Prometheus: A Movie that should not have been a Prequel

Rating: 5/10 (11 June 2012)

Set in the 2090's in Earth years, "Prometheus" set out to try and recreate the style of horror from Ridley Scott's "Alien" and attempt to reveal more lore in the Alien saga. Visually, the movie is quite stunning to watch with many gorgeous and gory scenes which are well, and in some cases too well, detailed. I am happy to say that computer generated scenes are restricted to a small portion of the movie and that most of the sets are fully fleshed out and made from scratch, including many of the interiors, which I must give the carpenters credit for. This does not cover the fact that the story itself has several major and minor plot-holes.
The major plot hole I am disappointed with lies in a convoluted B-Story. This story involves David the Android, Dr. Shaw, Dr. Shaw's boy friend, and the last remaining Humanoid Alien (which apparently created all life on Earth). David becomes disappointed and presumably homicidal when he hears his creator, Dr. Weyland, say that he has no soul and is not truly his son. This in concert with other humans putting him down leads him to want to take revenge on the humans. He does this by taking a sample of black goo found in one of the many vases found inside the alien compound and uses it to secretly poison Dr. Shaw's boyfriend just before they "do the nasty." This black goo kills Dr. Shaw's boyfriend by disintegrating his body. Apparently, it had already affected his sperm and there is now a squid growing inside Dr. Shaw. She get's an emergency C-Section which tosses out the baby squid and she then leads to attempt to disinfect/kill it by leaving the room and pressing a button to clear out the room. She thinks its dead, but after most of the events, she returns to this last remaining part of the ship to try and last out until help picks her up, finding something still in that chamber, but locked safely away. Unfortunately, the last humanoid Alien attempts to kill her in revenge for thwarting his plans. This leads to her opening the chamber with said squidly to reveal the little squidly turned into BIG GIANT SQUIDLY which proceeds to attack the humanoid, giving Shaw time to run for it. The squid then shoves an appendage into the humanoids mouth and kills it. We can assume this is the first face huger, which is apparently a bastardized child. Just before the credits, we see the body of the humanoid which is pulsating and then ejects a small creature which turns out to be the Alien we all know and love... So facehugers were made from a diseased human and a normal human, and the Alien was made from a face huger and a face raped humanoid?
That's almost as bad as George Lucas's excuse for how Darth Vader came to be.
Overall, "Prometheus" is enjoyable, but Ridley Scott did a horrible job of incorporating Alien into it. It should not have been established as a prequel to the original and should have been a stand alone movie.