Prometheus

[Ratman_tf]

I think I am in love.

[Merusk]

She's going to bend them!!!!

[Tannhauser]

They're just Image comics, not worth anything anyway.

[Lakov_Sanite]

I believe they are Liefeld comics? which makes it geeky and ironic.

[Lantyssa]

Dear gods.  I just learned what I want for Christmas this year.

[Hoax]

Dear gods.  I just learned what I want for Christmas this year.

Santa is between a man and his fantasy woman.

[angry.bob]

Dear gods.  I just learned what I want for Christmas this year.

Santa is between a man and his fantasy woman.

I don't think any men will be involved.

[Polysorbate80]

Santa's sometimes called an elf, though.  And they're not manly.

[01101010]

Dear gods.  I just learned what I want for Christmas this year.

Glad we share the same tastes. 

[pxib]

Santa's sometimes called an elf, though.  And they're not manly.

[Furiously]

Dear gods.  I just learned what I want for Christmas this year.

How many colors of sports bras does she go through in one video?

[UnSub]

Dear gods.  I just learned what I want for Christmas this year.

If you run a Kickstarter, we'll all pitch in.

[Venkman]

Enjoyed the video but found it kinda curious that her look didn't quite match the valley-girl diction. Not that I thought she was unpleasant to watch 

[Tannhauser]

Looks like Promethus 2 is going forward with a new writer, Jack Paglen (Transcendence).

http://www.prometheus2-movie.com/news/669

In the article, Lindelof explains why he isn't doing the next movie.  Here's a snip I found interesting.

"After the movie came out and discussions began about a possible sequel, I was already neck deep in writing and producing TOMORROWLAND with Brad Bird. I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking."

Apologies for the necro, but maybe there is hope for this franchise after all.

[Rendakor]

Isn't Prometheus 2 just Alien?

[Arthur_Parker]

Only nowhere near as good.

[Mrbloodworth]

Isn't Prometheus 2 just Alien?

There is quite a bit of time between Prometheus and Alien. Prometheus 2093 to Alien 2179.

[Nevermore]

Looks like Promethus 2 is going forward with a new writer, Jack Paglen (Transcendence).

http://www.prometheus2-movie.com/news/669

In the article, Lindelof explains why he isn't doing the next movie.  Here's a snip I found interesting.

"After the movie came out and discussions began about a possible sequel, I was already neck deep in writing and producing TOMORROWLAND with Brad Bird. I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking."

Apologies for the necro, but maybe there is hope for this franchise after all.

So what was he writing at the same time he was writing Prometheus?

[HaemishM]

A deposit slip?

[Tannhauser]

*snerk*

No, according to his own words, he spent a year solely re-writing the Promethus script.  He also said he told Ridley he  couldn't do Promethus 2 (Paradise) due to another project.  Ridley then said "I never asked you to." 

According to him.

I realize I'm beating a dead horse here, but I really don't like this guy. 

[Samprimary]

That's because he's a bad writer. A bad writer who, by some profound accident of moviemaking industry culture and heirarchy, writes the exact sort of bad movie script that moviemakers go with or get stuck with, as the product of some sort of inexplicable perverse incentive. He should be writing no movies. Zero movies. There is absolutely no shortage of writers who will happily write movies without Lindeloffian Plot Holes and just generally be more accountable to and better at their job. You lose nothing by not having writers like him, but he's affixed himself to the top of the heap and as such is empowered to poop on movies which should be good and could be good if he had not been allowed to grace it with his reverse midas touch. He's presently the film industry's Metzen.

He's not just easy to dislike because he has a flippant attitude perpetually orbiting his being a complete shit writer, he's easy to dislike because it becomes profoundly more and more obvious when his greasy fingerprints are all over a movie plot. If you have watched Prometheus and Into Darkness and in both movies been like "wait why the fuck.." then it has already happened. You have developed a Lindelof allergy. You already hate his writing. 

And you got tons of aspiring writers who, to quote one I listened to recently, are stomped in the face by this shit: "It's maddening because movies I've worked on for many months of my life get bulldozed by studio execs for plot holes significantly smaller than this, but writers at the level of Lindelof and K/O are never questioned. It's maddening when you are told you're shit at your job and then someone else is praised for being worse at it."

Literally because I discovered Lindelof was a writer for ST:ID, I made sure to slam down a bunch of alcohol before I watched it. I then termed it the movie's Lindelof Quotient. Defined as: how much alcohol you have to put down to be able to 'turn your brain off' and watch a movie without being taken out of it by niggling, stacking, persistent questions, really bad lines or awkward turns, unimaginitive plot holes, baldly exploitative scenes, and other things. Into Darkness was way up there for me, two long islands and add a vodka tonic if you follow trek lore. Prometheus was pounding down half a bottle of glenmorangie. Some record holders taking the heat off of lindy may include Transformers 2, which may hypothetically require a solid bottle of wood grain alcohol, followed by punching yourself in the eyes a hundred times just in case the alcohol poisoning hasn't blinded you fast enough.

yes i am mad. mad about lindelof. it is a pre-emptive madness, before he gets his grubby mitts on star wars and i go stark raving lunatic.

[HaemishM]

I eagerly anticipate the colossal butthurt when Lindeloff gets his mitts on Star Wars - or I would if I didn't know about the massive shit Lucas took all over the brand with the prequels.

[Pennilenko]

....frustrated rant....

Your spittle is showing. Hehe

[Samprimary]

FRAGH. SPLATGHFRN. ARGHTH. I AM SO MAD.

