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Also, the opening shot with the Engineer was on Earth, implying that the death of the Engineer, his DNA mutated by whatever he consumed, was the source for life on Earth; us in particular.

I should point out that xenomorphs already exist at this point, BEFORE the birth of the Deacon xenomorph from the Engineer's chest. The Xenomorph was shown above in the tapestry in the room with the giant head on the Engineer's ship.

The ship where the eggs where found in Alien and Aliens was Moon LV-426, while Prometheus takes place in Moon LV-223. They are in the same sector but they are not the same place, because the ships in LV-223 had the black goo.

The lead actress is an amazing talent from Sweden, Noomi Rapace. She was in the original Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and the other two films that make up The Millennium Trilogy, as the female lead. I highly recommend reacting to the Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - an amazing film. If you enjoy it, the other films are The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest.

This movie is severely underrated. The biggest gripe about this film when it came out was how stupid the characters were. Now, after the clusterfuck that was 2020 and beyond, we are all now aware that people are just stupid in general and so Prometheus ain’t that bad.

Now THIS REACTION IS ALL I NEEDED! You got the DNA part of the Black Goo immediately which is something not too many out there get at first. This movie, for me, is Hard and Mature Sci Fi as very few contents dare to have out there, and is so refreshing seeing people who not only got it, but liked it. Also, let me put it like this: Alien series themes Alien = Old Dark House Movie Aliens = Military Action Alien3 = Industrial Religious thriller Alien Resurrection = Campy and funny sci fi Prometheus = Hard Sci Fi film Alien Covenant = Mad Scientist film

I love this film. But for me, Michael Fassbender made this film the awesome masterpice it is. His acting was stunning

So theres a version of this movie called the Chaos Edition, which adds in a lot of cut scenes and adds dialog and extra scenes that were scripted, but not used. Goes into more detail about the egineers. When the ripped man drinks the liquid, he speaks to an elder before this. He says something ljke, "this is the blood of our god. We have lost the ability to procreate, but this blood allows us to create in our image. You are chosen." When david speaks to the engineer, he says something along the lines of "this man(wayland) want you to grant him immortality" The egineer asks why he should do this. David replies with what wyland tells him, "i have created life (david) and reshaped worlds. Gods dont desrrve to die". The girl asks why they wanted to kill humans. In the script the egineer says something like, "humanity lost its way and we came down and took a child of earth and took him back to our world. Wr taught him the value of life, beauty and how to best live. Love in your hearts. We sent him back to your world to teach you, and you killed him for it." Weyland then orders one of his men to hit her and the engineer is digusted by this. He admires david for a moment then kills him and the other humans he can. Theres a much deeper aspect of this movie that was cut. Its a shame

This is an excellent sci-fi movie. If you want more about it, there are a bunch of videos out there on things like what the engineer said to David, an extended version of that opening scene, more from the scenes in which the engineer enters the shuttle, etc. They cut a lot.

I have a movie recommendation for you to react to: THE THING (1982), a great classic of body horror films, with striking, tense and brutal moments, you'll enjoy it

I know this movie was often criticized but I absolutely loved it. I wish more would have been shown subsequently about the Engineers. It's a promising concept, too bad that in Alien Covenant another direction was prioritised. I also think that visually this movie is gorgeous.

A lot of folks dislike this movie but I loved it. I have a huge crush on the engineer

The ending creature is a Deacon is a Xenomorph. The substance is shown to have both destructive and life-giving properties in the prologue of the movie (where the engineer sacrifices himself), and based on comments from Ridley Scott, the substance is believed to be a catalyst for evolution. When exposed to it, a living subject's DNA appears to rapidly change. In the case of the worms, they are transformed into snake-like creatures, the engineer who ingests it is deconstructed and his DNA in turn creates new life. In Holloway's case, we do not see the outcome as he is killed by Vickers. It is possible that he is "evolving" -- or that he is breaking down similar to the engineers.

This is the best prometheus reaction I think I’ve ever watched, u guys reminded me of my own hypothesizing during my first watch so much! Good job understanding this one so well, not easy!

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Such a great soundtrack, especially during the opening. This film was beautiful in theater 3D.

When alcohol is ordered “Up” it is stirred or shaken with ice, and then strained into a stemmed cocktail glass.

Saw this in IMAX with my brother and during the alien C-section my brother had to stand up, walk to the aisle and sit on the floor. It was INSANE.

