Prometheus *SPOILERS FROM POST 1538*

Its a really **** movie, dont waste your time. cant understand the good press its getting!!!

Scenes that were included but did nothing but make things more confusing

Engineer/Space Jockey watching departing space ship (of a different design to the one seen later in the film, for its shadow is jam doughnut shaped, not ring doughnut shaped) ritually opens up and chugs a Primordial Soup flavoured Space Pot Noodle of Suicide by Disintegration on top of the waterfall of unspecified location on unidentified planet at non-specific time for reasons that he/she/it may or may not have been fully aware of, and the result of which may or may not be significant to the plot of the film. It doesn't come up later, and nor does any explanation of the jockey's motivation.

Any scenes involving dates and planet names. There is nowhere near enough information displayed to create anything approaching a meaningful understand of when and where things are happening. Some things look plain off the shelf from today, others look more advanced than anything that appeared in later Alien films.

Shaw's dreams in stasis. Nothing I learn here isn't overly cryptic and its all drilled into my head clumsily later via the kinda of awkward dialogue that'd be rewritten before being approved in even a Steven Segal film.

"I'm putting up a Christmas tree. Because for some reason we're going to be mixing a baby Jesus's miraculous birth as a metaphor into this mess too. Because only by bridging the ancient beliefs of ancient civilisations where we found those star drawings and a religion originating yet another different region will... err... umm.... "

"To the crew I personally hired, its nice to see you again. *big smile* To the rest of you, I'm your boss and will needlessly be a cold-hearted bitch for some reason. Why? I don't know and this will never be explained. For some reason the script just needs to have a fractured crew who don't look out for each other as far as morale goes. By the end of this speech I hope you all realise no one should have any idea who is ultimately meant to be in charge of making decisions on the ship, and neither should I, so no one will know who is supposes to discipline anyone if whoever acts irresponsibly, which is by now inevitable."

The scene where Old Dead* Holographic Man in Heavy Make Up recounts the tale of the titan Prometheus stealing fire from the gods. Its incomplete, inaccurate, and a tale from an ancient Greece, a civilisation that has actually nothing to do with the ancient civilisations that are actually connected to the reason for the ships journey. Sure, lets throw that on top of the metaphor shopping basket too, in case the Christmas bit gets lonely.

Dave McJerkdroid presses the holographic recording buttons on his merry way through the ship's structure, without informing the rest of the team what he is doing. And no one asks. Sure that may be just bad manners or a reflection of earlier androids having very bad social skills. But there is no serious complaint and then he opens the Door of +2 Decapitation without warning again. Even though he's being unpredictable and this door came down hard and fast enough to earn its ridiculous nickname they're not bothered by his behaviour.

"I like rocks. You don't need me here to look at rocks." (or something similar, its not all that memorable dialogue) Well, shouldn't that confirm "this *IS* an artificial structure" with appropriate levels of wonder and alarm - like say concerning security measures or traps? Actually they should have stopped being so feckless a long time ago, but this still deserves to be singled out.

The particulars of what's happening to who in the storm scene, starting with "why aren't you keeping a tighter grip of the bag containing the incredibly valuable scientific discovery?" through all the indistinguishable space suits, and the role of a winch on a vehicle that isn't obviously either inside or outside of the loading bay. Who's incompetent and showing bad judge? Who's heroic? Is anything important happening to characterisation in this scene? No idea. Maybe when they have a massive argument once inside it'll all be clear who did what and believes in... oh wait, bicker a little but no one is thrown in the brig or anything. "Endanger the mission" is said, but frankly they've all taken their helmets off like idiots which could have been enough to kill 'em all. Its the pot calling the kettle derp frankly.

*Bonus, after claiming the man is dead, the man isn't dead. Considering it was assumed he was on earth (2 years travel time away) or wherever he normally lives and runs the corporation, why the needless deception?