But my main gripe is the huge lack of character development or meaningful interaction, meaning that you weren’t really invested in them and you didn’t really understand why they behaved as they did.
Lol, it’s not Jane Austen! I’m not saying sci-fi can’t or shouldn’t aspire to this standard, but how many great sci-fi movies have managed without it? Most of Arnie’s I’d imagine…
If there had been some preamble or plot device to explain that for some reason they’d deliberately sent a crack team of cretins to meet our makers I think I’d have had a lot more fun with it.
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Agree, but at the same time, if people in sci-fi movies were good at what they were supposed to be good at, the movies would be very boring, or very short. Like if the people who built Jurassic Park had actually planned for big storms on a Pacific Island, etc. etc.
I genuinely don’t care if people liked Prometheus or not, I’m more just curious that it gets more criticism than it deserves, is it because they were messing with a classic? I’d say the one where Ripley becomes some sort of hoop-shooting super being on a ship full of mercenaries was a bigger sacrilege (although I still liked that one).