Watching it for the first time just I watched Prometheus a week ago and kinda liked it.
And so far I'm liking it but, damn, sending your whole crew down to an UNKNOWN PLANET with not protective equipment? Like wtf, just cuz the atmosphere is breathable doesn't mean there won't be, I dunno, SOME WEIRD ALIEN DISEASE??? As well as several other potentially deadly things, like idk psychic plants or aliens that say hello by ripping your genitals off.
Do characters in SciFi stories ever read SciFi? Come on this is like 101 shit bro.
Alien and Aliens very much averted this. the characters behaved in a believable manner given their background and the knowledge available to them.
All the characters in Alien are so likeable too. It feels rare that there's ever a story now where a character isn't annoying to their colleages or unlikeable beyond repair.
I wonder if it's American moralism that they feel like they have to have the characters who get killed be unlikable so moralist normies are OK with them all dying. The 2000s especially felt like every movie was just a group of either awful people or at least aesthetically displeasing people. Elevated horror side-steps but doesn't really address this by taking an ambiguous stance on whether you're supposed to sympathize with or just gawk at the alien main characters who talk sparsely and slowly about their trauma over the course of the film while everyone else around them dies.
Right