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You found the Problems...(spoilers)

Posted by mpathus on June 9, 2012 at 16:35:24:
... but perhaps the film's conceptual open ended strengths will reveal themselves sometime, as well?
Humor? "...my room in ten minutes." from one wound up Weyland isn't funny? The original "Alien" also had few banter chuckles. Maybe persons from the future have a much wryer sense of humor than we, and Scott lets us in on the joke by keeping his script sanitized of obligatory "cuteness".
You are so right about the flaws, though the optimist in me seeks out the potential in the unsaid and not overtly revealed.
"Prometheus" builds as much on classical mythologies as the ones speculative in nature. As such it is indeed incomplete to a degree.
Remember the book 'Chariots of the Gods'?
Ever ponder the place that the Nephilim (legendary giant/gods) play in human mythology?
Were the "space jockeys" clones (they looked identical)? Who engineered THEM, and why was their mission to erase an experiment gone horribly wrong (humans introduced artificially upon the Earth)?
That is what enchanted me in "Prometheus" (as much as "2001") - seeking the answers/truths to unknowable questions, or ones that have yet to be asked.
That is the very best of "speculative fiction" (sci-fi) from my point of view - and in "Prometheus", all rendered in the most visually splendid immersive atmosphere laden movie experience to date (IMAX 3D).
Well worth $16.50 to become an astronaut for a few hours, AND be able to return safely home - imo.