[Samprimary]

DO YOU PEOPLE EVEN REALIZE HOW LITTLE SENSE BATTLETECH WARFARE MAKES, I'LL KILL YOU

[Ratman_tf]

In the article, Lindelof explains why he isn't doing the next movie.  Here's a snip I found interesting.

"After the movie came out and discussions began about a possible sequel, I was already neck deep in writing and producing TOMORROWLAND with Brad Bird. I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking."

Like it goes from 99% to 100%?

[Ratman_tf]

I eagerly anticipate the colossal butthurt when Lindeloff gets his mitts on Star Wars - or I would if I didn't know about the massive shit Lucas took all over the brand with the prequels.

Yeah, it's hard to get a proper nerdrage going when Lucas already took the franchise to shit town. Lindeloft will just keep the shit alive. 

[UnSub]

I eagerly anticipate the colossal butthurt when Lindeloff gets his mitts on Star Wars - or I would if I didn't know about the massive shit Lucas took all over the brand with the prequels.

Yeah, it's hard to get a proper nerdrage going when Lucas already took the franchise to shit town. Lindeloft will just keep the shit alive. 

I think you're forgetting Lindelof would have the entire EU to play with.

[Father mike]

  Damon Lindelof on NRP

"When I was a kid there were these books called the Encyclopedia Brown Mysteries. Essentially it was a boy detective who worked out of his garage, and the boys in the neighborhood would come and say, 'Hey, my bike got stolen, my piggy bank got broken into, will you solve the case, Encyclopedia Brown?' It would be about a five- or six-page story, and there would be some sort of clue in there that gave away the answer. And then you would flip to the back of the book and see if you were right. I would read the story and immediately flip to the back of the book even if I hadn't guessed it, and my dad saw me doing this and he ripped out the answers on all my Encyclopedia Brown books. So I would go to him and I'd say, 'OK, I solved the case, I think that I know what it is now.' And he'd go, 'Oh I threw those away.' ... I guess I could've walked into any bookstore and just pulled another copy off the shelf, but that was less interesting to me than basically sitting with my own theory."

So because of some mildly questionable parenting by his dad, he not only thinks it's valid to just throw up his hands and say "It's a big mystery!!!" -- it's his preferred ending!   

[Stormwaltz]

In summary, Prometheus 2 might be good, but Brad Bird's next movie will only be "meh."

[palmer_eldritch]

  Damon Lindelof on NRP

"When I was a kid there were these books called the Encyclopedia Brown Mysteries. Essentially it was a boy detective who worked out of his garage, and the boys in the neighborhood would come and say, 'Hey, my bike got stolen, my piggy bank got broken into, will you solve the case, Encyclopedia Brown?' It would be about a five- or six-page story, and there would be some sort of clue in there that gave away the answer. And then you would flip to the back of the book and see if you were right. I would read the story and immediately flip to the back of the book even if I hadn't guessed it, and my dad saw me doing this and he ripped out the answers on all my Encyclopedia Brown books. So I would go to him and I'd say, 'OK, I solved the case, I think that I know what it is now.' And he'd go, 'Oh I threw those away.' ... I guess I could've walked into any bookstore and just pulled another copy off the shelf, but that was less interesting to me than basically sitting with my own theory."

So because of some mildly questionable parenting by his dad, he not only thinks it's valid to just throw up his hands and say "It's a big mystery!!!" -- it's his preferred ending!   

That does seem to explain a lot.

[Mattemeo]

I still think there's a good film in Prometheus. I'm expecting the traditional better-after-the-fact Director's Cut to show up within a year or so; there's plenty that editing can do to save some of the stupid, and I expect there's plenty of footage we haven't seen. Scott isn't exactly a parsimonious director.

That being said, Lindelof is becoming more and more of a problem. I'm deeply concerned that Brad Bird is working with him, now. Star Trek: Into Darkness was so abysmally fuck-stupid it made Prometheus seem like a breathtaking work of absolute genius in comparison. But that's possibly because of the competition Bob Orci represented to Lindelof in the 'Who Hates Science More?' writing stakes.

[HaemishM]

  Damon Lindelof on NRP

"When I was a kid there were these books called the Encyclopedia Brown Mysteries. Essentially it was a boy detective who worked out of his garage, and the boys in the neighborhood would come and say, 'Hey, my bike got stolen, my piggy bank got broken into, will you solve the case, Encyclopedia Brown?' It would be about a five- or six-page story, and there would be some sort of clue in there that gave away the answer. And then you would flip to the back of the book and see if you were right. I would read the story and immediately flip to the back of the book even if I hadn't guessed it, and my dad saw me doing this and he ripped out the answers on all my Encyclopedia Brown books. So I would go to him and I'd say, 'OK, I solved the case, I think that I know what it is now.' And he'd go, 'Oh I threw those away.' ... I guess I could've walked into any bookstore and just pulled another copy off the shelf, but that was less interesting to me than basically sitting with my own theory."

So because of some mildly questionable parenting by his dad, he not only thinks it's valid to just throw up his hands and say "It's a big mystery!!!" -- it's his preferred ending!   

That does seem to explain a lot.

It sure as shit explains why every goddamn character on Lost had serious daddy issues.

[schild]

In anticipation of the new Aliens - I've rewatched all of it, and I'm now on Prometheus.

This movie is far and away the best in the series. In fact, watching them in release order really shows how incredibly poorly the old movies aged. Aliens was way worse than I remember. Alien 3 and Resurrection were essentially garbage. Alien was the best of the original 4 and still... not very good.

[TheWalrus]

I really liked Prometheus. But I like plodding thought movies.