Prometheus (2012)

I recently went to see the movie Prometheus. Yes I know I'm  a little late, but better late than never. I would say however in this case it was better never.

All movies have their appeal to different groups of people. I don't know what the appeal in this movie was for every man, including my husband, who said the movie was great. Every woman I talked to thought the movie was crap.

Now statistically speaking my sample population was very small so I'm not going to just go on these few opinions however the movie as a technical work of art was great!

Unlike other science fiction movies where everything in it appears to be unreal except the actors, Prometheus attempted to make the scenario feel real - like this could actually happen in our own time. Pretty far fetched given that space exploration programs are cutting back right?

Anyway Prometheus seemed so "out there" that it had to be imaginary and yet it played on some of the common questions that people ask themselves today. Folks you won't find the answer in space. What's disturbing about this movie is that it eludes to the fact that creatures created humans and not God. We as humans are so obsessed with meeting our maker that we will put on the screen all our ideas about who our maker is. There are some who will believe the screen and other who will just chalk this movie up to plain old fiction - some would say even really BAD fiction.

Never the less, a lot of money went into moving this film and although I can not say it was a great movie based on its content, it was one of the better made sci-fi flicks I've seen in a while. It "appeared" real on the screen, which made it convincing except for the fact that we're NOT made from some distant alien species. The special effects, camera angles, the sets were really convincing. At some moments I thought I was watching Star Wars, but then the stupid story line will wake me up and I'd realize I was watching Prometheus.