A perfect example of modern brain-dead cinema

Rating: 2/10 (6 June 2012)

First of all, let me explain why I give these 2 stars in the first place - because of Fassbender. I think his presence and performance on screen (in some way) save at least one fraction of this very bad movie. Without him this movie is a clear zero, no questions asked.
This movie's budget is about 150-200 million dollars. 150-200 million. With that kind of money you can run a small city for a whole year. To waste it on this crap is an insult to human kind, especially in this time of financial crisis and austerity. This is nothing more than a very expensive mousetrap designed to squeeze money out of young audience. Why? Because young audience is caught with expensive, but not very complicated bait - CGI and advertising. After all, if you look at it from a financial perspective, why make a smart movie in the first place? 90% of target audience will not care, the smart ones who avoid the movie can't hurt the ticket sales that much. Play it safe, dumb and beautiful. It always works, you can't miss with that. I remember the Playboy interview with Jerry Bruckheimer a few years back when he was very honest about all this - they make movies for idiots because they see lots of idiots out there. It is not art, it is a product which needs to be sold to millions of viewers worldwide, preferably many times again. OK, I'm not dumb, this was always true about Hollywood, but somehow there was more intelligence in older blockbuster movies. Those movies produced stars, produced memorable quotes, there is some sort of legacy behind them.
Most of all I am disappointed with actors. I have watched the movie 3 days ago and I can't remember what the leading actress looks like (Noomi Rapace or whatever). Such a poor attempt to make the equivalent of Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, such a poor character to begin with, was Ridley Scott on drugs when he made this? Some ridiculous plot where we have a fragile scientist who doesn't really believe in science, she chooses to believe whatever she wants depending on circumstances? Nonsense, complete nonsense. Everything, from beginning to end.
I don't know what is waiting for us in 10 or 20 years time, I'm not optimistic. But if it does get any better maybe I will be able to say that this was THE low-point. I hope for that, because otherwise there is no point in going to cinema anymore. I'll stick with books for a while, usually there is no industry behind it.