timdiggerm said:

Ironically, if not for the the connection to Alien, a connection the writers seem to want to downplay a bit, y'all might be more willing to see this as just a really good sci-fi movie

assuming it's really good, of course.

Yes, true. If it's a great sci-fi movie, it won't matter all that much to me. It only matters right now because it's the only thing to really talk about. The fancy Avatar displays sapped just a little of my excitement because I was banking on the fact that Ridley Scott would manage to make old, bulky technology look sexy. It worked so well in Moon.

Really, I just want to see a science fiction film from Ridley Scott that's as good as Blade Runner and Alien. That's about story and mood, so we'll see.