Why do we expect to watch another Alien movie in the same way?

Rating: 9/10 (1 August 2017)

For Alien movies, the many years of great reputation as one of the best sci-fi horror movies does really hurt many audience and fans when it steers to new direction about the truths behind the birth of alien and humanity with philosophical and religious thoughts especially when the story focuses more on David, an A.I. who invented alien rather than aliens themselves. However, I personally believe that is exactly the greatness of new alien series which will not duplicate another boring killing and escaping stuff to satisfy its own traditions. It's a new adventure both for Mr. Ridly Scott and alien movies to reveal all of the secrets behind aliens' world and, more importantly, behind the humanity and extraterrestrial civilizations. I saw the classic alien chasing and attacking scenes, I felt the scares of people at another dangerous planet, I started to know more about the invention of alien and I found the deep sarcasm and warning about an ambitious A.I. who not only invented alien as his symbol of hatred to his own fate but also expanded his ambition to prove his priority against humanity and even other civilizations in the universe. All of this is even more tragical when I knew his complex feeling and what he did to the passed Dr. Shaw. Don't forget that David is actually a rebel invented and manufactured by human being. That is really a deep and multi-layered perspective to tell a story about the origin of alien. Because of this, the original idea and meaning of the aliens' world designed by H.R.Giger become darker than before. Previously it's the dark art about the totem of death and reproduction, now I can see more from it about the dark side of humanity even it comes from an A.I. that is far more scared than alien itself. The Frankenstein's inventor leads us to gradually know more about the truths and complex connections behind alien stories. What else do we expect? We need NEW perspectives and depths to give us a wider range of understanding to the alien world and Ridly did it well. I agree that there're still some mistakes in the plot but that is not very important for a non-Nolan and non-Hitchcock movie. Technically it has achieved a new height of all alien movies and we can actually see the best visionary performance of alien ever in the history of alien movies. Unfortunately those great shots have been cut off in the screening version in China...I hate censorship....Sorry for my poor English. For an elderly and widely recognized film director like Ridly Scott, he decided to make this new series purely for his own dream, considering the fact that he is the one who made Alien famous, that dream is worthy of being respected. At least, the universe of alien, will inevitably mark the history because we finally know more about alien.