I believe the movie does not deserve that kind of treatment in ticket sales . I mean not to that extent for sure . But what does it make clear is that people a) do not actually care for the more philosophical approach (something that was partially abandoned with covenant due to the reception prometheus had but apparently its too late for that) b) people need to actually watch the movie before they badmouth it but audiences and internet people are too spoiled nowadays and jump to conclusions before even watching a film . Is this actually a bad film ? Definitely not . Is it great ? Certainly not but I believe its the best film in the alien universe after the first two masterpieces. Clearly the franchise has suffered after the story the dreadfull alien3 has taken and the subsequent films after that . What at first seems like a good idea to go into the unexplored territory of the origins , the philosophical approach did not click with people ( I actually enjoy the flawed prometheus ). What made the first two movies GREAT was a) the scare factor , the tension that builds up to horrifying events , the claustophobic feeling b) the action either being ripley trying to get to the escape pod of nostromo or the marines blasting aliens . Those two ingridients plus the masterful direction made these two movies great. Those two elements are absent or are not presented with that kind of mindset in prometheus and covenant (although covenant tries to differentiate to a certain extent from the philosophical approsch). I believe either Ridley (with proper story-script material) or James Cameron are the only ones that can salvage thre Alien franchise . Its no wonder that everything went to hell after the first two movies . Same can be said sbout the Terminator franchise...