12:03AM Show Redwood City, CA - Naw!

Rating: Null/10 (8 June 2012)

I have really been looking forward to this movie. That's why I watched the first showing in the area at midnight. This is a tepid, uninspired, idiotic miss.
"Prometheus" did lots of the same thing that "Alien" did when it first came out, so why was "Prometheus" so lackluster? That's just it, so much of the same stuff  nothing better in over three decades. This movie insulted the intelligence of everyone who will go to see it.
The first idiotic move was that make the movie about these cave paintings. It was like the first false step the movie took and set it off on a destination of stupid. It just got worse as it contrived to end in a way that would make it a prequel to the original "Alien" movie.
SPOILERS AHEAD .
1. The first scene presumably shows the "engineers" coming to Earth and "seeding" the planet with life. Shades of "2001: A Space Odyssey" here, but done almost 50 years later and no better or deeper. Why they had to seed the planet by having one of their own come down to the planet and disintegrate into it was weird also. It tells you that you are watching an idiotic movie.
2. So, if the seeding came from the "engineers" before their was life, then how would the primitive civilizations have all come to know the "engineers" and why would they have painted cave murals pointing at stars they could not know? No reason, just another moronic Lindeloff-ism.
3. So, Weyland, the megalomaniac wants to live forever, so he spends a trillion dollars to make a starship, and then hires morons to staff it and run it. None of them can take the time to be courteous or friendly to each other. None of them can follow rules. Can you imagine what kind of an idiot takes off their helmet on an alien planet they have been on for 20 minutes? This is strictly 1950's sci-fi movie norms.
4. Since David, the robot, seems to be able to find out so much about the aliens that he can jump right onto their ship and work it and maneuver it, why do they ever need all these other incompetent jokers?
5. What is the problem on this planet? There are weirdo lifeforms in the pyramids, DNA all over the place that is capable of taking over human DNA and transforming the person, and even their sperm into a monster making germ seed that can grow into a monster in 10 hours.
6. I could go on for hours as to why this movie is not much different than "Alien" but how it just does not seem to ever connect in theme, character, story, even the effects here are what we have gotten used to. Where "Alien" was so strong at breaking new ground, "Prometheus" cannot even use old ground to grow what should have been a very interesting movie.
This movie was a major disgrace, it was really terrible and such a lame miss. This was only done for the money, that's for sure. Sorry I gave it to them, don't make the same mistake as me.