Overall enjoyable, but terrible science writing.

Rating: 7/10 (4 April 2013)

SPOILERS WITHIN I was just rewatching Prometheus yesterday, and the Biologist character Millburn played by Rafe Spall pisses me off to no end.
1) During the crew meeting presentation discussing the Ancestors, his only real input is some caddy statement about 3 centuries of Darwinism out the window whooo thumbs up rolls eyes. Seriously? No real practicing biologist would have this little to say about this discovery. Regardless of the strengths and weaknesses of the evidence for Panspermia, a scientist would be insanely interested in this being the reason he's been flown some odd lightyears from home.
2) The biologist is the least excited (seemingly) of the crew that he's on another FRACKING planet that supports life. They land in a field with grass LIT-RALLY everywhere. He should be chomping at the bit to get outside, dig up some dirt, take some samples. See if there's insect life, bacterial life, etc.
3) But he doesn't. Instead he's grumbling the whole time about having to go to the installation. They get inside, and what do they find? ALIEN HUMANOID CORPSE. What does the biologist do? "Nah, I'm good, let's go back to the ship this is scary."
4) He gets lost with the geologist Fifield and stuck overnight in the installation. They end up making contact with basically a face sucker. A snake like creature that slithers around in the black goo, and pops up to inspect them. Now, most people that have studied living things at all, would approach this with a great deal of care. What does this asshat do? Reaches his hand out right at the damn things mouth. Then, when it recoils and displays its "wings" so to speak, it looks straight up like a cobra. Now what person in their right mind thinks "oh it wants to say hi, let me touch it right on it's teethy parts"??!?!
Prometheus is a fun movie, and a good prequel to Aliens. I like that Ridley Scott wants to explore the canon more, but it's so full of garbage like this. Charlize Theron's character for example says something like "I wouldn't fly half a billion miles if all I wanted to do was get laid", and they were flying at light speed for 2 years to get there. A light year is 5.87849981 × 10^12 miles... slightly more than a billion.
When Shaw uses the magical surgery machine that was both button and voice activated (so much rage) it staples her back up with fluids in the wound with like 9 staples. She's then jumping around, falling, running, jumping, getting thrown around like nothing... and those staples never pop. She's never seen bleeding excessively from an abdominal wound about a foot across. Her damn organs should be falling out of a wound like that with the ~3 seconds of recovery time she had.
I still like the movie. It's quite entertaining.