Breja: I'd go with
Spoony's review (no idea why the original upload is gone), but I imagine they all cover pretty much the same ground. It's quite incredible just how bad the script for that thing was. Pretty much tailor made to be torn apart stupid moment by stupid moment.
I'd be willing to forgive the movie's other flaws if it did a better job explaining some key plot points -- like why the Engineer does what he does at the beginning of the film, and just what exactly the "Black Oil" is supposed to actually be. From what I understand the "Director's Cut" does address the first issue, but what about the Black Oil? If it's supposed to be a mutagenic bioweapon, then why is it used to supposedly create life on earth? And for that matter, why on earth would you develop a bioweapon that doesn't actually kill its victims, but at best turns them into zombies, and at worst makes them give birth to hentai tentacle monsters?
And don't get me started on how the Engineers are supposed to be
genetically identical to humans.
But I'd be willing to forgive even those issues if Scott came clean with a clear vision of what he wanted Prometheus to actually be. He originally said it wasn't supposed to be an Alien prequel, even though it looked, sounded and felt like it clearly was. It clearly wasn't intended to be a stand-alone film because of all of the clear tie-ins to the Alien universe. It wasn't a side-story because it involved a plot element that was central to the Alien mythos. So perhaps Scott intended it to be a soft-reboot of the franchise.
