3: Christmas Tree

The first thing the captain does (rather than act like a professional and sort himself out) is decorate a Christmas tree. That is fine but shouldn't he have more important things to do? Also, when he is informed that there is a mission briefing, something that should be important to him considering he is the captain, he decides that he wants to get something to eat. How about instead of messing around with a Christmas tree, you spend that time sorting your shit out and eat so you can be ready for the briefing. It's to demonstrate to the audience that the captain is a bit of a laid back rebel but done in the worst, haphazard way. The captain is useless in this film and i'll give a couple of examples to show you why. When he takes the Prometheus into the atmosphere, instead of performing a scan first, he decides to ask about the make up of the atmosphere just as he makes contact with it. It's a good thing that it didn't contain anything that might damage the ship! And as two of his crew are ''lost'' in a cave (even though hes been watching them on a 3D map) he thinks that it's the best time to go have sex with Charlize Theron in what has to be the crappiest scene from any film this year. Along with every time he's on screen, he continually makes you wonder how did this man work his way up to captaining is own ship? And after spending most of the film behaving like he would rather be watching TV at home, he and two other crew members suddenly decide to turn into heroes and make the ultimate sacrifice by crashing their ship into the alien one. All because Shaw (Noomi Rapace) said so. Considering they are about to kill themselves, all three act like they are going on a road trip and deliver some of the cheesiest lines in the film. This whole sequence is so random, I sat in the cinema shaking my head.