I realize that expectations were sky high for this film but god damn, it gets way too much hate.
Its safe to say that anyone who was interested in Prometheus, wanted a movie with a decent story, and good characters to continue the Alien universe. Characters that simply reacted to each others plot points would have been great. I've never seen an entire theater say "no, you can't be that dumb?" for 2 hours minus david's intro. Sci Fi movies all have their low cliche parts. Prometheus was full of them, literally back to back, with such stupid writing that I couldn't even unplug my brain enough to enjoy it, after realizing that its just stupid, that there was no script, and its just to sell the art book.
Lets not put Ridley scott in that arena either, the de-brain arena of Michael Bay. A lot of people try to make the excuse that "duurrr I knew it was gunna be dum!" Based on what? Even Alien had characters react to others mishaps, same with Aliens. Same with Alien 3.. hell I'll even throw in the entire-alien franchise had better writing than Prometheus. Not just "Welp, onto the next plot point. We are running out of time!"
Ugh, I need a drink to calm my nerves. The only thing that is more irritating than this movie, is people that pretend it wasn't the criticisms, and not just 1 or 2, but an entire movie full of valid criticisms. Some movies have a couple, this movie had a man try and touch an alien snake like it was a dog (after being terrified of ANYTHING living on an alien planet..), the guy that maps the building gets lost(yet knows their coordinates..?) Breathing alien air, with unknown ALIEN anything in the atmosphere, straight line running, no reaction to alien life being removed fro.. fuck it.. just fuck it.