There were several factors which hampered the original release, some of which were out of his control. It came out the same summer as ET, and compounded with audiences taste for the kind of sci-fi Spielberg and Star Wars had delivered up to this point, it meant any film of a darker tone (Alien aside, which gained equal cache as a really beautiful-looking horror film) would suffer.Black Hat wrote:As for Ridley Scott, correct me if I'm wrong, wasn't the original film unsuccessful upon release? It that's true, fuck him.
That's not counting all the troubles it had in it's production, down to the sappy ending and voice-over which hammers the plot over your head.