Prometheus.
It's remarkably funny, although I suspect I was meant to have a different reaction. I was channeling Tommy Lee Jones as Agent K: "Congratulations, it's a... ...squid."
Oh, it's got the sumptuous look, and it's as seamless as FX shots are these days - and I enjoyed it as a spectacle - but unless there's oodles of stuff that was cut for time, for reinsertion into an extended BluRay, it was a bit formula. Alien was somehow a better film, with claustrophobia and menace. This is an expository adventure story which somehow didn't really hit the same spot. Clearly I'm older and more cynical than the intended audience. I think I know what he's trying to say, but this film didn't quite say it to me.
The quote from Ridley was 'I just want to scare the shit out of you.' Well, it more kind of doesn't.
I'll say this though: It's well made, and well acted. Fassbender really is quite uncanny. A bit like Heath Ledger's Joker performance, it's the one thing in the film that made me really want to stay. I think we've been led to expect a different film. It's a fun adventure film with gore (and goo) but not really in the same mould as the others at all.