I Heard This Was Confusing? What Part Weren't You Paying Attention To?

Rating: 8/10 (19 June 2012)

One guy on here gave a 1-star for a review then listed about 10 things in the movie he had a problem with, half of which did not even happen during the movie and most of his other problems with it he's trying to sound smart but they don't even make sense. If you are unable to keep up with a movie don't complain about it. Go watch something else where things blow up and you don't have to think. I can't even imagine what the audience of today would say if 'Silence of the Lambs' came out in this time. No one would have the attention span to keep up or be able to figure out what is going on. I mean, some of the comments on here are so far off from what was going on in the movie it sounds like they were watching a different movie. This wasn't rocket science here it just left a little up to the imagination but it wasn't that hard to figure out what was going on.
I heard it was confusing so went with that expectation and with intention of watching and listening closely. All it was was a good old fashioned science fiction movie like they used to make before George Lucas started putting talking CGI aliens in his films and it all went to hell. Science fiction movies used to be about thinking not just about CGI aliens and things blowing up. In fact, if they released 'Alien' today people would probably be complaining about it being boring, not scary, and nothing happening - everyone is so used to being spoon fed and big budgets to cover up lack of story and imagination.
The only problem I had was the ending did not have quite the impact the first two films did. It was fine but not awesome. There was tension and moments where I felt nervous but this was really not an Aliens film. It was sort of the film that came before Aliens which was the birth of the creature. I would definitely classify the first two films as horror, where this one was more on the sci-fi side and lesser on the horror.
One of my favorite movies is 'Contact' and people either loved it or hated it. People who hated it was because they expected aliens to be all over the place and needed that for the pay off. People who loved it loved that it didn't show aliens all over the place because it was really about this woman's journey and her obsession and really did not have that much to do with aliens, and liked letting your imagination wander. That's how I feel about this film, 'Prometheus.' There are people in the world who like to read books because they like to use their imagination...then there are people that do not and want to be spoon fed in the theater or watch some muscle dude punch out some other guy or watch something big explode. How disappointing it must have been for you all that the explosions in 'Prometheus' weren't bigger.