Prometheus Links + Commentary

I watched Prometheus over the weekend, and came home with mixed feelings.

The good: Beautiful, gorgeous visuals, good actors, some frightening scenes, works as a thriller.
The bad: Writing is clunky, plot doesn't make sense.
The stupid: Everyone is stupid. Literally. As someone in the hello, tailor blog comments: "Nobody talks to each other except to info-dump, and worse, nobody follows their job descriptions (geologists can't follow their own maps, security leaves their weapons at home, scientists don't perform tests, captains can't keep track of their crew, doctors don't care that a woman is running around in bloody underwear with her intestines hanging out, etc.). If the characters don't care about things, why should we?"

To me, there's a lot of fun in dissecting media, but this has been done much better elsewhere, so I'll just point to them here. Warning: I spoil everything, and I don't hide it. If you want to read someone who hides spoilers, you'll have to go somewhere else.

• The Fashion Harbinger critiques Prometheus on plot and costuming. 
• Interview with Sir Ridley Scott on the Prometheus and Alien universe. Movies.com: You throw religion and spirituality into the equation for Prometheus, though, and it almost acts as a hand grenade. 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? RS: 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, “Lets’ send down one more of our emissaries to see if he can stop it. Guess what? They crucified him. 
• Penny Arcade's comic. 
• Prometheus Pre-prequel. (YouTube)
• Prometheus Unbound: What The Movie Was Actually About. Long, long, long analysis of the various symbolic imagery in Prometheus. What you have to understand: it makes no statement on whether the film itself is good or bad - it's mainly just analyzing the symbolic imagery and how often it comes up. That's it.