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Subject: Our prayers have been answered. Damon Lindelof off Prometheus 2!
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There is just something magical about leaning your head back, letting your eyes roll into the back of your head, and taking a piss while floating in the swimming pool.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/12/20/lindelof-will-not-writ e-prometheus-2

I really enjoyed Prometheus but the plot holes were really obvious throughout. Lindelof was clearly the villain in this case and I am really glad he won't be writing the sequel.


I love how he says "there was a reaction" to his terrible plot holes and writing when the movie came out. Yeah Damon translated that means people were pissed!


Here's hopes P2 is awesome now!

[Edited on 12.20.2012 12:36 PM PST]

  • 12.20.2012 12:36 PM PDT

Per Audacia Ad Astra

inb4 hate

They guy wrote Cowboys vs Aliens, Lost and Avatar: The Last Airbender. I'm not surprised.

Prometheus was incredibly satisfying for me, regardless.
All I can say is I'm glad there's a second film.

[Edited on 12.20.2012 12:40 PM PST]

  • 12.20.2012 12:36 PM PDT
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What plot holes?

Also: If the alien DNA rapidly mutates with every host, why did it stop at it's current incarnation in the Alien and Aliens movies?

  • 12.20.2012 12:37 PM PDT
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Inappropriate. Went a little to far with the butt hole tearing.

I don't pray for such things, or pray at all.

  • 12.20.2012 12:37 PM PDT

Lindelof gives a story deeper meaning if his past work is any indication. Sad to see him go.

Edit: Also sad to see they're making another movie.

[Edited on 12.20.2012 12:38 PM PST]

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How do you know it was his fault?

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The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light."
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We don't really need another Prometheus, do we?

  • 12.20.2012 12:39 PM PDT
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I loved Prometheus, but the original script would have been sooo much better.

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Posted by: Emperor Gillard
We don't really need another Prometheus, do we?



Posted by: ROBERTO jh

Edit: Also sad to see they're making another movie.


Well, seeing as Prometheus didn't actually answer anything...Yeah, we kinda do.

  • 12.20.2012 12:41 PM PDT

http://i.imgur.com/fsISj.png

Posted by: Methew
What plot holes?

Not all of them, but it's a start.

  • 12.20.2012 12:41 PM PDT

@accordingto343

Your one stop shop for all of 343's fabulous errors and ridiculous notions in the Halo lore.

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What plot holes?

Not all of them, but it's a start.


Minor Plot hole: If we have the same DNA as the Engineers who dissolve in water on other Planets to create life, how come all the other animals on Earth do not share the same DNA?

Well, we kinda do. Not all of it is the same, but we do share DNA with quite a bit of species.

  • 12.20.2012 12:43 PM PDT

Disappoint boat has docked our harbor

P2 doesn't have marines I hear

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"The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light."
-Felix Adler


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Posted by: Emperor Gillard
We don't really need another Prometheus, do we?



Posted by: ROBERTO jh

Edit: Also sad to see they're making another movie.


Well, seeing as Prometheus didn't actually answer anything...Yeah, we kinda do.

What didn't it answer?
We know where the aliens come from and who owned the ring-shaped ship. There isn't anything that important left, is there?

  • 12.20.2012 12:45 PM PDT


Posted by: Lord Gwyn

Posted by: Emperor Gillard
We don't really need another Prometheus, do we?



Posted by: ROBERTO jh

Edit: Also sad to see they're making another movie.


Well, seeing as Prometheus didn't actually answer anything...Yeah, we kinda do.


Then you completely missed the point of the movie. They weren't supposed to answer anything. That's the great human drama, that all of our questions may not have answers but through either ignorance or faith--or maybe even both--we will keep searching for those answers to the greatest question of all: why are we here?

With that in mind, remember the last line of the movie: "My name is Elizibeth Shaw, and I'm still searching." That's the message. We are all still searching, and that is where the brilliance of the movie comes in.

A sequel answering those questions would only void that message.

[Edited on 12.20.2012 12:48 PM PST]

  • 12.20.2012 12:45 PM PDT

http://i.imgur.com/fsISj.png

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Posted by: annoyinginge
Posted by: Methew
What plot holes?

Not all of them, but it's a start.


Minor Plot hole: If we have the same DNA as the Engineers who dissolve in water on other Planets to create life, how come all the other animals on Earth do not share the same DNA?

Well, we kinda do. Not all of it is the same, but we do share DNA with quite a bit of species.

As in, the DNA test between us and them was closer than the DNA test between us and other species on Earth.

  • 12.20.2012 12:46 PM PDT

Bones of my enemies.

I didn't think he was that bad of a writer. Don't get me wrong, he was by no means a good writer, but he really wasn't that bad. The media just made him look really bad by starting rumors about plotholes that didn't really exist.

  • 12.20.2012 12:46 PM PDT

@accordingto343

Your one stop shop for all of 343's fabulous errors and ridiculous notions in the Halo lore.

