Anchorhead said:

To clarify: When I said it looked too 2012, I meant in regard to current visual trends in motion pictures, not a reference to the film 2012. Prometheus looks like it was made now, instead of a setup to a film from 1979.

Ooooh that makes way more sense. Okay, cool.

I would like to remind everyone that I'm not some sort of "all film creativity ended in 1985" naysayer.

I did need this reminder.

I've openly welcomed some sequels, prequels, and remakes. Even to films that were iconic in my world. I'm completely ok with films that are new and\or current versions of older films, or are connected to older films.

and am thus interested in some examples, if you feel like it.

ray_afraid said:

I wanna point out that from what I know about the film, people who are interested in this only as a set up to Alien are in it for the wrong reasons and will be disappointed. To make a Star Wars analogy in regards to this as a Alien prequel, this won't be "Ah, so that's how Anikin became Darth Vader" it's more like "Ah, so that's how that dragon skeleton got there". Which is possibly a much more interesting story.

...did that make sense?

I could be wrong. There's a lot of conflicting info out there.

I'm pretty sure you're spot on.