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My list of plotholes and niggles

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MemberOvomorphJune 02, 20121744 Views28 Replies
Please add: PROMETHEUS PLOTHOLES AND IRRITATIONS ***SPOILERS*** 1. The dreams sequence. David can watch Shaw's dreams. Amazingly this technology also cuts from scene to scene like a movie camera...Please. No one dreams like that. 2. How did they randomly find the temple so quick? This is an entire planet surface! 3. Why was the landing so soft and easy? 4. Why does Fifield start screaming at Shaw like that? Calm down mate..jeez..And later on with an Alien cobra he is cool as ice. 5. Why does that moron Buddy Holly scientist try and touch the cobra alien? not once....not twice...but 3 TIMES!!! 6. Why on earth would a scientist remove their helmets in a possibly infected temple? I am just a civilian and even I understand the concept of VIRUS CONTAMINATION ON AN ALIEN FRIGGIN PLANET. They then have the cheek to talk about Shaw's strict quarantine fail-safe procedures...please 7. What does this Black Goo do exactly? Accelerate worm growth? Infect crew members? Cause pregnancies? Create life? Pick one and stick to it please 8. Why does Ford straight away start giving the head electricity for kicks? Do they not have procedures? What is this fun with Frankenstein? 9. Why does the head explode? 10. Why are the medical staff so damn careless with a possibly disease ridden and bacteria infested decapitated head? I swear they didn’t even wear plastic gloves. At one point I thought they were going to lick it like Hanson the caretaker from Scary Movie 2... [img]http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/p480x480/389597_432122346805675_1042969465_n.jpg[/img] 11. How did Shaw know the Jockey was heading to Earth to destroy it? Pretty big assumption from a couple of punches thrown here and there..no she didn't see the starmap that was afterwards... 12. How does David know the Space Jockey is heading to kill Shaw on the Medical Bay? He is grounded on the floor... 13. How does Shaw know her baby will attack the Jockey? 14. Shaw has this 'baby' but fails to mention the horrific and super extraordinary situation she had just been through. ''oh hey guys, ha ha, nearly forgot. FYI, you won't believe what just happened to me on the way here''....''i just gave birth to an alien..'' ''yeah, i know CRAZY right, considering i had sex only 10 BLOODY HRS AGO!!'' 15. -The whole Vickers' Star Wars 'Father' line... 16. -The 'bet' between the co-pilots was cringeworthy 17. HUGE ONE…How the hell does Shaw walk after abdominal surgery? If abdominal muscle is cut you can NOT walk, the muscle needs to be sewn back…But no, a few staples and she is good to go… 18. Why does the tentacle creature have tentacles from the evil Planet X? 19. Why do the space jockeys allow any old tramp to walk in an use their security hologram systems? 20. Why does the space jockey want to kill…You’d think an advanced race would be a little civilized? 21. What was the point of Guy Pearce as Weyland? Why was he even there? So he just assumed this temple would contain a fountain of youth…..right….I guess he ‘chose to believe’ too… 22. Why does Shaw "choose to believe"? And why does she have that same Dad and subplot from the movie "Contact" (except this time it was Ebola, not a heart attack) 23. (Thanks to Stringer) Why does captain of a ship Janek and project manager Vickers, in charge of the well-being of the crew, leave two crew members unobserved in an alien cave while they have sex, with little regard for their safety? 24. Why does Lindelof still have a career after this many failures? 25. What was with the little flute and Fisher Price squishy buttons? [img]http://i.ytimg.com/vi/VeRRIf1b_b4/0.jpg[/img] Honestly there are so many more I can’t even write them all…But this movie has more plot-holes than the Iraqi Navy
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JonesyJr
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Amen brother! I can't believe these plot holes got past the script-writing stage.
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All your points are sound as a pound! There was so much irreverence and coincidence. I outline some of them here in mah spoilery review http://fundividedattention.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/i-just-saw-prometheus/ Check her out if you'd like a good vent!
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the coming... you said it. unfortunately i'm in agreement with you. couldn't believe how poor the script was. thought i'd add... how about, you have just made the biggest discovery known to mankind. and so you as the Captain, responsible for crew safety, and you as the senior Rep of the 'Company' decide to leave observing 2 STRANDED crew members, to have sex. and lo and behold, all hell breaks loose..... weak.
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My plot holes. 1) why is she dreaming in the 3rd person. Come to think of it why do her dream have picture in picture at key moments 2) how after practically nothing has happened does the captain come to the conclusion that it's a military instillation and their creations got out of hand and killed them 3) why would the SJ leave directions to a military instillation anyway 4) what were they running from 5) how does a 10ft engineer give bith to a 6ft xeno 6) why does a tentical monster embryo turn into xeno anyway 7) what was Ridley Scott thinking 8) how can Ridely Scott sleep after pumping out this crap 9) did really just spen £20 and 2 hours of my life watching this rubbish
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MAJ
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You all sound like rational type people. I don't think the movie was intended for you.
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The High Priest
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amen brothers.......amen.
