Ridley Scott is totally out of touch when it comes to ALIEN.
The prequels were absolute garbage. I just saw "All The money in the World" and it was pretty good,
proving he still knows how to make a decent movie, it's just that it doesn't seem he cares about the
ALIEN universe. Covenant was so awful, the decision to go with cartoon CGI Marvel type monsters instead
of really taking the time and building intricate, realistic monsters... The stupid ending. The lack of
understanding of how real A.I. works... (I'm so sick of this cartoon version of A.I. in film) It's just sad that he's
so arrogant, as if he can't tell how far away from what works he has fallen.
He doesn't care about exactly what made ALIEN great. He doesn't care about the ALIEN!
That's why the creatures in COVENANT were so sloppily thrown together without care, they didn't even
follow the traditional ALIEN life cycle and yea, I know, they're supposed to be earlier versions but how
do you give the earlier versions more power than the later ones? Makes no sense. And I don't believe he
can't tell how awful CGI looks when it attempts to make monsters, he's Ridley Scott. He has a good eye.
He just didn't care. He thought we'd be fooled because all the comic movies do it but he didn't understand
that we expect better from him and from the ALIEN universe. There's nothing worse than a director just
phoning it in and that's how I felt with COVENANT. With PROMETHEUS, I felt he was at least passionate
but it was just again a huge misunderstanding of what made ALIEN great and again, an attempt to distance
it's self from the exact thing we want - the ALIEN. Plus it was almost malicious, like an attempt to destroy
everything cool. Mystery of Space Jockey? Gone. It's just a big bald dude. Who made the alien?
A human created robot. Such terrible and stupid answers.