Now that I'm reading these reactions, I'm thinking I don't have to run out and see it before I leave for DC. Do any of you think I shouldn't wait a week and should catch it now?

Just saw Prometheus. And... that was interesting. Certainly better than The Thing prequel...

Sigh, I hate this summer. Just depressing.

No, you guys were right. Fucking hell.

Did the film critics all get together and agree to punk everyone by pretending this movie is a near masterpiece of sci-fi brilliance, or are 74% of the people getting paid to write film reviews just out of their god damn minds?

Ya, this is the most flagrant case of director bias I've ever seen from the critical community. If anyone else's name was on the director credit, the movie would be 10-20% lower on Rotten Tomatoes.

And jesus, 4 stars ebert, really man?!

I still would say the film isn't bad, like I said, I have no big issues with it until everyone decides to take their helmets off, and it's actually building to something amazing until that point. Ultimately it's just a disappointing middle-of-the-road failure of a movie, with some cool parts. Like if this was a movie you knew nothing about and caught on cable, I think it's totally watchable, I would put it in the same camp as something like Leviathan (actually these two movies are amazingly similar, down to the premise, out-of-place score, and stupid ending). But a good successful movie it is fucking not.

What? The score was terrible. It didn't fit the movie at all.