Recently watched Romulus, like two weeks ago. Personally, I loved it, thought it was great.
I had also tried to watch Aliens (plural, the sequel) holy shit it is so trash. And yet it was considered a hall mark of the time. It takes over an hour for the aliens to show up, and in the meantime you have to deal with dumbfuck marines who are supposed to be the best of the best but are undisciplined fuckwits that make the term “crayon eater” sound like a compliment. Then they do show up, and the marines are just the biggest idiots. I cannot stress enough just how trash this supposed classic is. Also, probably a hot take, but Weaver is just a product of her time and heavily overrated.
I also watched AvP and AvP: Requiem, and both of those movies were a much more fun watch, though Requiem really does drop the ball with way too many dark shots, its a common complaint about the movie for a reason. There’s a lot of complaints about lack of character depth too, but my own response is who the hell cares when most are just going to wind up dead. I’m definitely not watching Alien or Predator movies to be enamored with the basic humans. And they’re all better than the trash Marines of Aliens.
Alright, let’s say it is true, lets just take your subjective experience as fact. Afterall, the crayon eating meme likely has its grounds in some truth, right. So lets say that is totally how they really act. It changes nothing in making the team in the movie an absolute cringe worthy cast to watch. I dunno, maybe the thought was that helps make you root for their death. But over an hour in and I was just sick of the movie, and couldn’t even get into them getting come-uppance. It was a genuinely frustrating movie to sit through.
Yeah, I’m pretty aware of the general trend, I did read up reviews and scores and all that. Like I said, people consider Aliens a hallmark, but it’s just… not. It’s terrible. And while AvP franchise is nothing great, more like very expensive B-movies, they were more entertaining than what James Cameron shat out as far as I’m concerned. They were fun. Aliens was a slog. I will die on that hill.
Recently watched Romulus, like two weeks ago. Personally, I loved it, thought it was great.
I had also tried to watch Aliens (plural, the sequel) holy shit it is so trash. And yet it was considered a hall mark of the time. It takes over an hour for the aliens to show up, and in the meantime you have to deal with dumbfuck marines who are supposed to be the best of the best but are undisciplined fuckwits that make the term “crayon eater” sound like a compliment. Then they do show up, and the marines are just the biggest idiots. I cannot stress enough just how trash this supposed classic is. Also, probably a hot take, but Weaver is just a product of her time and heavily overrated.
I also watched AvP and AvP: Requiem, and both of those movies were a much more fun watch, though Requiem really does drop the ball with way too many dark shots, its a common complaint about the movie for a reason. There’s a lot of complaints about lack of character depth too, but my own response is who the hell cares when most are just going to wind up dead. I’m definitely not watching Alien or Predator movies to be enamored with the basic humans. And they’re all better than the trash Marines of Aliens.
Having hung out with Marines, the movie depiction may be too accurate…
Alright, let’s say it is true, lets just take your subjective experience as fact. Afterall, the crayon eating meme likely has its grounds in some truth, right. So lets say that is totally how they really act. It changes nothing in making the team in the movie an absolute cringe worthy cast to watch. I dunno, maybe the thought was that helps make you root for their death. But over an hour in and I was just sick of the movie, and couldn’t even get into them getting come-uppance. It was a genuinely frustrating movie to sit through.
Lol Aliens is a thing of it’s time.
Most people don’t like the AvP movies, so it’s interesting reading your point of view. Thank you!
Yeah, I’m pretty aware of the general trend, I did read up reviews and scores and all that. Like I said, people consider Aliens a hallmark, but it’s just… not. It’s terrible. And while AvP franchise is nothing great, more like very expensive B-movies, they were more entertaining than what James Cameron shat out as far as I’m concerned. They were fun. Aliens was a slog. I will die on that hill.
To each their own. I can respect that.