Many reviewers make no sense (spoiler-free)

Mainstream movie reviewers. 'Nuff said. Or maybe that's not it. I guess some of these reviewers were hopeful to see something Alien-related and they wound up disappointed, despite frequent feed from Sir Ridley saying that there won't be any, or at least not very many, references to the Alien franchise that we're familiar with. Or maybe they took note of Sir Ridley's statements and thought up of a low review prior to the movie's release, effectively not giving the movie a fighting chance. But I don't know; I can't imagine what the reviewers think because I've not seen Prometheus (and won't for about ten days). But I can foresee reviewers rating TDKR (for lack of a better example) much more highly because they'll say "Oh it's action-packed and has all these edge-of-your-seat moments; Prometheus ain't got nothing on the Caped Crusader! Hurr-hurr-hurr-hurr-hur" Sounds like Prometheus will be the type of movie to appeal to a different type of audience, like us.....we who don't represent the incompetent mainstream. But that's just me being pessimistic.

I refuse to even read critic reviews. I have not seen the movie yet, but I do know that I will love it! I have been a long die-hard fan of the Alien saga. Namely the first 2 movies. Waiting a long time to finally get a back story on the space jockey is what I have been waiting for. I believe that critics serve no purpose. Just for the fact that a lot of them are just to Fn nit picky when it comes to movies. They cannot immerse themselves into the lore and the mythology of the story.

I believe I might like the movie but I will be cursing at Peter Jackson and whoever invented cgi.

@[b]Arkadine[/b] If I recall, Prometheus will supposedly not have as many CGI elements as most movies these days. But, CGI's an inevitability in movies. We built up to it; 'til then we used heavy suits and stop-motion, then CGI came and we've been using it so much that we're too lazy to use the former two.

I think the verdict is in, most reviews are positive yet the minority are not, and that seems to bother some. whould it be better if it was the other way around? The major complaint i see, is that the ending is a nonending. Thats ok sounds like we will see a sequel in 2-3 years. I'll live that long so im not worried.

I don't know who "invented" CGI, but I do know that the turning point was Jurassic Park. Phil Tippet, who invented Go-Motion, was hired to use his new method to create the dinosaur-type monsters in JP. [b]Steven Speilberg[/b] was the one who said "hey, let's use this untested technology to create entire characters which the actors will not be able to see and won't ever look like they belong in a scene even decades after the technology has been invented." And I thought JP looked really cool... in 1993. It was a novel idea, sure. But you put JP up next to Dragonslayer and one of those has aged like sour milk. The current state of affairs for monster movies is practical effects (suits, marionettes, etc.) augmented with CGI elements. It is EXTREMELY effective because the CGI is layed on top of a real object, and in the best cases it's totally seamless and gives you the ability to make practical creatures do incredibly impractical things. The films that are the exceptions are 1. always financed by big hollywood studios and 2. ENTIRELY CGI, sets and all, ala PJ's King Kong and Avatar. That's a neat style too, because if the entire world is in a computer, you don't have to blend anything with the real world, you're creating the look of the entire film. But it's been a long time since I've seen a monster movie with a 100% all digital monster. 4 years, I think. What was this thread about, again? :P

When it comes to Rotten Tomatoes, the Tomatometer uses an aggregated scores system. Which means that the sum of positive reviews determines the score on the tomatometer. For example, if a movie has 10 review and 7 of them are 'positive' review, it will receive a %70 tomatometer score. As more reviewers add to the tomatometer, the score will either increase or decrease. So for new potentially good films, the early reviews are meaningless until the rest of the community has decided on it and added to the tomatometer score.

I think they wanted answers. For me the beauty for the film is i got answers (to be discussed) and new questions (to be discussed)

We don't need to bash critics, Prometheus is hardly being universally panned by critics and has plenty of great reviews. The kind of complaining about critics that is going on here is reminiscent of what Kevin Smith did after his horrendous Cop Out. Prometheus has an 82% aggregate score after only 11 critic reviews. Once the movie opens wide the score will most likely be much higher and I wouldn't be surprised if it settles in the very high 80's or low 90's.