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In reply to the discussion: What movie scenes made you say "Bullshit!" [View all]kentauros
(29,414 posts)gave landing coordinates, too
Yeah, it seems odd that while they make sure we can see the technology they have for mapping underground caverns, the idea of something as mundane as mapping satellites is lost on them (both the writers, and subsequently, the crew.)
The writing is what ruined a potentially good movie. I don't remember their names, but one of them was a writer on the series Lost. That says a great deal there. Especially in the lack of characterizations and info about each crew member. For instance, I had zero idea the skinhead was a geologist! WTF? Why couldn't I have been told he was a supposed scientist instead of exactly what he looked and acted like? A grunt worker, like the rest of the crew in the Nostromo.
Here's what was missing from Prometheus and would have made the movie great: Dan O'Bannon. It's just too bad for all of us that he died a couple of years ago...