All you peasants must all be teenage summerfriends. No wonder the overall quality of Canvas drops around this time of the year.

@Anonymous: Canvas hasn't even been around long enough to know something like that!

@Anonymous: Yes it has. Same thing happens around other holidays, especially the holidays that Amerifriends get. No surprises there.

@Anonymous: *Prometheus. Sorry.

@Anonymous: Prove it.

@Anonymous: >mfw i just stickered his post to prove you wrong.
Your move, Deep Blue.

@Anonymous: From a technical standpoint, yes. (except for the ridiculous surgery which you just have to forgive)

However, motivations were shifty and too many professional adults were making stupid B-movie level decisions.

That being said, I did enjoy it quite a bit, one of the best movies of the year. I just don't think that someone disliking it would mean that, as an anon earlier ITT so wonderfully put it, "I just have better taste than [they] do."

@Anonymous: Still, it was a sudden swap from sheer terror, to camping out in the scariest place in the building and going towards the freaky alien monsters.

The only explanation I can make is that he was high or delirious from constant terror/exhaustion/shock. (Which can make people make retarded decisions.)

@Anonymous: ...that's a baby.

@Anonymous: Yeah, that's why I (not the guy you're replying to) am going with the 'shell shock' explanation.

@Anonymous: That, too. But it's not like the other person with him didn't think like you or I would in that situation. The other man (can't remember his name) didn't even want to touch it to get it off the other man's arm.
I understand that some characters make decisions that seem stupid to us in pretty much every movie, but that's okay. If those characters didn't make poor decisions, many key points of films would never happen. Also, we as an audience are encouraged to think ahead of the film once we see questionable decisions in the making. It's all intentional, even if it seems stupid to you. It's all part of the experience.

@Anonymous: Perhaps you're right about the sensible adult part of your comment, still, nothing indicates or proves that character was ever even meant to portray a sensible adult. So there's that.

@Anonymous: Yeah, true. I think everyone has a threshold for how much stupidity and irrationality they're willing to personally forgive, and if a character crosses that line for you they lose your sympathies. Everyone's line is in a different place, and the writer/director has to make a balance that will work for as many people as possible.

Also: massive kudos to everyone ITT for actually having intelligent discussion.

@Anonymous: The key elements of that scene (the guys get attacked/infected) could have happened dozens of other ways than him coochie-cooing at it. Him acting like a moron was not at all necessary for plot development at that moment.

@Anonymous: True, that's another thing that shows us it was a deliberate choice. I think the one failing of that scene was not explaining WHY he's acting like a dumbass.

Not that we would know if that were happening IRL, but as an audience it would have made it less frustrating.

@Anonymous: So? Sure, I'll give you that if you want it. Still, there's no "rule" against writing stupid characters into any type of media. Stupid characters are often intentionally put in to make the audience feel smarter (seems to work in your case), and sometimes even to root for their deaths.

@Anonymous: >I think the one failing of that scene was not explaining WHY he's acting like a dumbass.
Character motivation is all over the place in this film, and that's a problem for me.

@Anonymous: EXACTLY! Like that one scene where Shaw is suddenly like "We have to go back." after she spend half an hour ripping out her own umbilical cord and stumbling around the ship screaming for them to leave this place. About half the audience actually went "wait, what?" out loud.

@Anonymous: No, just no. The other guy was a geologist and he managed to get lost in a fucking cave. Also they have cameras and microphones so crew back on ship has to know they are still wondering in the pyramid and yet everyone is suprised those 2 yahoos didn't come back.

It's not about stupid decisions, it's a shitty sloppy writing. The script needed two characters got separeted to kill them. No one gave a flying fuck about logic or reason.

@Anonymous: It's pretty obvious, even from the trailers, that people would be dying left and right. People die in horror movies (I know this isn't entirely horror), that's just something that happens. People also usually root for characters to die in any horror movie. This is no different.

@Anonymous: ...no they don't? Maybe I'm totally misunderstanding why people see horror movies.

@Anonymous: But every character DID have different motivations. You even saw it at the beginning during the conference they had. They weren't all thrilled to be there or there for the same reasons.