I saw Prometheus, the somewhat prequel to Alien, and I was
somewhat disappointed. It was a good movie but didn’t quite live up to my
expectations. That is to say I expected more from the man who brought me Alien
and Bladerunner. I personally think that CGI is making some stuff look a little
faker. Having a man in a suit and a good make-up artist seems more realistic to
me then a team of guys making it on a computer. (*possible spoiler, but not
really*) I wasn’t into the ghastly white giant humanoids and the ship did not
crash land in the right position to match up with the one first found in Alien.
To be fair it might not be the same ship and they might be making another
movie, but I’ll find it forever irritating if it is the same ship. Hey they did have some really cool pseudo technology
in the movie, so I’ll stop ranting and criticizing. In Prometheus they travel
through space, use hyper sleep, use transparent computer screens, have holograms,
expose species to biological weapons, have David the robot and have a glass
tube that can do surgery using robotics and lasers
(*spoilers ahead*)
I’m going to start out by talking about the surgery machine,
because it was the most awesome gut wrenching scene of the whole movie. That
scene was the only time I felt horror similar to when I first watched Alien and
it made the eleven dollars I paid to see the movie money well spent. On
a side note this scene actually sent one kid to the hospital. Dr. Shaw was impregnated with an Alien by her
husband who was purposefully infected by David. When she learns of this after
seeing her husband perish she obviously wants it out. David won’t perform the
surgery and suggest she go into hyper sleep until they get back to Earth where
more experienced doctors can perform the surgery and study the alien life
inside of her. Well she doesn’t fall for that idiotic idea and instead beats
some people over the head and runs to the auto surgery machine. She request a
cessarion but the machine can’t do it and then she request to have an abdominal
surgery to remove a foreign object. She jabs herself in the leg with what I hope
was a painkiller because what she’s about to go through has to hurt. She is automatically strapped down, gets
sprayed with Betadine (that orange stuff they use before surgery), the
machine cuts open her stomach, uses a claw to retrieve the alien similar to the
way a stuffed animal claw machine works, and then staples her up. This all
happens very fast and is quite disturbing, but the actual machine itself would
be a substantial gift to mankind. Even in the movie this is considered a rare
and expensive machine. If it was not rare, expensive, and beyond are capabilities
it would be great to have in ambulances, on mission trip, or on the
battlefield. There are however many
machines that have saved many lives. The
first one I thought of was Da Vinci Surgery a less invasive way to have surgery
that minimizes recovery time. Of course this one is operated by a doctor
and not a programed machine, but is pretty cool.
To be continued.....
