I try to enjoy a movie in 2 ways: while I am watching it, and later when I get to think back on what I saw.
A good movie will have those tie-ins that you only realize later when you think more about it, and which is made cooler for it as a result. A bad movie relies too much on the tie-ins or meta information about the movie and doesn't explain enough at the time to the audience.
Sure if you take the time to think about it, maybe there was a reason the geologist and biologist got lost, wandered around and were no longer panicked, went back to the same room that scared them in the first place and started interacting with strange alien worms. But it takes a lot to justify that reaction and none of the reasons I have heard were actually revealed on-screen. I think the fact that so many people thought it was completely out-of-character and totally dumb proves this point.
Similarly, when the crew finds out Shaw is pregnant with an Alien lifeform their reaction is decidedly less severe than when Charlie was just "sick". Rather than toss her off the ship they decide to put her in cryo and ship her back to Earth. Okay, maybe I can see that. If she is already on the ship then just contain her. However she resists, beats the crap out of 2 doctors, runs to the auto-doc, and then has herself operated on to pull out the alien baby.
But the ridiculous thing to me is that no one bothers to find her after she ran away from the doctors putting her in cryo.. After she got the alien creature extracted, no one bothered to isolate the alien and deal with it. They never ever touched upon this on-screen again. It was like the crew conveniently forgot about this, so that the alien creature could attack the Engineer later at the end of the movie. What?!
Additionally, after having the equivalent of a C-section she is able to walk around like it was nothing, and in fact she gets better by the end of the film to the point where she is able to jump and run and roll without a problem. Okay, I can sorta buy that maybe because it is the future and medical science is advanced.
I can accept any one of the number of flaws in the movie (and those were only a few), but put together the film loses me. While watching it I was mildly entertained (I did think the auto-doc scene was kinda cool and a nice twist from the normal chest buster ending we expected). But as I think back after the fact the movie had far too many convenient holes that make it seem more like a cheap horror movie where the characters have to make stupid decisions to make sure bad stuff happens to them.
A good movie will have those tie-ins that you only realize later when you think more about it, and which is made cooler for it as a result. A bad movie relies too much on the tie-ins or meta information about the movie and doesn't explain enough at the time to the audience.
Sure if you take the time to think about it, maybe there was a reason the geologist and biologist got lost, wandered around and were no longer panicked, went back to the same room that scared them in the first place and started interacting with strange alien worms. But it takes a lot to justify that reaction and none of the reasons I have heard were actually revealed on-screen. I think the fact that so many people thought it was completely out-of-character and totally dumb proves this point.
Similarly, when the crew finds out Shaw is pregnant with an Alien lifeform their reaction is decidedly less severe than when Charlie was just "sick". Rather than toss her off the ship they decide to put her in cryo and ship her back to Earth. Okay, maybe I can see that. If she is already on the ship then just contain her. However she resists, beats the crap out of 2 doctors, runs to the auto-doc, and then has herself operated on to pull out the alien baby.
But the ridiculous thing to me is that no one bothers to find her after she ran away from the doctors putting her in cryo.. After she got the alien creature extracted, no one bothered to isolate the alien and deal with it. They never ever touched upon this on-screen again. It was like the crew conveniently forgot about this, so that the alien creature could attack the Engineer later at the end of the movie. What?!
Additionally, after having the equivalent of a C-section she is able to walk around like it was nothing, and in fact she gets better by the end of the film to the point where she is able to jump and run and roll without a problem. Okay, I can sorta buy that maybe because it is the future and medical science is advanced.
I can accept any one of the number of flaws in the movie (and those were only a few), but put together the film loses me. While watching it I was mildly entertained (I did think the auto-doc scene was kinda cool and a nice twist from the normal chest buster ending we expected). But as I think back after the fact the movie had far too many convenient holes that make it seem more like a cheap horror movie where the characters have to make stupid decisions to make sure bad stuff happens to them.