Currently watching Prometheus and......?

[bryjcom]

I just recently watched this. I found it pretty good and I'm kinda of a movie critic. I still don't understand the beginning with the alien drinking that weird stuff and him disentegrating? What was the purpose of that? Did he sacrifice himself and drink that "koolaid" to create the DNA for humans?

[<MADDOG>]

life, yes

[bogie]

So it could have stopped hair growth then?

Not stopped, but the rate of hair growth would be proportional to all the other body processes. Say if their heart beat only once a minute (instead of 80 beats/minute) then hair growth would have slowed by a factor of about 80, and so on. This reminds me of the scientific unit "beard-seconds".. The human beard supposedly grows at a rate of 10 nanometers per second..

Maybe they just apply shaving powder before going to sleep????

[StevenP]

There's going to be a sequel that apparently connects more of the dots to Alien.

and hopefully that includes the Predator

[Ronin13]

There's going to be a sequel that apparently connects more of the dots to Alien.

Yes, and this is why I was so excited to see Prometheus... Ridley Scott is one of the few Hollyweird whackjobs I don't hate. I can't wait until more details are released on the sequel. Last I heard Scott said that this was the first of two, possibly three, prequels to the original Alien.

[th3w01f]

I'm going to go against the grain and say Prometheus sucked. I went into it without any research and didn't even realize it was a prequel until well into the movie.

Now come on, it was almost a duplicate of Alien, if you didn't know it was a prequel it was a rip-off of the original. How often is the robotic life form you brought with you just there to screw you?

[Ronin13]

I'm going to go against the grain and say Prometheus sucked. I went into it without any research and didn't even realize it was a prequel until well into the movie.

Now come on, it was almost a duplicate of Alien, if you didn't know it was a prequel it was a rip-off of the original. How often is the robotic life form you brought with you just there to screw you?

Aliens... He saved them. I can see where you think it's a rip-off or what have you, but then again, everything now a days is a rip off of the classic hero story arc.

[th3w01f]

Aliens... He saved them. I can see where you think it's a rip-off or what have you, but then again, everything now a days is a rip off of the classic hero story arc.

Agreed but when a director is ripping off his own movie and calling it a prequel it's kind of sad.

[Ronin13]

Agreed but when a director is ripping off his own movie and calling it a prequel it's kind of sad.

"No, because it's your dog."

[Byte Stryke]

Next thing we know someone will be calling "The Hobbit" a Blatant rip off of Harry Potter