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Chunky Salsa
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I wouldn't really consider Aiens a horror film at all. It's more like Dog Soldiers.
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Chunky Salsa
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It's an action film with some jumpy bits in it, both of them are. Alien and Alien 3 are horror films, Aliens is not.
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Why are the 2024 users so absolutely retarded? Is there something in the water? Is the Jab to blame?
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Sorry man, but it's not scary.
It's a vietnam film with bugs that get blown away by the dozens. There's no horror in it at all.
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Sorry man, but it's not scary.
It's a vietnam film with bugs that get blown away by the dozens. There's no horror in it at all.
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that feels like a thing that might have come up in the Dark Horse comics before 3, too
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It didn't. You'd think so but none of the comics did that until after Alien 3. Closest you get to that is Female War (with art by the guy who did The Maxx comic) that aims high but falls short with the idea that the Aliens are psychically connected to a super hive with the mother queen of the species protected by not-Praetorians.
It's not a very good comic despite being the only one that features the return of Ripley.
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back in my day that was just "the third series of comics"
but yeah I def recall the very toyetic Colonial Marines 12 Issue series had aquaxenos and other dumb stuff, but was pretty sure that was after the toys and I suspect was grown from Operation Aliens related debris
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I know in 28 Weeks Later it's implied the virus was spreading to countries like France but if this is just set in the UK again, I want to believe that it only happened there, and the British are uniquely retarded and keep causing outbreaks while the rest of the world just continues on.
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I'm going to be very criticial of the movie, but I did think it was enjoyable.
Cailee Spaeny is cute even if she is a coalburner, but I don't think her acting was all that good. It was passable. The rest of the cast were nothing memorable.
On the whole I didn't feel particularly invested in any of the characters. I thought that the characters were one-dimensional and weren't that compelling, with the exception of the android. He was really cool after the chip was inserted into him. One of my favorite parts of the movie is when the android lets the pregnant woman get fucking mirked by the xenomorph. I thought that the Chinese girl was strangely hot, but I expected her to die because the fucking promotional image shows her getting implanted, so it's not like I'm going to care that much about her. They tried way too hard to make the Australian guy unlikable. He was so poorly written.
The main character was boring and stupid, and her weird fixation on her android "brother" was pushed beyond where I could suspend my disbelief. She left a dying pregnant woman, alone, with no support, so she could go back and get the android, even though she already had the memory chip for him. That was one of the points in the movie where I rolled my eyes. It was extremely contrived to set up the entire last encounter where the pregnant woman has her baby turned into that pale alien. A lot of the stuff it got right it just borrowed from the original Alien. But you can see the influence of Prometheus and Covenant on it with shit like the pregnant whatever-the-fuck alien at the end.
The whole ship veering off and crashing into the hangar because she accidentally kicked the controls was bullshit, and it seemed more comical than suspenseful to me. It reminded me of the scene from Prometheus where they get crushed by the big ship. After the one Asian girl gets hit by the facehugger, I didn't think the rest of the movie was all that scary or suspenseful. Another scene I thought was ridiculous was when they were going through the hallway, and the one spic boyfriend character decides to start talking on his radio as they are in the hallway.
What I didn't understand is why they didn't put the Chinese girl to sleep with the cryo fuel they just barely obtained. They had enough. They definitely should've been able to put her to cryosleep as soon as possible, and then returned her to the planet colony to get it removed. I think maybe the people making the movie intentionally made the gestation period for her chestburster extremely short to get around it. But I don't get how the Aliens have a faster gestation period in this one than they do in other Alien films. In Resurrection, it takes forever for that one experiment subject to have his chestburster immerge.
I could sit here and pick it apart further and further, but I digress. I liked the visuals and the set design. The xenomorphs all looked impressive, even though they weren't nearly as imposing as the xenomorph in the original Alien movie. The final shot of the station exploding was very satisfying, I agree. I'd probably give the movie a 6 out of 10. Better than Prometheus, and better than Covenant. But that is not exactly a high bar to reach.
On the whole I didn't feel particularly invested in any of the characters. I thought that the characters were one-dimensional and weren't that compelling, with the exception of the android. He was really cool after the chip was inserted into him. One of my favorite parts of the movie is when the android lets the pregnant woman get fucking mirked by the xenomorph. I thought that the Chinese girl was strangely hot, but I expected her to die because the fucking promotional image shows her getting implanted, so it's not like I'm going to care that much about her. They tried way too hard to make the Australian guy unlikable. He was so poorly written.
