Prometheus: "I have HAD it with these mother****ing alien babies on this mother****ing ship!"

Initially, aside from the ship's name, and the brief mention of the Titan Prometheus at the beginning, the movie  Prometheus didn't seem to have much to do at all with the Greek myth. However, after thinking about it for a while, I started to feel like maybe this movie actually was a retelling of the story of Prometheus.

At the beginning of the movie, we see an alien drinking a strange, gross-looking bubbling liquid, then disintegrating and falling down a waterfall into a river, where its broken DNA triggers the generation of life. At first, this scene confused me, but then I thought of how the alien stole the "fire" (or in this case, the urn of black goopy stuff) and suffered for the creation of humanity.

I found a review here that compares the characters in the movie to various figures from Greek mythology. I'm not sure how it fits in to my theory about the symbolism of the movie, but I did find it quite interesting.

The review compares Noomi Rapace's character to the goddess Athena.