It was entertaining and showed parts of the Alien universe that hadn't been seen before. Plus, anything with that South Afrikan princess in it is good in my book.
It was? It was boring tedious exposition to prop up a horror franchise as some high minded thing, with bits of jump scares and characters acting completely nonsensically opposite of how they should have acted considering they literally spent most of the boring exposition showing they would be.
Who the fuck wanted to see that? I keep seeing people say they're fans of the Alien universe and want more of it and it just completely baffles me. It's a pretty generic vaguely realistic future version of our world with a neat looking alien (that while neat, what the fuck more do you want of that, Alien and Aliens are basically the perfect ways of using that creature, why anyone wants anything more of the alien I cannot fathom; do people want like an Alien apocalypse thing where it's basically a zombie movie with aliens? If so why?).
I'd say fair point as she's generally an entertaining actor, but she really did not add anything to this movie.
Yep, unnecessary sequels and spin-offs almost always get progressively worse. It looks like Lindelof is gone though, so maybe it won't be insultingly stupid.
I like the franchise so I'll probably see it eventually if it costs me a dollar or less, or if it's getting good reviews a week after release.
I think it being insulting though is almost inherent to doing that shit. Lindelhoff seems to be shitty, but, I don't know why anyone wants them to flesh out the Alien universe. It being fairly vague and not explaining stuff is why it was interesting. Same with basically every universe they've tried to expand on (including, one could say especially, Star Wars). Even a universe like Star Trek where the technical aspects are probably the main draw, suffer when they try to explain things more and expand. And the more they do it, the worse it gets.
I like Alien and Aliens. I do not like it as a franchise. I can't even understand why people want expanded Star Wars universes and plenty of other stuff that for some reason they're trying to flesh out, and the Alien one is even less interesting and more shallow than those by orders of magnitude.
I can at least somewhat understand people wanting more Ripley (and Hicks and Newt), because they were enjoyable characters. I don't have much hope that it'll be good, but I can understand that. I really cannot understand the people saying they want more Alien, especially the ones saying it after Prometheus (since now they're going to try to add more explanation on how it connects, after going out of their way to say Prometheus is not Alien, but now it totally is!).
Wow you fucking nailed that analysis.
Prometheus was visually pleasing.
Oh absolutely. Even though I thought the setting was boring as pebbles of dogshit, it was very sharp and cinematic, dog shit. That's just about guaranteed with Ridley Scott is that it'll be shot exceptionally well (I do wish someone would point out fucking dumb it is to have big bright lights inside your space helmets though). But that's also part of the problem. He has the best tools he's ever had (and one of the best casts he's ever had), but wasted it on such a piddling story (there is nothing really interesting about the origin story they tried to tell, it's like a weaker creation story than basically any society or religion has come up with, and is barely more than "aliens jacked off all over the universe"), dumbshit throwaway characters, and just plain stupid plot. I don't know why they're trying to juxtapose high minded scientific philosophy with crappy slasher horror. It's like they watched 2001 and took the most basic thoughts ("oooh - intentionally it must be said, but for purpose - incromphensible scenes, vague setup, and the computer is a cold heartless killer, also space cause duh").
I was going to lump him in with Spielberg and Cameron and go WTF happened to all these guys after the like mid-late 90s, but Scott has really always been a flash now and then director. But he's still trading off the 80s for some reason. Not sure if it's because people seem to be pining for the 80s or if he's trying to get his geek cred back or what.