Maybe a shorter, starker film, with an alien as the "hero", that followed it through its life cycle and told a very sparse story about the people around it, by following it, and only it, as it stalked through the in-between places in their safe lives and murdered all of them. This wouldn't be popular and would be hard…

The power of a planned alphabet.

I spent maybe all of five seconds in Russia one year and this happened to me. I can't read Russian, but I can sound out words I read in the alphabet, and the Soviet kitsch pseudo-Latin fonts all look like gibberish to me for a couple seconds. It's like a Magic Eye for me now.

I feel that if you take the game out of that game, you are left with a movie that has a lot of elements that are awfully like other movies.

Whichever one of the first two you don't like, I want to know your venomous thoughts about it

NILES: That was James Cameron.

Maybe we can make the Alien a plucky female, and the human a depressed artist's skull penis nightmare

It's a bad movie, okay cast, it's also just kept at a baseline of watchable by Weaver's steady presence. The idea of making movies about those creatures without her just doesn't scan.

The secret handshake would be if he managed to name the robot, like… Evan? Empress? If he didn't do it the Illuminati would sink it, like they sunk Fantastic Four *stretches away into a dark alley*

I thought Prometheus had a lot of what Roger Ebert called "bad laughs", but I'd still rather see someone try to carve something out of the nooks and crannies of the dueling art designs of the first movie than do more and more and more movies about the same creature. It is beyond gauche to quote Roger Ebert twice but…

I'm a huge fan of Scott and a lot of his movies just don't gel. I love Gladiator but I've seen babies chew less scenery and it's obvious he encouraged it. Prometheus was visually forgettable, which was the last thing it needed after Damon Lindelof got involved. Remember how everyone was like "Ooh, but the 3D surgery…

I was spoiled, and this is shameful but nevertheless, spoiled by the plot of AVP2 the game. The Predator in that appears so he can murder a veteran he marked as a kill during a close encounter, but the veteran ended up surviving so it's like that episode of The Simpsons where Homer finds out he never passed high…

Which I also enjoyed! But again I agree. It was a debacle. There were two things I liked about Resurrection. One was having Weaver have a go at the monster, like those old Universal movies where they'd play musical chairs when Bela Lugosi died of Heroin. The second one was that Call starts with "C".

I enjoy it, but agree. It's one of those lost movies of summer.

I like that movie. It's okay. Fincher hates it, but I don't care. The worst part is the aged effects. It's an all right movie about a terrible place to be stranded and a monster who won't die. But compared to the first two it's peanuts and I can understand why Fincher was unhappy to serve a course of peanuts after…

The third one has an interesting story about it.

Fucking good.

Followed.

If I went by the name of Dan, I would be getting as much mileage as I could out of "Dan-splaining".

It's the true horror of the Internet to discover that so many people discuss movies in the argot of hit Web site "TV Tropes".