Give it a chance. It was always on the cards that we'd get more Star Wars, and that it'd suck. It was looking really unlikely we'd get any new Alien, let alone something with Ridley behind it. Say what you like about him, and I often do, but the man puts nice visuals on the screen.
It IS bugging me that EVERYTHING looks off, art-direction-wise. Nice - GREAT even - just
off, versus A L I E N. The shoulders of the Jockey-Suit for example...and all the rest of it...it's close, but not the same as the original, and
not as good, even disregarding the whole biosuit aspect. It's about a 90% for my money. Sculpting, CGI, whatever it is; it's noticeably not the same deal. The ship is metallic, for example. I call it a bio ship but it really isn't. Everything is mechanical rather than grown, it just has a lot of compound curves and repeated small techy elements that *resemble* the mummified flesh and bone look of the original.
Still vastly more than I ever expected, so I'm more than willing to buy in.
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It's not precisely a normal bloke; it's a creepy bald tall alien bloke with biomechanical skin or clothing, wearing a biomechanical suit and helmet...which I don't argue isn't still FAR too human and familiar-ish but it's the tone and presentation that I'm allowing for. If they do enough weird and disturbing ****, it could fly. As Carson put it, that's one of the eggs that Ridley and co. have had to break in order to serve us up this omelette...