The opening sequence was filmed in Iceland; there is a deleted scene which extends the Engineers sacrifice. Other locations used in the production were The Isle Of Skye off the West Coast of Scotland & Wadi Rum in Jordan. Also, it’s worth watch the extended scene from where Weyland, Shaw & David confront the Engineer; it really shouldn’t have been cut….along with the original version of the mutated Fifield. A serviceable translation into English of what David says to the Engineer in the theatrical cut is “This man is here because he does not want to die. He believes you can give him more life." There’s several nice nods to HR Giger’s concept art for the original Alien & also his work on the failed adaption of Dune. The structure they go explore was meant to be in Alien & also, when the sandstorm etches its surface into the skull, that was from a design intended as a Harkonnen structure in Dune. HR Giger actually visited the production & oversaw some of the design work for the temple with the giant head; the mural they view is based on his Alien lifecycle painting. The viral marketing for both Prometheus & Covenant was excellent.

Ridley must've also read about the Annunaki theory about human beginnings

Good or bad, whatever is thought about this movie... you can't argue with the fact that it gifted us one phenomenal soundtrack. I'm just so glad that y'all are going through all these instalments.

It's been too long since I've rewatched this and the cast is absolutely stacked! I always appreciated the broad ideas explored in it and I just love the way Ridley Scott directs. The way he makes the most of advances in practical and special effects to make such a beautifully horrific movie. There's a spectacle to it that borders on camp in an enjoyable way. Full of flawed interesting characters, traumatising deaths and such a distinct aesthetic. David's definitely the MVA of this one lol. The way you guys notice everything and have such witty comments and jokes made this so fun to watch. Can't wait to see what you think of Covenant (I think that's the next one)

It can't be the same ship because the ship that the Nostromo crew found, still had the navigator in his chair. This one got eaten. The chair would be empty.

Sorry, last comment lol, I just looked it up and YES, Michael Fassbender DID make that insane basketball shot WHILE riding the bike, it is NOT cgi!!

Hell yea. Enjoying this little journey very much. I heard that there is different endings and cuts, and a lot more material to it, which is just awesome. These new movies are good. And your channel is ma fav atm

Since Squidward became handsome he gave up the clarinet and went into acting. He even got jacked for the role. 😂😂

just made my night !!! watching now 🍿

"I feel like the android's gonna be a good guy". Yeah, spot on 😂

This is one of my fav movies. Its always nice to see an open reaction.

I'm so glad I stumbled upon your channel. Such a great reaction channel gentleman. This is my 4th favorite movie in the franchise. I'm so glad I became a Subie, you guys are fast in showing these movies. Can't wait to watch Alien Covenant next with you guys.

Quoting CinemaSins, “Prometheus School of Running Away” 😂 Like to run to the side Charlize! To the side! Oh she dead.

Great reaction guys! Love Prometheus, right up there with the first two films. The scene with Shaw "delivering" her baby, is arguably the second best shocking and original moments as the chest-burster scene.

Happy New Year guys. Thank you for another great Alien reaction as always. Keep them coming, your awesome.

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This, to me, has to be one of the best sci-fi films during that decade. Most prequels are terrible. This film was a masterpiece.

"'I feel like the android's gonna be a good guy''😅

I just realized the alien ship from the beginning look like the one from the movie arrival what a interesting connection. It left the same way it did in this movie.

