Speaking of Ridley Scott.
But then in an astute creative move, the sequel was put in the hands of one of the truly best directors working today, in fact it could be said that Dennis Villeneuve is the Ridley Scott of his day. Like Michael Mann has been the John Ford of his day.
Although Villeneuve so far has been a guarantee of quality both in content and presentation, while Scott's erratic career is sprinkled with quite a few mediocre efforts and misfires, like he gets easily distracted, and you can even get a whiff of that in the way he fidgets unnecessarily with his older movies (speaking of Blade Runner) like Lucas did with the Star Wars original trilogy.
I always get the uneasy sensation that whoever leans this way in the way they view politics and the world, if they get their way there would be even worse misery for the majority of humanity, that whatever plan they have in place to replace the current system is full of holes and unicorns, political magic wands and groovy vibes all around, man.
As flawed and incomplete as so many hippies who were "Down with The Man!" with one hand, while also "A woman's place is in the kitchen and making babies" with the other one.
Like the old republican woman snarling "Keep your dirty government hands off my Medicare", half-baked ideas of how things work, once you get down from the armchair platitudes and into the real work that needs to be done.