Can I just venture at this point that Prometheus will almost certainly turn out to be the most over-hyped release this year? Part of this is down to their marketing campaign, which is pretty old-school. (Yes, I could do better) Rather than being all Dark-Knight about it, with elusive websites, the odd photo, and letting us fill in the gaps ourselves, they seem to have employed a PR army to make sure that every fucker who’s speaking anywhere is speaking about Prometheus and how it’s Ridley Scott’s return to sci-fi. This is very 1989. The other reason I’m confident that Prometheus will be disappointing is this, which is my IMHO guide to the films of Ridley Scott: