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.

  • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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    26 days ago

    Barring a couple of cringey things the movie was pretty good. It never really got dull and the characters didn’t always make stupid decisions. The Ian Holm face thing was unnecessary though. I don’t think it adds anything to the universe except for showing the chestburster-to-full-grown-alien growth process