I know. I'm just saying rarely have I ever seen so many people get hung up on a somewhat trivial moment. I mean, it'd be like watching a horror movie and being upset when a guy leaves the group and say "I'll be right back", and he dies two minutes later.
"Big things have small beginnings"
the small things people are hung up on had major impacts on how things played out in the movie.
...for example. the role of Fifield and Millburn was pretty much to introduce us to the threat of the aliens.
and thats perfectly fine.
we get it. these guys were pawns for our entertainment.
the red shirts noname guys on Star Trek beaming down to check something out. cool.
the problem in that is the writers went through the trouble of giving Fifield a set of self orbiting 'orbs', that can fly around like a roomba mapping out uncharted spaces, all while being able to send 3D-GPS like images wirelessly over X amount distances back to the ship.
you DO realize that the same 3D-GPS map gave a real time indication of each orb as well as the crew inside of the cave right? whereas since the ship crew was watching the entire time from the helmet and suit cams, they could have easily directed them back to their point of origin.
did we mention Fifield also has a communicator for the orbs on his arm that was giving him directions
oh, and not to mention hes a Geologist?
see, its not that anyone has a problem with Fifield and Millburn dying. the problem is the inconsistency of the intellect of those characters versus their actions.
this isnt Scary Movie part 56.
this isnt Michael Bay's Transformers
those inconsistencies insult my intelligence.
3) Why would the scientists take their helmets off on a strange new planet?
The obvious answer here is the computers and David recorded a breathable, Earth-like atmosphere. But the real answer is faith. Against his better judgement, Holloway removed his helmet to prove a point - that he and Shaw were right about a superior being creating life on this moon. Nay-sayers will go, "But what about alien microbes and diseases?" Well, exactly. Until David practically confesses the poisoning to Shaw at the end of the film, the crew assumed Holloway's sickness was because they stupidly removed their helmets.
im sorry.
you dont fly 2 years in hypersleep to make the greatest discovery of mankind only to potentially cut it short on such a dumb cowboy move. faith my ***.
1) Why did Millburn try to touch the snake-like alien when he was so scared before?
Actually it was Fifield the geologist who was shifting his pants earlier in the film. While Millburn had an aversion to piles of dead Engineer bodies, he WAS a biologist whose sole purpose there was to handle any wildlife they might encounter. So when a cute (yes, it was cute) snake-like alien pops up, of course he's gonna be interested. Have you ever seen biologist Steve Irwin? Biologists have a tendency to do dumb ****, especially when it's a new discovery.
I read somewhere that there was also a deleted scene that explained why he touched the snake.
i just dont buy it.
yeah, Steve Irwin always did stuff like that to animals on EARTH. animals he's probably read up on and knew about. not creatures across the galaxy.
the scene was forced and wack.
What a turd of a movie. He's come a long way.
. I think the movie looked great.
