Quote from: Evanus on Jun 24, 2018, 11:21:46 PM
Didn't seem like it. Not that it really matters, ha.
If I speak with any level of authority in my words it is only because I feel very strongly about these things. So let me just take this opportunity to extend an olive branch to everyone else in the thread. If you like Prometheus and/or Covenant, the ideas they explore... Hey, i'm truly happy you find something of merit in them, and that they bring you stimulation on both an intellectual and entertainment level.
Heck, I miss the long discussions that were going on in here back in 2011-2014 with people like Cvalda and Deuterium and the others that have since left us.
Quote from: Scorpio on Jun 25, 2018, 01:55:05 AM
As it was explained in the novelisation, it was not possible to take the proper precautions to what they were up against. It was a calculated risk type situation.
That doesn't make sense. They have space suits. they should be wearing space suits, or at the very least proper hazmat equipment.
And the argument that if they had behaved intelligently we wouldn't have a movie is stupid on so many levels. You should never write down to your audience and you should never craft scenarios where stupidity is the only way through. Yes, sometimes having a dumb character do dumb things is effective... But it should not be the standard course. They could have just as easily had the alien organisms penetrate the suit.
Hell, one of the few instances of blink-and-you'll-miss-it horror in Prometheus is when the Hammerpede breaks Milburn's arm and get's inside his suit and he's screaming "It's in my suit, it's in my suit, it's in my suit!"
For me the best horror is when our protagonists do everything they can and it's still not enough. A movie like The Thing is a movie that really nails this idea.
Or, in Alien, the mistakes made are very clearly human and there's more going on. IE: Dallas and Lambert wanting back inside, and Ash overriding Ripley. There's a lot going on with each character. Ripley is being super by the book. Dallas is basically disillusioned and is more concerned with immediate loyalty than to the letter of the law, and Ash has ulterior motives. Put em together and you get a very natural conflict.
You don't need to write characters as dum-dums to get horrifying stuff.