Read Alien: Engineers, the original version of Prometheus
Ridley Scott's Prometheus was a gorgeous-looking movie filled with some the most abysmally idiotic characters I've seen in a long while. (e.g., How do you get lost when you have a digital map? Why can't you run diagonally or perpendicularly from danger?) It was less like a prequel to Alien and more like a prequel to Idiocracy. A lot of the problems stemmed from just plain bad/sloppy writing from Damon Lindelof. The original version of the Prometheus script by Jon Spaihts recently popped up online. Titled Alien: Engineers, it seems like it would have made a better movie than what wound up on screen with Prometheus. Spaihts himself confirmed that this is the screenplay that Lindelof was hired to revise. I haven't had a chance to read the whole thing, but from what little I've read and the things I've seen online, this is at least a competent story. It has closer ties to the Alien franchise, the stupidity of some characters is acknowledged, and it's just better overall. To read Alien: Engineers for yourself, go here. (It's a PDF.) [Via Badass Digest] Did you know? You can now get daily or weekly email notifications when humans reply to your comments.
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12:00 PM on 06.13.2012 Red Letter Media hits every plothole in PrometheusThis should go without saying, but: SPOILERS. Prometheus is a film that raises a lot of questions. Sometimes it means to raise them and other times not so much. It's definitely philosphical in many ways, and often those...
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