Caporegime
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the reason people say that, with some degree of accuracy is because, when you buy the box set, the film might be out last, but anyone buying it not having seen them before would start with the first one, which becomes the prequal.
By comparison, even a crap story and a bad film, in current standard can make a few things from an old film even with a great story/acting/directing, look almost silly in comparison.
Think of it this way, the Matrix was pretty damn awesome, the 2nd worse and the 3rd worse again, if the quality of the films was reversed, the first writen poorly and the only got their act together and starting to drop the cgi bull for the last film, it might be the best but your "feel" of the trilogy would be reversed, you wouldn't have bonded with the characters in the same way and already think Morpheous was a complete tool and not really like the film in the same way.
Batman films, if Batman and Robin was the first one out, you just wouldn't have felt the same about the rest of the films as they followed. AS it was a bunch of trilogy's get far far worse but the early film isn't effected, slot in a new start that changes how you meet the characters and it can vastly change your opinion of later films in a series.
REalistically though for old films prequals won't really change your perception at all.
Also, just because Ridley Scot is on it doesn't mean a huge amount, look how Indiana utter failure 4 turned out with a decent director thinking he could recreate a old franchise and failing massively. Don't forget the Ridley Scott of 30 years ago is not the Ridley Scott you get now, literally, he's changed, he's filming differently, everyones moved on. He might make something good, but it could just as easily be terrible.
