The more I think about the movie the more it grows on me. It does open up lots of new questions on the Aliens mythos.

I think I'm going to go back to the theater to watch it again.



> They did a neat job of carving a path in a different direction while maintaining
> the horror vibe from Alien mixed with an awesome new sense of discovery that
> hasn't really been matched by the previous movies. The characters were
> interesting (especially Shaw / David / Vickers), the insight into The Space
> Jockey kicked ass, and the various threads they wove in there to tie it to the
> previous films were great.
>
> Guy Pearce pulled a Ed Norton (from Kingdom of Heaven) there, too. If I didn't
> see his name in the credits, I never would have known that that was him. Awesome
> stuff.
>