No, I haven't seen it. Yes, I know RedLetterMedia is not an infallible source of movie criticism. But when I read about the movie myself, from promotional material for it no less, I found myself asking "that's it? That's all there is to this?"

Maybe my interest/fondness of the franchise hasn't fully recovered from that "David actually made the alien and killed all the Engineers" retcon asspull from before that made the universe feel very small and stripped it of a lot of curiousity and dread in the darkness of space and all of that.

If you saw it and liked it, that's great. Share what you liked about it if you like. The set design, physical costume/makeup work, and even the acting all sound promising, but I don't think I could bear to sit through what really does sound like some LLM-written kitbash of the previous movies.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    27 days ago

    If it helps, I really liked the game Alien: Isolation, even if it dragged on a bit too long with an excessively long final act that didn't really feel necessary. It was nostalgic, sure, but it also introduced enough new ideas and expansions to older concepts to feel like it was still adding something, the Working Joes in particular and the bleakness of a dying competitor to Weyland-Yuutani and the working-class consequences of that.

    The Capcom AvP arcade game was a good time too, even if it was a whiplash mood-shift from what it was based upon.

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      27 days ago

      The Working Joes alone are a better addition to the lore than anything Ridley Scott's added to it in 40 years