My only issue with this movie in not being a PERFECT movie experience is
1. Not in IMAX. I feel like I can explore the details of this yet another beautifully shot film, if there was more to see. Regular screens don't cut it.
2. More atmospheric cuts between ACTS. Because although there was lots of beautiful atmo, i don't feel like I'm immersed in it as much as the crew were in every place they went. Some time to breath in during the half and final act would have been perfect. This could have been due to my point in number 1.
3. Cut out some of the revealing Xenomorph birthing. I get what director Ridley was trying to achieve , I just didn't feel it was necessarily made with enough emotional context to the audience whom have NOT watched Alien. As much of this was a throw back to ASH and his admiration for the species.
4. Cut down on the details of the massive starship elements. It came off like a modern Star Trek movie which I recall wasn't a staple of the Ridley verse. So it was an Ark ship, and you had to show its structural elements, but I felt it was too elaborate for a Ridley movie. Not enough rough stuff. Unfortunately WE ALL WANTED a Nostromo type ship but they totally forgot about that.
5. With all the digital stuff out there, we still can't get the Xenomorph to do things which we want to see. Like them camoflaging themselves in crevases are in funky textural walls. What we got was the same old same, in the vein of Alien Resurrection. Which I swear they could have easily left out (Xeno in the red lighting corridors with cameras on them from above). These were horribly shot and gave the Xeno absolutely no hope in terms of photographic composition.
6. David could have been more presentable realistically. It had been 10 years in the woods and inventing a number sharp tools and sheers yet they made him look like he just had 6 months of hair growing out. Seemingly he was freshly shaven.
And not a scratch on the guy. No broken face, no wear on his skin, nothing to show he is truely synthetic or horribly inhuman which could have saved this movie and made the ending MUCH more interesting.