The adventure of Shaw the Wonderwoman and David's head

Noob: well, some peeps enjoyed it, some didn't. That is the way it goes for subjective aesthetics impression. Even at the time of 2001 Kubrik was bashed for it's movie; so let's just give Prometheus it's time and see what happens.

The comparisons to 2001 kind of runs out of relevance after a while. It's got a hint of 2001-esque theory in it, but it's more closely related to films like Sunshine, Event Horizon, or even Pandorum (on the surface at least, with the intense horror/thriller aspects). And as others have pointed out, it's really kind of an ANTI-2001. Instead of finding that eternity, bliss, everlasting life, higher consciousness (whatever you want to call it), we brought about violence and destruction. Kind of Kali as opposed to Jesus. It's a bit more cynical. And I really don't understand why people don't think Prometheus was a horror film. It just wasn't STRICTLY a horror film. It had elements of fantasy/science fiction/thriller/action/drama etc. And that makes it much more interesting in MY book anyway. I think Ridley prepared people well so that they wouldn't think of it as a direct prequel to Alien. Obviously it IS a prequel to Alien, but he tried to steer people away from that thinking because it has a thicker mythology and requires a much different thought process to interpret (hence the relation to 2001). And I have little doubt that the death of Ridley's brother will affect how the sequels play out. Prometheus WAS no doubt born out of Ridley pondering mortality, and the death of his brother is a HUGE blow and will likely help shape the sequel(s). Should be good.

Shaw or someone else will obviously fix David. This thread is rather pointless.