Prometheus (Mostly) De-Livers: Alien Prequel Dazzles More Than It Disappoints

So I had this nice post pointing in the direction of my Prometheus review all set to go at an embargo-compliant 12:01 a.m. — a real beaut, involving the phrase "plays like a motherfucker" — and Typepad seems not only to have declined to post it but eaten it altogether. But here, in any case, is my Promtheus review, linked without embellishment or apology.

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[Sam Adams]

Octo-Ron: A good question, one I thought I'd solved midway through the movie and forgotten to re-check against the way things actually turned out. It certainly seems like David is pursuing some nefarious agenda on behalf of Old Prune Guy. (He certainly seems to know more than he lets on; I've read people suggesting he's just pushing buttons on the alien machinery at random, which seems preposterous.) That doesn't exactly square with what turns out to be Weyland's immortalist agenda, but perhaps the idea is that given that no one knows what they're dealing with, the idea is to cover as many bases as they can. Either that, or David's just doing to humans what they did to him: creating life because he can, with no thought to the consequences.

[OctopusGrigori]

Quick question. [SPOILERS] Putting aside my other issues with the movie, one issue baffles me: why did David infect Dr. Holloway? I can't make heads or tails of that decision.

Maybe it's better not to try to figure it out, as the movie around that point began dissolving into THE MUMMY-like nonsense and camp. Didn't SUNSHINE devolve this way, too? What's the hang-up with huge, alabaster, zombie giants? Maybe they save money on the CGI by just using the same monster-zombie over and over with slight tweaks.

Anyhow, wondered if you had a view on the infection thing.