10 Movies Ruined By Fan Overhype

The marketing for Ridley Scott's Alien prequel Prometheus did all the right things, establishing an eerie and intoxicating atmosphere, and emphasising the film's gorgeous production design, superb cast, and ominous sci-fi horror mystery.

While no sensible Alien fan was expecting a film on par with the first two movies in the series, hopes were still high that Prometheus would blow every subsequent Alien film out of the water and serve as a gratifying direct lead-in to Scott's original.

Despite what many might insist, Prometheus actually is a good film - deeply flawed, yes, but an entertaining, ambitious, visually stunning big-budget genre romp.

The problem, inevitably, is that fans were so married to the idea of it being an immediate prequel to Alien - something the movie's marketing leaned into, admittedly - that they didn't even know how to process any other possibility.

And so, when Prometheus turned out to be a rather tangential adjunct to Alien - taking place in a similar-but-different location and only maybe suggesting how that movie's events came to pass - fans were left fuming.

Some frustration was certainly understandable, but fans were so dead-set on Prometheus being this one thing that they couldn't simply enjoy it for what it actually was.