After my 2nd viewing....

Had my 2nd viewing of ‘Prometheus’ last night....I was more than disappointed first time round and felt a bit let down but went to the cinema again for a second viewing and was indeed looking forward to seeing the film again....with different eyes. I had also in the days after my first viewing convinced myself that i’d missed something..... some crucial piece of dialogue....some physical anomaly or clue...that i’d over looked while engorged in the visual splendor of this film....so, as i did the first time i went in with an open mind...again!..and No!....my eyes and brain did not deceive me first time round. let me say first im not a fan boy....other than loving the first 2 films i don’t populate the Alien universe that much....just kind of orbit it a bit...especially with the run up to this film. i’m a fan of film. first and foremost. I enjoyed ‘Prometheus’ more second time around. Or should i say i enjoyed, even more, what i enjoyed the first time round....which in short was the first halfi-sh...60-75 mins of the film. I actually think that first hour or so is a fantastic cinematic spectacle....both visually and in the intense way the plot builds using different varients of the story to take us on what is supposed to be a gripping and terrifying journey. In short though it just doesn’t deliver. instead we get a first half of multiple built up story lines that takes the viewer on an intense and viseral and scary journey that doesn’t go anywhere story lines that are forgotten about and and lost to distraction of lesser and indeed useless points to the film. The Storm. Holloways infection. Fyfields random killing spree....amongst others. all of these distract and detract from the main story which is being presented in front of and to us. I’ve read and seen on this site that people are being criticized for not ‘Thinking’.....Because they say ‘Prometheus’ makes you ‘think’....i’m not going to lie....it does make you think....In the Larger arguments of Beginning,creation, evolution, life, death, god or the lack there of for some. all are un-answered ambiguous yet challenged issues throughout the movie. i don’t have a problem with any of that...i like having something to think about. But where these people are being criticized for not ‘thinking’ seems to be because (as i have done/am doing) we/I are challenging the questions of...What about the story i was watching??....the one that was un-folding in front of my eyes that was presented to me?...the one that spent the first 50 minutes trying to figure out what happened to the engineers....what they where running scared from...what murdered them? why did they run INTO the chamber (of death) where our story takes place?. I wouldn’t mind if it was a fleeting look....but it wasn’t we the viewer invested ourselves into these opening intriguing moments and followed gladly on what was being given to us....thinking it was all going to come together but doesn’t....Then there’s a storm....‘everyone out’.....lets go back....holloways infected.....everyone out....etc etc. Even Holloways plot line was futile...if Davids motivation was “Try Harder” ....was that it?....Surely most wanted to see what Holloway was mutating into...and what terror he would have brought with him again because thats what we where given, spent time on and built up too.....but no. infect him...kill him. Back to square one David....but again no....distracted by a mapping pod....’i’ll go and have a look at it if you like”...i know Shaw was impregnated by Holloway....but David couldn’t have know they’d sleep together...so again this plot line was left alone and distracted from the main story we’d been watching for an hour. So as far as this ‘Thinking’ thing goes....i shouldn’t have to fill in ALL the multiple blanks of ALL the multiple plot lines of a story that was presented to me built upon as the main reason for being there and then blatantly changed direction into a regular type monster movie and didn’t challenge anymore the story they’d built up. The second half is still very poor....what we have now is an abandoned main story line in favor of a regular Monster/chase movie....Are the engineers with all their Creative genius and power so easily upset by davids...(possibly insulting) words that they/he turns in to a basic thug type killer.....are they not more highly evolved than that? i’m not going to go on about this phase of the movie....it’s there to be seen and predictable i’ll leave it at that. Ultimately ‘Prometheus’ again left me feeling bewildered and disappointed....there was so much i enjoyed about it especially in the first half as i’ve said...i’m not surprised people came out with a real let down feeling and with real questions about the films execution and lack of or cut off narative as opposed to these big unanswered universal questions...that i think we’ve all accepted..... so anyway...im very happy for those who loved it....understand why others didn’t as much. you’ll have to make up your own minds....