Since its release, which was justifiable at the time, Prometheus has been one of the go-to films cited as a bad example of XYZ during movie discussion. Hell yesterday I even had a quip with a redditor whose very name was an attempt at trolling the Prometheus name lol.
I get it, the film made a bunch of promises that it couldn't live up to, it was the return of the titular Alien director himself and the aborted second coming of buff space-Jesus we'd personally been gestating for the past 2000 years. But between the aforementioned quip and watching the RedLetterMedia Endgame review where for a brief moment the Prometheus engineer monolith poster was flashed, in 2019, still relevant to discussion today, I've realized the film was a success in what it set out to do if it's still being talked about. It's consistently been used as a standard for films that raise and confront heady themes despite what your average edgy redditor will have you believe.
I just wanted to get that off my chest because I've lowkey loved the movie since I saw it on release, no shame. Many faults aside, if the film is still in the back of people's mind when discussing pop culture titans like Endgame, I cannot fathom why it's still referred to with such embarrassed recognition.
EDIT: Since I seem to be drawing a lot of discussion back to the polarizing love-hate relationship people have with the film, I'm not arguing for one side or the other, I agree the film HAS its flaws which are worthy of critique, but it's been many years now since the movie came out and I think it's far more productive to accept the response to the film as a range of grey versus black/white mentality.