Not Enough Time

I wasn't disappointed at all and thoroughly enjoyed the film. I want more, but maybe that's just me

I agree with Josiyah.

Same here. I hope they make a book that can give us some more background information on the Space Jockey's. Very well done film in my opinion. I'm sorry that Buddhob was disappointed.

100% what I thought too. Needed at least 30 more minutes to flesh things out better.

Yeah, the ending was so quick, it was like a TV episode, "to be continued..."

Yup, at least 30 minutes extra was needed IMO then it wouldve been a nice pace that allows certain things in some scenes to have more "detail" to them. I wanted the science team to really study all the surrounding in that temple. Instead we got a 2 second flash of the mural and no one apart from David mentioned the giant head until later on when Milburn and Fifield are alone with it. Just a few mins extra in each of those scenes wouldve been perfect. I just love slower paced films.

I felt it was long enough and was a thrill ride the whole time. The film was so beautiful and I loved it and feel it will grow on me every time I see it!!

I am glad I went to see it. I am an avid Alien fan and loved the first two movies. This one just needed a bit more tweaking, and it seems like it was maybe put out a bit to soon without refining the rough edges.

I'm not sure it's the running time that was the problem, rather than the poorly knocked together plot, which is full of holes. Perhaps some extra length in the film would have allowed some scenarios that whittled the crew from 17 to 2 without having to rely on some VERY contrived scenarios. E.g. (Milburn and Fifield ignore Fifields readouts from the pups and get lost... they don't radio in, and nobody checks where they are before returning to the ship (where, incidentally a 3D map on the bridge shows bright yellow indicators for everyone's locator beacon.) and the ones marked "M" and "F" are clearly visible. Also despite being terrified of DEAD aliens, and wanting nothing to do with a probe picking up possible life, Milburn gets all touchy feely with a live creature that looks and acts like a Cobra... and gets Fifield zombified in the process. Nobody else notices this because the captain abandons the bridge just beforehand, for a contrived 'easy lay with smokin' hot rich woman'. There's loads more contrived plot holes... which could and should have been avoided by better writing. They were insulting to the audience. This is clearly more of a mystery -action crossover than horror /action, so we're expected to think, but we'd have to be lobotomised to not notice that the script writer just rammed through 15 implausible deaths, and several very lucky escapes for Shaw in order to have his 2 contrasting characters alive at the end of it all, while throwing in far too many hamfisted bits of dialogue where the 'big question' is spoon fed to us, along with some of the set ups for the contrived lucky breaks. I think it could have been a much better film if time and effort was put into the script. The visuals were great, the acting was great (although the dour Dr. Forde was as interesting as a wet tea towel. ) I'm not crazy about the mythological theme, and the exogenesis, but if done well, it could have been very enjoyable. This however was a poorly written film, which detracted a lot from my enjoyment. Still fine for popcorn and entertainment sci-fi.

Too many scenes were rush jobs... holloways death, Fifield rampage..both could have been worked better into the film..the former with more pathos ( it could have been the tearjerker moment - the one death that mattered to shaw), the latter could have been a classic second narrative, the ever mutating madman on the Prometheus A bunch of scenes and characters should have been left on the cutting room floor. Weyland....pointless. vickers / Weyland scene ("father!")....even more pointless. The copilots taking all of 2 secs to agree to suicide...and joking all the way....cringe, just don't cast them, the squid in the medlab that no one seems bothered about, the two scientists that get slapped by shaw who don't bother chasing her. these are glaring editorial and narrative flaws in my opinion. the blu ray will have a bunch of new stuff, RS has already confirmed it...so either we get to see stuff that is really pointless, or in fact we see more exposition that explains why those scenes or characters were necessary to a longer narrative. This film should have been tight as a drum...they had 2 hours...something went wrong

As I said, I don't think there's an explanation for some of the scenes other than the writer not being able to think of a better way to get from 17 crew members down to 2.

@buddho I completely agree. @JP Correct.

HH and JP, you two summed it up perfectly.