[Erik Boehm]

I figured I'd make a thread on it.

In my humble opinion, this movie was a steaming pile of dung, with an utterly ridiculous and incoherent plot.

It figures it comes from the writer of Lost, I hear that shows plot was incoherent as well. Somehow the writer has managed to get people to think he's good, when he just strings together random crap that doesn't make sense, as long as he sprinkels random religious allusions in there.

Prometheus should have flopped
Ridley Scott did not sell a good movie, he sold his reputation and the reputation of the "Alien" franchise.
Now that its gone, I predict their planned sequel will flop.

I can elaborate on why it sucks if anyone is interested.
Also, inexplicably, some people liked it, if any of them are on this site, I'd like to know why.
So far from other internet forums, all I get is "well you just didn't understand it" even though they can't (and make no attempt to) explain what it is that I didn't get that could possibly salvage that turd of a plot.

[adi]

i must admit, it was a bit absurd. I still have no idea why it was necessary that that robot bloke spiked the blokes drink in order to get that woman pregnant. It was never explained, and didnt really seem to fit in with the film (other than the sigourney weaver reference in the earlier films).

The relation between the other films is a bit vague too.. almost like they thought 'this'll do' when coming up with the plot.

[DBrose]

my new outlook on movies is to play the opposite of what EVERYBODY does and find the things I like about the movie.
I got this new fresh attitude towards movies after Star Wars episode 1, EVERYBODY hated Jar Jar Binks, I actually liked Jar Jar. so I came up with the term to "Jar Jar a movie" which means to only say the things that you don't like about a movie.
So, I now find MOST people "Jar Jar" movies.. I partially blame this phenomenon on our media by over hyping movies, with good intentions--to make money--
Anyways back to the movie..
I liked the first half of the film. I liked the cinematography, I liked the sound effects. I liked the alien in the belly scene, I liked the very end with the Alien..that was all.

[Sky_Walker]

Great cinematography ... Horrible story ! How does this story get made into a movie ???

[Erik Boehm]

My guess is Lindelof gets Ridley Scott wasted, or blackmails him in some way to get him to push his crappy script.
Then Scott goes to the execs and says "I'm Ridley Scott, I made Alien muthaf-kers,", and the execs green light the project without reading the script

IMO, Lindelof is a hack, the only work that comes from him that I know of is pretentious crap.

[noman3]

f***!! I hate Mexicans!

[jjcote]

I saw a trailer for this, and it looked like it might be at least vaguely related to the Alien movies, so I netflixed Alien Resurrection, which I hadn't seen, figuring I should be up to speed before seeing Prometheus. And after watching the Alien movie, I thought, "I don't even like this kind of movie, why am I wasting my time on it?". So the next movie I have coming from Netflix is a zany comedy from 1949 starring Alec Guinness. Should be much better.

[ChattaroyMan]

Alien, when it first came out, was damn good - saw it in a dark + dang near empty theater and it practically scared the sheet out of me! Prometheus is just a poor Alien remake missing the drama/acting of the original Alien.

[tom emery]

You want to see a great movie, rent "Boondock Saints".When you are finished with that, if you can find it, rent the documentary about making the movie. I think it's called "Overnight".

[psuguru]

[Erik Boehm]

I saw this summary on another site: