What movie scenes made you say "Bullshit!"

[kentauros]

245. Of course, you're "putting words in my mouth" with regards to

how I perceive scientists. I've known real scientists, too, and sure, they "act" like normal everyday people, and no, none wore white lab coats. However, this is a movie, with people in a situation no scientist we know has ever been thrust into. Sure, they may fantasize themselves into those situations, to see how they would react. But, it's a movie. We, the audience, expect a certain amount of acting. Otherwise, we won't know shit about who these people are, what they do for a living, or even why they are there, other than the "geologist" being there just for the money.

The biologist I knew right away was a scientist. Not because of what he said, but just of his mannerisms. The "asshole" (geologist) acted like a grunt labor ditch-digger. I was expecting him to start knocking back scotch and finding his heavy machinery for excavating. Not someone who's supposed to go and observe, and look at details of rocks and planetary geology and so forth. I only know a little about geology (I've had some college classes in it) and find it especially odd that he didn't want to make a full survey of the planet before they even touched down. That alone could have added more mystery to this "Engineer" race, such as if they had found other structures on the planet than those four domes/cones.

And if they have the technology to detect pathogens, it wouldn't take more than five seconds of screen time to state that. They wouldn't even have to make any technology to show how they knew. But at least pose the problem to the viewing audience!

Remember, they were getting the lay of the land with those floating mapping balls. So, why didn't they wait until they had mapped the entire interior before deciding on which areas held the greatest interest?

Hollywood anti-gravity is rarely mentioned beyond that they have gravity on their floors, if it's mentioned at all (usually not.) Prometheus really didn't need landing engines if they had artificial gravity. Big engines look cool, so that's what we get, versus someone (finally!) explaining why they aren't necessary and could save so much energy and fuel for things like attitude thrusters. Babylon 5 did address this issue. Other than Star Trek, I can't think of any science fiction movie to mention the uselessness of big engines versus just using the gravity tech. That's a pet peeve of mine with all of Hollywood movies and shows, not just this one