You have heard a more positive reception from the nice fellow below me, now hear me out. I did not care for this movie and honestly believe they should have stopped off at Aliens. Of course this is a contested sequel in and of itself so it helps to hear both the positiving praise and the negative diatribes against it.
Let it stand that I believe David Fincher to be a great filmmaker, but even the greats sometimes have some old shames behind them. The prisoners who make up the bulk of the cast are dull (and in a few cases mind-numbingly annoying) and their "interactions" merely serve as padding before they become xenomorph bait.
The reason that the audience as a whole cared so much for the casts of the previous works was due to the fact that they were a very small and scared group of likable characters, allowing the audience to sympathize with them and find their inevitable brushed with death all the more shocking and terrifying. The characters of this setting are primarily atoned prisoners, yes an atoned group, but criminal misogynists all the same, these individuals find the sudden arrival of Ripley to upset their balance and react with a degree of regressed shock that can only be described as misogyny, making it more difficult to actually care for them and simply see them as victims more befitting a slasher film.
All the same, I did not for this film, and any fans of Fincher's later works (as well as a number of fans of the original 2 films) would likely find this an awkwardly padded mess they would seek to avoid.
All the same keep in mind that mine is a more cynical and caustic mindset. There are individuals who will enjoy this film and I find no problem with that. I simply cannot share in that sympathy.
This should not have been.
You have heard a more positive reception from the nice fellow below me, now hear me out. I did not care for this movie and honestly believe they should have stopped off at Aliens. Of course this is a contested sequel in and of itself so it helps to hear both the positiving praise and the negative diatribes against it.
Let it stand that I believe David Fincher to be a great filmmaker, but even the greats sometimes have some old shames behind them. The prisoners who make up the bulk of the cast are dull (and in a few cases mind-numbingly annoying) and their "interactions" merely serve as padding before they become xenomorph bait.
The reason that the audience as a whole cared so much for the casts of the previous works was due to the fact that they were a very small and scared group of likable characters, allowing the audience to sympathize with them and find their inevitable brushed with death all the more shocking and terrifying. The characters of this setting are primarily atoned prisoners, yes an atoned group, but criminal misogynists all the same, these individuals find the sudden arrival of Ripley to upset their balance and react with a degree of regressed shock that can only be described as misogyny, making it more difficult to actually care for them and simply see them as victims more befitting a slasher film.
All the same, I did not for this film, and any fans of Fincher's later works (as well as a number of fans of the original 2 films) would likely find this an awkwardly padded mess they would seek to avoid.
All the same keep in mind that mine is a more cynical and caustic mindset. There are individuals who will enjoy this film and I find no problem with that. I simply cannot share in that sympathy.