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33 years ago, Ridley Scott made a fine science fiction horror movie, and for whatever reason, decided recently to go back there and sort of answer some questions left open back then. Prometheus is a good-looking and riveting movie, but it left me in the end laughing out loud. The first question that come to mind at the end is: does Mr. Scott have some kind of problem with sex? This is, of course, an open question from the first movie and its sequels, but in this entry, the monsters’ relationship to a grotesque view of sex is much more obvious. Various other questions may be addressed in this “training video”, such as, why touch the goo? When you see an alien, how close should you get? And should you order the calamari?

The movie was engaging, lots of thrills and suspense, but it didn’t add much value to the franchise or to the history of cinema. Maybe I should have gone 3D?

Unfortunately for me, with the new Batman movie due to open before long, I owe the GF at least one serious realistic movie and probably a date movie on top.