Some of the worst Sci-Fi ever produced!

Rating: 2/10 (13 July 2012)

I am a huge Science Fiction fan and have been for over 40 years. Indeed, my favorite Sci-Fi film series is the Alien series. In 1977 I read the first release of Alien in Heavy Metal and then when I saw the original movie by Scott I was immediately bowled over. Any good Sci-Fi movie MUST make sense, and MUST follow some basic rules. In the original Alien, Scott did the best job EVER doing just that.
Prometheus is JUST the opposite. Visually stunning, yes, but as a story and screenplay, this is pure and utter garbage just loaded with mistakes. Once again we have a movie where it appears the effects were created and THEN the movie was written around them.
The opening first minutes of Prometheus are visually stunning and the first scene is very eye-catching until you realize (much later) IT HAS NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH THE MOVIE!!! Then Scott begins a lllooonnnggg trail of over-complicating what could be a good story.
The mistakes are so silly - example - in the first scene we see a quasi human ingest some foreign substance and his body falls apart. About 45 minutes later one of the crew members ingests the same substance and becomes super-human?!?!? Huh??? Whoever was doing the continuity on this movie should be fired and never work in Hollywood again.
Another example of blunder - when the spacecraft lands on the alien planet we see FIVE domes (called pyramids) on the planet. THEN THE ENTIRE MOVIE TAKES PLACE IN ONE OF THEM, NEVER MENTIONING, SHOWING, OR EVEN DEALING WITH THE REMAINING FOUR. This is a PERFECT example of a movie being writing around an effect.
As for Alien purists like myself this movie is WORSE than the horrible Alien versus Predator Requium - and you have to be pretty bad to go that low, but thats just what this movie does.
Worst of all - the initial "entry point" to the entire Alien story is the derelict craft found on LV426 in the beginning of the original story. Promethues tries to "explain" that. My Lord I wish they had simply left that alone!!! Instead we get this convoluted, poorly written story where near the end, instead of explaining the craft, we are shown that the first movie must be some other planet because all the wreckage and garbage left behind (literally) in this movie NEVER appear in the original.
Simply put, along with Steve Spielbergs "War of the Worlds" remake, and "AI", Prometheus now rates in my book as one of the top three WORST Sci-Fi movies EVER! I would normally say 'wait until it comes out on DVD to see it' - but with garbage this bad, I say - don't even bother seeing it - you're not missing anything worth seeing and sure not worth even the couple bucks to rent it.
If you don't care about story and only want visual "wow", sure, see Prometheus - some visuals are fantastic - but for me, that only further denigrates just how bad this movie is. Good visuals lost in a dumpster of a movie that wants you to take it seriously, but you cant.