You guys kinda gloss over this, so I'm gonna drop it in the thread: does anyone have any idea what a 'Double Y correctional facility' is? Women are XX, men are XY. What is YY?

And I totally disagree that killing off the Aliens characters was a bad choice. I love that every Alien movie wipes the slate (aside from Ripley) of the previous one. Just because Cameron's Alien movie was awesome doesn't mean the next film has to be tied to it.

I was in no way distracted for the first act waiting for Hicks and Newt to be still alive. They told us they were dead, so OK, they were dead. We then watch a movie dealing with Ripley being as surprised and saddened as we were.

I'll admit that Alien 3 has its problems, but starting with a gut shot—oh crap there's still a live Alien, and it killed most of our leads—is perfect.

Also: you guys need to do Serenity.

This will be interesting to revisit. I haven't seen it since I walked out of the theater at the end in 1992, disappointed. I was hot for another Aliens, as was the entire rest of the world, and Fincher was clearly trying to shift the tone again. But it didn't help that this was yet another film that starts out by saying, "You know how the previous film ended? Yeah, I'm throwin' that out."

Not on my screen, it shows Star Trek as the latest.

Tried that already, Star Trek is still latest. And yes, I tried a hard refresh, a couple times, no luck.

Looking again, I agree with you.