Watched "Prometheus" again. It's still bad.
Actually, what's so frustrating about this movie is how much of it is good -- art design, photography, even acting.
But the writing just undermines it all. The premise is awkward. The script has major structural issues, but the worst offense is deeply-contradictory characterization and bad dialog that derives from that.
It's just such a disappointment, because you know it *could* have been a really good movie with a better screenwriter.
In the first movie, "Alien", the characters are all basically blue-collar freight haulers. They have no reason to be knowledgeable about first-contact problems, and so when they make mistakes, it's completely understandable.
And when they actually show insight and rationality, it stands out as heroic.
But in "Prometheus", these are supposed to be hand-picked experts.
And they're just BAD at their jobs.
@TerryHancock Yeah. I really hate plots that require supposedly smart characters to do the stupidest thing possible at every turn.
