those who saw it...be honest

@karstenphd: Putting Battle LA and Twilight together... Thank you! ROFLMAO!

Thx for that David 1, I think we are far from the only ones feeling that way. I also can't agree more with abordoli's post, which in some way connects with mine. I think movies like that have a life of their own, or even several ones, before they find their place. Only just that makes me think some potential is there to be mined for, for a while. Also, one last thing I think is crucial to understand the incoherent feelings we receive from the reviews is I think purely symptomatic of the expectations of the average audience nowadays. I actually cannot make sense of reviews saying 'It sucks, almost no definite answer is given'... What made Alien such a success in the first place is the total lack of any answer, purpose and all around background. The importance of a meta-level and how much of it is (or is not) revealed makes for a large part of why certain stories turn into a 'cult' popular phenomenon. Because people remain hooked and make theirs that mysterious meta-world. Think Tolkien's various elven/orkish languages, geological maps, Silmarillion mythology etc. for the most authoritative example. The problem with the spoiled-brat people are irreversibly turning into is that now, the audience is convinced a film is a fail if it does not spoon-feed them evrything there is to know. That resulted in things like the Star Wars pre-logy and the whole 'sequel' trend. Alien wouldn't be Alien and we wouldn't be there talkin if Jar-Jar had been there in 1979 telling us how 'issa Space Jockey, issa tall tall bastard, issa live not far, youssa want me call them?'. So, not everyone is happy with Prometheus? sounds like very good news to me.

Ridley Scott said some wrong things for marketing purposes ... "to scare the shit out of you " ..really is not ..dont know if its because we already know everything but is not a very scary movie " " things that look insignificant will be enormous at the end " huh ? ive missed something ? BTw is still a good good movie

It's a good movie, very good probably. It's an excellent sci-fi. Not a horror movie like Alien, but a few scary scenes full of tension. And of course that fantastic special scene with Noomi that will make history imo. Fassbender and Noomi character archs are very interesting.

Ian Nathan at Empire.com writes: "There is no accumulation of dread, none of Alien’s haunted silences and primordial drones that slid beneath your bones. The film is too busy, too talky, too noisy by half. Awe, wonderment and terror need atmosphere to flourish. For all the CGI grandiosity, there is a flatness to the mood. Prometheus is strangely impatient, irritable, rushing its set-ups and squandering drama. Characters perish, but without any great wit or design, and in fits and starts. The film can’t fix on where it wants the action to occur, dragging the cast back and forth between the Apple-elegant fixtures of the good ship Prometheus and the grey-green bio-horror chambers of the ‘temple’. Motive is sorely lacking. And the stand-ins are no great shakes — somewhere in Switzerland Giger is snorting into his schnapps. Early on we glimpse beneath the exoskeleton — sorry, spacesuit — and the Space Jockey, sorry Engineer, turns out to be a overly-pumped bald bloke with dead-eyes who has no dialogue and punches people across the room. So basically they’ve spent two years in cryo to discover that God is Jason Statham."

The concensus I get is that the people who went into it wanting "another Alien movie" are the ones slapping it with negativity. While the ones who saw it and respected it as a standalone sci-fi film are the ones praising it. What I don't get is when a reviewer says things like "Prometheus would have been better as a standalone sci-fi film." That makes no sense, because Fox, Scott, and Lindleloff have beeing claiming for months that this IS a standalone film, and though it does have tidbits of Alien themes and some nods to the other films, it is NOT an Alien film. So, in essence, this tells me that the movie is good, because it IS a standalone sci-fi film.

Precisely what I've been thinking HighNDry88

i think i can understand Prometheus is as different from Alien is from Aliens (i really don't like that one) it's not a scary movie, but maybe, RS meant the concept is scary? yes i'm left with questions, but it makes sence to the movie to me.

In that critic I agree with the fact that they go back and forth of the ruins, instead of staying in one place and developing the story from there. Also the movie feels rushed in some parts. Just a few seconds more here and there would have created more tension and a better rhythm.

I'm pretty dissapointed actually. This wasn't really the movie I had been looking forward to all this time, sorry. Visually, it is brilliant, but story-wise... i really hope for a director's cut when the blu-ray is out, because if this is the final version heads should roll in my opinion.

From the Empire review: "Early on we glimpse beneath the exoskeleton — sorry, spacesuit — and the Space Jockey, sorry Engineer, turns out to be a overly-pumped bald bloke with dead-eyes who has no dialogue...." Thank God they have no dialog!......and that reviewer sounds like they could be one of the disgruntled fanbots on here: "oH noes, itz justa SUIT??!!!!" Yeah dude, sorry that rocks your world in a bad way...........whatever.

Again...I'm hearing it over and over..."I was EXPECTING this...and I got THIS instead."....

Hello everybody, I have seen the movie yesterday evening. What i would like to say first of all is please, stop being "intellectual" about it, and don't take care of the critics: just go and see it because it is what YOU feel while watching that counts (yeah, we are always all alone...). I have been thrilled by Alien and Aliens, and I am more than a "fan" in a sense that these movies (and other sci fi or not) have left a trace in me, and this is what cinema is all about: you get involved with the characters, the music, the atmosphere, an alchemy takes place in your hearth that arouse the primal feelings in you: you get inside the movie, you want them to survive ! and this feeling remain with you and follows you after you have left the theatre, and...all your life (sounds stupid but...this is true) . I felt nothing like that with Prometheus. (Tried to post something similar yesterday, didn't work....hope it will this time.)

Watched it. Compared to a movie I've watched 50 times since I was born (Alien), it answered a shitload of questions. Dialogs are too short but better worded than any other Alien movie. David the android seemed to me like the most interesting android in the series in his psychology and relation with humans. Sometimes I saw CGI and had to try real hard to believe it was CGI. Of course we are not a fan of Prometheus yet, it's been out for a week only and no one in their right mind had the time to process all of it. Remember that the only explanation given about Alien was: "The perfect organism. I admire its purity. A survivor … unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. " That's it, and then 2 hours of people being stupid, making mistakes and dying. Now saying that Prometheus doesn't answer a whole bunch of questions and that Alien or its off-topic sequel by James Cameron are good enough to be classics in compare is hypocritical. What would you say about Blade Runner then? It doesn't serve any explanation on a silver or paper plate. The questions added by Prometheus are the origins of mankind, and people expect to see Dumbledore sit us down by a fireplace and break down to us the secret that can negate millenniums of theology, evolutionism and philosophy. Even Darwinism has "plot holes", and requires a little bit of faith and speculation. Go see Prometheus with an open mind and you will not be disappointed.