What a mess

Rating: 5/10 (18 October 2017)

When you have to read a movies Wikipedia page before you watch the sequel, you know it was a forgettable movie. All I remember is the opening scene and a sense of irritation. Some works of art, like Ulysses, are so dense it is useful to have an annotated edition, but you still get moved and informed without it. This movie is so incoherent that it doesn't make any sense until you read about it and even then it is more like a hodge podge of ideas and half expressed symbolism without significant meaning. The movie makers had a lot of fun conceptualizing the movie, as much fun as a bunch of stoned 15 year olds talking philosophy.
Science has answered so many questions about how this structure or that underpinning of life could arise on a primitive earth being bombarded by comets that looking for the source of life elsewhere is an idiosyncratic fantasy. If the rain of water and complex chemicals from comets isn't stellar enough for you and the splicing of DNA randomly done by viruses isn't creepy enough, de gustibus. Besides, if we were seeded by other organic beings, you have just pushed off the question to who or what made them. If aliens came here and tweaked some species to change the course of their evolution they probably did it with orchids, not humans.