Everyone is Misunderstanding this Film and is Arrogantly Proud of Their Ignorance

Rating: 10/10 (8 July 2013)

Everyone who has found deep fault with Prometheus has completely misread the film. You see, so many people who are disappointed & disgusted with the film are simply oblivious to all the clues, hints, & instructions provided by Ridley on how to perceive his film. Mr. Scott offers clear & rational reasons for the often illogical, sometimes idiotic behavior of the film's characters, but these reasons are concealed, disguised or subtly implied; they are not blatantly stated. You must follow the dialog very, very precisely and you must also consider some other sources to fully appreciate the film's remarkably efficient & elegant & profound beauty. The belligerent naysayers will undoubtedly persist in their reckless declarations that Prometheus is a failure convinced that their own failure to decipher the film's mysteries is unquestionably a fault of the film itself and certainly not an indication of their own apparent intellectual limitations, right? Wrong!
The rabid detractors apparently have little if any patience for the sort of autonomous thought that is required to unravel this intricate cinematic knot that Ridley Scott has artfully, expertly, lovingly crafted for true fans of intelligent, worthwhile Science Fiction. Nearly every single alleged logical error that I've read about or have seen being meticulously enumerated by an agitated, self righteous Youtube chatter head is actually perfectly well explained either within the film itself or by various collateral sources, such as the original Alien film or even on the fake Weyland Corporation website. That's right, there exists an actual, real phony website on this same internet that you're now using that's directly associated with the film, and would you believe it, there's actually valuable information to be found there to assist you in your deductive pursuit of the film's truths! But, unfortunately for all the lazy, pampered, meta-intellectuals, even on the mock website the answers are not in plain sight or in simple English. No, you're required to do what is technically referred to as "thinking for yourself" - Intuitive thinking. Spontaneous thinking. Unassisted, full blown creative thinking. I know what you're thinking: "How dare Ridley Scott expect me to think!!"
So there you have it in black and white: nearly everyone is WRONG about this film. There is contained within this seemingly inane monster flick a genuinely sensitive & intelligent & artful cinematic gem, but, alas, you must mentally work for it. And more importantly, there's a very good reason why Ridley is asking - no, demanding - that we all exert ourselves mentally in order to fully experience the buried treasures of his latest cinematic creation...
The individual elements of this film are all superior. The cinematography is absolutely spectacular and profoundly effective at conveying the complex, subtle and nebulous themes which the film explores. The CGI effects and backgrounds are superbly integrated into the texture of the live action, and the stunning vistas are draw droppingly exquisite, many of which are actual natural phenomenon. The acting is all above average, with Noomi Rapace delivering a genuinely compelling rendition of the strong but conflicted female lead, a signature Ridley Scott character. People may fault her curiously muddled accent, but hey, in the future everyone's accents will be mixed and mutated, won't they? Michael Fassbender as a highly sophisticated android is riveting. He expertly captures the essence of what is both enthralling and terrifying about the notion of manufactured humans. Idris Elba as the cynical, opportunistic but ultimately heroic captain of the vessel is perhaps the true heart and soul of the film. His nuanced & powerful performance anchors the action in a very credible psychological space. And even Charlize Theron's rather stiff, mannered performance serves the story well as her cold calculating character, ironically, is the personification of some very unattractive human qualities. And the Alien? Oh, he's positively awesome. The soundtrack at first felt oddly intrusive at key moments, especially during more gentle, quiet moments, but this of course is soon revealed to be another crafty, treacherous ploy by Ridley to temporarily throw us off the track, to intentionally detour us from the true path. There are plenty of little traps & tricks & blind alleys that are easy to stumble into, and this seems to be what has happened to so many frustrated viewers. You all just haven't managed to find your way back out or bothered to seriously consider just why would Ridley - the creative mastermind of some of the most brilliant, genius science fiction films ever - bother to pull such seemingly inane stunts? Well, he has his reasons, and if you make the cerebral effort to discover them you'll find that they're very good, well justified, brilliant reasons.
...Good people of Earth, you have got to start thinking just a little bit deeper and a bit more humanely if we are going to have even a scrap of a shred of a hope of working our way out from under the rapidly accumulating colossal mountain of challenges facing humankind; challenges which are threatening to annihilate civilization as we know it. The mounting threats are approaching the critical point of no return at an ever accelerating rate - a grim, miserable fate hurtling towards us at an alarming velocity, so much more swiftly than just about anyone's ever dared imagine. If we continue to tolerate the faulty, fractured, incomplete, lazy, sh*tty type of thinking such as that exhibited by the overly confident, self righteous, tedious, and mistaken haters of Prometheus, well, we are all very soon going to wake up dead. Or worse...