Alien was a good well written and crafted horror movie.
Aliens was a very good memorable and charming action movie. I'm pretty sure James Cameron even said he made Aliens as an action movie because he believed just doing Alien again would be shitty and derivative, obviously he was right because...
Alien 3 was a stupid contrived horror movie that went out of its way to shit on Aliens.
Your criticisms basically rest on the fact that Alien was horror and Aliens is action. That accounts for the difference in writing and atmosphere. And Cameron being the Bay of the 80s? Really now? On what grounds else from Aliens? Terminator maybe? I've not seen The Abyss so I can't comment on that, but Bay's movies are soulless charmless special effects showcases. Certainly you could make the argument for Titanic and Avatar being that, but not Aliens and Terminator/2.
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“I always believe the movies I've made are smarter than the way they are perceived by sort of mass culture and by the critics,” Snyder said, a statement he immediately followed by saying, “Also, ‘It looks like a video game.’
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