What I actually kind of like from the Alien prequels is that Scott alienated his story from our personal tastes, confirmation biases and even from our own expectations; making something different, and I kinda respect that. And while the whole prequel series is far from being a couple of smart films, but rather a pair of pretentious ones, I like the art trivia and the philosophical plot elements. On a side note, the designs are elegant (despite the lack of Giger's biomechanics) & Scott's direction / cinematography is masterful. So yeah, even if the original films are just monster movies, there is a worthy attempt from Scott to bring something different but in a intellectual level instead of your regular Marve-lesque cinematic universe or your unoriginal & predictable Jurassic World's modus operandi (bigger and badder). I'd say it's safe to say that the last Predator movie suffers from this two trendy ways of make films. But overall, maybe the Alien franchise wasn't the right place to do that, but a new and totaly unrrelated universe instead.
