What damn sites was Ridley reading to come to the conclusion that Prometheus needed more Xeno's? It obviously wasn't this site. In the grand scheme of things, this sites membership is a miniscule percentage of the movie going public. Shrug.. Maybe Ridley is right.. Maybe the average movie goer who would see these films knows a little bit about the ALIEN series and just wants a simple monster movie.
I've been a fan since I saw the first film on VHS in the early 1980's, but after half a dozen films and probably close to 100 viewings.. I'm bored of Xeno's
IMO, the trouble with Prometheus is that the Engineers feel like a tacked on afterthought. Intelligence and power with malevolent intent is a lot more scary and unnerving to me than critters crawling through ducts. Also too much time screwing around with old man Withers.. err Weyland.. It's a wasted opportunity because Prometheus could have been saved with a proper part 2 follow-up.
Nobody watches a movie like The Fellowship of the Ring as a stand alone story. You need to see Two Towers and Return of the King to make it complete. That is what I hoped for, but this feels more like a reboot. Another robot slips a cog movie.