2. What Happened With... Uh... Everything? - Prometheus
For the most part, I actually enjoyed Ridley Scott's "return to the
Alien franchise" movie
Prometheus, and for a while I was going to leave it off of this list entirely, because hasn't it suffered enough already? It was a fun ride, albeit a ride that you come off of questioning who in God's name wrote the script and why there were so many seemingly obvious errors apparent throughout. But let's face it: it's the one movie to have been released in recent times that really, really needs a sequel of some sort in order to justify its frankly insulting ambiguity.
Please. Because
Prometheus was a hodgepodge of science-fiction ideas, really - a movie that kind of stumbled around looking pretty but appeared to have no real idea of where or what it was doing. That's to say, no motion picture has given rise to as many unanswered questions as this one: it would have been insane to not put it on this list because, c'mon,
what actually happened in this movie? Aside from all the jumbled character motivations and a cast of incredibly dumb geniuses, we're still left with so very many questions by the time the movie is over. I'm on board for a sequel to this one, because I think it might be greatly improved by way of another movie - one that can help this entry make sense. Who were the engineers? Why did they give rise to the human population? What the is going on with android David? These are questions that
Prometheus should have set out to answer but ultimately decided to avoid. It's a movie about questions followed by shrugging, and not in an acceptable philosophical way. We were given a ton of information and plunged into darkness. Somebody turn the light on.