I don't get this movie, not in the sense of not understanding the plot; no, what I don't get is why people are so intrigued… Although, I'm pretty sure if I look REAL close I'll see it.

Yep, it's a half-baked script with underwritten ideas only gaining any kind of merit because of avid internet/cinema foyer discussion… It's just like Blade Runner really(!) where the audience made it all "so much better" by coming up with loads of ideas after seeing the original underwhelming film all the while hoping to their God(s) that it would be "the most amazeballs thing evar."

The audience will keep making this film better. By pretending it was good to begin with.

It's not even entertaining. It's just dull.

What I do want to write about is how staggered I am at the sheer volume of whingy ass, nay sayers who fancy themselves as movies critics without actually offering a single critical observation. Not just this site, the internet seems to be littered with people who wouldn't have been happy either way. "It revealed too much/It didn't reveal enough"- Blah, blah, blah.

The the thing that singularly makes all great movies great is taking the risk to do something different, from Nosferatu through to Martyrs and so on. People seem to want the same formula hashed up every time.

Regardless of people's subjective (and often misinformed/prejudiced) opinions, fair play to Ridley Scott for daring to take a familiar idea in a new direction.

Uh…no. The idea is that the black ooze – their biological weapon – seems to have been engineered around the time of Jesus (hence the carbon dated suit from 2000 years ago), probably to take us out. But they couldn't control it, and their weapon backfired on the engineers. They had at that point already left us the coordinates to find them, and we happened to build the technology to reach them 2100 years later.

I'm no huge fan or defender of the movie but that much seems clear to me.

Prometheus and his Robin Hood film are a lot alike in that they look great, have a solid cast and are wonderfully helmed by Scott but the whole affair is swamped by some truly terrible writing.

That is not to say they are not entertaining films, they are but over his career Mr. Scott's work can not rise to greatness unless he has a great story and a solid script.

His last great film was Black Hawk Down and that was because he had a truly great story and good script to apply his visual style to. If you look at Scott's work he always delivers on his end and every one of his films is worth a watch at least once for this fact but if the script fails him you are left with something that dazzles the eye but disappoints in many other ways.

This movie was a racist, tasteless, pointless, aweful piece of sh*t, but that does not excuse the author of this article from being a total moron.

I only saw the movie once. Complain about the real issues. B*tching about your clueless misunderstandings isn't good reading material.

Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Peter Jackson, George Lucas. This is the what you get when you take away all the unrecognized nameless amazing producers and staff away from Attention Hogs like these, and let them have a go at a movie on their own. Tasteless, Pointless, Witless, and on some occasions, incredibly sexist.