Alien Movies -- Prequels and Sequels

My gang of movie guys and I saw Prometheus (Alien's prequel) the other night, and, afterward, standing out in front of the theater, not a one of us was really sure about what we saw. We all kind of liked it. Kind of. I think. It was loud and large, which, now that I think about it, was exactly the opposite of the original Alien.

The opening sequence I remember oohing and aahing at, as we flew over what appeared to be alien landscapes. We saw a physically perfect humanoid standing at the edge of a humongous waterfall, spaceship hovering nearby. He drinks some sort of goo that appears alive, then he starts to dissolve, lots of pain involved apparently, and does a swan dive over the falls. We then get the Fantastic Voyage-style shots they’ve used, especially since the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movie, traveling through what’s supposed to be the humanoid’s bloodstream and watching his DNA splatter and shatter. Then, a few seconds later, we see new DNA forming – is that supposed to be us, eventually? Reckon so.

And, that’s as good a description of Prometheus as any – guess so. Or, perhaps, sort of. It’s a “sort of” movie. It’s pretty, and lots of stuff happens, and I didn’t get up to hit the restroom once.

However, I’m still not sure what it was about. None of the characters had clear agendas. We learn a little about the “space jockey”, but not enough. At the end, I felt as though I watched a soap opera. They resolved nothing, and depending on how it did at the box office, there’ll certainly be another one.

So, basically, here’s what happened. Some people ate or drank some stuff, some stuff ate some people, some people ate other people, lots of stuff go boom. Silver screen cotton candy.