The soundtrack is wrong for this movie.

" The Prometheus score ", sounded like two German guy's making albino tiger's disappear under a rainbow circus tent with sidekick dancing bear's under a disco ball .

Keep your Saturday nights out of this, Sundar.

That was funny @zzplural, take care.

ZZplural...LOL

It sounded lonely. Majestic. Urgent. Hopeless. It conveyed the right tone for puny humans in search of God, which is a major plot point.

It sounded like watching a Die Hard marathon on TBS with Star War giff's .

After seeing Prometheus now 7 times, the score is perfect! It hits at the right times and I love how some of the score actually pulled in music from Alien. I could hear similar music but changed just enough to feel new. The sound track helped to bridge the Alien and Prometheus stories and gave me the feeling of both movies being in the same universe and that gave Prometheus that Alien feel. I think RS did a great job on the sound track not losing that feel from 30 years ago. The true test for me was to listen to Alien, not watching (eyes closed) and I did the same with Prometheus. I could feel the tension at times during scenes and then feel the eerie and creepiness during the movie. It takes me back to the 60’s when soundtracks done by John Williams and the music just made the scenes.

@dopelganger- YES the music is a surprising treat, like a layer of frosting. It combined with everything else in the most fantastic ways. Alien was a space horror film that was done when the word "franchise" didn't exist in film. It was about a bunch of misfits trapped with a monster. I doubt anyone foresaw the life it would take on. Prometheus has different aspirations, and it's the bold and heroic that sells, and why not?

I didn't have a problem with the soundtrack, best sci fi movie since Aliens! I did make a request to Sir Ridley Scott but I think it would gather more attention here: I beg you to ask Trent Reznor to do Paradise or whatever the sequel name becomes. First,if it's possibly the most horrific place you can imagine, Trent is perfect! Even if it's not, he didn't win an Oscar for The Social Network for nothing. I also think he'd be honored to help produce the score, so once again, please consider this. Curious what others think?

i agree... trent reznor - when he is not writing pop music- is brilliant. he comes up with wonderful textures and music in general... then he tends to turn it into so/so songs. i really enjoy his instrumental work and i do think he go into composing for film full time if he wanted to.

*he could go into composing for film. bit of a typo there.

Schmerry Goldshmitzvar, I'd have preferred a soundtrack by [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=u1ZGIrNf71Q]APHEX TWIN[/url], but that's just the way my monkeydrummer-cookie crumbles. LOL

The soundtrack like the movie is design/composed by comittee. the movie is a confused tangle of higher themes and summer movie monster-fest. Like any good soundtrack this one matches the movie for which it was made. Those beautiful soaring, epic themes by Harry Gregson-Williams contrasted (badly IMO) with Marc Streitenfelds creepy horror tracks. It would have been better to have one composer for the whole movie but seemingly both composers had thier strenghts and played to them. I loved Marc's work on "American Gangster" but I felt one composer should have handled the soundtrack just as one writer should have handled the movie. Since thet are pursuing the story of the Engineers for the next flick I hope they kick Lindelof and Streitenfeld to the curb and go with Gregson-Williams. "Life" and "Earth" shot to the top ten of my favorite movie tracks and are the reason I purchased the soundtrack. Aside form the soundtrack itseld I felt that the music was miscued at times, mismatched or overly dramatic for particular scenes. The bit where Holloway sees the wormlike creature in his eye and the music comes in a tad late as it to scare the audience in the event the squigly thing failed to do the trick. James Horner found an excellent balance of horror and suspense for Aliens. Hopefully they'll get right for "Paradise"