Prometheus

[OnOneRyder]

No, no, I meant like they end the movie without really explaining anything. At all. I mean you can take the plot and make it very basic and push all of that information aside, but then its just a shallow movie.

Its just set within the same universe, but hardly has anything to do with each other. I believe its set 30ish years before the original Alien movie takes place?
The year is 2091 in Prometheus and I think Alien is 2122?

What specifically did you not understand? The Space Jockey's entire reason for being on that moon is directly related to the story of Alien and what the alien's are.

It pretty much just leaves on the worst cliffhanger ever.

It left on one of man kinds biggest question, "why are we here?"

I'm curious to know why you liked it so much.

It's goal IMO was to answer all the unanswered questions from Alien. Where the Xeno's came from, what the being in the chair was and oh....lets not forget about explaining how humanity came to be. Lots was answered with this film, and everything that was left unanswered was done so specifically to provide a sequel. Now lets just hope that Scott really does take the rein's and it isn't butchered like Alien 3 and Resurrection were.

It also makes you think, not many films do that. You really have to pay close attention and have to question things throughout to know exactly what's going on. Alien didn't really do that, it was a total scare-fest. That's where I think Prometheus really shines.

MERGED

I'll try and go see a matinee tomorrow or Monday if it's a rain-day. My biggest hope with this series is that they demonstrate how the Xenomorph became the fastest adept/best-surviving species in the Universe or whatever made them the most attractive hunt for the Predators.. Besides Arnold and Danny Glover of course.

It does explain their origins.

As for the Predator storyline, the writers of Alien had no intention of having the two cross. You can thank Fox and their desire to squeeze as much cash as possible from a successful series for that one.