FILM REVIEW - Prometheus
Geek Syndicate
Having been awaken after a few years in space, on this “one of a kind” mission (set only a 100 years or so from now), we are asked to believe that the entire crew has never met each other until the moment they are awoken and that this unique mission is privately funded by an individual who must be the richest man on earth (this would cost trillions of dollars to implement) who, as it happens, is dying (in fact we see a holographic message indicating he’s probably already dead). We also find out that none of the team has ever had a psyche evaluation, as it is evident that one or two of them are clearly very unhinged! And there is an android, fully equipped with a “bitchy” mode… Arriving at the planet identified by the cave drawings back on earth, which in itself is barren and lifeless, they discover an underground base. Within this base, they find remains of several large humanoids (like the one seen at the beginning of the film), who turn out to be the same as the “space jockey” we all know & love from the first Alien film. This discovery reveals two very important things: a) that the humanoids on this planet all died horribly in some inexplicable way, and that b) following an analysis of their DNA, we human beings are clearly descended from them – they are indeed our makers.
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each time adding geek layer upon layer to my personality. When I knew that Prometheus was coming, and that it was a stand-alone film set in the Alien universe, rather than a