I agree generally, but for that part with Crudup, I think he would have been a little more wary after David flipped out over him killing an alien that had just killed one of his crew.

I've gotta think if Disney had evidence that kids/foreign audiences weren't attached to Depp in that role, they'd do away with him. But why mess with the formula? The last Pirates movie did (relatively) poorly domestically, but was the second biggest grosser of the series worldwide.

Oh you and your "context"

These movies do exceptionally well overseas; they probably don't want to take out the main guy and risk losing that.

I wonder how much of that is because Scott seems to do movies fairly quickly and is quite prolific. This movie REALLY seemed like they wrote a first draft, Sir Ridley read it and said "good 'nuff" and filmed it as is, Eastwood-style.

I was just thinking this movie would've made a good Treehouse of Horror parody.

I thought The Counselor was great but recognize that is a minority opinion.

I may be alone in this, but I thought the ending was more building the dread than trying to fake out the audience. Like the audience knows it's David (but the idiot characters don't suspect a thing), but they really don't want it to be, so every second the camera lingers on his face builds the dread to the inevitable.…

No time!!!! For some reason. Even though this they're saving like 7 years by doing this there's NO TIME!!!

duhhhhh they were SCARED to go back in the pods cause Franco had just been burned up by one!

I assumed from the previews that he'd be the last man standing.

Scott was clearly more interested in the Chariots of the Gods aspect of Prometheus than the Alien aspect, but I think his ego was bruised from the highly mixed reception, though the reception to A:C seems as bad or maybe worse (and worse B.O.).

Now I wish there had been a scene where they run across some emails from Weyland-Yutani corporate lol-ing about how being paid to ship these idiots off to certain death under the guise of "colonization" is their REAL business model.

This. This irritates me more than any of the questionable motivations/decisions of the characters. This is a bad move for the overarching story in my opinion.

I would appreciate it more as a nod to Agatha Christie stories or something but I'm not sure if Scott quite deserves credit for trying to evoke a trope like that.

All the android business makes me think Scott is regretting the decision not to reboot Blade Runner himself.

I think they said the storm covers the whole planet, right? I picked up on that cause I thought they'd explain it more but…nah.

I generally liked the movie more than most but that part was the hardest to look past. I feel like they could have done a little better with just a little bit of background as to why they're trusting of David. Maybe make it so humans are trusting of synthetics because they haven't been known to commit…

He said the same thing on Bill Simmons' podcast, but it was in the context of being asked about the downsides of Netflix distribution. I think his point was, you work on something for 18 months, it comes out and everyone watches it in a day or two and wants to know when they get more, whereas if it were over 10 weeks…

For sure. Without the outrage, there's no content.