Still Confused about the Hate?

It doesn't seem "light" when you insist that people agree with you and behave like you. Glad you liked it. Producers love undemanding viewers that like anything whether it is ridiculous or not. I however, think illogical people like you motivate the people who make movies to aim low ... so you should consider being a bit more critical, heavy up a bit.

I really enjoyed it too. The story has more horror elements than hard science but they tried. People seem to think that Prometheus is a religious allegory. It wasn't. It's actually more of a science fiction movie containing theories of evolution than religion.

yep. never got it in the first place. absolutely loved this film. the "giftbearer" fanedit is even better.

i can only guess that people were expecting a more classic "alien" film and that pissed them off.

As a film on its own, without connecting at all to the Alien franchise, this film is somewhat fine. Some of the writing for the characters is stupid, but overall the film can work on its own. There are a LOT of unanswered questions, but the film was banking on a sequel, so I guess that should have been expected, if it was promoted as its own individual movie. It wasn't though; most people who went into this movie were expecting a direct prequel to Alien. For Alien fans, they knew that this script was originally designed to lead up to the events of the first Alien, and the film was promoted as such, guaranteeing answers to questions they've had since the first Alien and Jame Cameron's Aliens:

Where did the derelict ship come from? What caused it to crash?
What and who are the space jockeys?
How did the space jockey die?
Why was the derelict carrying the eggs? What were the eggs used for?
How was the life-cycle for the Xenomorph created?
Was the Queen from Aliens born from the same cycle as regular Aliens or was it created through other means?
Did the Queen chest-burst out of the Space Jockey?

The initial shooting script, Alien: Engineers, did answer most of these questions, but Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof came in and rewrote it, to make the film act like its own, saying they didn't want to nod heavily on the first Alien film. Yet, in the final version released to theaters, they did. The film is trying to act like its own original property, yet has nods to the original Alien in there, and confusing audiences as to whether or not if its supposed to be answering the questions from the original or not. That's where the hate mostly comes from, from what I think personally.

A lot of people are fans of Aliens... they like a more action, family oriented movie with nice characters who they can "relate" to... these are the fans who were so upset when Alien 3 [spoiler]killed off newt and hicks in the begining of the movie [/spoiler]...

These fans dont really like sci-fi or horror movies... they just want another alien movie with their favourite buglike alien and happy family hero characters... they're not interested in nuance, in ideas, or in the terryfing indifference of the universe to man... they ultimatly dont want to be upset or challenged and prefer that a movie makes everything ok..

Its an infantile way of looking at movies... but its very common

The hate comes from the squandered potential with every scene and character. This film is a hasty bare bones draft version of what it could have been. It's a very frustrating watch.

Fantastic movie!

Yea I've learned to eventually accept the film. Can't do anything about it now.

For the love of god the Space jockeys arn't supposed to be humanoid they were "grown out of the fu*king chair".

Perhaps I'm not fully over it.