Are you guys/Girls asleep?..go read this!

fuck them- ill make my own opinion...

anyone could have written these vague reviews about anything. doesn't reveal anything which makes me think fake.

It sounds like some were upset that the link to Alien is very Vague and limited in scope, just as I suspected. The mixed reviews are to be expected though, if the movie was pure genius or pure crap it would have mixed reviews. Only films that are intellectually watered down for mass appeal like The Dark Knight or The Avengers can get mostly positive reviews from everyone. Still, I knew that the Alien connection might be tenuous at best, since Scott probably only threw it in because the Fox marketing execs demanded it when he was securing his funding. In interviews he would always try to shy away from the Alien questions and state that this is a new thing that he was trying to do. The Space Jockey is what stuck in his mind after Alien, he probably didn't want anything to do with the Xenomorphs after so many directors had taken their shot with the creature.

it really is extremely polarized....for every positive their is a negative....no actual reviews....just these very odd translated ambiguous one liners?...like if you had to sum up the movie in one or 2 sentences.....but i dunno if it's just someone playing the fool either....did this screening really happen?

I concur with Drake.

I think we should accept the fact that if Prometheus lives up to our standards then it will have many negative reviews. If it isn't padded down with fun action or Michael Bay-esque elements (cheesy dialogue, hot chicks being sexy for no reason, one liners etc...), then many people will hate it (just as many people hate Blade Runner and the original Alien).

Until we hear from Frantz, I don't believe anything like this. Those guys have been proven wrong in the past, especially with Twitter Twit and Mr I-Saw-It-Because-I-Responded-To-#areyouseeingthis-Via-Facebroke shenanigans. Grab your brooms people :-D

Also, need actual French translators! This Google crap isn't cutting it.

Well it kind of concurs with what two people had told me, one of them who posted on here. One never saw any real Alien link, but said Shaws Baby is simular but then different and the end is kind of open and has a vague link to Alien. This person said the movie has a lot of unanswered questions and fails to answer those from Alien. The second person says their are a few subtile links to Alien that just help with assumptions and so no real answers, they said that Shaws Baby can be considered simular to a Face Hugger and that at the end we will see something that we may be able to draw some connection with the 1979 Alien but it would look different. They also said that while the odd very vague hint is given about what may have lead to Alien, it raises more questions and that the movie leaves even more unanswered questions regarding Prometheus than Alien did with Space Jockey. Seems pretty much the movie has the fingerprints of Lindelofs style and work written all over it.... Seems its more Blade Runner, meets Lost in Space (talking about JJ Abrahams one) than any link to Alien....

Wouldn't it be hilarious if they held back the last 8 minutes till the north american debut? Note: I have always said I don't want it to super tie into "Alien". I just think it would be funny to withhold the last 8 minutes from people since they get the movie a week early. Yes, I am jealous and bitter.

If there is a goddamn "smoke monster" or LOST style crap in this I will sooooooo be leaving a paper bag full of Cypher-processed bacon on Lindelof's front doorstep -_- I knew having him near this was a bad idea from the get-go

John, there is a policy here to not link to Prometheus-Forum.net and we have been told to delete any posts re-directing anyone there. So I won't be looking at anything there. Until I hear from our member Frantz, I trust him to let us know when he's seen it, I'm not putting any trust in any of this.

I think it was interesting (and brave) that Scott has let the hardest critics in the world see this film first. He knows that no subsequent reviews will be as harsh. That said, nothing I have seen of the French reviews concerns me unduly - for example, the cardboard secondary characters accusation could equally be levelled at Alien. I mean, come on, did any of those characters have any other purpose than being Xeno-fodder? The review I will look for is Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian, whose reviews are generally extremely reliable. And if this film leaves more questions than answers - hey, I'm cool with that.

SOUNDS LIKE LE HORSESHIT FROM HERE AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO PULL TRAFFIC OVER TO ANOTHER SITE. HELLO? CON JOB IS THAT YOU? WELCOME DUMMIES TO THE SITE THAT HAS NO LINK TO FOX LIKE PROMETHEUS.COM DOES. JEALOUS

I guess the good thing about critics and fans unhappyness is this... Fox could ask Ridley in a Sequel to clear up any questions if thats what fans not happy about and if most criticism is aimed at Lindelofs style and disapointment in how the movie went from Ridley and Spaits draft to basically sounds like Lindelof's i.e near enough next to no explanation or connection to Alien... Then Fox could ask Ridley to fix those in a new movie, if Fox feels that he movie has potential for sequel if it fixes the things that people have criticised about but Ridley wont change the plot and wants Lindelof on a Sequel i guess there is nothing stopping Fox saying on your bike and get say John Carpenter or Cameron on board. I had concerns with Lindelof, i have never been a fan of his style. In two interviews he basically said he is a big fan of leaving unanswered questions with more questions, and he does not seem to bothered if he changes a movie to suit what ever he wants and dont care if they dont do that well. The guy is Filmmaking Cancer......

@Cypher - did not know about that policy - thanks for the heads-up.

I love how everyone blames Lindelof if it is bad, dude can't win no matter what. [keep in mind I hate lost]. It isn't like Ridley Scott hasn't made a number of duds. In my eyes he is "Alien" and "Blade Runner" to, well, everything else he has made. Anyway, I haven't seen it. And judging from the reactions i am starting to question more and more if they are showing the last 8 minutes. Said it above and I am saying it again. I get the feeling they might not be....why not keep it hidden as much as you can. Just a couple of the tweets implied to me they might not be showing it.

@BigDave Do you really think John Carpenter can save anything? I love him but since "Vampires" it has all been complete crap. He's done, tapped and out of ideas. Cameron's name attached to anything is death for me. I will never see it unless I know he is losing money off me watching it.

Why would they show film critics everything but the last 8 minutes of a film, though?

No problem John, just don't put links up to that site and you'll be gold. Also, I'd run a virus scan on your computer after visiting that site, it allegedly has Trojans embedded. Just FYI