Well to be fair, the other Alien movies already took that grungy, industrial look and ran it into the ground. I can't really blame Ridley for wanting to go in a slightly different visual direction for this movie.
For me, as long as he lets the story unfold in the same eerie, naturalistic way as before, it shouldn't really matter what the visual style is.
For me, as long as he lets the story unfold in the same eerie, naturalistic way as before, it shouldn't really matter what the visual style is.