Any movie dies with bad script and lousy music

Rating: 3/10 (11 August 2012)

I was looking forward to this movie once I heard Ridley Scott is doing it. Unfortunately this movie lacks of two things: an awful script and music that does not come close to the character of the movie.
Scott allows all kind of rubbish to happen in this movie and others have written about it here. There is just too much going on that does not make sense at all and your mind constantly goes "Huh???... Well, whatever...". Too many nonsense details slip through — not just one or two things... it keeps firing like that. I left the theater disappointed. If grandmaster Ridley Scott is unable to do good Sci-Fi anymore ... then who is? I felt like I am never going to see a good SciFi movie again and the genre is doomed.
But about the movie: the worst part in my opinion is, that to be a prequel to Alien 1, there is too much inexplicable stuff and loose ends. For instance:
1) In Alien 1 the Nostromo wakes up the crew because of a distress beacon. Ripley identifies the 0's and 1' on screen as being some sort of "warning" but is unsure. In Prometheus there are several crashed ships at the end: a terran escape vehicle almost intact and two space ships. Where did that beacon come from? If it is a waring, like Ripley suspects, someone with knowledge about the "danger" in the area would have needed to deploy the signal. And if Shawn (last survivor) had deployed it on departure (not hinted!) — why is it so hard to decipher for Nostromo crew? This doesn't connect.
2) In Alien 1 there is some "secret mission" of the main computer and the Android (Ash) going on — as if the freighter Nostromo was actually on a planned halt to investigate but without telling the crew about this. This "some evil corporation pulling strings behind"-plot is running through Balde Runner and all the other Alien movies: business people that are disregarding life and sending people into certain death for a profit. There is something like that in Prometheus as well — but it fails to shine, as it is nothing more than a old bitter guy wasting his money on a extravagant personal quest to avoid death. The guy dies. So where did the corrupt corporate plans in Alien 1 come from? Audience has to invent this fundamental clue. Huh??? Well... whatever...
3) In Alien 1 the alien race has obviously put up some eggs as traps waiting for encounters. Those eggs obviously coming from a queen — as we learned in Alien 2 — making that whole thing an ant like population. Prometheus wants to tell us that this complex race is a result of ... well ... what exactly? A spontaneous genetic mixture? None of the life forms in Prometheus have anything to do with the original Alien movies. Only in a very last scene we get told that "somehow" an Giger-like Alien creature (and suddenly grown up already??) came out of an infestation of that evil guy. Huh??? Well... whatever...
4) In Alien 1 they discover an alien race that has crashed with the ship. In the command room there is a corpse of an alien astronaut that obviously was infested with an alien which then came out of his chest — leaving an orifice that seems to be punched from inside. In Prometheus this astronaut gets to his command chair – but leaves that again as the story moves on. Huh??? Well... whatever...
5) So Ridley Scott wants us to believe that the alien astronauts in the spaceship actually were not victims of an alien life form, but actually warriors that were preparing to deliver biological warfare (to the planet earth whose inhabitants they once helped to create???) that "somehow" failed to complete the original mission? Maybe some idiot just dropped one of those caskets that seem to contain pretty dangerous material but can be opened with one hand and lie around everywhere like empty bomb shells. Huh??? Well... whatever...!
I think it would have been easy to remove some story elements an give more thought to how the puzzle pieces fit together. Prometheus does not deserve to be called a prequel.
This could have been a SciFi masterpiece. Three stars for the visuals and the production design.