fabricated backlash
Member
it's just that almost everything was incoherent. When one thinks that something makes a bit of sense, they step all over it later in the movie. Not to mention that they have these fodder characters that act stupid, despite technically being clever. Probably the robot is the one acting more like a clever, yet probably a bit weird since you can't understand why he does what he does, human.
Ohhhh alien albino snake that is acting aggresively, let's try to reach it with the hand.
Realistically, what were you expecting? I'm not asking sarcastically. A deep personal portrait of every character? They needed someone to set up the actual hostility and oral impregnation and they chose the "I smoke pot in my spacesuit" carefree guy and the biologist who just got a punch to his academic balls when they actually find proof that humans didn't suddenly come from evolution and acted like he has something to prove.
I thought they set up the motivation for the characters very well, especially Vickers and the Captain. I especially liked those two characters, his pick up line in particular made me laugh out loud in the cinema. Vickers really stole it for me though. The resented child that is usurped by a robot in her fathers favor, so cold inside that she actually wants her father to finally bite it, and how she interacts with David is great.
Shaw was a bit underdeveloped, they should've put the effects of religious bias interfering with scientific findings to the forefront a bit more. The map/invitation motive should've been played up a bit more I'd say.
I found the movie to be quite straightforward and conclusive in itself.