totally agreed.......it was a waste of time for me to watch.
since most marvel's heroes movie did so well, was expecting Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance to be better than the 1st GR movie but it still sucks, it was like a cheapo B-grade movie....in the construction site battle scene, WTF with him floating n spinning in mid air after kena bomb? n why the hell he move like tos huntu japan in fast forward n pause style?....total FAIL!

No matter what they do, some comic characters just never look good on the silver screen.

i blame it on the boring/lousy storyline/writer and director.....

EXACTLY!! I also have the "WTF" look when I was watching that scene. When he first appear to save the kid, he was like standing there doing nothing, swaying from side to side, I was like "WTF did he stand like a bloody sissy?!?!"

It's sad to see Nicholas Cage has to resort to acting in such low grade movie.

Please bring back the Nick from Face-Off!

PROMETHUS (Biological review)
The biological aspect was definitely not being scientifically consulted...

Any biologist with the most basic credentials will point out the serious errors as presented in the movie.

1. Free flowing DNA in raging water. DNA alone does not produce life and being dispersed at such a large volume of water will bring the probability of proteins and random DNA coming together to 0%. For life to start you need shallow concentrated pools with random chemicals forming amino acids, lipids and probable nucleic acids.

2. The DNA was shown to be very short fragments (100bp or less) single stranded DNA. To be broken down to such an extend and to able to reform back to the engineers' original chromosomal sequences is again 0%. Homo sapien is not the only hominid in evolutionary history nor are humans the only animal species in the world. This relation is a fixed genetic variability can be calculated and determined.

3. The human genome (3 Gigabase haploid) is a testament of evolution, about only 2% codes for proteins and another 2% are are transcriptional involved, while the rest of the genome is yet unknown but it's safe to say for a fully functional human, a much lesser genome size can exist (probably just 20% is needed). Which is also why human as the most successful species now, does not have the largest genome in the animal kingdom. Some "lower" level fish can even have a larger genome than human. Accumulation of large non-functional regions of the genome is a testament of the evolutionary, life span, breeding frequency... etc. Because of the presumed long life span of the Engineers, their genome has to be different than human's. Even though an Engineer looks like YaoMing their genome can be/has to be different, and due to convergent evolution (as there are many examples on earth) similar characteristics/structure can exist.

4. A Eukaryotic somatic cell division was shown, this is not the first lifeforms on earth .... an argument can be made as showing further down time progression though.

Therefore Ripley Scott and the Lost script writer (and another) are out of their league. If you bring in a concept make sure you have the current science to back it up. Science fiction of old cannot be utilised now. If you don't know anything SciFi it out of your imagination shows the person's stupidity (is the best way that I can put it). This in a way is reflective/testament of the effort put in by Joss Whedon by putting SciFi and real science hand in hand that blew everyone away in the box-office (except James Cameron, another director working/consulting with the scientific community)

Very interesting scientific perspective from our resident biologist and hot toys body construct examiner/expert.

Thanks, BeastX.

Also 3% CO2 is not toxic where you'll last only a few minutes... but you can survive hours (or days) ... you may have chest muscles fatigue/dizziness/headache though but not death.

Only at exceeding 5% is where it's truly toxic.

^5 sec google search.

A simple O2 generator/filter from the 21% O2 environment just to increase the O2 percentage and they can stay out as long as they want. Ordinary or simple gas mask will do. Pandora (Avatar's) environment was even more hostile.

Again poor writing without research.

just watch Prometheus yesterday, interesting plot/storyline kept me glued to the seat eager to know what's gonna happen next every time they walk down tos creepy corridor.
i give 3.5 out of 5.

after watching Prometheus movie, was again left with more unanswered question like the 1st Alien movie, guess we have to wait for a sequel
at least we got to know a bout the Alien origin and who r the space jockey which was not explain in previous Alien movies.


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opps....interseting, just found this site which explained quite a lot bout engineer, black liquid n Alien origin.
http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Engineer

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Isn't it impossible for a lifeform to have accelerate growth without a food source? You need nutrition and energy for cells to replicate/multiply develop, hence growth? So , how did a Sotong newborn get to grow so strong and fast? There was nothing in that room or the air for it to get sustenance.

A plant seed has stored energy source in itself to help it grow initially, but that is only a very small amount, like how the taugeh can sprout on just water and kapas at school....but Sotong growing 100 times its size and with so much strength to overwhelm the giant Engineer.....mmm....I don't quite get it.

^ Well you'll have to suspend believe... While the Alien burst out quite large through the Engineer's body.... The Alien (previous movies) chest buster are very small when burst out of humans/etc.... and grown very fast to full adult size with relatively no nourishment..

Well, small sotong to large sotong ....

The Banner to Hulk is a method ... though may not applicable to the sotong.


Banner can somehow can convert energy (like Dark Energy, a term used many times in Avengers) or high energy, short wave radiation (gamma ray) to mass/muscles...