![]() He even says in one of the bonus features: ‘Why didn’t they just cast some old guy to play the part?’. It’s no fault of the actor but he has been badly miscast as Peter Weyland. I also have to mention Guy Pearce who plays old Peter Weyland who appears at the end of the film. I liked Noomi Rapace and Idris Elba, particularly and I think they bring a lot to their characters. You’re never quite sure what David’s motives are in the film. He really puts his heart and soul into his performance and in a lot of ways, this is his story. The true star of the film has to be Michael Fassbender. Other characters include Captain Janek (Idris Elba), Fifield (Sean Harris), Milburn (Rafe Spall) and Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce). ![]() Charlize Theron plays the cold-hearted Weyland Corp employee Meredith Vickers. Noomi Rapace is the lead actress playing archaeologist Elizabeth Shaw and her love interest is Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green). We initially see David the android (Michael Fassbender) roaming around the halls of the Prometheus spacecraft. Everything in the movie is kept very open-ended for subsequent sequels to answer.īack to the movie, we’re soon introduced to the main characters. ![]() Who were the Engineers? What were their motives? What happened 2000 years ago? What exactly was the dark liquid? I know fans of the movie will argue they like ambiguity but to me, it’s just very poor writing. He created a much grander mythology for the film, I suppose. I really liked Lost and the whole mythology in that show but far too many questions were left unanswered in Prometheus. I have yet to read Jon Spaihts’ original draft so it’s hard to judge if Damon Lindelof made things better or worse. The biggest problem with the recent string of Alien movies is that they are all plagued with very poor scripts and Prometheus is no exception. I think the trouble with Prometheus, it doesn’t know what it wants to be. While it’s not an Alien Prequel in the sense of xenomorphs running around, I wouldn’t class it as a standalone movie either, as it’s firmly rooted in the Alien universe with many of the same elements. The story was originally written by Jon Spaihts as an Alien Prequel and later Lost’s Damon Lindelof came on board to make it more of a standalone story. In 2089, a group of archaeologists found a star map in Scotland and Peter Weyland of Weyland Corp funds a mission to go to this moon on a spacecraft called the Prometheus, to find the Engineers. The opening scene in the film shows a 9ft Engineer drinking a dark liquid and his cells begin to break down, thus seeding life on the planet. They are the creators of life on Earth as well as many other planets. So what’s the movie about? It’s sort of an origins story about the mysterious Space Jockey creature we saw in Alien, known in Prometheus as the ‘Engineers’. I figured it would have a lot of similarities to Alien and it still would have been worth following. I was pretty devastated when the news came out that Prometheus was no longer going to be a direct Alien Prequel. What I’ve noticed over the past few months is that some people seem to passionately love the movie whereas others hate it. I wasn’t sure what to make of it and I still aren’t any closer to understanding it, to be honest. I must admit when I left the cinema after watching Prometheus, I was pretty confused by the whole thing, as were lots of other people. In order to get all the special features, you need to fork out for the Special/Collector’s Edition set which includes the 3D Bluray, Bluray and Bonus Disk. ![]() The regular Blu-Ray release only comes with the Commentaries and the Deleted Scenes. There are a few different versions out there. Prometheus comes to DVD and Blu-Ray on October 8th in the UK and October 9th in the US.
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