Prometheus - Special Edition (fanedit released 2013)
Finally a decent film! I still don’t care for the core concept behind it but at least it’s not a giant muddled mess anymore. The film feels tighter and more streamlined. The reincorporated scenes help clear up various character motivations. All of the bloat has been excised. I really don’t understand how Lindelof scored this gig. Something simple like the handling of Fifield and Millburn was just so incredibly botched. But this fanedit really saved the film.
Rewatched this fan edit and my first review remains about the same. I’m kind of afraid to rewatch the theatrical edition, what if my brain melts? This fan edit was an impressive accomplishment but the film is still overall fairly dull.
ALIEN: Covenant (2017)
I’m pretty sure I’m completely over the idea of prequels. As we all know here, the Star Wars prequels were awful. The Star Trek reboot/prequels were disappointments and the new prequel series looks like more of the same. Let’s move forward, shall we?
Covenant is definitely an improvement over Prometheus. But that’s not much of an accomplishment. Fassbender really shines here and is the best part of the film. The rest of the characters suffer from varying degrees of stupidity. I don’t know what it is with Ridley Scott these days but his characters seem to exude incompetence.
It makes me very sad that the latest news is that the Blomkamp ALIEN sequel is dead. I’d much rather explore an expanding Xenomorph threat than continue to suffer through Scott’s navel-gazing contemplation of creation and man’s origins.