The problem a lot of fans had with this movie was that they just wanted another ALIENS movie. Basically, they wanted the series to go in he same direction other horror franchises went which is just endless copies of one another. If they had their way, we’d be on ALIENS 12 or some nonsense like that. Ridley wanted to explore the world itself of ALIEN, because like he said, it’s not even really a scary creature anymore. You’ve already explored its entire life cycle and what it can do, so why try to add more to it when you’d just be adding dead weight? You’d just be diluting what already is considered the ultimate horror creature. He is correct, the world itself is so much more interesting and available to explore. The one complaint I have honestly is just that Ridley took H.R. Geiger’s designs of the ship and ‘jockey’ from the first film, ALIEN, and tried to make them more literal. In the firs film, the creature in the chair is clearly some being that was born and fused into the ‘chair’ and was intended to be a bio organic organism, not a human looking being in a suit. The ship itself is perhaps more egregious, since it’s clearly not anything like a ship. It was intended to be something disturbing and really nothing else. It’s just a giant metaphor. The sequel, ALIEN: Covenant is sadly two movies in one and should have been two films. You’ll see what I mean when you watch it. Don’t get me wrong, I like Prometheus and Covenant, but the reception of Prometheus didn’t sit well with studio execs, so they forced Ridley to add more elements from ALIEN into Covenant. Unfortunately, that leads to quite a bit of confusion later on and it strains the narrative Ridley was trying to spin without the Xenomorph really being a part of his films. I won’t comment on what the 3 films should have all been, because it would be spoiling Covenant, but I will then. I’d recommend looking into the original film script where you actually get to see the Engineer speaking to David and explaining why they were returning to wipe all life from Earth. It’s a really good scene and only part of it was shot and not included in the theatrical release. Basically, the Engineers kept coming to Earth after humans evolved from the primordial soup they created using one of their own. Each time, they saw humans on the brink of destruction at their own hands and tried stop us from continuing the cycle of violence. The last time they came, they took a boy with them and returned him to Earth after teaching him their ways. But, even then with their teachings instilled in a man that placed a higher value on life and unity as one - we killed him. This is a direct Jesus reference and makes sense as Jesus was said to he able to magically heal the wounded and other sorts of things that would be otherworldly. That was the final straw, which times itself with the time the Engineer went into cryo sleep which was 2000 years before Prometheus. We would call this the period immediately before After Christ and the Engineer slept 2000 years until being awoken by David. As we know, that mission to come and punish man for its crimes never occurred. The most likely reason for wanting to destroy humanity is that they feared one day they’d traverse the stars and bring their war and destruction into space - a sin that the Engineers would be responsible for creating.

Thanks for helping me ,,to see this movie for the first time" once again. Well done guys.

“Prometheus” & “Alien: Covenent” were great Sci-Fi movies. Though both installments were in the Alien universe, but they were not in the direct storyline of the Alien franchise, thus not making it so well received by the fans, audience and viewers. The focus of these two installments were not on the Xenomorphs or main character like Ellen Ripley, thus pushing the love ❤️ of the fans, audience and viewers further away from the franchise. Instead, the focus was on new race/species of sentient beings called Engineers, and the main central character of focus was a robot/android called David. It’s a new direction for the franchise, which is not a bad idea, an interesting and exciting and explorable concept, but certainly not something easily, comfortably and conveniently welcomed by us the fans, audience and the viewers. In my opinion, David is not a bad robot/android like in the first original “Alien” movie. He’s not a villain at all. He’s just not that humane. That does not make him to be qualified as a legit villain😊

Love this movie, love that you guys are watching all of these movies and discussing it at the end, a lot of people just watch&react and then say bye! :p I really like that this movie goes deeper and explains a lot, but still leaves a lot of questions...

Imagine to sit in theater and have no idea that this movie is an Alien prequel! I thought it is just a Sci Fi movie ... till I saw the end, this was such a great surprise! Greetings from Germany❤

Thanks for putting this out on my birthday (Dec 30th). WOOT WOOT!! When I first saw it, it was by myself and I just wish I had you guys to talk to about this. 😁😆 I had soooo many questions. Thanks for the great afterthoughts. ~Dawne

Hi and Happy Holidays, Gentlemen! Great reaction, as usual. This was a very special movie...however, it could've and should've been more special. The deleted scenes from Prometheus really add on more epicness. The problem with the sequel to this film (ALIEN: Covenant) is, it basically sidesteps a lot of the set-up and characterization from this movie, and, by Ridley Scott's own admission, alters the culprits of the creation of The Xenomorph. BTW: The film's opening was shot in Iceland (I believe), where the landscape looks very alien in comparison to the rest of Earth. I believe some of Star Wars has been filmed there, as well...or photography of it has been used for The Volume/StageCraft. The planet in this film supposedly really exists, Zeta Reticuli. That star system has been a focus of attention by astrophysicists, astronomers, and Ancient Astronaut Theorists, since The 2000s. P.S. Many viewers (correctly) theorized, based on hints from Ridley and the main writer of the film, that the reason The Engineers were returning to Earth, to destroy it, was because of the death of Jesus (the Juggernaut's flight data revealed that the ship was on its way to Earth just over 2000 years ago, before the outbreak of their creation). He was a special being created by them, and his death was proof that The Engineers' best creation wasn't worthy of The Messiah. Also, the original concept was that humans are created through part of the ALIEN DNA; only the creatures We came from were not volatile; and they had long since gone extinct. It was The Engineers who found the DNA, adding it on to humans. Ironically, human DNA is the perfect cousin to the original bipedal creature...so, when We see the first Xenomorph in ALIEN, it's very representative of what it looked like, before its race perished, and The Engineers decided to create with their remaining DNA. The mural on the ceiling of the chamber with the giant head, shows the creation and growth cycle of their version of the Xenomorph; however, the sculpture that Charlie and David see, represents that actual creature, before it went extinct. Notice how it's positioned to look a lot like Jesus on The Cross?

