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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9439119" data-attributes="member: 18">I should add that I actually wasn't surprised by Prometheus being &quot;like that&quot;.Okay I was surprised by the sheer dumb-ness of the characters. But the general &quot;excuse for pompous/pretentious bollocks&quot; deal it had going did not, because Ridley Scott basically said everything he wanted to do in Prometheus in one or more interviews in the 1980s, where he complained very plaintively that he was very unfairly not considered the writer/sole genius of Alien, and that he had all these cool big ideas which weren't exactly in the film, but to him informed it (pretty much exactly the ideas in Prometheus, so really only even relevant to the &quot;alien spaceship&quot; part of the movie), and he didn't understand why the actual writers got credit and he didn't (hint to Ridley Scott: because they wrote the movie, you wanker! Your storyboards doubled the budget they offered you, maybe focus on that?). He also complained about Aliens (the movie) existing and &quot;contradicting his vision&quot; (again, which wasn't in the script or on-screen), and stated even back then that he had wanted to do a sequel and it would have been very different (he later said &quot;oh actually Aliens was good&quot; but by later I mean 25 years later).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9439119, member: 18"] I should add that I actually wasn't surprised by Prometheus being "like that". Okay I was surprised by the sheer dumb-ness of the characters. But the general "excuse for pompous/pretentious bollocks" deal it had going did not, because Ridley Scott basically said everything he wanted to do in Prometheus in one or more interviews in the 1980s, where he complained very plaintively that he was very unfairly not considered the writer/sole genius of Alien, and that he had all these cool big ideas which weren't exactly in the film, but to him informed it (pretty much exactly the ideas in Prometheus, so really only even relevant to the "alien spaceship" part of the movie), and he didn't understand why the actual writers got credit and he didn't (hint to Ridley Scott: because they wrote the movie, you wanker! Your storyboards doubled the budget they offered you, maybe focus on that?). He also complained about Aliens (the movie) existing and "contradicting his vision" (again, which wasn't in the script or on-screen), and stated even back then that he had wanted to do a sequel and it would have been very different (he later said "oh actually Aliens was good" but by later I mean 25 years later). [/QUOTE]

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