What's with all the negative reviews?

Rating: 10/10 (20 June 2012)

I loved this movie. I can't remember the last time I left a movie and wanted to discuss and debate it's meaning. It seems something so common in the past is now a novelty. Most movies today wrap up so nicely there is nothing left to debate, only reflection. I can't wait for the DVD. I'm really hoping there will be many deleted scenes available there and director discussion over the film. I understand there was a scene where Jesus Christ was actually one of the engineers but was either edited out or never actually filmed. The special effects are also fantastic. I saw this for the second time last night on IMAX and in 3D and while most 3D today is not coming at you, but 3D into the screen, in IMAX this works for this movie. The screen was so huge I felt I was on the planet too. My biggest disappointment with the movie is not knowing why the engineers created us and why they changed their mind, but there in is the fodder for discussion. Also, can you be a scientist and a Christian or religious? "Even after all this?" as quoted by David "You still believe?" "There is nothing, I know" or is there? Yes there are holes or maybe just more questions. Were we invited and if so, why to an apparent military scientific installation? Maybe at first to study their creation. Why send the cosmic goo, to destroy us or just to test it out and we were as likely a specimen they created as any else or maybe because we were growing advanced quickly and might eventually threaten them. Have to see the sequel or maybe there will be another prequel. This movie leaves it open to go in any direction really. The ending leaves many thinking that the aliens were created at that moment when the engineer split open, but at the beginning remember the murals on the walls? There was a mural of the Queen alien (at least it looked like it) from the movie Aliens. Clearly they'd encountered, created, or worshiped it at some point. Were they trying to create a perfect species, a perfect weapon? Sooo many questions. Why did the engineer react so violently to our presence? What did David say to it? Did he antagonize it? What was the purpose of the room with the large head? It had the murals and the vases, and the engineers were seeking refuge there, but why if there were more vases there? Maybe just the closest place from what they were running from. OK maybe too many questions. I would bet that some of the edited scenes would have allowed a few of these questions to be answered. I found that to be the case with Aliens. The goo the engineer drank at the beginning of the movie seems to be the same goo in the vases, so clearly they used something like it to create life, but maybe they also used it to destroy life. What were they doing really? I need to know, can't wait for the next one :-)