mdk said
THANK YOU.I put it down as potentially the worst screenplay (per production dollar) ever written. What the fuck with the stomach-popper scene? IT MEANT. NOTHING. They went through all of that and then "Eh, let's walk over to stage left, something might happen there." NO MORE STOMACH-POPPER. Why. Why did I have to sit through this. It was a series of cool 3-D shots (which, the 3-D looked great, to be fair), occasionally connected by weak and stupid flat characters. Rocky and Bullwinkle -- this was Rocky and Bullwinkle. And they marketed it as like this groundbreaking, "THIS ASKS THE BIG QUESTIONS" type of thriller. Fucking. Dumb.
Everything was pointless in it, it just pulls out a bunch of random sci-if/slasher troupes and then does nothing with them. The plot was just a jumbled mess of pointless scenes and characters and failed to accomplish anything but to give a really vague and stupid backstory to the Aliens race.
It has the writing of a crappy slasher porn movie without any good slashing or porn, and thus managed to come off as a complete waste of time for me, whether you connect it to the Aliens series or not.