Usdk wrote:
It wasnt awful, and the acting was pretty good.
but yeah, i find that most movie scientists subscribe to the Umbrella Corp methodology of science.
The acting was fine, but I don't find anything about the
characters believable.
The crew in the first Alien is a bunch of miners, and they do pretty much everything right in terms of interaction with unknown environments (beyond the initial curiosity, and even then they were going to make it quick). In Prometheus we've got a handpicked team of scientists and a security detail, and all they do is fuck up royal. There is zero common sense, no proper operational procedure; shit, there isn't even any teamwork. It's like some billionaire was all "hey, I'm gonna make a gamble. I really want these guys to fulfill my life's dream, so I'm gonna make sure they don't even fucking meet before they get to the unexplored planet, so that when they're all inevitably incompatible, it can hinder progress." If you're an away team and you've got a biologist with you, why the
fuck would you ever take off your helmet, even if the atmosphere's safe to breathe? There's such a thing as airborne contagion, and unknown bacteria, and harmful anomalous spores, etc. And while we're talking about biologists, why is it ever a good idea to pet a strange fucking snake-thing? If I'm a researcher who let's say has never seen a snake before, I'm still gonna fucking think twice before I pet the fucking thing. It might be poisonous.
And I think it's really canned that any Ph.D in 2090 would still believe in god. I get that it's part of the story, but it just ruins suspension of disbelief.
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