# Movies that wasted their premise by making the charecters into idiots **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 14, 2015, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-wasted-their-premise-by-making-the-charecters-into-idiots/737526 "2015-11-14T04:06:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-wasted-their-premise-by-making-the-charecters-into-idiots/737526/4 "2015-11-14T04:46:51Z")
The _Alien_ prequel _Prometheus_ springs to mind. We had a [13 page thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=653756) about it back when it was in theaters and I said my part then, but here’s the short version: > [@Prometheus discussion with open spoilers \[edited title\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prometheus-discussion-with-open-spoilers-edited-title/623755/57): > > The movie repeatedly gestures at Big Philosophical Ideas but doesn’t follow up on them. The early portion seemed to be building up to something a lot more interesting than what we actually got. Things happen for no apparent reason, or happen and then are forgotten. The supposedly intelligent characters behave like total idiots, spending scene after scene doing dangerous things for no reason, failing to react to events that should seem important, and drawing elaborate conclusions (at least some of which we are apparently supposed to accept as correct) based on very little evidence. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-wasted-their-premise-by-making-the-charecters-into-idiots/737526)._