What movie scenes made you say "Bullshit!"

[kentauros]

241. Here's why I felt you didn't read my posts,

or not ALL of them:

Reply #170, reply to 4th law of robotics (the full post, not just the first sentence.)

I'm generally more forgiving of stories that are labeled Science Fiction, so long as they at least try to be somewhat scientific. Prometheus had scientists, with little to no substance to the science professions they supposedly represented. They all acted rather stupidly in their roles.

See the rest of the post? It points out, rather specifically, that the "scientists" in Prometheus didn't act at all like what we would expect of scientists on an expedition, other than the opening archaeologists' dig.

I guess I have to be exceptionally "picky" for your satisfaction, so here goes, from emory of a single viewing only:

When we first see the geologist, he acts like (and looks like!) your average miner/worker/grunt, such as with the crew in the Nostromo (characters played by Yaphet Kotto, Harry Dean Stanton.) We don't find out that he's even a "real" scientist until later in the film when they're on the planet. "I'm only here for the money" or something equally weak in characterization and writing quality.

The biologist is frightened by the finding of a severed "Engineer" head, yet antagonizes an alien snake until it fatally attacks him. Why wasn't he taking samples of pretty much everything he saw, including that green goo Dave found? (And why was Dave free to just start things running without him telling anyone what he was doing in the first place, much less inform the biologist that he found something seemingly organic?)

The husband archaeologist takes his helmet off without seeing if there are no pathogens in the air. Evidence of "enough" oxygen for human life isn't enough. And before you compare this to the original Alien, they were a mining crew, not a science crew. The latter was supposed to understand basic principles of science and protocol. Sure, you had the wife archaeologist shouting at her husband not to do that, but the thought going through my head when he did such an utterly stupid thing was Fred Kwan in Galaxy Quest when he opened the hatch on the landing shuttle. If they'd done Prometheus as a parody it might have been a better movie.

And really, I am familiar with many of the excellent science fiction shows and movies that you list, and love many of them. If Scott and the studio had gotten any of the writers from any of those shows (the ones known for writing episodes that won Hugos and Nebulas, that is; no space-hippies writers, m'kay?) then Prometheus would have been a great movie. Instead, it was written by a writer known for a crappy series called "Lost" and we got a crappy movie as a result.

Is that specific enough for Your Pickiness?