Not what I want SF movies to be.

Rating: 5/10 (14 May 2017)

I think that the SF graphic novels of the 1970s aka 1970s Heavy Metal magazine artists which included several European luminaries (not to mention the Swiss artist HR Giger) played the dominant roll in the success of the 1979 film Alien. It was the first time anyone had tried to incorporate realistic & believable SF design work with bizarre SF concept art and a believable story line about a first encounter scenario-not a Disney studios type one but the real deal. The 79 film succeeded because nobody had seen anything like that before whereas this effort-Prometheus-(which takes its name from a high IQ society for some reason) is loaded with 'seen it before' type of visuals. Even the well done space vessel that lands on a moon with an atmosphere (a not very plausible premise in and of itself) doesn't really make much of an impact. This would of course be due to film goers like myself getting inundated with future tech in a slurry of previous SF films that featured the human/alien hybrid and the Predator creature. I think that by the time this film came out the 'buzz' of the Alien films was long gone. Like many people who saw this one I thought it was absurd that an astronaut would take off his space suits helmet in a new alien environment. It was truly the stuff of jokes to see that type of thing happening. All in all I thought the film came off like an unintentional farce that degenerated into a totally out of control mess towards the end.