Prometheus.
There are so many, many, many things wrong with this film that Riddley Scott’s doctor should suspect Alzheimer’s.
I repeat, there are so, so many things wrong…
Let’s start with this scene, in which an alien commits suicide so that the particles of his organism merge with the Earth’s primordial soup, thus giving rise to life. Or, alternatively, to influence existing life to become more intelligent, more like his race.
This is stupid. The guy didn’t need to kill himself, he would just take a blood sample, apply the black substance to the sample and leave. “But, oh!” — you will say — “He had to do it because it was a kind of religious rite, etc.” But religion doesn’t explain anything in this context, it only helps to make aliens more stupid.
Because, after all, the reason he committed suicide was so that his body would be completely destroyed, leaving no fossils or any signs that would identify alien influence on terrestrial life. Right? It turns out that life on earth did not emerge in two decades. And humans didn’t evolve in three weeks. Depending on when this waterfall scene happened, either life was already well underway or the space jockeys ‘ civilization is so old that they probably don’t even remember what they did anymore.
But we do know when it happened, and it wasn’t that long ago:
Apparently they kept returning to earth and leaving signs among humans. Since these cave paintings are unlikely to last billions of years, we have to imagine that they visited us in the Pleistocene or Holocene. When humanity already existed.
More evidence that the alien interference is recent: the android spends the trip learning the language that the aliens supposedly spoke. It turns out that this language is Proto-Indo-European! The android even recites Schleicher’s fable about the sheep and the horse. This is quite complicated, and somewhat racist! Firstly because PIE would have been spoken until just under five thousand years ago, so aliens visited us during the final phase of the Neolithic Age!
The problem with racism here is that it is suggested that the Indo-European people would be superior, because they were “accelerated” by alien influence.
We already have a bunch of mistakes here that compromise the film and we haven’t even reached ten minutes yet!
The very idea of a single ship expedition under those conditions seems stupid to me, too! Not only because SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER she takes a stowaway SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER, but also because they really only know (or imagine they know) which star the destination is on, but not which planet!
Finally we come to the many mistakes made by the idiots who were sent on the mission (everyone, everyone, without exception), of which the first and most primordial is having landed on the planet!
The planet they find has an atmosphere rich in oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen and has green places. That probably means he’s more toxic than Satan’s fart! This planet is poisonous! Very poisonous! The life that exists there is different from ours, and survives in an atmosphere that, according to the film, has 7.5% CO²!
The crew members’ arrogant imbecility reaches its peak when they discover a rectilinear construction on the surface. This is indubitable proof of intelligent life. On a poisonous planet! Intelligent life that is probably poisonous to us!
It seems that the aliens’ main gift to us was teaching us stupidity, after all. Because not only do the crew descend on a poisonous planet , they also easily remove masks as soon as they find a place where carbon dioxide is not at toxic levels.