if that takes a few movies to do. This is why I never want Lindelof to touch a movie script again. Ever.
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Well, you got the point. I didn't know Lindelof before Prometheus actually, I never watched Lost, coz I found it uninteresting, but we know Ridley's work, and as a director he has a say in the whole process, so we can expect some really original thing, we saw the first part of this new thing,which has many many details to thing about, we will see whats gonna be in the sequel. But I don't wanna Jesus as an Alien\UFO, that's sure.
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And there's gonna be a sequel, would you tell the people the story before the movie release?
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Epic fail on the Space Jockey.
Fuck you Prometheus. e___e;
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Indeed.
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The elephantine look is a space suit ; )
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According to the new Prometheus movie yes. But the space suits they wear are still too small comapred to the old one. Besides having shorter trunks and they mention that they are bones in Alien.
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All good points. Despite his resume, Ridley Scott is human, so he does make mistakes. I don't know if you said already, but did you like the film?
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Of course.
Yes, I liked the movie. But it's not great. I give it a 3 of 5 stars. Like so many new movies. They rely on computer graphics too much and too predictable storylines and too flat characters. It's not very scary at all. But it is grafically nice. But frankly, I prefer a movie with less fine looks, if it's scarier, more original and have good actors. Anyway, it's an ok movie.
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Well, I'll have to see it a second time before I make a final verdict. I think with the storyline thing movies nowadays stick to a formulaic way of doing things because it's guaranteed to make money. Hollywood has always had a business side to it, but it seems to have overtaken things in recent years.
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Yeah, Hollywood has forgotten that taking chances may lead to great succsesses sometimes and movies that never gets old. Sure, they make mostly good/ok movies. But nothing is surprising anymore.
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I see your point. Maybe it'll change someday
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We'll see. But maybe it's good. Some competition from other movie makers might start to make things better again.
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But then it all depends on what people mean by "better".
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