Sorry but a Pred movie without tense moments, even "scary" is tone deaf. You spend all this time and detail on a CREATURE, yet you use him as an action hero.
Real fans aren't saying it's NOT hard to make a movie, get it to the screen. Real fans know it's hard to make a movie and the opportunities don't come around too often and don't want the opportunity wasted as it's been for 4 movies now!!!!
Don't brow beat us by saying "it's hard and there's no respect for the process" when the studio puts out 4 POS's. At some point your gonna have an issue. As well at some point your "married to the old formula-so-it-should-be-different" high-horse has to come into question.
Hicks your whole "elements I liked, elements I didn't like" is part the of the problem. Like an "element" aka 10 mins of a MOVIE doesn't prove "versatile".
You want "versatile" "elements" you like, go read a comic or play a video game. This pompus attitude has ruined the franchise and has kept fans at bay from an overall GOOD MOVIE in it's entirety for 4 films now!
Don't you know how hard it is to get these films made!!!
Oh wait.