The main character was boring and stupid, and her weird fixation on her android "brother" was pushed beyond where I could suspend my disbelief. She left a dying pregnant woman, alone, with no support, so she could go back and get the android, even though she already had the memory chip for him. That was one of the points in the movie where I rolled my eyes. It was extremely contrived to set up the entire last encounter where the pregnant woman has her baby turned into that pale alien. A lot of the stuff it got right it just borrowed from the original Alien. But you can see the influence of Prometheus and Covenant on it with shit like the pregnant whatever-the-fuck alien at the end.
The whole ship veering off and crashing into the hangar because she accidentally kicked the controls was bullshit, and it seemed more comical than suspenseful to me. It reminded me of the scene from Prometheus where they get crushed by the big ship. After the one Asian girl gets hit by the facehugger, I didn't think the rest of the movie was all that scary or suspenseful. Another scene I thought was ridiculous was when they were going through the hallway, and the one spic boyfriend character decides to start talking on his radio as they are in the hallway.
What I didn't understand is why they didn't put the Chinese girl to sleep with the cryo fuel they just barely obtained. They had enough. They definitely should've been able to put her to cryosleep as soon as possible, and then returned her to the planet colony to get it removed. I think maybe the people making the movie intentionally made the gestation period for her chestburster extremely short to get around it. But I don't get how the Aliens have a faster gestation period in this one than they do in other Alien films. In Resurrection, it takes forever for that one experiment subject to have his chestburster immerge.
I could sit here and pick it apart further and further, but I digress. I liked the visuals and the set design. The xenomorphs all looked impressive, even though they weren't nearly as imposing as the xenomorph in the original Alien movie. The final shot of the station exploding was very satisfying, I agree. I'd probably give the movie a 6 out of 10. Better than Prometheus, and better than Covenant. But that is not exactly a high bar to reach.
For future Alien franchise movies, I hope they adapt William Gibson's screenplay for Alien 3 or they do Alien Isolation. That would be interesting to me. I rather liked the alternative story he had for Alien 3.
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I know I'm going to get shit for this, but I would rather go watch Alien: Resurrection than Aliens. For me, it's Alien > Alien 3 (Assembly Cut) > Alien: Resurrection > Aliens > Romulus > Covenant > Prometheus.
Alien: Resurrection is so fucking kino, and I'm tired of pretending its not. I know the problems people have with it. Okay, I acknowledge that. But it is extremely entertaining to me. It's so campy and weird. It reminds me of that show Lexx, or Firefly.
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What else do you expect from a country where even the cops aren't allowed to carry guns?
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Selena does tell Jim the virus had spread to other countries at the start of Days. I don't remember if Weeks explains how it was contained in those countries or not. Just remember it ending in France.
I still want the weird wooden planet one that Vincent Ward came up with, thought that was a pretty rad idea.
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I wish they would finally man up and use the whole "Earth War" comic as foundation for a new Alien movie. Bring the evil boys to earth. Maybe that's why I secretely like the Pred vs. Alien 2 movie, cause it's the closest we really get to a Alien outbreak on earth.
But I agree on the Alien < Aliens < Alien 3 < Romulus score, I did enjoy Romulus, especially in the beginning, but there is a limit on when nods to the old movies become so hamfisted it becomes cringe... and the "get off her you bitch" really had me rolling my eyes so hard, I'm now legally blind.
But I agree on the Alien < Aliens < Alien 3 < Romulus score, I did enjoy Romulus, especially in the beginning, but there is a limit on when nods to the old movies become so hamfisted it becomes cringe... and the "get off her you bitch" really had me rolling my eyes so hard, I'm now legally blind.
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Everything they do or will ever fucking do is shitty and queer. I wish they would just stop.
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You've seen City Of Lost Children, right?
a lot of the same cast and crew
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BTW they are re-releasing the original to theatres for the holidays.
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Yeah, it's going to be shit - I actually watched Fog City for some reason and also like 30 minutes of Muck before I gave up on it even as background noise, and both were just "annoying people sit in a house to bitch at each other and sometimes die." I also just pulled up both movies to check and it's the same fucking house in both lmao.
On the topic of remakes no one wanted, the Street Trash remake (which is actually sequel, but they call it a remake for some reason) is also really bad and one of the cheapest-looking movies I've seen in a long time. The mean-spiritedness of the original is replaced by lol-random humor and basically all of the effort went into the opening; by the end the movie is firmly Youtube skit tier.
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I've seen Kill Her Goats, 3/10 is being very kind to it.