History YMMV / AlienResurrection

* HesJustHiding: [[spoiler: Hillard]] and [[spoiler: Christie]] respectively being dragged into or falling into the flooded corridor without any bloody, onscreen deaths can inspire hope that they might have survived and made it off the ship another way.

* NoYay: The film features a scene where an Alien is holding Ripley in its arms and carrying her to the Queen's lair. She's not afraid of it, and embraces the creature. The sequence is shot and framed [[InterspeciesRomance as if it were a love scene]]. Now remember that the Aliens are utterly inhuman monsters that [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong face-rape people]] and have killed almost everyone that Ripley ever knew or loved. In the scene's defense however, this ''isn't'' Ripley, it's a clone that retains some, or most, her memories. And while in the deleted scene, the image on the flashcard reminding her of Newt does affect her, she is is half-alien herself, so she understandably empathizes with the creatures much more than the real Ripley ever would.]]

** If you follow Ripley's story across the four movies, and take ''Film/Alien3'' and this movie as canon, it's pretty sad that Ripley not only lost her friends and coworkers, her love interest, her surrogate daughter, and her life to prevent the Company from getting their hands on the Queen alien inside of her, but that her whole identity is basically absorbed into the xenomorph species itself in her Ripley-8 incarnation. Though she does do the right thing by killing off the newborn alien to keep it from reaching Earth, it clearly pains her to do so.
** The human-hybrid Queen actually ''coos'' at her newborn... but the newborn [[spoiler:rejects and kills her after he's born, because he identifies more with Ripley-8 than his biological mother. It's strangely sad to realize that the Queen actually loved her child and tried to bond with it, only to get killed]]. Possibly a case of UnintentionallySympathetic?

* UnintentionallySympathetic: The hybrid ''Alien Queen'', of all things. It actually coos sweetly at its offspring and expresses about as much motherly love as a Xenomorph can...[[spoiler: only for the Newborn to reject her and violently kill her in favor of Ripley 8.]] Made even worse because this is the only queen in the franchise that doesn't kill anyone (except through its eggs).

* TheWoobie: Hillard, since she has to watch [[spoiler: her boyfriend die in front of her]] and is clearly terrified by the whole experience. The look on her face before she dives underwater [[spoiler: and ultimately dies]] cements it.

*** The second reason being that the review ends by suggesting that fans wait for ''VideoGame/AliensColonialMarines'', which at the time, had been recently announced for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2, saying that "While no concrete details have been announced for the game yet, this is one instance where the unknown is preferable to the devil you know." Said game wound up being delayed until February 12, 2013, released on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3[[note]]as well as the UsefulNotes/Xbox360 and Windows; a port for the UsefulNotes/WiiU was planned but eventually cancelled[[/note]], and said game was critically panned...with [=GameSpot=] [[https://www.gamespot.com/aliens-colonial-marines/reviews/ giving it a lower score]] than ''Resurrection''[[note]]''Resurrection'' got a 4.7 from [=GameSpot=]; ''Colonial Marines'' got a 4.5[[/note]]!

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The UsefulNotes/PlayStation FirstPersonShooter is considered a lot more enjoyable than the movie, let alone ''VideoGame/AliensColonialMarines''. The game was also notable for being one of the very first console FPS to feature the dual analog scheme that would become the standard over the next decade. [[http://i.imgur.com/dQy45Js.png Look at this quote]] from the [=GameSpot=] review and try not to fall out of your chair laughing.

* VindicatedByHistory: [[VideoGame/AlienResurrection The video game adaptation]] for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation1 introduced the modern dual stick analog controls for FPS console games. This control scheme was one of many heavily criticized aspects of the game, which reviwers at the time found clunky and unintuitive. Dual stick analog controls would later be popularized by ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' a year later, and become the standard control scheme for console FPS.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The over the shoulder blind from the half court shot? Yeah, that’s all Weaver. She got it on her sixth try. And the reason for the cut to another camera angle the instant the ball drops through the basket? Creator/RonPerlman almost ruined a perfect take with an incredulous reaction to Weaver actually making the shot.

* NoYay: The film features a scene where an Alien is holding Ripley in its arms and carrying her to the Queen's lair. She's not afraid of it, and embraces the creature. The sequence is shot and framed [[InterspeciesRomance as if it were a love scene]]. Now remember that the Aliens are utterly inhuman monsters that [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong face-rape people]] and have killed almost everyone that Ripley ever knew or loved.

* SoBadItsGood: If you look at the film as a horror film in the vein of the previous franchise entries, then it isn't very good. However, if you take it as a hilarious, over-the-top, comedy spoof send up of the ''Alien'' franchise, then it is a riot. The film also features Creator/BradDourif hamming it up, with his character having goofy obsession over Xenomorphs and engaging in WindowLove with his subjects.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Captain Elgyn (Michael Wincott) is basically Han Solo except with a more badass voice. [[spoiler:He's dead within minutes. See TooCoolToLive immediately below.]]

** Chestbursters. In the original film, the chestburster had its victim incapacitated by convulsions so violent that he nearly bit off his own tongue. In this film, apparently the effects have become so mild that you can engage in a fist fight and then stranglehold someone long enough for their skull to also be broken by the creature's emergence. On the other hand, this shows that a chestburster is strong enough to smash through a grown man's sternum and a grown man's skull ''at the same time!''

* {{Narm}}: The Newborn's death scene is so ludicrously over the top in how disgusting it is, that you'd half expect the film to stop mid frame for the creature to [[BreakingTheFourthWall mug to the camera]] and say [[WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyGetsTheBoid "Gruesome, isn't it?"]] The mediocre special effects don't help, either.

* NarmCharm: Purvis and his... um, shall we say "creative" way of [[spoiler:disposing of Wren by using the ChestBurster which starts ripping through his insides]]. It's [[SoBadItsGood stupid,]] [[NauseaFuel disgusting,]] and [[KarmicDeath very,]] ''[[KickTheSonOfABitch very]]'' [[DyingMomentOfAwesome satisfying.]]

* ContestedSequel: Some view it as the worst film in the series, though ''Resurrection'' still has its fans, thanks primarily to Jeunet's unique visual style, the added humor of Joss Whedon's script, and the presence of cult actors such as Ron Perlman, Dominique Pinion and Michael Wincott. Some even find it to be [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel an improvement over]] ''Alien 3''. Whether you like it more or less than ''Alien 3'', it's hard to deny that it is very stylistically different from the first three films in the series, having much more of a comic-book feel than a grounded one. For example, it's hard to imagine one of the Colonial Marines in the second film performing a trick shot by richocheting a bullet off of three walls to hit a target behind them.