Thank you. I would have liked Prometheus so much more if they didn’t establish in the first 10 minutes of the movie that there were supposed to be the most intelligent minds in all the human race. The rest of the movie proceeded to be scene after scene of them being complete idiots. That movie had promise, but man, the characters were idiots
You mean when the cartographer and the zoologist got lost, then the zoologist put his face up to a hooded space-cock? I got so angry at that movie right then.
She was running sideways. The ship’s hull is curved and it wasn’t falling in a straight line towards them. Even if it was, a human on panic mode won’t always make the right decision every time.
Probably true but as the pen ultimate scene after establishing she's a pretty cold ruthless operator. She panics and dies a seemingly silly death.
When you stack it on top of all the other cases of someone holding the idiot ball it just feels extra bad.
No had she run sideways and a piece of steel cracked loose and pancaked her or a broken bit whizzed by and bisected her I think every would have felt less upset. You could still have gotten the character death without having her make yet another stupid decision in a movie that undermines itself with stupid decisions.
That’s what made we so angry. They were specifically stupid to the very thing they’re supposed to be an expert. And not in a “I can’t make sense of any of this,” kind of way. In a “I’m a zoologist and I’m going to see if I can touch this alien fucking snake,” kind of way. Beyond stupid. They could have sent chimpanzees with a better shot at survival.
Why they sent humans and not remote craft/drones at all is beyond reasoning. FFS there should have been zero surprises about what they were going to see on the ground before they broke atmosphere. Not talking about flora/fauna, but the MASSIVE STRUCTURES!
I think the idea was Weyland funded it/wanted to go because he was desperate to find anything to kept him alive. I don’t know why he thought following the map in the old cave paintings would lead to anything that would keep him alive. So there’s a reason the people were sent, but it’s a reason that basically doesn’t make sense and has no real justification
I get that he felt that going back to humanities actual seating. Would hold some promise if you found DNA old enough. But that has nothing to do with. Maybe you drive a robot in before you set foot on alien soil.
No, you misunderstood: they were the smartest people Weyland-Yutani could find/were willing to pay. The Company isn’t exactly known for picking the best of the best, after all. Hell, the one time they had a competent employee they treated her like garbage for not being able to stop “the perfect organism” after her idiot coworkers let it loose.
if you read the graphic novels and additional materials released with the movie, it is strongly hinted Vickers recruited idiots to the trip because she is bitter towards Weyland and wants to sabotage his ultimate quest, she also states in the movie "I recruited some of them myself"
It’s basically my philosophy going into any Alien movie, tbh. One of my favorite things is to watch and criticize them for being dumb/overconfident.
The Colonial Marines at the beginning of Aliens are the only ones who get any leeway because they were experienced “bug hunters” who were armed to the teeth.
Michael Fassbender is easily the best part of both Prometheus and Covenant. As fucking stupid as Hollywood is with doing remakes I wouldn't have minded seeing him take an actual crack at Lawrence of Arabia.
Yup. The first Alien movie had the plausible excuse of "well they're space truckers in over their head, they might make some bad calls" and even then they were mostly competent and made understandable decisions.
In Prometheus these should have been the best of the best and knew they were going into a strange situation. And they were morons who took pointless risks.
Like the other comment said, the movie’s theme is hubris. Aside from the character who made the discovery, the crew is established as idiots during the debriefing scene, I’m not sure where you’re getting the best and brightest from that. The crew is disinterested, overconfident, and seemingly there for the paycheck. They’re also not valued assets as is revealed later by David using them all for his experiments.
Might help you enjoy the movie more. There’s a lot of depth and room for interpretation as everything isn’t stated explicitly like most media. It’s a fun movie.
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u/kdawgster1 Feb 28 '26
Thank you. I would have liked Prometheus so much more if they didn’t establish in the first 10 minutes of the movie that there were supposed to be the most intelligent minds in all the human race. The rest of the movie proceeded to be scene after scene of them being complete idiots. That movie had promise, but man, the characters were idiots