Mannn I was just checking a couple a weeks ago for a Prometheus reaction 😎💯 Universe be coming full circle 😅

Commenting before and excited to see what you thing VS what I thought. BEAUTIFUL movie!

YEPEE!!! So, glad you finally got to watch it...

Weyland aka Weyland Yutani is “The Company” and they’re very evil. They are the main antagonists throughout entire franchise.

Looking forward to the new alien movie coming out in 2024 looks good

i was curious dr google said The term “up” refers to any drink that is shaken, stirred, or combined with ice and therefore chilled, but it is served without ice. This is different from ordering a whiskey “neat”. Ordering a whiskey “up” tells the bartender that you would like the whiskey chilled, but do not want to have ice in your glass

THIS ENTIRE CONCEPT AND DESIGNS ARE THAT OF HR GIGER, who is an absolute mind blowing artist . His artworks are so otherworldly and when brought to life in this movie it just exploded into awesomeness

Okay boys, I'm gonna need full recordings of Cojo doing all of the movie studio musical intros from now on lol.

The opening shots were filmed in Iceland.

When referring to cocktails “up” just means a stemmed glass. Usually a coupe glass but it could be a flute or martini glass. But with a stem.

Enjoyed the discussion which is what “I choose to believe” the film intended.

Best 20th Century logo music is the intro to ALIEN 3...that last spookey off-key final note!

Saw this movie in 3D when it was released in theaters and it was excellent.

I guess sticking a needle into someone's brain is... *MIND BLOWING*

There's a similar "connecting theme" scene in AvP regarding pyramids.

Really liked this reaction, thanks!

My prediction is predators killed the engineers that were running they’re all in the same universe

The dude / alien at the start seeded the Earth ....he created mankind by melting lol 😊😊😊

I had so much fun watching it in theaters. I was so surprised the scene with the crew finding the worm/snake thing made it into the final edit because it was so stupid--everyone in the theater thought it was the dumbest thing they'd seen. Pretty good aside from that. Also Michael Fassbender's performance as David was Oscar worthy imo

I'm so glad there are subtitles. Those guys can't seem to be able to be quiet more than 2 seconds

Great reaction guys 👍

When they were going back to the ship when the storm was coming, on the mountains side was a SKULL you have to look hard to catch it.

This movie was not a direct prequel. See events in this movie did predate,Alien, and it was supposed to live in the same universe as the Alien franchise, but branch off into its own thing. But most fans were split. They either wanted to see an alien movie or wanted to explore the concept of the engineers. when the reception was not what Ridley Scott had hoped, he decided to switch gears and refocus it and have the next movie Alien Covenant, be a prequel to Alien. There were many unfortunate consequences that resulted from this decision though. I won’t go into detail. You will see in alien covenant. But I will say that those who were interested in having all of their questions about the engineers answered in Alien Covenant were sadly disappointed.

Really good. Was there a sequel to this ? Great reactions gentlemen. Fun , funny and freaky . ❤ igli missed seeing your lil puppy. So sweet ❤ . Love the channel.

That Running part that was so bad it spawned Memes, The Prometheus School of Running away from things, which would go on to explain in future movies, idiots in those movies running in a straight line instead of just running off to the side.

There is a lot of speculative debate regarding the Engineers and the dead pilot in first movie. Both look similar but have very obvious differences. The size of Engineers is far smaller than the giant alien pilot corpse. The ships bear similar architecture but Engineer version is more mechanical while the first movie was noticeably biomechanical. The Engineers look humanoid but the original alien pilot was said to be weird Elephant like giant beings of ancient race called as Mala'kak mentioned in some comic book depiction. There is also a comic that explain what happened in this planet after the events of Prometheus movie a hundred years later.