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The High Priest
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As we are all suffering from prometheus aftershock - This forum has been of real solace for me, to connect with so many intelligent people who feel as conned as I do with this "Teenage Xeno Schlock" has been extremely comforting, and to be fair I have laughed so much with some of the accurate comments that have been made regarding Scott and Lindeloffs hole filled amateur scripted utter horrific abomination of a movie. Oh, but lets not forget........"the visuals where good" Cheers Guys! THP
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- How does David infecting Holloway in any way advance his aim of assisting Weylands search for the engineers? Weyland makes it clear that he want to meet a live jockey to speak to them and get the secret of immortality. He is not after space calamari. - Why does vickers allow them back on the ship after they have removed their helmetson the first visit to the temple? Her later hissyfit with the flamethrower suggests she is quite keen on observing that protocol when it suits the plot. - How did Shaw know they were searching for 'Engineers' (plural) when the painting show only an ambiguous large figure in a cave painting. Thats some extrapolation!
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My God you guys have way too much time on your hands.....maybe the first 30 minutes of the movie should have shown Prometheus flying around the planetoid looking for the temples to keep you happy. GET A GRIP !!!!!!
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@MAJ.....OH so you are ok with movies that make no sense? there is a difference between fantasy and laziness..this is the latter..One must follow their own internal logic.. If the spaceship in a story runs on nuclear power, and then in one scene the captain goes, we need to stop for petrol, would that not piss you off? well this is the same thing...laziness
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@slipp "He is not after space calamari." You sir won the Internet
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Shane
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I'm great with movies not making sense. Sorry, generally nothing in life makes any sense, why should movies? Visual books, so very fucking boring. http://www.amazon.ca/Film-as-Art-Rudolf-Arnheim/dp/0520000358 More people need to read this.
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the coming
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@Shane..yes but this is a different sort of not making sense like I said, it's not a cool fantasy type of not making sense...The characters' reactions and emotions make no sense, and I am sorry, but the acting is VERY akin to Phantom Menace..that sort of lame 1 dimensional acting style which draws no emotion from the viewer whatsoever, And I am a HUGE fan of David Lynch too...but this IS NOT IT the characters and storyline fail on a critical level...
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You have made a really silly list of plotholes ( imo ) 1. really that is a problem ? i simply dont think that David read dreams but just memories ...thats all 2. radar scan ? 3. why not ?? have you never saw the apollo module that landed on the moon ?? 4. You didnt interact with people much in your life right ? 5. you never read of people eaten by bears , lions etc to have approached them too close ?? And they did know they were dangerous 6. becuase all the measurements and david said was perfectly breathable ..nothing strange here 7. no one of these exclude the others 8.she follow what shaw say and i think is a procedure 9. who knows ?? Thats a plothole ?? come on 10. they did wear gloves and they make a check various times in the movie 11. "Earth" was a direct answer gave by David not a Shaw assumption 12. That can be the only real plothole but maybe david always in contact with the prometheus ? hes a machine after all and part of the ship 13. is a last try .... she did have other options ? she already saw that the squd was a bit hyperactive . 14. Duh ..i guess she have other priorities like ..survive 15. -is the whole vickers character that dont work but is not a plothole 16. -you dont know people then ... 17. advanced drugs ?? i saw people walking without an harm and "trying" to walk without a leg . 18. you dont like it ...then ? 19. because they didnt know that an old tramp would have landed on their planet ?? 20. we are civilized ? 21. what would you do in his place ?? Wasnt a chance worth to explore ?? a last chance .. 22. Why many people belive ?? Silly point 23. they didnt know was an alien movie ..thats all ... 24. Dont know but hes still the winner 25. i would have avoid that ...but ...they have maybe music and artistic choices like us ...
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I like what you think. RS really made shit movie this time, same like the Thing screwed up everything. So far the best prequel I had is X-men.
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17. advanced drugs ?? i saw people walking without an harm and "trying" to walk without a leg . please...the abbs were sliced right thru 19. because they didnt know that an old tramp would have landed on their planet ?? HAHAHAHAHAHA! Yes they just invite tramps to mess with their security systems...ok good one 23. they didnt know was an alien movie ..thats all ... Yes they are just incredibly irresponsible and don't give a shit.... OK EINSTEIN, explain this one: If the quarantine procedures were so strict, why did they take their helmets off? Why did Vickers not have a problem letting them in covered in Alien moisture and bacteria after the first trip, but has a problem suddenly the second time? STICK TO A PROCESS! explain all you want it sucked and didnt feel natural at all
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if you like X-men im not surprised you didnt like Prometheus huh ...
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The coming but you saw the movie or not ?? Because it seems not to me ... 1) Quarantine security about what except good sense ?? There were not there to find an infection or something ... the air is breathable ...they remove the helmet ...what there is of so strange ??? Air is breathable ..not contaminated THEN they remove the helment ...its NORMAL and dont carry any kind of consequence later in the movie . The second time they arrive Vickers get the flamethrowe BECAUSE they say HOLLOWAY is sick ...and Holloway is sick not for external contamination . One have to really in bad faith to make problems over this .
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you can add greenery .ie plantlife during the opening scene where the engineer sacrifices himself to spawn new DNA. if plantlife already exists then DNA already exists and the engineers DNA is not neccessary for human life.
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also, how can anyone be so stupid to open up their helmet to a n ew environment. here on earth thousands of native from latin america were killed off by viruses brought over by the spanish conquistadors. so what about another planer which potentially has more advanced lifeforms. thats totally f.... up. even an ameteur producer wouldnt make such errors in the plot. i hope these can be fixed with a directors cut where theres some sort of remidial scene that shows someone giving them the go ahead to open up as they did.

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