7.1 for Prometheus atm

Rating: 1/10 (21 March 2014)

I am a fan of the alien franchise. At the top we have Alien, a great movie and Aliens, the sequel.
Then Alien 3 happened. The franchise was getting strained. Cheaply getting rid of the other two survivors of Alien was the first of many mistakes. Perhaps holding onto Sigourney Weaver for the third instalment was a mistake. Still: not a bad movie.
Alien resurrection, Alien VS predator, Alien Vs predator 2, I might miss out on some titles here. Entertaining to a point, granted, but undeniably terrible films each and every one of them.
Then there 's Prometheus. I actually joined IMDb just to write this down. Prometheus couldn't have been worse, if it turns out the Aliens were being mothered by an Army of Angry Clowns. The cast dribbles flatly on an unbelievable series of weak premises, the dialogues are terrible, the story-line truly preposterous. Even seen as a film not associated with the franchise, this film would be a truly horrible dragon. An ugly and expensive dragon, that with a smaller budget would be some forgettable direct- to-VCR rubbish. (In fact, with a small budget, it could have turned out to be an enjoyable B movie.)
And yet it's rated 7.1? Perhaps some farty clan of nerds are desperate enough to hold onto the franchise even as it's undead corpse is being torn apart by maggots and film industry lawyers, perhaps there's a very large group of trendy art film lovers who think the mind numbing pain they get from watching this thing adorable. But I doubt it.
7.1 is such an obvious fraud the only thing that comes to mind is 'how much'. How much did it cost to have some people pretend to love this debacle? There's a struggling writer out there who's being paid to write lies about films he or she probably hates more than any of us. Maybe the writer explodes into a big black cloud of tentacles and creates a entirely new universe with his or her migraine induced suicide and maybe this could be the beginning of another epic fail!
I want that job!