well then if budget didnt allow it, why attempt it? Thats even worse - to sacrifice logic and message of the whole series just cause the budget was low. In thatcase, dont place aliens on earth, not in US or any populated area at least. Texas could be more acceptable or something like this, with the setting of "Tremors' lets say.
And they still wouldnt have to do a full scale big budget movie showing aliens overtaking the world. Im not saying they should. Im saying what would happen if aliens would reach the earth, and nothing like it happened in avpr.they screwed up the franchise whatever the reason was. And still, they could do it "Signs" style - dont show the world, just the perspective of a small town
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I'm glad they at least attempted this concept. But I doubt FOX will give out the cash for anything as grand as Aliens Earth Hive showing the Earth encompassed in Aliens. They had no choice but to make it smaller due to budget, and it wasn't a bad representation of a town overrun by Aliens. Should it have spread? Most definitly. But FOX would need to give a bigger shit about these films to give them more money.