It's interesting how people have this idea about how "professional scientists" are "supposed" to behave.
I can support this. Academics can be staggeringly narrowly focused and impractical. I mean, they can lack pieces of general knowledge and life skills that would be just basic to your average troglodyte. :lol
The rolling Juggernaut cricicism is a weird one. The scene as shot shows two women running for their lives with barely time for a glance behind them. Huge pieces of burning debris are falling on all sides and no one direction looks much safer than another from the *audience's* POV, let alone that of the characters. We do get one or two overhead shots which they don't. But we get a lot of shakycam running and screaming and falling stuff and a rolling wreck and etcetera. Anyone remember the huge debates over the cave troll fight scene in Fellowship of the Ring? It's like round two of that argument.
Your points about panic responses are dead on the money, but won't be heard. This aspect of the debate also reminds me of the tasers/no tasers debate we had here a while ago. On that occasion it seemed that it was impossible to explain the realities of the situations for which tasers are intended to folk who haven't witnessed or participated in a takedown of an "agitated" person.
Don't make excuses for the movie. We already know for a fact the movie itself is a hackjob of several scripts and scenes filmed.
How is that a strike against it? The same is true of Star Wars, Blade Runner, Alien and many other films we all love. We all make excuses for the dumb parts of our favourite films. The Falcon's hyperdrive thing in ESB? The stupid space worm? Completely forgiven, some people even think it's a better film than Star Wars.
You're trying to convince us that the movie is bad, and we're trying to convince you that it's not.
Well, I'm not. I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything, and I think it's a good movie trapped in the body of a bad one. :lol
Practically every other film in existence has these same flaws, and yet they're blissfully overlooked (just as we're doing, those of us that actually like Prometheus).
Again, not in my case. I really like it but I lament the many and major flaws.
And if you have EVER watched a sciance documentary on PBS or the like, you have see how "professional scientists" act.
Yeah, while there's a camera on them and they are trying to look good.