Our creators are surrealists. Of course they are, look at us! Especially after seeing that movie!

Rating: 1/10 (13 June 2012)

This movie was a didactic piece of filmmaking, now we know a lot more. For example, famous directors mostly need a good staff or things can go downhill in a blink of an eye. The Star Wars prequels come to my mind. Be gone devil!
*** mild spoilers ahead *** duck and cover not necessary ***
George Lucas showed clear without ambiguity his non-talent as a director and scriptwriter. He definitely has a sense of putting all together especially listen to the right people with the right bit of quality work: Irvin Kershner, Leigh Brackett and of course Lawrence Kasdan.
And so did Ridley Scott.
Nowadays, just a few director-films exists anymore. Mostly we call them Blockbusters in respect of one-person decision-making: Scott, Lucas, Cameron, Bay (..) have freedom of doing. And doing so, one can lose himself in arrogant narcissism, forgetting the roots of previous achieved works.
And so did Ridley Scott.
One can blame the awful, non-narrative script, but experience this magnitude of omni-nonsense; it's not possible not to point at Ridley.
There is no sense of reality nowhere, not in the acting, not in the characterization, not in the figures behavior, not in the slightest situation, not behind any stone of the rocky landscape. Speaking about "sense of reality": It has nothing to do with the genre. Fiction doesn't mean to have no rules.
In contrary! It's all about the rules! New worlds, new situations, new possibilities, and the viewer in the middle of the action asking himself highly interested what he would do instead of the main characters. This is so essential, that plot holes aka inconsistent storytelling will wash you out of your imagination as fast as your interest is sinking.
How to connect to the character if stupidity is the answer to incoherent logic? Lacking any vehicle transporting yourself into the imaginary world, how to connect to the plot? To the story? To your lost 15 bucks? How to explain it to your girlfriend? "But the visuals were great, let's go to the backseats" .. i don't think so.
You can have cool characters, you can have zeitgeist-dialogs, but you must understand ambivalence. And you must do that carefully, so everybody swallows that. Richard Dreyfuss in Jaws made a wonderful job: A cynical scientist, bullish, precocious, but also polite, social intelligent. I bought that.
I don't buy PhD's with a total mindset of a soccer player. No offense against soccer here...
I don't buy PhD's which motivation is to believe in non-confirmable stuff. Well, none of my colleges do and they do a lot nonsense. But I guess petting an alien snake on first contact would take no part in their adventures.
Especially I don't buy 3 pilots on a suicide-run emotionless and obviously lobotomized.
And no, Ridley, not only me, nobody, not even Road Runner himself would run strait forward from a gigantic donut when there is plenty of space on both sides.
I really thought we were beyond this in 2012. Well, every flick has its "nooooo" moment
The biggest mistake is the genre: Prometheus happens to be neither science nor fiction. It became splatter-horror. Alien & Aliens sets up a couple of questions: How to analyze and survive something completely out of this world in terms of thinking and interacting not related to anything we are used to understand. The superb visuals (H.R. Giger) transported us there. And here comes the important part: These questions were very related to everything happened in the plot and so we were told answers piece by piece, carefully forced to adapt our imagination to the current situation.
THATS the definition of enjoying fiction.
Prometheus asked where we came from and why our creators want to destroy us. The whole plot is not related to these never answered questions. Its purpose is only to show us one action scene after another without ever having a climax.
All that artists like Giger and previous story-writer did to build a world with extraterrestrial aliens who actually give us a sense of highly engrossed and unpredictable beings is wasted. It's all human. It was no accident, that Giger melted the space-jockey with his pilot chair: Our perspective of reality should be challenged: He installed a definite "another". Ridley obviously doesn't understand.
Now we know, our ancestors are just surrealists.
If you, dear reader, are so eager to see that movie, never forget: you subsidize future projects of that kind.