I was facepalming the whole way through the movie thinking that these "scientists" lack any common sense that you would otherwise find in any other normal human being. Or perhaps my standards of common sense is unreasonably high.

The writers are either smashing their heads against the keyboard to write something comprehensible or the budget was 0 and went all into the CGI.

The movie started off ok, it set the stage and pretty much tells us that anything that happened before man kind started that these otherworld humans created us. Fuck theory of evolution, fuck religion, fuck all that; no not saying it was aliens, but aliens created us. A few millennium ago, these people that created us decided to fuck all that and kill all humans.

Wait what? They developed super bio-weapons (the Aliens we know today) just to kill us when we didn't even have internet yet? Jesus, talk about angry people. Videos of them getting drunk or doing something stupid haven't even had the chance to hit Youtube yet and they decided to some how that we should exact some kind of revenge to have us shit ourselves and die. Uh ok. Seems reasonable. It's incredibly vague how far back these creators go to decidedly create us.

Ok so that's basically the premise of the movie. It's what's in between where the writing gets stupidly unbelievable and without throwing out all sense of reason out the window, the movie would be 2 minutes long.

So a rag tag group of scientists get woken up by some creepy-ass android after a long journey to another planet and the bright idea of the gung-ho scientist (Elizabeth Shaw) wanted to go explore without any weapons for protection that someone "suggested" taking along; more like already holding it in his hands with a power trip. Dude, if I go to another planet I'd be rocking AK47s or whatever the hell I could get my hands on just in case.

Let's compare this to something like let's say...... StarTrek. The most pacifist franchise in science fiction that has to do with exploration. Even THEY bring phasers and shit to mess shit up if things go south. Why would this stupid scientist not protect herself. And why would the bad ass geologist that already had the gun in his hand get convinced so easily not to bring a fucking flame thrower with him for protection. I guess they didn't want to stereotype men and their fascination with firearms or weapons.

Ok, fine, fuck the weapons and risk getting fucked up by shit they find on the planet. Let's find some cave with breathable air. Oh let's then suggest that we take off our helmets and disregard anything about potential airborne viruses and what not. Oh, they tripped off some hologram showing them large humanoids (at least twice the size of humans) running away from something. Obviously there's something messed with the situation but they decide to move on. Good move. Mapping out the entire cavern was actually a good idea that the geologist comes up with but he pussied out and grabbed his buddy and booked it out of the cave. Smart, logical idea. Somehow even though they leave first, they never make it back :seriously:

So after a long drawn out trip back to the ship, the ship is now a festering petri dish. No one thought that they should decontaminate themselves or scan any of the shit they bring on board. the android from the very beginning stole a jar of that black goop and decided to infect Shaw's boyfriend after someone tells him on the comm to "try harder". He tries to console the dude's epic failure to mankind but not a moment too soon before dipping his index finger into alien jizz. He pours the guy a drink weird with his index finger obviously up and you hear a distinctive *doink* of a finger dipping into the drink. The appropriate response would be, "Yo, did you just dip your finger into my drink?" but no, let's just be a drunken retard for the rest of eternity. Great, infection time, let's have sex with the girl friend.

And all else falls into place aliens are born you see an unnecessary C-section to get an alien out and no one gave two shits about a half naked woman covered in blood with her mid section full of staples. Honestly, no one, Shaw walked into a room with the funder of the mission (which is an old dude looking for the creators to prolong his life) of the mission and someone else we haven't seen yet. But no one thought to point out that this chick was covered in blood, and is half naked with fuck staples in her. :suspicious:

At the end of the day, it was the black captain that figured out that these creators wanted to fuck us up from the start AND he some how took the schematics of the cave and figured out it was an alien ship just by changing the angle it was viewed at on the holoviewer. But he dies along with the token asian and white dude thrown in for shits and giggles. No one else had a clue. University Education FTW

The flute played to work the alien ship reminded me of the Dragon Zord from Power Rangers. That is all.

well it would seem that they developed several worlds with humans, when the android was getting his look at the computers there seemed to be several solar systems that got pinpointed but he looked specifically at earth

and so who knows at what stages those are planets were at in terms of science/evolution etc

that did feel a bit cheesy how it was handled but remember that Shaw and her BF are the "bosses" of this expedition and if she wants no weapons then no weapons

their systems detected nothing viral/infectious etc in the air so that was good enough for that guy... I expected at least one or two other members of the crew would have left their helmets on but whatever

its been at least 2 millennia since those aliens died and there looks to be nothing around since they arrived.. i'd feel safe but obviously those 2 other scientists didn't and decided to go back to the ship where its safe so at least they showed another perspective there

they did decontaminate at least the ships computer or something mentioned decontamination commencing (something along those lines)

It was odd how charlize theron was missing in these scenes and that they didn't explain what happened to the 2 ppl that Shaw conked on the heads

however Weyland has more pressing concerns and David must have informed him that she was wanting to abort but i agree it was handled weakly

what does he being black have to do with anything? anyhow the captain actually did more than alter the angle of the mapping he removed the outer layers from the hologram based on his suspicions after what shaw was describing to him

and yeah those 2 characters seemed out of place and considering the ship was flying itself when they were in stasis you'd think they could have set it on auto pilot and ejected with charlize

So, is Vickers a robot or not do you think?

I think she is and I think should could still be alive as well

Still not convinced that she is but I'm sure she survived. Every characters death had some importance in moving the movie forward or introducing us to the effects of the black goo.

Charlie Holloway - First human infected/knocked up Elizabeth Shaw.
Fifield - Showed us that the goo gives humans super human abilities but also drives us mad.
Millburn - Showed us that the goo enhances the worms abilities.
Janek, Chance and Ravel - Stopped the engineer's ship.
Ford - Sorry, don't remember what happened to her.
Engineer - First Xenomorph busts out of his stomach.

If Meredith Vickers wasn't played by Charlize Theron and had a smaller part in the movie I could see her getting killed off by falling debris, but she stood out almost more then Elizabeth Shaw.