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* Alien Resurrection : I was greatly looking forward to it, digging through magazines to get any kind of scoops on it. Then I saw it and kind of convinced myself it was awesome for about a week and then it hit me. Nope, we all got bamboozled.
* Prometheus : Was vastly looking forward to this. Great visuals but horribly written. Still, it did NOT leave things unsalvageable by the end as long as a part 2 stayed the course on delivering on the Engineers' stuff, unlike...
* Alien: Covenant : Wow. Just horrible. Not as beautifully shot as Prometheus but fine enough. Just a "greatest hits" of moments from Alien, Aliens and surprisingly even Alien 3 with a doubling down on all of the characters behaving irrationally stupidly like Prometheus. Betrayed the promise of the end of Prometheus and simultaneously killed any possibility of continuing things. We have Ridley Scott and this thing to thank for killing both a proper Prometheus 2 AND the Blomkamp Alien 5 that would've reunited Ripley and Hicks.
* The Batman : I don't know that I was thinking it was going to be AWESOME, but I was definitely hoping I was going to be proven wrong on a lot of things and be blown away. Plus, to justify the many years of no Batman movie and the jettisoning of the Affleck version to make room for this. No, didn't really like it at all. One step forward and two, maybe three steps back in every meaningful way, IMHO.
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