Did someone say alien 5?:D

[spikesangel]

okay, all i can say is that i think the whole AvP idea is complete and utter total absolute (more synonyms please) CRAP!  whoever thought of making this thing just really wanted to waste some cash in the hopes of dragging moviegoers to theaters.

i thought the whole DRAW of the Alien series was the whole human vs damn-near-invincible-alien thing.  i really don't wanna watch a movie about OTHER aliens who hunt the first aliens.  where's the fun in that?

and this is coming from a girl who will watch a Michael Dudikoff movie repeatedly.

why can't movie franchises get BETTER?

[Grumpy Guy]

Simple statistics.  90% of everything is crap, so the odds of a sequel being good are pretty astronomical.

Alien managed this.  Aliens was a good flick, to be sure.  Great action, interesting and three dimentional characters, facinating develpoement of the Alien mythology, and some very memorable lines  ("GAME OVER, MAN!", "Believe me, I'd rather not.  I'm an android, I'm not stupid.").

Then came Alien 3 (cubed?), undoing all the triumph of the second film, and giving us and entire cast of characters that we're all secretly (or, in my case, not-so-secretly) hoping will die.  No good lines, poor action, and the dumbest developement of the Alien mythos possible.  And, finally, where the f#### did that dog come from?

Finally, we have Ressurection.  Sigorney is back, for no apparent reason other than the fact that we can't seem to have an Alien movie without her.  An alien that absorbs the characteristics of that which it has gestated in is made more human (and SO  MUCH LESS DANGEROUS) with the moronic addition of live birth, removing the scariest aspect of the Alien creature (the whole impregnation of a living host thing).  Some evil scientists are thrown in for fun, and we are given another two dimentional cast that is more than a bit difficult to care about.  Wynnona is served up to us, being the only intelligent addition to the cast sice the second one.  Hey, at least Rerssurection got that right, but sine it didn't do anything else right, how excited are we supposed to be?  Finally, as a last effort to diverge from reason, the film gives us a re-entry scene in a ship that is depressurized, and a gigantic, repulsive, and generally stupid looking human-alien hybrid, full of bones and chitin, sucked through a hole the size of a quarter.  I guess it was just made of acidic tapioca after all.

And now, they threaten us with another sequel.

Lord, give me strength...

[Ellie]

I can't wait to see this movie! Yeehaa!