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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5940214" data-attributes="member: 32740">Too many questions; too many plot holes.  WAY too many.  Too much abject character stupidity.  WAY too much.  I can appreciate that they may have wanted to leave some mystery and "alien" motivations in place, especially if it was intended to fuel a sequel or two, but the adage about movies is that you SHOW, not tell, or you'll lose the audience. For starters, did IQ's suddenly drop sharply at some point before the beginning of the movie?  Let's go visit an alien world but without any provisions, either technological or procedural, to ward against potential alien infestation, viruses, bacteria, disease.  In fact, let's just all remove our helmets the moment we see that there's breatheable air?  Let's laugh and play pattycake with the UTTERLY UNKOWN quantity of the first appearance of an alien species?  Especially when that alien is an ANIMAL and not the Engineer you were expecting to find?  Since you just found a giant bleepin' dead alien and WATCHED IT DIE as it ran through the corridors with all the other engineers on AlienYouTube, W - T - F????  The only one with a SHRED of intelligence was Vickers who brought her own super-lifeboat and got into a suit at the first report of trouble. The whole expedition was supposed to be to go talk to the Engineers, whether to say, "Gee, thanks Dad!" or to say, "Can you cure old age and the sudden drop in IQ's on our planet?"   If Weyland has David to be his interpreter and knows how to read a star map what does he need Shaw and Holloway for? What the hell was David doing and why?  I can grasp that he may have been given a sense of curiosity but why in Gods name can't somebody dredge up enough sanity to hit him with a blunt object and scream, "STOP touching everything unless we ASK you to do so you blundering, bone-headed trap finder!"  Why the hell would he deliberately infect someone with unknown substances when it clearly presents an unspeakable risk to the man paying the quadrillion dollar bills in order to LIVE? If there are 3-d mapping widgets flying about, and hologramatic tracking displays on the ship, and everyone's communications ARE still working before the storm - how the _F_ does anyone get LOST on their way back to the ship? If you're a space jockey what's your motivation to commit suicide in order to populate the Earth?  Especially when you're going to come back and destroy your handiwork with new bioweapons?  It's like having E.T. spending months developing a loving bond with Elliot only to face-rape him with his glowing finger and impale little alcoholic Drew Barrymore on a pike as a way of waving goodbye.  Again, I understand we may be dealing with alien motivations which may change over several millenia - but can we at least have a LITTLE clue?  Maybe just a vowel?  I mean the jockey at the end seems motivated to exterminate humanity at the end there and Shaws reaction is, "Earth can take care of itself from aliens with stockpiles of liquid death-by-rape.  I just want to know why our ancestral parents are so angry with us and why our IQ's dropped so sharply." Yeah the movie looked cool, but the whole thing made about as much sense as Starman or E.T. as directed by David Lynch.</blockquote>

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