Very good trailer! I would like to have my $20 back now Mr Ridley

Rating: 1/10 (15 June 2013)

Set in a futuristic setting scientists take up what they call an invitation found in a cave drawing which appears to be of the stone age type. Just before this aliens landed on Earth and some kind of ritual takes place were the alien disintegrates and supposedly becomes the progenitor of humanity. After arriving on LV 223 an atmospheric moon orbiting a Saturn like planet, the film apparently focuses on a black goo, the aliens who look like the one at the start and what the compound they explored, which contained the goo and the aliens, might be.
The way the film unfolded like a half-decent horror film and it showed that it depended on those horror like moments to get the audience to feel a jolt or two. Another aspect that this film relied on to make something out of it was the CGI. Other than that it was quite disengaging and while watching it in the cinema I was more focused on whether I'm sitting well enough in my seat so at least if I daydream or sleep I can do so with ease.
The dialogue in this film was quite ordinary and bland, the main character (the woman scientist)was more impassioned and made the film more watchable and that maybe it could get much better, it did not. It was that way for mostly most of the film.
This movie was presented as one of those movies were we are to make the meaning out of it and that those unintelligible and unimportant moments in the film were made for that. This message was particularly pushed by the news and TV movie reviewers as a great film and that Ridley has done it again. And that controversy is the key to a great movie. Well, people who watched it know its a big lie, at best its a deliberate misconception.
The fanboy-ism of this film was the most unattractive and distasteful of 2012 for movies. Essentially the fanboys made up the meaning from that excuse of a movie in such a way that they made a great deal out of something negligible. In other words they made their own movie in their mind and just because it was their own then others must accept that its a great movie. Other fanboys tried using this film as measure of their own 'better intelligence' since they like it while others do not.
This film is not a film, it is a 124 minute brand. A brand deals with perceiving, imaging and consuming. Prometheus was made with inadequate decency and relied on horror film clichés and high tech graphics to get people to buy tickets and later on DVDs with director's cut . It presents form over substance to appeal to brand conscious consumers, were the makers put in minimal effort and expect the others make the rest of the film for them in their minds, for a price! This tends to happen with some clothing brands for instance were a cotton shirt is significantly overpriced because it has a brand symbol. And for certain consumers this is good enough and its of high quality due to the price they have to pay. Its funny since those types of shirts are maybe just 30%-40% better than a more reasonably priced shirt and maybe =>150% the price.
As mentioned before this is Prometheus. This, in my opinion, is not a movie that can be appreciated as it is. If people like a deeper plot, Anime is by far the better alternative to Prometheus. Anime like Neon Genesis Evangelion and Ghost in the Shell, for starters, can be appreciated as they are and with a deeper plot to make meaning out of it if one chooses to do so.