Prometheus (2012)

Prometheus

Medium: Film
Director: Ridley Scott
Country: United States
Released: June 8, 2012
First Consumed: June 8, 2012
Format: Theater
Rating: 6.5/10

Well, the prequel to Alien is exciting, beautiful, stupid, and unusually thought-provoking.

Normally I say thought-provoking as a good thing. Here, not so much. 

I don't want to devote too much time to a movie I found decent with 1 really great performance that was betrayed a couple of plot contrivances, and a third act that threw away much of the more cerebral aspects of the first two, but screenwriters Damon Lindelof and Jon Spaihts really annoyed me with a couple things. I love a good ambiguous ending, or mysterious plot-dangle, but the plot holes or questions in Prometheus that many of my friends keep asking and conversing about don't feel mysterious or intriguing. They feel like they were introduced to look cool without a second thought given to what the answers would be. The black goo in the cave does look cool, but it also reeks of lazy writing. As lazy as that storm that separates 2 crew members? No. But lazy nonetheless. 

Again, Prometheus was a fine piece of entertainment. But it should be taken only as seriously as you would take any other summer blockbuster. 

But hot damn, it looked good.