Prometheus is a great popcorn flick, but intellectual? Hell no. Everything is extremely simplified. Even Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy had a more intellectual plot than Prometheus. It does nothing with all the big questions it raises (and they aren't very big to begin with) and it refuses to answer them. Shaw holding up a DNA card and matching it with the Engineers is considered intellectual? I dare you to watch a real intellectual movie, like Stalker, Solyaris, Cosmopolis and A Dangerous Method. Your head will explode like the dead engineer's.