Jun 10, 2012, 01:36 PM
I'm sorry Mike, the movie was just horribly written. Now I know why I hated Lost so much. I never understood everyone's love for Lost, to me it was just lazy sloppy writing. Lindelof or however you spell his name did the same thing for this script. There are just so many examples of laziness I can't even list them all.
So here's just one:
Earlier in the movie these two characters were scared shitless over an ancient alien corpse. That is fine. They are scientist and it is smart to fear the unknown and question potential risks factors.
These same scientists go wandering off and got lost. They circle back around to the same room they were so scared of earlier. The same room they refused to enter when they had four other people with them. This time there's only two of them and they are miraculously not scared. While looking around, they run into a scary vagina cobra-like LIVING ALIEN and they call it baby and want to pet it? WTF? This completely goes against the characters that they were established as. One minute they don't want anything to do with aliens, they are terrified by the reality of aliens, and then the next minute they act like they are at a petting zoo. This is the kind of sloppy writing with zero attention to character that I'd expect from a Uwe Boll horror movie.
Not only does it go against their character, it is one of those cliche "ridiculously stupid character moments" b-grade horror films are known for & ridiculed over. The characters in the original Alien were smart, and they reacted to their situation in a realistic manner. You liked them, and related to them, because they did not insult the audience. In Prometheus the characters are simply morons.
So here's just one:
Earlier in the movie these two characters were scared shitless over an ancient alien corpse. That is fine. They are scientist and it is smart to fear the unknown and question potential risks factors.
These same scientists go wandering off and got lost. They circle back around to the same room they were so scared of earlier. The same room they refused to enter when they had four other people with them. This time there's only two of them and they are miraculously not scared. While looking around, they run into a scary vagina cobra-like LIVING ALIEN and they call it baby and want to pet it? WTF? This completely goes against the characters that they were established as. One minute they don't want anything to do with aliens, they are terrified by the reality of aliens, and then the next minute they act like they are at a petting zoo. This is the kind of sloppy writing with zero attention to character that I'd expect from a Uwe Boll horror movie.
Not only does it go against their character, it is one of those cliche "ridiculously stupid character moments" b-grade horror films are known for & ridiculed over. The characters in the original Alien were smart, and they reacted to their situation in a realistic manner. You liked them, and related to them, because they did not insult the audience. In Prometheus the characters are simply morons.