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"We Were Asleep At The Wheel": Ridley Scott Reflects On Divisive Alien Prequel Prometheus (screenrant.com)

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 days ago (2 children)

For its first four installments, the Alienfranchise was most concerned with offering up a combination of horror and sci-fi action, and less concerned with delving into lore. Prometheus, however, goes in a different direction, and Scott uses the prequel to explain the origin of the Xenomorphs and the Engineers. Though the film earned generally positive reviews and has a 73% score on Rotten Tomatoes, these explanations demystified the franchise, a move that, in addition to a focus on David (Michael Fassbender), an android, proved controversial.

I’m in the minority, but I like the lore provided by Prometheus and the movie.

The Alien movies didn’t come across as mystique to me rather that they left me hanging too much on a lot of background.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

I liked Prometheus, and I enjoyed the one after it a lot more. But they were both mixed bags, the horror was half assed and the im14andthisisdeep parts weren't thought provoking at all.

But yeah the lore is fine, imo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I think the problem with the two movies (Pro. & Sequel) was mainly that it didn't give enough. So much lore was left unsaid or in 15-30 second scenes which while extremely carefully laid out and awesome, felt too divorced from the plot for the average viewer.