There are definatly things I love about it right now. The character of David and Fassbenders performance. That one grows on me and will continue to grow. I'm questioning and rumbling over how much he's aware of some of the choices he makes, some of his actions in the film - aware from a morally standpoint. Early, it's suggested that he, as an android, have no burdening morals (instant throwback to Ashs last words, describing the xenomorph and the reasons he admired it), but something in Davids response
seems to suggest otherwise.
I love the intro sequence as well, early Earth, David walking around on the Prometheus in solitude, very 2001ish. I love how the engineer designs are realized, visuals, sound design, the unsettling sensation when inside the temple and juggernaut.
The film definatly has it's own voice - it's not an Alien ripoff and the ending sends the plot in an entirely different direction than towards 'linking up' with Alien.
Hollow spectacle to me is something like Transformers, with absolutely no big ideas, no (human) characters you give a shit about but wanna make you press fast forward whenever they are on screen and then 90% of explosions, CGI and more explosions.
This is not in
any way the embodiment of Prometheus - not to me anyway. The big ideas are there, controversial ideas, a couple of great characters and a director that actually cares. I'd much prefer a film wrestling with this, although flawed and not executed as well as you would like, to a film that has no creative ambitions whatsoever, no matter how succesfully it achieves its endgoal to essentially channel a big amount of nothing.
PS: gotta go now or my boss will kill me