should have been renamed to "****heads in space"

Rating: 6/10 (1 August 2015)

Alien and aliens are my favorite films. One reason is that the characters are believable. They really do seem like marines or space truckers but the characters in prometheus are almost opposite of how they would really be and they are really dumb and inconsistent in their behavior. The 6 rating is based purely on the great set design and special effects. But even the ship itself is nothing particularly original. The head designer max states how they invented the ideas of the rocket engines that turn into landing gear. Avatar beat them to it. I remember Scott arrogantly announcing how great the film was before it was even released. I am not going to go into details as it has all been covered before. It is better watched as a silent movie. francis ford coppola said in an interview about apocalypse now. "If you aspire to make something really great and meaningful and don't pull it off, the film is scum" and that pretty much sums it up for me.