I don't give a s**t if Ridley's directing. No way!
See, seeing Alien for the very first time changed me, and the way I look at world.
Changed me for bad perhaps.
It was Ripley, Ash, Lambert, the story, that made me thinking about morality, the importance of choices, the sacrifice, the pain.
I was ten years old.
Alien was pure mindf**k for me.
Next day I spend all of my time in school drawing in my book what I saw on that VHS.
Ten years later I was buying every Giger's albums I could find, mature enough to understand the sexual overtones, the design of alien, what happened to Lambert after Parker's death.
Alien, the first movie, before Cameron, Dark Horse and s**tty Amalgamated Inc., is something that cannot be rebooted.
Post Scriptum: Stay away from "Edge of Darkness" Mel.