Why do people hate it so much?

I LIKE IT.

Mostly because the movie sucks balls.

Because they are expectational morons.
The movie wasn't perfect but it did a good job as a prequel. Got way more right than wrong.

Everyone keeps talking about TONE. The original films tone change each film. So I dont get it. The tone of this film was probably the closest to Alien out of all the films.

I dislike it for a few reasons

it feels derivative. Aside from the constant fan-service and callbacks to the first movie, the script is a near identical copy of the mediocre 2004 AvP movie.


It feels like an idea Ridley Scott had for a chariots of the gods style storyline, and the studio told him to make it an alien movie and they’d finance it. It adds nothing to the movie mythos, in fact it ruins a lot of the lore and ideas from the first film.