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As a huge fan of Alien and Aliens, and a strong detractor of Alien 3,
I have avoided seeing AR until last night.
It's a mixed bag. I liked the new Ripley and thought she had some
great lines, esp. at the end ("I'm a stranger here myself"). I thought
the sets and costumes and cinematography were all fine. But the story
line was weak, the action sequences were sometimes questionable, the
story did not always flow smoothly, and there were several disconnects
in the story line.
In short, it was better than I had heard, but still weak. Most reviewers
gove it 2.5/5.0, I give it 3/5.
Now, if only James Cameron or Ridley Scott could be persuaded to make
Alien 5 to the same level as the first two ...
Mike
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"Well, it looks like we saved the earth". Somebody pass me a bucket; I think I'm going to be sick (as Mr Creosote once said).
Doug Flynn,
For shear Hollywood blather in sci-fi I think the top of my list is the line in "Independence Day" when two pilots are talking in the locker room:
Pilot Buddy 1 to Will Smith:
"If ya wanted to be an astronaut, you never shoulda married a stripper."
So very true and words I've lived by ever since.
Cheers,
Bambi B
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"We should be dead. We didn't decompress"
"They musta done something to us"
That franchise is nearly 30 years old now. Hard to believe anyone could bring it back to credible life. Certainly, Weaver is too long in the tooth to once again reincarnate Ripley again.
Oh, they could stick her in there somewhere, as some wise old sage who holds all the knowledge, and that if the smirking Young People In Charge would only listen to her the entire movie would only last 15 minutes.
But please, no more scenes of her stripping to her underwear prior to a well-deserved nights sleep after fighting off the aliens for the last 36 hours. She almost certainly is past that prime.
"dammit"
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NO GRITS NO GLORY
...about Aliens 3 and 4.
3 lost that atmosphere, environment and dynamic (editing?) that made Alien and Aliens so special, but had Ripley sleeping with her doc, for politics or whatever so three's development of character became the major point of interest for me.
4 had Brad Doriff speaking coochie-coo with the enemy, which for me was a superb character choice (way to go Brad!). Ripley was a nuanced hybrid, and the opening scenes created more mystery and tension than the rest. The "Blowfeld scene" was rediculous. Ron Perlman was over the top (great actor though).
A carefully realized 5 would get my interest as well.
Written by Joss Whedan and has a lot of his cleverness and the killing off of what you would consider to be the leads by their looks. It looks like certain ideas were messed with however. The direction by Jeunet was not bad. I wasn't sure I liked the Ryder part and the mad scientists seemed unreasonable stupid. It certainly had some humor missing with this series and I thought could have set up an interesting sequel. I agree with your rating.
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