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13 Years After Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, Alien’s Most Controversial Movie Might Have Become The Franchise’s Most Important

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Over a decade after its debut, the divisive Alien prequel Prometheus is quietly becoming one of the franchise's most important outings. Despite being so closely linked to the genre, Ridley Scott spent 30 years away from sci-fi between Blade Runner and Prometheus. Of course, having directed the first entry in the Alien movie franchise and Blade Runner was enough to certify him as an icon of the genre. Scott was plenty busy in the decades between …
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13 Years After Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, Alien’s Most Controversial Movie Might Have Become The Franchise’s Most Important

Over a decade after its debut, the divisive Alien prequel Prometheus is quietly becoming one of the franchise's most important outings. Despite being so closely linked to the genre, Ridley Scott spent 30 years away from sci-fi between Blade Runner and Prometheus. Of course, having directed the first entry in the Alien movie franchise and Blade Runner was enough to certify him as an icon of the genre. Scott was plenty busy in the decades between …

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The Most Controversial Alien Sequel Is Actually One of the Best in the Franchise

Sigourney Weaver in Alien 3 Some movies have such troubled productions it’s amazing they work at all. In fact, some end up being classics (like Apocalypse Now, Fitzcarraldo, and Jaws). Others end up being total disasters, e.g., 2015’s Fantastic Four. David Fincher’s Alien 3 falls somewhere towards the middle of those two categories. Not a masterpiece, but far from being the ineffective slog its detractors back at the time of release would have y…

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