Gladiator rocked!
Yep. Though most of RS's films since then seem to have gone a bit downhill. I had high hopes for Prometheus that it was an opportunity for a bit of intelligent Sci Fi (and I realise that compared to literature of the same genra, films are generally on a much lower plane). Instead, I watched this totally different movie that everybody else seemed to be raging on about.
I actually watched it twice, because after the first run, I was utterly convinced I'd missed something vital to the plot that made this incoherent string of events make any kind of sense. So I watched it again, more closely. And it turned out , I hadn't.
The basic idea behind the plot, go off in search of answers to our existence seemed reasonable enough, but it was executed
so badly. It was as if the storyboarding was given to a group of five year olds armed with crayons and script writing given to the tea lady. There were so many inconsistencies in the behaviour of the characters. The only one with any depth was David. The lack of common sense among a crew supposedly formed of experts in their respective fields just grated from scene to scene, where invariably the did something epically stupid every single time.
I can't help thinking that at the end of the initial cut, they must have realised what a complete shambles it was and decided to quickly add the genesis of the first xenomoprh just to try and end on a note that is less full of suck. Depsite the fact it had already been depicted in the murals within the chamber where the big head and urns of black goop were.
I can actually picture Ridley wearing a trollface mask, demanding "U MAD BRO?" of anybody that watched it with one braincell awake and paying attention.
