poor alien concepts, silly script for a special effect-dense movie

Rating: 1/10 (25 September 2012)

Sometimes I am dumbfounded by how poor the concept behind such a rich production effort can be.
Is it possible that all the great Ridley Scott himself could come up with to portrait brand new alien species was an anaemic bodybuilder (The Thing From Another World, 1951), a few small inchworms, a grey rubber hosepipe and a giant octopus?
The highlight of the movie was Noomi Rapace giving birth to a squid shaped pokemon.
I honestly felt sorry for her, she really poured 200% of her extraordinary talent in this CGI action-packed movie. She forcedly ended up being the spine of a weak story. I only recall Elizabeth's name, the others are gone forever (I doubt I'll give this film another go) and yet I still remember Ripley, Jones the cat, Bishop, Vasquez, Hudson, Apone, Frost, even Newt etc...Everybody else could get mauled anytime, I couldn't care less.
The quality of special effects is technically indisputable, the movie is visually beautiful, but all the rest is dreadful.
Drab characters, silly behaviour, scientific inconsistence everywhere. Storyline is stolen from old low budget movies from the 60's. I will post the whole script.
PROMETHEUS
Elisabeth: Let's go to a distant planet and see if we can find aliens.
(The crew flies to the distant planet, then start introducing themselves to one another. They ignore why they left earth. A sociopath refuses to shake hands)
Elisabeth: There is only 1 alien and heck does he punch, let's get the hell outta here.
Alien Bodybuilder: AARRGGHH!! RAAAAWWWRRRGHH!! (translation: no, I will punch you, because your clothes look funny and I resent that.)
(A squid-shaped pokemon makes out with the bodybuilder who gives birth to Pinocchio)
END
The android (safe the very first effectively sinister minutes) looks and acts like a random lunatic without a sensible motivation, Charlize Theron is absolutely pointless, the rest of the crew is barely present apart from getting lost in a straight tunnel despite hi tech 3d mapping devices and a certain common habit of sticking their fingers in every goo they see.
Prometheus even manages to be boring at times, and that's inexcusable on a stellar budget movie. All I saw was the promise of a sequel in which one day we might see something actually new, like an interesting alien creature or a decent storyline.
Ridley, next time either you hire a decent concept designer and source a good script or stay home watching TV and eating your Doritos, at least you don't waste our spare time with poorly put together junk.
Poor Carlo Rambaldi, he really had gone in the right direction with his first Alien creation. He passed away a few days after Prometheus' premiere, I can see an omen in that. Good job he had no chance to see and comment on the grey rubber hosepipe snake with grey bow tie to match, the squid shaped pokemon and the pale punching bodybuilder replacing his cool alien concept. God rest him in peace, he must have laughed his head off, up there.