Prometheus: the bad things!

[b]Scientists are naive:[/b] But why did they make all the characters so naive? It was like Ridley got his inspiration from some cheesy scary movie. Going around touching shit and generally acting like retards who want to die. [i]"Hey look, black, gooey stuff. Let's stick our hands in it."[/i] [b]Scientists suddenly become brave:[/b] Then there's the scene where the geologist and biologist are lost, scared and bumbling through the cave when they come across a worm-monster-in-goo. Suddenly, instead of being scared and cowardly, they have a bout of braveness and curiosity, and start getting touchy-feely with the cave-slug. This sudden change of character isn't explained. Of course, these are the same guys who minutes earlier were notified of life being detected to the West of their location, and they suddenly get their bearings and know to head East even though they got so disoriented that they got lost and missed the entrance to begin with. Weak. [b]Captain Janek is persuaded to kill himself with platitudes:[/b] In a 5-minute scene in the movie, we learn that Janek, a heretofore minor character in the movie, doesn't care about anything outside of piloting a ship. Shaw presses him with one line of dialogue to the effect of, [i]"well there has to be something you care about."[/i] That one line of dialogue persuades him to kill himself to save humanity. [b]Janek's ship-mates kill themselves because hell if I know:[/b] Even if we're to believe Shaw's sentence of persuasion was powerful enough to convince Janek to sacrifice himelf, it still doesn't explain his ship-mates who inexplicably decide to join him, without so much as the benefit of the same pep talk. Everyone just mysteriously knows what's at stake and is ready to lay it all out on the line like blissful idiots. [b]Zombies:[/b] I'm so sick and tired of zombies in pop-culture. I can't wait for another 5-10 years until this stupid zombie craze dies down and we can watch movies and news again where they don't try to ram-rod zombies into the story every chance they get. Some of the infected crew come back to life and have super-human strength, which again, isn't explained, original, or interesting. [b]Scientists in the future are idiots:[/b] We're expected to believe that world-renowned archaeologists don't know the dangers of removing their oxygen helmets in an alien environment, because apparently this is an alternate universe where bacterial infection isn't a concern. [i]"Hey guys, this dome we found on a deserted moon around a gas giant in a solar system millions of miles away from Earth has oxygen! Time to take off our helmets."[/i]. Even if they weren't aware of the threat of microbial infection, even someone with a basic knowledge of science knows that you also risk contaminating the alien world with your own bacteria, potentially wreaking havoc on their native life. Don't get me wrong, I like 'Prometheus' - but when all is said and done, it is a gorgeous looking epic failure. It reminds me a lot of my first impression of [b]Star Trek: The Motion Picture[/b], a big budget, amazing-looking epic sci-fi film, that had some nice things within a supposedly trascendental plot of mankind's place in the universe and directed by an aging Hollywood legend. It was still an epic failure (as a movie, [i]not[/i] commercially) with so many plot holes and people doing and saying stupid things. Still the hardcore fans could see nothing wrong with it. Also, is it just me or is HR Giger's Alien creation, the subsequent story and movie far more interesting/horrifying/impressive than some black slime, tiny worms and a half-assed 'Creation of Mankind' story? Don't get me wrong, it's a good movie, but Ridley got talked into going off at a tangent by some guy who writes ridiculously overdrawn, implausible TV shows. So, how anyone can prefer the story of 'Prometheus' over 'Alien' is a bit of a mystery.