What's with the MC user disdain for Prometheus?

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I first went to Thailand in 1984, I was 17.
Eventually, I lived there for a while.
Anyone who knew me said that I’d end up marrying a Thai lady.
I often joke that the only reason I married my wife was because she looks Thai - even Thai people think she’s Thai (she’s Indonesian).
I have a million stories to tell about my adventures in SE Asia. Unfortunately, mostly not suitable for GD, but definitely to be shared over a beer 🍻

I haven’t seen this yawner brought up in ages either…it was just ‘ok’ really, there are way better sci-fi movies

Outland (81) hardly gets a mention but c’mon, a shotgun-toting Sean Connery busting up a drug dealing ring on a moon of Jupiter deserves a watch!

here's the review i wrote back in 2012. i'd like to think i've grown up a bit since then and wouldn't write something quite so overblown now...

I made the mistake of going to see Prometheus instead of Moonrise Kingdom this week. I felt a little obligated to go because seeing Alien when I was 11 or so was one of my formative movie experiences. I walked out of Prometheus disappointed and a little irritated, and the more I’ve thought about it the more I’ve come to hate it.

I had my biases coming into the film. I knew I hated the premise of ancient astronauts as creators of mankind. I don’t think that’s hard science fiction. I think that’s an infantile fantasy. Wouldn’t it have been so much more interesting to visit a world where Xenomorphs evolved and find out how they exist in their natural habitat, and what kind of ecosystem could co-exist with such a life-form? Personally I think there’s far more interesting a story in aliens as an evolved species than the presentation of the aliens as an unintended (or intended? Do they explain that?) consequence of biological weapon production. But that’s the movie Ridley Scott wanted to make, and I could have put my own preferences aside if the movie was a little compelling. Prometheus is all cookie-cutter plot points and some of the most wooden expository dialogue I’ve heard in a movie.

And I realize science is going to be presented softly in most movies, but why present the scientists as such clichéd characters who display no rational precision or apparent interest in being on an alien planet with actual alien life forms on it, acting without protocol or any kind of informed intelligence? Why finance a trillion dollar mission and staff it with a biologist and geologist who, when presented with an alien world and alien corpses, decide they want to run away like frightened little girls? Why would the lead scientist, upon finding out that he’s apparently infected with an alien organism, be too afraid to tell anyone, in particular the co-lead scientist he apparently loves and may have just infected? And, if the engineers planted the seed of life on Earth (when? 4 billion years ago? 500 million years ago? Who can tell?), why is their DNA apparently identical to ours? They used their DNA to plant their seed on an apparently lifeless world, yet we’ve evolved to be identical to them? No recombination, no genetic drift, no mutation and millions of years of natural selection?

In conclusion: screw you, Prometheus, you stupid, grey, dreary, elephant’s left testicle of a movie. 1/5 for the nice visuals and Michael Fassbender.

i think you and i have similar feasibility filters for SciFi. which is why i detest most SciFi, because it has so little Sci and so much Fi.

for example, I would put any star-cruising capability far into the future, do some nice creative re-fashioning of the drift to the language of that day (with sub-titles of current english to make things easier), and have any aliens be a completely separate tree of life. Our tree of life is sui generis, down to the bacteria. Why should it be otherwise elsewhere ? Why this constant resort to a deus ex machina, when none is at all likely, none is in the slightest evidence, none is necessary to tell a story.

Further, I would highlight how rare animal life is in the context of my narrative. And show the extra-terrestrial life as utterly incompatible with our own, due to their utterly alien biochemistry/food-chain.

It is in short all the little things which demonstrate that no even undergraduate biologist had some bare input into the story that weakens most of these attempts.

On IMDB it has 600K votes and 70% rating and $430 million worldwide gross ($103 USA), so it was not a dud. You didn't like it, I'll take that into account, as a guy with 83000 posts must know a thing or two.

What is the name of the sequel? Strange that I can't find it on the original Prometheus' page, unless it's so bad they don't want to mention it? (or maybe concept hijacked by an inferior production company?)