The opening waterfall with the Engineer is at Dettifoss Waterfall, Iceland; Landmannalaugar, Iceland for the wide riverbed shots; The Old Man of Storr, Scotland where the archaeological discoveries happen in the beginning of the film; The Wadi Rumm Nature Preserve, Jordan is where the scenes of the steep mountain peaks are; and the Isle of Man, Scotland. As well as several locations in Spain, Highland, Surrey and Pinewood studios.

Always enjoy your reactions!! Grew up with the Alien franchise and this movie is very dear to my heart. I own the soundtrack. The soundtracks for this and the first Alien movie are superb!! "Prometheus and Alien take place on different planets. Prometheus is set on a planetoid with the designation LV-223, while Alien takes place on LV-426 (aka Acheron)12345. According to Ridley Scott, the two planetoids are in the same star system14. The planets have different names and atmospheres5. The planet LV-223 was thought to appear in Alien, but instead, LV-426 was used3." Highly recommend this channel for understanding Prometheus: Kroft talks about Movies. So much was left out of this movie from the original script!! Recommend the deleted scenes as well where the Engineer has an entire dialogue with David. Keep up the GREAT work guys!! Looking forward to the Alien Covenant reaction!!

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They filmed the beginning of the movie in Iceland where the engineers reconstituted their DNA in that waterfall!

excellent reaction. much better than others. 👍

This and alien covenant (especially covenant) were awesome movies Most people who didnt like them were kinda blinded by nostalgia from the first 2 movies

@23:39 - I didn't see it until now but the top of that structure looks very much like the skull of the Alien-Human hybrid from Alien 4!

Yay!! Gonna watch later on my way to the hockey game now 🏒

Thanks for the reaction, guys! Hope you consider doing Alien Covenant next!

Though polarising it’s quite a fascinating thing to explore in this Alien universe, wonder if further merchandise and media will explore the elements introduced in the Prequels.

Damn if that little guy in the middle isn't a chad.

Yes Mammalian is a word. Glad you know it. Most people don't lol

The beginning scenes were made in Iceland.

The movie alien covenant is the sequel to this one. I'm guessing you may already know but I thought I'd put that out there in case.

I just don't get the hate this movie still receives. The score the ambience & the insanely good acting also just the whole atmosphere of the planet are all unique & pretty well executed & far better than aliens too. This is my 2nd fav aliens movie. I can't wait for the 3rd one coming

Vodka "Up" means neat but chilled

Great reaction, yes the Engineer was on earth when he decomposed and was the reason for life on earth especially human life. In some of the original concepts and scripts for the film Ridley Scott had planed for one of the Engineers to come to earth to teach humanity where he was eventually betrayed and crucified so when we go forwards in time he his thought to be where humans got the idea of Jesus from, they ended up not going ahead with this idea because the creative team didn’t think that American audiences would like it but I personally think it is a great concept. If you guys like Prometheus and Alien covenant you should definitely watch Raised by wolves, even though it hasn’t been officially confirmed as part of the franchise Ridley Scott has spoken about how he used the show to explore some of the ideas he had for Prometheus and alien covenant in the series.

Great reaction !!!!

I don’t think it bled into her wounds. That was her blood.

What I hate the most about this movie is the fact that this is the most unprepared group of scientists for a mission incredibly important. They are basically improvising every step.

To this day so far the ONLY two Alien movies I've fully seen all the way through are Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, I feel like they work well together as two standalone movies, and like they also give me enough background that I know SOME stuff about the previous installments. I know who Ripley IS, but I've never seen the movies featuring Sigourney Weaver. I have to say HOW FANTASTIC Michael Fassbender is in the role of David in this film. He is SO CONVINCING that anytime David gets injured or he doesn't wear a helmet, my brain automatically says "Its okay, he's not human." Lol.

The filming locations in this film were amazing choices Jordan, Spain, Iceland and England

Ridley Scott’s original plan was a “Lawrence of Arabia” remake but that fell thru and “Prometheus” happened! Probably why the LOA references and David watching it scene included! 🤷‍♂️ 🐪

I love Ripley but I didn't miss her one bit. Great reaction, guys 👍

Great reaction guys 😊 You should also watch Alien: Covenant from 2017. I think you would like it as well!

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I don't care what other people think. I frickin' loved it.

“Up” means no ice or mix in cocktail