Michael Fassbender

As Ridley Scott expands the Alien mythos, he also takes Prometheus into grander sci-fi territory, asking big questions about where humanity came from, and borrowing from other sci-fi classics in the process. So where did Prometheus come from? I broke down its DNA in an attempt to find out.

Before a meteor becomes a meteor, it's part of a comet or asteroid composed of rock and/or ice, sailing majestically through space. Once a hunk of matter breaks off that asteroid, it becomes a meteor, and once it hits the Earth's atmosphere, it starts to disintegrate into smaller bits; in other words, it falls apart. This, unfortunately, is an apt metaphor for Prometheus, which crumbles to pieces at around the halfway mark.

Canadian director David Cronenberg's latest, 'A Dangerous Method,' takes us into a world most of us haven't frequented since college -- sexual psychol...