Prometheus, I feel, is a victim of its own marketing. How could any film possibly survive under the weight of its own hype? The intensity of that second trailer was immense. If I could have sold a kidney to watch the film right then and there, I probably would have more than considered it. Yet, when the final product was revealed, none of the intensity from that trailer was present (except for the Medpod scene... great stuff). If you can go back to the days before Prometheus was released, where the imagination was allowed to run wild with anticipation, and the marketing campaign in full swing, do you think that Prometheus would now be considered a classic if the film was as intense as that second trailer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA6OKoW30Pk