What the...?

Rating: 1/10 (5 September 2012)

So first of all, I've never seen the other Alien films, maybe that would have made a difference, but most people have told me it doesn't. Secondly, I loved LOST, so I'm not exactly against movies or shows that bring up weird questions and leave some of them unanswered.
The problem I had with Prometheus is not that it leaves questions unanswered, but that I could not relate to any of the characters, because I could not understand why they were doing the things they did.
For instance, David was supposed to be emotionless, but then he appeared to have feelings for Shaw, but then when she weirdly became pregnant with an evil alien creature (due to David feeding a bit of Alien goo to Shaw's boyfriend), he wanted to leave her that way instead of removing it..?
And then there was the biologist that was inexplicably terrified of the dead alien (so terrified he would go back to the ship with one other guy instead of sticking with the group) but wants to hug the live snake-like alien. He died. What a SHOCKER!
Really, none of the scientists acted like scientists at all. The weirdest character, for me, was Vickers. There was supposed to be some tension between her and Shaw, I suppose because she was upset her dad was spending all this money to find out the origin of human life. So of course, she decided to come along.
All along I had the idea that she was a selfish character who was looking out for her own interests. I also thought that they were building toward a big moment for her character, that she would be important, somehow. But no. Near the end of the film the pilot does a kamikaze to stop the aliens from reaching earth and she is told she can her eject her survival pod thing and it will give her some extra time. If her character was consistent, she would have taken this chance, but no, she ejects and crashes to the ground so she can run around with a spaceship tumbling towards her.
Shaw was also on the ground, and I thought it would be the climax of the tension between them, that something significant was going to happen- and then- and THEN- Vickers gets crushed like a bug.
Really? And when she died I was just mildly annoyed to find out her character was pointless. I didn't really care. Not once did I feel sad when a character died during this film (And I tend to cry very easily during sad parts of films), which says pretty much all you need to know about the characters. I didn't love them or even hate them, I was just mildly bewildered and then they died. (Except for Shaw and David's head, who go off to continue the mission, and presumably, we're supposed to wonder what happened to them, but I found I didn't really care about that either)