i read the first 18 pages of this, so forgive me if someone already said this - no one gives a crap. no one who makes movies gives a crap. cameron wanted to make his movie. he didn't care about what ridley's meant. if he did, there would have been no story. it was painfully obvious for everyone that fincher didn't care about what cameron had set up. alien 3 is almost my favorite of the series, but its skill and craftmanship from a movie-making perspective has been totally overshadowed by its direct 90 degree turn of story. i guess the point i'm trying to make is that no one cares about canon. every director wants to do their take, their movie. every writer writes their alien movie. this stuff is not as big to anyone, but us. and god knows even if we had the money and organization to get together and make our own alien movie, we'd never get it done because no one could agree on anything (it would just be sil and i ready to throw punches at everyone else because we "know" our ideas are the only ones that are right). i wouldn't wish it on anybody, let alone fellow fans of the franchise, to have to navigate this huge mess of continuity and rules and sub-rules for the alien character's behavior and life cycle. if we've re-instated the egg-morphing from alien, then should we also assume that cameron's albino mini aliens were just unseen in aliens and they still exist? where do we stop?
that said - the strause bros. are as close as we will ever get to having a fanboy alien/predator flick. no respectable, established director will ever make an alien movie again. period. its become a hackneyed, shitty mess. it's become b-movie - due in large part to anderson and whedon. i can't blame jean pierre for not knowing any better. so which would YOU rather have? someone who doesn't care at all, or someone who just doesn't care quite as much as you do? i'm quietly resigning myself to the fact that i will not like this movie. i won't. i HATE the predalien. the character, the execution - horrible, in my opinion. but when it comes down to it - these guys are our best bet, maybe our last chance. if they want to do something new - fine. every other director has done the same, by varying degrees. they've gone back and retrieved boatloads more for this movie than anyone else has cared to. out of love. for the movies and other fans like them. everything everyone's saying about this movie could be said for EVERY other alien movie.
