Expensive waste

Rating: 4/10 (10 January 2013)

Marketing people should be paid to leave the directors alone. That would have spared us a lot of bad movies these last 10 years. I see the same degradation in the Star Wars franchise as in this Alien saga at work. Bloated special effects and anemic scripts.
I truly wonder how this heap of money could be spent on such a lame synopsis. When I watch a movie, I'm more than willing to temporarily suspend my disbelief, but at least I expect basic consistency in character psychology and plot. As many have already pointed out, here we can find neither.
What happened to Hollywood producers, I wonder. Take no risk, aim for an audience of little kids and airheads or something? What a waste of more than decent actors and director. With 1% of the budget they could have paid someone to actually write a scenario, but I guess it was deemed unimportant or even counter-productive.
I hope the producers got as much money as possible out of this, that's the only thing it can produce. No dream, no imagination, no memories. This movie-product will be forgotten in a year, leaving a few big wigs a bit richer. What a shame...