technology is killing story telling

Rating: 6/10 (9 June 2012)

The title is apt because it should be punished for attempting to do more than it should. Like the Star Wars prequels, we are provided with a back story that is infinitely less interesting than the one we were invited to imagine.
While in Alien the audience experiences the film with the characters, we merely watch the characters in Prometheus. When everything gets spelled out in the end it's a singularly deflating experience for a fan of the franchise.
It's looking like all the brilliant movies of the late 70s and early 80s were so compelling due to technological limitation more than anything else. That, and they weren't all colored navy blue and orange.