PROMETHEUS (2012) - Episode 110

The Rewind Movie Podcast

Big things have small beginnings. Our LV-RMP series, where we explore every film in the Alien and Predator universe, finds director Ridley Scott making his long-awaited return to the genre, and franchise, that launched his illustrious career with the heady quasi-prequel Prometheus.

A duo of young, ideologically divergent archeologists (Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green) believe they have deciphered a star map gifted over millennia by a mysterious race of celestial beings. Funded by the recently deceased centenarian billionaire Peter Weyland (Guy Pierce), they assemble an exploratory crew that sets out seeking to discover the origins of human life on Earth on a distant, mysterious moon - but may not find the answers they seek.

Ineffable black goo, eyeball worms, ill-advised intergalactic snake charming, flambéed geologists and graphic MedPod alienectomies ensue in this grand, divisive feature that, over a decade on from its release, continues to provoke fierce reactions and contradictory emotions. Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt reflect on their own contentious histories with the film and, in most cases, rewatch for the first time since its release.

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