I have to agree with Prometheus being beyond the pale with this.

With the Alien franchise, there's generally a fairly solid reasoning with regards to why the various characters end up as they do. 90% of which is an immoral corporation's indifference to sacrificing the lives of it's workers and anyone else not rich or powerful enough to complain for the mere possibility of further profits -- the other 10% being whatever happened in Alien Resurrection. While some of the characters do show an abundance of pragmatic caution, it just doesn't matter because they've got next to no agency in their lives to ultimately elect to do the sane thing whenever feasible.

Then you have Prometheus where the crew is the best of the best - or as close to - who are sent on this hugely expensive mission to find the very Creator of Humanity, and they just Red Shirt it up like a bunch of chuckleyucks. It stands out for how dissonant it is with the ambition of the work. Like sending the horny teenagers from your typical 80's slasher movie in to perform delicate diplomacy during the Cuban missile crisis or something, despite the gravity of the work's themes it's still interested in delivering the stereotypical horror deaths at set intervals as if the audience would get bored otherwise.