Wonderful movie, yet good reason to give lowest vote

Rating: 1/10 (9 August 2012)

Ridley Scott has become an old master. The movie is wonderful done, with a relatively slow pace, a coherent story and good camera work. The camera work reminded me somewhat of "Ghostwriter".
I liked the breadth of cultural references (no, not the obvious): Goethe's Faust, Erich von Däniken, even Lars von Trier's Melancholia. Perhaps a faint note of 2001.
Now for the bad: my low score is for the outrageous mercantilism of this cinema release. Although I've seen (of course!) the English version, we had to wait here in Germany for about 6 months for the release.
Adding insult to injury, the movie is only offered in 3D. I wear glasses: expensive ones, with a comfortable frame and top-notch non-reflecting lenses. The cinema "3D-glasses" (circular polarization type) put on over mine felt sordid, pulling my ears, falling on top of my nose. I've seen due to reflections all the exit signs behind me. The image was not perfect: there are remnant shadows from the other eye and the whole thing is too dark.
What a pity!