That was one of the stupidest movies I’ve ever seen. It’s very difficult to believe that it was created by the same person who created Gladiator.

Monsters remain scary as long as the audience doesn’t know much about them because the imagination is always scarier than the reality. Giving them a backstory was a dumb move, not helped by the writing being absolutely fucking abysmal, but that’s always been Ridley Scott’s achilles heel. Give him a great script and he’s one of the best directors around.

The story and ideas were great. I loved the abortion. Michael Fassbender was appropriately creepy.

However, this is the movie where the Prometheus School of Running Away came from.

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.