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Haven't seen it, can't imagine why I would. The franchise, like Terminator and most other 20th century franchises that are being endlessly retreaded, is totally played out. Alien: Covenant was the final straw.

If I want to watch an Alien movie, I'll watch the original, 2, or *maybe* Resurrection or Prometheus. Everything else isn't even canon in my books.

Keith Mukai 11mo ago

The Terminator movies have been mostly meh or terrible, starting with the third one. "Dark Fate" made a pretty good earnest effort that was the best of the bunch. "Salvation" tried to be a more focused character study and I give it points for its ambitions.

Movies in general feel pretty doomed to me. Studios are too scared to do anything too original and so just do endless sequels and reboots.

That being said, the Predator franchise has been the worst of all of them, yet "Prey" managed to be pretty great.

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Electric Sheep 11mo ago

I agree overall, although I was totally underwhelmed by Dark Fate. I hated T3 so much I don't think even saw Salvation, so maybe I'll give that a go.

I agree with your bleak assessment of Hollywood system. There have been some signs of new growth in the last couple of years. I enjoyed M3gan and The Creator. But I suspect the place to look for innovative movie-making now is everywhere else but the US; the Europe, China, India, etc. Basic digital visual effects are so cheap now that I suspect it will have the same effect on movie-making that digital audio had on music production from the early noughties.