So I just saw Prometheus... (spoiler free)

[Casual Shinji]

I got the feeling the film had one too many cuts in editing and that's what leads to the leaps of logic, but I felt that, overall, I got what was going on.

It's possible some cut footage would explain things better. There was a similar thing in Aliens. If you remember at the start of the film Ripley finds out her daughter has died while she was in stasis, which is supposed to set up the whole theme of the movie in that she recovers her lost motherhood through an adopted daughter (symbolically rescuing her from the mother alien). In the cut version you don't really get any indication of her grief at the beginning, and her decision to return to the alien planet comes off as completely irrational.

Except it wasn't irrational at all. It was all about her facing her fears and helping out the people that might be going through the exact same situation as she was. No lost daughter plot necessary for that.

But then I loath the director's cuts of both Alien and Aliens.

 

[Blara]

Prometheus was a far better film than Alien, it almost justifies the whole Alien franchise, almost.

Look

Spoiler: MASSIVE SPOILER

This is a film where God gets raped by a tentacle monster.

What I have heard is that is asks a shitload of questions then answers none of them.

And that's what makes it a good film.

I know right!? I felt like the questions MADE the movie! Blade Runner got awful reviews when it first came out but because the questions lingered you thought about it long after the movie was over. There are SO many unanswered questions in this movie that me and my boyfriend stayed up really late after watching it to discuss our theories. I think expectations were for a horror movie when it was really wasn't the main theme so people got disappointed.