@Knixon said:

I just don't think it's mutually exclusive to have an action movie where people aren't making really dumb mistakes all the time. Maybe it just takes more work than people like Scott and (perhaps especially) Lindelof are capable of or willing to do.

It depends on the level of stupid, both covenant and Prometheus thrived on it I couldn't believe my eyes when that dude stroked the alien snake in Prometheus the most impossibly stupidest thing I've ever seen in a cinema.

@Charlton said:

It depends on the level of stupid, both covenant and Prometheus thrived on it I couldn't believe my eyes when that dude stroked the alien snake in Prometheus the most impossibly stupidest thing I've ever seen in a cinema.

Right, and I don't believe northcoast was correct either in apparently believing that colonists or other scientists would just assume that any planet that seems habitable wouldn't have potentially lots of initially-unknown dangers. But one problem with an accurate portrayal of such things might be a movie that would end up being longer than most studios would want to fund. Maybe longer than most short-attention-span audience members would want to see. But that doesn't somehow prove that it's impossible.

@MongoLloyd said:

I have no words...

It's just the height of absurdity that an advanced team of astronauts would do the things they do:

Alter their mission that was more than likely a decade or more in the making. Open the door upon landing, jump right out, and start hiking around sans helmets. Hike off into the unknown looking for source of a radio transmission on an unknown, unclassified planet. Fire weapons at their own ship. Risk total inhalation of the main ship plus 2,000+ souls aboard just to rescue a small landing party.

And

The sail on a ship that advanced would have retracted the instant an impending threat was sensed by the ship.

The chick shooting at the gas tanks really got me. That's when I was like, "Oh, boy. Here comes a big shitburger of a film we have to take a bite of."

@mbirth said:

You forgot:

• David's auth code working with that new-technology ship and/or David finding a way to change auth codes in "mother" without anyone noticing (you'd think they'd be stored extra secure in some system that can't be taken offline)

^This! This drove me nuts! Just how in the hell would he know the auth codes! If they make a third they gots some splaining to do.

@The Midi-chlorian Count said:

Thanks for the spoiler title - I had absolutely no idea what this film would be about and now it's been completely ruined...

Meh, he probably did you a favor because now you won't waste two hours of your life.