Sunday, 3 June 2012  Prometheus (dir. Ridley Scott, 2012)  I
finally finished the marking. Yay!  I also just about managed to
squeeze in a trip to see Prometheus (hoping to catch Snow White
and the Huntsman later this week). I'm not as well up on the
Alien franchise as I should be, but I did see the extended Alien
at the cinema when it was re-released a few years ago and I'm a
big fan of Ridley Scott, so I was excited. Major spoilers
follow.  Prometheus is the name of the spaceship because it's
basically a rule that spaceship names be ironically related to
the plot in some way. During the Exposition Scene, the best
known bit of the myth of Prometheus gets a direct shout-out from
Weyland (the gorgeous Guy Pearce in layers of make-up - what a
waste!), who tells everyone that Prometheus stole fire from the
gods and gave it to human beings to put them on a equal footing
with said gods (and for this, he was chained to a rock and had
his liver eaten every day).  It's the rest of Prometheus' story,
though, that's mu