Reminds me of

God I want to live in a world where Episode 1 could be that awesome

I liked Haywire quite a bit (it's in my favorite genre, "arthouse badass"). Loved the long-take no-bullshit fight scenes, the one with Fassbender is outstanding. Carano had some weak moments, but I think she'll grow into the acting thing (she's no worse than JCVD in his older stuff).

Chronicle is outstanding in my opinion, I think the movie captures modern day high school much better than pretty much any movie I've seen, I love that there's scenes where characters are chatting while all of them are just sitting around on their cell-phones texting/browsing. If I have regrets, it's that I wish that they had gone District 9 style and abandoned the found footage angle for the end movie battle, though I understand that this helped them keep their budget down (12 mil?!!!).

Needs to be a bit more subtle. Better would be some kind of text distortion effect, like italics on steroids

If Brian can hate on JJ Trek, I can hate on Giachinno. 

And he can't be the new John Williams, cause John Powell is already the new John Williams.

Ya, like a simple way to say it is that if Blade Runner had failings, they were because it refused to follow hollywood 3-act conventions and give you everything you expect (which is what makes it cool). Prometheus is much more conventional, and it's failings are the same as any other stupid Summer blockbuster from the last 5 years.

I've seen other people bring this up, and I tend to disagree with the comparison.

For starters, the Blade Runner that people love now is pretty significantly different from the Blade Runner that was released theatrically, and I just don't see a Prometheus director's cut being such a radical departure that it would suddenly make it into a masterpiece (though I hold out hope it will make it at least a solid genre movie).

More importantly, I would say that Blade Runner is a vastly more subtle movie, both in terms of theme, character, and dialogue, which makes it easier to be re-assessed with a different interpretation.
Not being born when it came out, I can't put my self into the frame of mind of an audience that disliked it, because I love the ever-loving shit out of the movie, but I would guess the criticism would be that the movie takes it's time, is kinda vague in places, and the lead character is pretty unlikable (which is the whole point of the movie, but I digress). Prometheus' problems are very different and almost opposite. It's not a subtle movie at all, characters constantly re-state all the supposed themes, and more importantly there is lots of pretty bad dialogue that immediately jumps out at you. These are the kinds of obvious fundamental issues that don't go away with time and re-interpretation, unless the movie is meant to be a satire of bad science fiction movies (which I've actually seen people try to argue).

Frankly the comparison makes me cringe, I mean christ, this movie ends with a fan-service shot of an alien crawling out of a bald dude. Blade Runner ends with the villain rescuing the hero, both physically and psychologically, and lamenting his mortality as he dies.

Lets not go crazy here people.

According to Ridley, Apparently 20-30 minutes was cut out and will make it's way onto the blu-ray release, including a fight scene with Shaw and the engineer at the end (I thought the current confrontation was way too abrupt, so yay). Might at least help fix some of the disjointedness.

Man, he already kinda looked like an old man in the 70s.........40 YEARS AGO! (also known as Max Von Sydow syndrome)

Among the similar title/same release year movies:

Dante's Peak > Volcano
Deep Impact > Armageddon
Antz > Bug's Life

If you'd told me a week ago that Ridley Scott's return to Science Fiction would be inferior to Chronicles of Riddick, I'd have laughed in your face. At least there's hope for next year: We get Blomkamp's Elysium movie, Cuaron's Gravity, and Twohy's Riddick movie.

^^^ Basically everything you guys said.

I will also add......How the FUCK does David magically know how to read and SPEAK the alien language?!! They're assuming ancient human languages are based off the alien language or something, which is a huge stretch to begin with, but there's no way he would know how you're supposed to Vocalize the language.
Actually, I like to think that David said something really offensive to the Bald dude by accident, which is why the guy instantly ripped his head off and started murdering people.

The other thing that really pissed me off...so Shaw is impregnated with an Alien, they're about to put her in stasis. She knocks a couple guys out, runs off and self-operates on herself. No-one follows her or tries to chase her down, no-one is looking for her or seems to show any interest. Then she stumbles back into the room completely bloodied, and everyone's just super casual about it, no questions, no-one following up on what happened with the ALIEN LIFEFORM ONBOARD THE SHIP!!!

That really pisses me off too, because in isolation, it's an excellent horror set-piece, but it's completely in the wrong part of the movie structurally. She should not realize she's pregnant, until close to the end, when the shit has already hit the fan. The proto-human guy is running around killing people, and chasing after her. And on top of everything she realizes she's impregnated and is going to die from within. How much scarier would it be if she has to self-operate while the proto-human guy can come running in at any second. And then, as soon as she crawls out totally bloodied and exhausted, she still has to fight this super-human monster on top of everything. THAT would be an awesome climax, and make so much more sense structurally.

Ya agreed, I get what they were going for: "this movie is like 2001 man, it's about the WONDER of discovery", but it was a bad call, a real bad call. I would like to see someone fan edit this thing and re-score it with alien/alien3 music.