I don't see why this all has to be so terribly personal or vitriolic for either side. It's not like any of us sank piles of money into making the thing.
The fact is many of us have not actually seen it. What I have seen I like, and I've allowed for its flaws and potential disappointments - but the trending of the overall reviews seems to point to a flawed but engaging, exciting and thought-provoking movie. Which is, as I've said before, what I expected all along. I have watched the AICN talkback for many, many years - there are some European viewers in there, plenty legit ones, but there's also a lot of bandwagoning and bird-dogging, like there is for every single film that site covers. It's the geekcore mentality, that's how it's always worked at AICN. For example, if Spider-Man's suit is even slightly different or if The Amazing Spider-Man chooses to follow the Ultimate Comics continuity, then it's obviously a desperate cash grab based on a Chris Nolan ripoff mentality and will flop horribly, everybody pile on - then they all get to act shocked when it ends up a box office smash. Same thing happened with Avatar, for that matter. You'll find enough cross-sections of people there to love or hate anything. At those sites, some people have a congenital, desperate need to be first on the scene, declaring a disaster, posturing to look cool. Not everyone, but some. Good or bad, Prometheus is just another potential target.
Clearly all the professional reviewers responsible for that curve are not just apologists who have assembled a carefully thought-out line of bullshit. Maybe they just...feel that way. It's not all a calculation on a fanbase message board. Sometimes different people just like different movies.
