Unintelligent

Rating: 1/10 (5 June 2012)

I saw Prometheus on Friday with my girlfriend who was really waiting for it. Ihad my doubts and unfortunately now we both agree I was right. Prometheus is a bad and stupid movie. Still I waited a couple of days to think it over and read other opinions. It seems we are not only disappointed ones here.
Ridley Scott is (or was) a great director, who directed at least cinema classics, but it seems he doesn't really know what makes a good screenplay. He made great movies... when the script was good. So, for me it all came down whether the script was good.
It was not. I had to join those who agree that the visuals and 3D were above average and that's all the good thing we can say about this movie. And it is because of the script.
Many critics praise Prometheus as an intelligent sci-fi, and say that those who don't like it simply don't understand it. Well, I think an intelligent sci-fi story (as a matter of fact every story) must be LOGICAL. I'd like to point out a few problem with the logic of Prometheus.
Remember the trailer when they talk about ancient separate civilisation? In the movie they name them among the usual ones(Egyptian, Mayan) they mention Sumer, Akkad and Mezopotamian as well. Now please check Wikipedia: it's the same civilisation with different names over a couple of hundred years (yeah I know it's a bit more complicated but we they were not separated from each other and lived on the area of modern Iraq). Is it really a sign of an intelligent story? The writers didn't have internet access? Or they just didn't care? What about those signs these civilizations left for us? An image of a solar system? A star constellation? According to what the story suggest we were created by the Space Jockeys and that image is their guide for us. How? Human evolution took hundreds of thousands years. How could an Egyptian scribe draw that image if the whole thing happened hundreds of millenia before his time? To make things worse stars and our galaxy itself moves, which means that particular image cannot show us the way because the stars had moved away. Why didn't the writers think about it? Maybe they didn't have a clue, which is fine after all they are not astronomers (as matter of fact me neither and still I know these things) but please don't call this movie "intelligent" please.
About Prometheus being a stand alone movie without any real connection to the classic Alien and that we shouldn't compare it to Alien.
It's a sci-fi in which a group of people travel to an alien planet and find there horrific creatures. When I see a movie with the above premise I automatically compare it to Alien. It has nothing to do with whether it is an Alien movie or some other space slasher. The original Alien IS the standard here, every sci-fi/horror fan compare any new space horror to Alien.
And in the comparison Prometheus fails miserably.
SPOILER If you want to watch Prometheus chances are you are a horror fan which means you saw a lot on-screen death. Let me tell you how Charlize Theron's character dies in this "intelligent" and "impressive" movie. She dies when the alien space ship falls back to the planet and rolls over her. Yes, she's out there and sees the giant spaceship rolling towards her. She turns back and starts running. Not sideways just... from it. So I write it down again: a rolling spaceship squashes her.