Why all the hate?

Rating: 9/10 (10 June 2012)

I really don't understand why this film is generating so much anger and hatred from viewers? Postings on message boards and, amateur online reviews are practically dripping with venom, I would be surprised if Ridley Scott weren't receiving death threats! This film is NOT Alien and has no desire to be Alien, it is a completely different film with a different agenda and should be appreciated on its own merits. So what does this film offer? Fantastic imagery- a beautifully constructed believable world, from the interior of the ship Prometheus to the foreboding grandeur of the Alien structures. A script that has the guts to tackle big themes, there is more depth here than in any mainstream film I have watched for years and I believe it is a testament to the films power that I have been thinking about it and puzzling over it for a week. Many reviews, I believe, make too much of the films 'plot holes', certainly there are what appear to be narrative inconsistencies,that do not appear at first to make sense, but are we really that dumbed down as an audience that we demand to have everything spoon fed to us? Personally, I believe that time will vindicate this film. Don'e listen to all the hate, go and make your own mind up.