Prequels, Prometheus and why the hell?

Not every prequel can be Godfather 2. Considering after all of the attempts that have been made only ONE (In recent memory) has gotten it right (Rise of the Planet of the Apes which I thought was the hawtness, and look to a future article where i bitch about "digital actors" who are actually playing their character getting passed over constantly for recognition) I guess we will start with the obvious good ole Star Wars when I was a kid and they mentioned the famous "Clone Wars" nothing that could be put on screen could match what I was dreaming about when I heard those words

Certainly not that. 

But Lucas made the awful sequels before that trash even came out with the original intentions of never even showing the clone wars until the original 3 minute serials (Which were awesome) and I do enjoy the series from time to time as long as Ashoka isnt on screen but the movies... OH MAN THE MOVIES. Why did we NEED to see the background of everything? We knew what was important Annikan was born, was a bad ass pilot, became a jedi, fought along side Kenobi in the clone wars and somehow fell to the dark side. All jedi went into hiding because he ganked them all and that is that, there is enough mystery there to mentally fill in the blanks and be happy or allow some writers to handle it in a book or comic because they would do a better job than Lucas did anyways. Wanna know why the sequels suck? Ill show you one scene why

We wanted to see the characters we learned to love over 3 movies further adventures, we WANTED ep 7,8 and 9. We wanted to see how bad ass Luke becomes and Han Solo w/Chewies further adventures as a changed man in love but still a scoundrel at heart. Thats what we wanted and the books did a damn good job of it, shame well never see it on the big screen. 

The Thing.... Those of you that personally know me know that I watch the Kurt Russell thing at least once a week because it is a piece of amazing fucking cinema with effects that are actually better than the prequel made over 20 yrs later. Fuck talking any more about that, just go see the original, then grab the prequel and leave a comment im sure you will see it my way too. 

X-Men First Class : Im on the fence about this one because as a film I really liked it, and I love the chemistry between Charles and Erik that you know will end badly, the only problem is as with most prequels it already has broken all kinds of things.

1) In Xmen charles says that he helped make Magnetos helmet (Did NOT get it from Shaw)

2) If Charles and Mystique are literally childhood friends why isnt this ever mentioned in the few times they are on camera together? You would think there is some sentimental ties between her and the child that basically took in a homeless child but 

Im sure there are more things but id have to watch it again to get them all fresh in my memory. There is talk of a sequel if they can get Matt Vaughn back (Hopefully after he does Kick Ass 2!!!)and maybe they can mind whammy Mystique like they did with 3p0 in ep3 so she dont remember jack.

Xmen Origins Wolverine - HAHAHAHA

They broke Sabertooth's story

Deadpool

Cyclops - Dont you think hed remember Sabretooth chasing him through his fricking HIGH SCHOOL?

Funny side bit to this story, I read there is a script going around for a Deadpool movie that sounds amazing, the film is supposed to start with him watching Origins and mocking what they do to him in the movie, please let Ryan Reynolds go into Van Wilder mode and wreck this movie with laughter that Deadpool is known 

Even Paranormal Activity went the prequel route however I have not watched this yet but im sure it sucks and has a lame ending, you already know the kids dont remember anything about their first encounter with the demon so they basically have a blank check to do whatever batshit insane stuff they want in the movie.

Im sure there are several more coming down the pipeline some may suck (I am Legend prequel) some wont (The Hobbit) and some can land on either side of the fence (Men in Black 3)

Then we have the bigun Prometheus for those unfamilar THIS is Prometheus and it could really kick ass, first off its Ridley Scott's return to the Alien franchise secondly check out the cast. 

Michael Fassbender ... David
Charlize Theron ... Meredith Vickers
Noomi Rapace ... Elizabeth Shaw
Patrick Wilson ... Cocooned man
Idris Elba ... Captain Janek
Guy Pearce ... Stannison
Rafe Spall ... Milburn
Logan Marshall-Green ... Holloway
Rutina Wesley ... Lara

Originally set up to be a straight up prequel to Alien that will explain the space jockeys origins and the origin of our favorite film beastie. Since then its supposedly been switched to something much more, while still set in the Alien universe and the story will tie in, its not a direct Alien prequel. Here is a direct quote from Fox suit Tom Rothman "It is not [an 'Alien' prequel]. It's not. Hand on heart. [On it being in the same universe] I suppose if you want to definitionally be that literal, but it does it a great disservice. I will tell you, here's the way to think about it. If you looked at the whole movie, 95 percent of it is entirely unto itself. Ridley said it right: If you're a fan and you look closely, you'll spot strands of DNA."

So we will see, but for the love of all that is good, stop ruining the mystery with prequels! My imagination will do a much better job of filling in the blanks than any director every could.

Prequels that wont suck

Hobbit - Only one I know for sure will not be filled with suckitude