Chained Prometheus
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We're talking about the shots themselves and the decisions made within each of them, divorced from the script and story context of each. You don't have to have seen either film to be able to see the differences in each of them.
And the differences don't automatically mean one is greater than the other in this case. Everyone has personal preferences, but I don't really think the original film is so great a visual feast that it trounces on the new film in each and every shot. They're just two different experiences imo.
What we have here are two insanely gorgeously looking films with different styles of composition being utilized. The original has a more baroque Orson Welles vibe, while the new film seems to be striking for a more minimal Ingmar Bergman/Andrei Tarkovsky vibe.