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I'm looking forward to another film completely carried by Michael Fassbender.

So...another crew that attended http://videosift.com/video/The-Prometheus-Science-Training-School

Yeah, this has a lot of baggage to shed from Prometheus to win me over and so far, my response is... meh.

They're gonna do it right this time. It will be a by-the-numbers hit of every beat from Alien and maybe a little Aliens in there for good measure since they've got guns.

It will be a standard modern blockbuster. It will be exactly adequate but probably get a few bonus points for cool visuals to bring it up a quarter of a notch. I will rent it and probably enjoy it and forget everything except the visuals within 72 hours.

That's not doing it right. ;-)
Bonus points for visuals can never make up for a failing story. At best you end up with a D- of a movie.

Damon Lindelof is nowhere near this, so maybe it won't be complete shite

The overly zoomed in footage, and the lighting look very SyFy channel to me

It's visually very cheap looking.

The story looks a bit pretentious from what little they show (just like Prometheus). Neil Blomkamps script seems a lot more appealing to me - to finally see the company make their bio-weapons.

3 and 4 were Citizen goddamn Kane compared to Prometheus.

3 wasn't great, 4 was daft but stylish, but neither made me root for the giant rolling spaceship to crush the protagonists and put us all out of our goddamn misery.

Prometheus was almost great, but there were too many "that's fucking stupid" elements. The entire crew was shit, not a single one was likable. At least with the space truckers in Alien, they were all sorts of assholes, but they were likable assholes. In Prom, they were just unpleasant people, doing unpleasant things, while generally being bad people - I hate them all still.

One thing Prometheus had going for it was visuals - Ridley Scott knows how to film a good looking film, I don't really think anyone can argue that. I really hope the story won't get fucked over this time, and I hope it won't just be a retread either. The reason Aliens was so great, is that it did something new with the franchise; prometheus tried and failed to do that well.

Alien 3 was not actually so shit, I think. It made some damn near unforgivable choices in killing off Newt and Hicks off screen, but aside from that I actually liked it. Close to a retread of Alien, but still a twist on it.

A4 was just shit with some good bits in - the many twisted clones of ripley, the Auton, and the aliens in water was all fun things. The rest is garbage.

I'm cautiously optimistic about Covenant, more classic horror, I wager, but with Scott's signature visuals.. we'll see!