Back after a week - my reaction

My problem with the movie as a whole is it didn't slow the hell down for a minute and let the characters talk about what just happened and discuss how to proceed. If you think about it, the best parts of ALIEN and ALIENS are when they discuss their situation and what to do about it. This can be *ovedone*, of course, and used as a crutch for the audience, but this is the first time in recent memory I wished a movie would slow the F down. Also, I had problems with the glib dialogue and anti-intellectual characterizations of supposed "world-class" scientists and professionals. And the music was distracting and reminded me of a Speilberg movie. That said, Ridley Scott's failure is better than 99% of the other sci-fi movies out there, and I'm grateful for what we have.