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Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Posted by: annoyinginge
Posted by: Methew
What plot holes?

Not all of them, but it's a start.


Minor Plot hole: If we have the same DNA as the Engineers who dissolve in water on other Planets to create life, how come all the other animals on Earth do not share the same DNA?

Well, we kinda do. Not all of it is the same, but we do share DNA with quite a bit of species.

As in, the DNA test between us and them was closer than the DNA test between us and other species on Earth.


Space magic.

  • 12.20.2012 12:47 PM PDT

http://i.imgur.com/fsISj.png

Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Posted by: Lord Gwyn
Posted by: Emperor Gillard
We don't really need another Prometheus, do we?

Posted by: ROBERTO jh

Edit: Also sad to see they're making another movie.


Well, seeing as Prometheus didn't actually answer anything...Yeah, we kinda do.

Then you completely missed the point of the movie. They weren't supposed to answer anything. That's the great human drama, that all of our questions may not have answers but through either ignorance or faithg--or maybe even both--we will keep searching for those answers to the greatest question of all: why are we here?

With that in mind, remember the last line of the movie: "My name is Elizibeth Shaw, and I'm still searching." That's the message. We are all still searching, and that is where the brilliance of the movie comes in.

A sequel answering those questions would only void that message.

Please don't try and argue that Prometheus was anything other than a brain-not-required alien flick.

  • 12.20.2012 12:47 PM PDT

I enjoyed Prometheus, but I don't see the need for another.

  • 12.20.2012 12:51 PM PDT


Posted by: annoyinginge
Posted by: ROBERTO jh

We don't really need another Prometheus, do we?[/quote]
Posted by: ROBERTO jh

Edit: Also sad to see they're making another movie.[/quote]

Well, seeing as Prometheus didn't actually answer anything...Yeah, we kinda do.

Then you completely missed the point of the movie. They weren't supposed to answer anything. That's the great human drama, that all of our questions may not have answers but through either ignorance or faithg--or maybe even both--we will keep searching for those answers to the greatest question of all: why are we here?

With that in mind, remember the last line of the movie: "My name is Elizibeth Shaw, and I'm still searching." That's the message. We are all still searching, and that is where the brilliance of the movie comes in.

A sequel answering those questions would only void that message.

Please don't try and argue that Prometheus was anything other than a brain-not-required alien flick.


It's impossible to deny it, because that's what the entire movie was structured around. Literally every scene in the movie are people trying to find the answers they seek, one way or another, or otherwise talking about how when they find their answers they are only faced with more questions. Right up until the very last scene in the movie does the story maintain those central themes, even throwing a man>machine message in there.

It has plot holes, yeah. But plot holes and theming are two different things. For what it was, it was a great movie for other reasons.

If you can deny that this movie had a message, you can deny any movie had a message. Prometheus practically hits you over the head with it.

  • 12.20.2012 12:52 PM PDT

http://i.imgur.com/fsISj.png

Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Posted by: annoyinginge
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
We don't really need another Prometheus, do we?[/quote]
Posted by: ROBERTO jh

Edit: Also sad to see they're making another movie.[/quote]

Well, seeing as Prometheus didn't actually answer anything...Yeah, we kinda do.

Then you completely missed the point of the movie. They weren't supposed to answer anything. That's the great human drama, that all of our questions may not have answers but through either ignorance or faithg--or maybe even both--we will keep searching for those answers to the greatest question of all: why are we here?

With that in mind, remember the last line of the movie: "My name is Elizibeth Shaw, and I'm still searching." That's the message. We are all still searching, and that is where the brilliance of the movie comes in.

A sequel answering those questions would only void that message.

Please don't try and argue that Prometheus was anything other than a brain-not-required alien flick.

It's impossible to deny it, because that's what the entire movie was structured around. Literally every scene in the movie are people trying to find the answers they seek, one way or another, or otherwise talking about how when they find their answers they are only faced with more questions. Right up until the very last scene in the movie does the story maintain those central themes, even throwing a man>machine message in there.

It has plot holes, yeah. But plot holes and theming are two different things. For what it was, it was a great movie for other reasons.

If you can deny that this movie had a message, you can deny any movie had a message. Prometheus practically hits you over the head with it.

Sure, Prometheus "had a message", in the same way that James Cameron's Avatar "had a message", and Transformers probably "had a message" somewhere. Okay, that last example is a level below the other two, but you get my point. Some people go on about Prometheus as if it was some super-intelligent exploration of the human psyche. Which is equivalent to thinking Twilight is a work of literary genius.

[Edited on 12.20.2012 12:56 PM PST]

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We should know better, because we are better.

I'm probably in the minority here, but I enjoyed Prometheus. It had flaws, of course, but it was an interesting and entertaining movie.

  • 12.20.2012 12:56 PM PDT


Posted by: annoyinginge
Posted by: Methew
What plot holes?

Not all of them, but it's a start.
ROFL

they don't have plot holes on twilight "because it has no plot"

  • 12.20.2012 12:56 PM PDT