They sure are.

This first movie is the perfect epitome of Hollywood taking something beloved, running it straight to hell, and then taking it even one step further by completely disjointing the stories and continuity, alienating the fans and basically wasting everyone's time while marring the original all in the name of the making some money at the box office. This is a movie that I immediately wish you could unwatch and erase from my memory banks.

I would be highly surprised if more time went into the script of this film than the actual marketing. The PG-13 rating should have been the first sign, a complete step away from the series already, with every previous movie being an adult themed R rated spectacle, not a nice little kids movie.

Horrible acting. Pointless plodding sub-plots. Decent action sequences and a precious few cool moments in what should have been a fan-boy's wet dream. The lead in this movie is a demographic friendly woman with barely enough acting ability to make a shampoo ad believable. Any mildly entertaining characters (Lance Henrikson, basically) were immediately destroyed in the first twenty minutes of the film with zero payout.

After mentioning it as a plus for the Alien series in a previous post, I certainly didn't like the "new" Alien life cycle. The face-hugger burst out as an alien in 40 seconds. This is truly ridiculous. Paul Anderson seemingly didn't bother watching the previous movies, and ignored what some of the greatest directors of recent years (Scott, Cameron, Fincher) have acheived for the series before.

As such, I haven't been willing to spend more time of my life watching the sequel.

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