"The alien is a demon, the ship a host body..."

I have to agree with this post on AVP galaxy...Ridley Scott seems to have this habbit of leaving everything up to the interpretation of the viewer in most of his movies (I have to exclude "Robin Hood")

It's sad that no one has anything to post on your topic, Engr101...guess that just shows how stupid and unimaginative the world has become

I think is not a problem of being stupid ( be a bit more polite .... ) ...the problem is that one can see whatever he want ... and if one start sayng "ohh great idea" to every point of view , about every speculation , about every critic opinion ...well at the end he have NO point of view . This idea kindly posted by Engr101 is nice but ...meh ... can be ...can be not ... can be a bit everything ..everyone of us can sort out his personal idea about alien ... I think they just wanted to do a great sci-fi horror flick , they hired an original artist , Scott mixed everything togheter ..and it worked perfectly ... why we have always think there is some hidden meaning ?? Some secret message ???

@Frantz The movie can be enjoyed on many different levels. You can enjoy it as a genre story, as a "monster on the loose" movie, as a thought-provoking scifi, or as the AVP poster articulated, see it as a metaphor for Ripley's fear of sexual relationship. We all know that some women do like men but they see our organ as a disgusting, repulsive ...uhm, appendage.

yea, that the way how i always wanted to describe the ideal style of movie must be, as i consider the Prometheus will be... "Small things will appear to have a great importance..." Remember this...

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@Frantz...the nature of the artistic world is entirely subjective that's kind of the point of any art form.......The value of such creation comes from the place where multiple perspectives meet on a particular concpet as touched upon in a created work of art...the artist's or creator's perspective on his or her work's meaning and the juxtapositon of that point of view with that of his or her audience..... Whether we agree with @Engr101and the original poster on AVP Galaxy or not isn't the point....that they saw anything in this film others may or may have not seen and brought it to our attention is [b]everything[/b]....That expression of opinion is what makes art valid, woth our time and interest, otherwise there's no point in creating it whatsoever. You can agree or disagree with them all you want....it will never invalidate the opinion, because it doesn't work that way; wheter they're right or wrong, the discussion they create from it is what's important. About this..... "... and if one start sayng "ohh great idea" to every point of view , about every speculation , about every critic opinion ...well at the end he have NO point of view."...........It's impossible for any artist not to have a point of view, the very nature of creation implies a point of view by default....that act of creating is a decision to build upon one's ideas and present them to others in a particular way, which implies meaning in the presentation, in this case storytelling.....There's a point there for everyone to see, like it or not......... The only artists closest to ever creating without a point were the Dada artists of the early 20th century and even they, by the act of creating, by saying we're creating for the sake of creating with no meaning intended, forced a point of view upon themselves. So, I'm not saying I agree or disagree with @Engr101......but I'm intrigued by his point of view and that has validity in itself.....that's why we're here isn't it?...because we see things worth seeing, worth the time and expense of expression and passion.....

I didn't say I didn't enjoy ALIEN as a pure genre exercise, an alien organism terrorizing our civilization. In fact, it is the reason I would place ALIEN as my all time favorite film. It is one of the few films in scifi fantasy genre where the filmmakers work full time to create an immersive experience. LORD OF THE RINGS is pretty good but it has that nerdy goofy core with bumbling Hobbits as accidental heroes and unconvincing romance for the older audience. AVATAR is entertaining but essentially a giant animation movie. WAR OF THE WORLDS is full of spectacularly directed sequences (the first introduction of the tripod is pure Spielberg magic) but the alien design is juvenile (another squid/lizard type?). Could you tell me other scifi/fantasy movies as completely gripping & immersive as the original ALIEN?

the original Alien did actually move very spooky..slowly and creepy like a nightmare, though it could be very fast, too.. I like his movements in the scene with Lambert and Brett in the locker..( at 1.31 )

The first movie was quite good becouse it was the first of its kind, but i have to say that my personal favourite is the "aliens" bocouse there the humans actually have the change to wipe them out and it has several good actors in it. 3rd alien movie is great becouse of the spiritual and hegemonial ending of LT.Ripley... i´ll hope that the "Prometheus" has link to the alien (s) or even have thoose things on the ship and waiting to know hoe the Waylend Corporations finally get to know about this speicies. Cant wait in cold Finland!!!!

Well, Ridley picked the perfect writer to help with the script if he is looking for a movie with big ideas, but vague enough for the viewers' imaginations to run wild! I think we will be talking about this movie for decades. Personally, I like closure and a concrete understanding of the storyteller's intentions. Johnny Darko was cool, but it drove me bonkers until I saw the director's-cut DVD with the pop-ups that explain what the heck is going on! I hope they give us a killer DVD for Prometheus with lots of commentary. More "webisodes" would definitely be nice too =)