5) The Prometheus World Was Hugely Promising
While Prometheus divided critics, even most of those who disliked the film admitted to being impressed by certain aspects of it. And one thing most critics agreed upon was that the world that Scott, the writers, and the design team had built was something to behold.
Visually, it was impressive: sleek, clinical human technology from Earth, and dark, Giger-inspired, psychologically-troubling catacombs and structures for the alien world. But while Prometheus was aesthetically ambitious, it had even bigger ambitions in the ideas department.
Telling a tale of gods and men, the pursuit of immortality, and a robotics revolution, Prometheus was one of the more intelligent sci-fi movies of recent years. The problem was that its beautiful, brainy world was hampered by a shaky script.
With Scott back on form and working in the genre he knows best, there’s every chance he could return to that world and do it better this time. Even if he doesn’t, though, Prometheus proved there’s plenty of food for thought and scope for intrigue in that world – it’s a great place to visit, even when the film itself is imperfect.
