Opinions on the Jesus Christ thing, anyone?

the Cesarean Scene

an Alien prequel ... just didn't work for me

Is it  just me or the movie ran out of ideas in how to kill of people. Charlize Theron's death was really stupid.

On the core I believe the Humans were created as guinea pigs to test the creators biological experients on Earth since it seems that Humans' DNA are the same as the creators  so I am also expecting the flora and fauna have such similarities. And sicne the Humans were like 3 times smaller and 10 times weaker than the creators there's no way they were being used anything but that.

How the hell is our DNA a 100% match for theirs? THEY ARE 8 FEET TALL AND MADE OF RUBBER. Their genome would have more in common with the michelin man

Vickers pulls aside the two scientists and flat out says she has a different agenda than they do around 20 minutes into the movie. The film cuts away when an intelligent person (read: Elizabeth and her hunk) would have spoke up and asked her, okay, so what are we REALLY doing here? But they don't, it cuts away, leaves everyone hanging and that's that, onto the next scene with everyone still in idiot mode. This isn't good storytelling, this is *cheap* storytelling. As an example, when the alterior motive subplot was developed in precursor films like Alien, it was kept in the background, motivations weren't revealed until later in the movie. Prometheus ruined its suspense right away by giving it up that Vickers and David aren't team players. Ash's betrayal in Alien was compelling because you didn't really know what he was up to the whole time.

The film makes matters worse by having the crew act like idiots all over the place (we should be extra strict and careful about quarantine except for when we're out on the planet's surface inside an alien structure walking around without helmets, or the disposable characters getting killed by doing a complete character 180 from being scared shitless at the whole situation then attempting to become best buddies with a horrific alien snake thing). The film also spreads its characterisation budget across too many people, and the result is a ton of people you hardly care about, totally undeveloped. It would have been vastly more compelling if they had cut the cast in half, and merged a ton of characters together. The worst thing about this is that not only do not care about the secondary characters, but it bogs down the primary characters, leading you to care less about them because too much screen time is spent on narratively useless people. 

Then there's the problem of exposition. This is a movie all about mystery, and they killed it by trying to give the audience answers by just saying it out loud. I'm talking about the Captain making his claim that they were developing bioweapons and that they're at a military installation. This explanation is A) incredibly boring, and B) based on no actual evidence the characters have scrounged up. It's speculation on his, but the rest of the film treats this explanation as truth. Yes, this is what's happening (and to people familiar with the Alien mythos and the space jockey lore, it's also the explanation Scott had intended), but a better movie would have left it truly unanswered. Characters tell their motivations and explanations to the audience, or they're left unsaid completely, without anything for the viewer to at least grasp on.

Movies.com: We had heard it was scripted that the Engineers were targeting our planet for destruction because we had crucified one of their representatives, and that Jesus Christ might have been an alien. Was that ever considered?

Ridley Scott: We definitely did, and then we thought it was a little too on the nose. But if you look at it as an �??our children are misbehaving down there�?� scenario, there are moments where it looks like we�??ve gone out of control, running around with armor and skirts, which of course would be the Roman Empire. And they were given a long run. A thousand years before their disintegration actually started to happen. And you can say, "Let's send down one more of our emissaries to see if he can stop it." Guess what? They crucified him.[/b]