Because looking at a rock painting and somehow acquiring astro coordinates is high art.
Mans is crazy.
And he's surrounded himself with people who tell him everything he touches is golden. It's also the same retread ideas that have been around in the EU for decades. But it is professionally done now because they've got a hollywood playwright penning the script, instead of some comic dude. But bad is bad at all levels. At least the comics had some sort of charm to them. Meanwhile I'm watching Prometheus thinking about how crazy it is that the first half of Prometheus is essentially the first half of AvP. I mean even Paul Anderson writer of the RE movies knew that to locate the pyramid he had to use satellite technology and NOT mythical cave paintings.
Reminds me of the whole Bill Burr talking about Elvis wearing a onesie, kicking and ripping it, and letting his balls hang out.
"You like it, you like it when I kick and my royal balls hang out?"
"We love it king, keep going!"
When Scott finally decides to let this franchise go, will finally be the time that the franchise can move forward because it isn't held hostage by an old man's random flavor of the week thought process.
Somebody get Denis V to do an Alien movie before he's twenty more years into his career and goes wild like Scott.