Is it just me, or does Alone in the Dark look like an Alien rip off? From what I've seen of the promo's, the monsters in that movie look a lot like aliens, the soldiers look like Alien marines, and the plot seems familiar. Thoughts?

It looks like another generic "monster" flick.

The commercial played in the background while in my friend's room today. I basically picked up something like this:
An ancient civilization warring with another civilization created some massive weapon that almost destroyed them all. They hid it in some ancient temple or in some other dimension never to be seen again. 2000 years later, archealogists discover seismic readings on top of a skyscraper which are caused by the other dimen...you know what **** it, I had a better bull**** theory but now I just have to study calculus.

I've not heard of this movie - but it's probably another game->movie conversion. There was an Alone in the Dark series of games for the PC about 10 years ago.

Without the Alone in the Dark games, there wouldn't be any Resident Evil or survival horror genre. They were more Lovecraftian occult horror type games than sci-fi CGI monster splatter.

Just another Uwe "House of the Dead" Boll film. Avoid.

It may just be that I don't remember the games very well, but the movie seems nothing like it at all.
At first I thought they might have been mutually exclusive. No?

i thought it looked kinda cool.....i played the demo of AITD 4 a while ago since it came on a pcgamer demo disk...that game made me jump a few tims.