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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8944522" data-attributes="member: 11760">I think Prometheus is salvageable with a script pass and better editing. (Even the infamous "running from the rolling spaceship" scene just needs them to turn earlier to make it seem less dumb -- they were panicked but snap out of it.) The leech things don't need the helmet removed to go all proto-facehugger -- just let them smash through it or cut the suit and slither inside around the face shield.The idea that the xenomorphs were a biological weapon for a war fought between factions of Engineers isn't a bad one if you establish that they were apparently taking advantage of an organism, or category of organism, that predates them, rather than tidily explaining everything away. (This would even work with Covenant, which doubles down on this dumb idea.)I like that Prometheus was trying to reach for cosmic horror here: "God/ancient astronauts exist, but to the extent they remember us, they want to wipe us out." The execution was sloppy.Woof. Really? I can't think of a single element of Resurrection that did not irritate the crap out of me, including the cringe-inducing characters.Covenant reeks of Scott just seething that people wanted an Alien film like, you know, marketing had claimed Prometheus would be. Him wanting to salt the earth of the franchise is so weird. Just do another film instead, man. You're Ridley Freaking Scott.</blockquote>