Consider this if you feel dismayed by Prometheus

Consider this: When people talk about the yearning for a great [or grandiose] scifi movie while talking about such movies as BLADE RUNNER, SOLARIS [the original version], SOYLANT GREEN, 1984 [though I grant it's more of a political critique than a scifi per se], PLANET OF THE APES or even LOGAN'S RUN, I trully empathise with them. When I watch recent scifi movies such as MELANCHOLIA or MOON - movies that are said to entice/arouse your intelectual side - I too feel that yearning and the subsequent dismay of witnessing nothing truly new, as probably the majority of scifi fans have concluded for themselves [by themselves]. And the reason for this dismay is quite simple: There seems to be only one movie that was [and still is] able to perplex, confuse, make you think about it's meaning, charm, hipnotise and, above all to make you wonder and yearn for more of it's kind. That movie is [i]2001 - A Space Odissey[/i]. Inteligent, cunning, simple yet profoundly complex, full of eye candy and revolving the 3 great questions: [i]Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we supposed to go from here?[/i] And because it is such a great work of art [if one comes to think of it that way], it is prone to be imitated, nodded at and taken as a standard for the genre [as it has been taken] and beyond. It IS that difficult to come up with a movie such as 2001. It IS extremly difficult to break away from it and it will always be. it IS that hard to make something new. So, to the folks that leave [or have indeed left] the theatre somewhat dismayed about their intelectual cravings being satiated, think how RARE it is for someone to show an entire different and groundbreaking approach to timless and universal questioning that, at the same time, gets the viewer to be completely surrendered [to both the aesthietics as well to the rational process].