Quote from: Vulgotha on Apr 26, 2012, 01:41:05 PM
People who said that the Engineers\SJ weren't enormous can go blow themselves lol. Here's some solid proof that they're very big:
Compare them to David8.
Basically, NGR (I think his name was) who gave me shit in another thread for doubting his assertions based on the perspective of the camera angles (regarding jockey size). In particular, I remember using the shot of the SJ standing on top of the orrery console as an example that we had little to compare him to. Well, now we do and it's quite clear that they are massive compared to regular humans.
Keep in mind that while the univerze/planetary systems 'zoom in' the size of the engineers does not fluctuate. To me, this is quite indicative of their actual size.
this .gif also might explain why we have that hologram of the engineer running away. I think what we're going to see here is a recording of something bad about to happen and one of the engineers (The survivor) fleeing the scene.
It's also obvious from the size of the chair David sits in as well. the SJ are much bigger than humans, although I think Scott has dialed their size down a bit from the potential size implied in Alien (probably due to composition challenges I'd guess).
From what we've seen so far we're either going to get a mutated human who becomes a bit like a SJ or that plus some genuine SJ too. Just having mutated humans and nothing but hologram SJ would seem a little timid so I'm guessing we're going to see some large, genuine SJ too.
On another topic I'm curious about the running time vs the number of implied scenes we've seen so far (Earth based sequence, on-board briefing sequence, landing sequence, visit to temple sequence, Shaw removing the embryo sequence, fighting mutated crew members sequence, ramming the ship sequence, etc. etc).
Either the pace of this is going to be a lot closer to Aliens than Alien or these scenes merge very tightly together, otherwise I'm struggling to see this all fittng into the reported 119 minutes. I suppose it is possible that, like Alien, Scott has gone for a much slower pace initially then cranks it up to a non-stop fury of scenes for the bulk of the film.
Can't wait either way. Everything I've seen looks interesting and even though I don't buy the aliens visited Earth theory implied in the film for a moment I'll happily suspend belief if the film delivers the goods.