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I actually thought that Alien 3 was better than Alien 4. Though the plot of Alien 3 was dark and somewhat strange, it was better than the complete weirdness and impossibility of Alien Resurrection.
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Oh I agree. Alien� was like ordering a T-bone and getting some hamburgers, very nice hamburgers but hamburgers nonetheless. Alien Resurrection felt like trying to drink a gallon of strawberry milk in under one hour.
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quote:Originally posted by Nim: Alien Resurrection felt like trying to drink a gallon of strawberry milk in under one hour.
In under five minutes.
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Well I liked Michael Wincott and Brad Dourif, but as with all sequels made since 1990, the forced insertion of comedy relief and sidekicks tears down movies that were originally made to scare people, damnit.
Predator: Torn down, *"pussyface" (*Danny Glover quote)
Terminator: Torn down, babee. (I actually had nightmares of the T1 robot catching up to me in that dark factory corridor and ripping my spine out before I could close the door)
Alien: Cranium-crushing tongue? Torn out, here, take it as a souvenir.
Gollum: Pacified, now all girls think he's cute and have a cute voice. Great. He used to smother babies and eat them, y'know.
Vader: Dark, unrelenting, merciless Lord of Destruction? Try angsty teen. Is that Linkin' Park I hear from his speeder com?
You know, Tolkien hesitated to publish the Silmarillion. He wanted to, but both The Hobbit and LOTR had been built on the untold stories of the ancient world, only hinted at from time to time by people like Gandalf and Elrond. Should they be told, he feared the magic would go away. Like seeing a magnificent mountain far away then walking up to it and seeing just a big rock.
The 'Silmarillion' and 'History of Middle Earth' withstood close scrutiny, as it turned out. IMO, the Clone Wars didn't. But that ain't over yet, so I'll not say more about that.
And I'm definitely getting that Alien DC. If they update the Alien Collector's Box with that, I'm holding out for the box, of course.
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It's like the mystery of where the aliens came from or Wolverine's origin: the less you know, the cooler they are.
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Which is why the poor man spent all of his last years trying to improve it and reach the unattainable goal of feeling confident of its worth and having faith in the "eyes of the beholders".
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He probably talked to himself in that Gollum voice by the end....
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Um... I liked Resurrection better than 3. At least the supporting characters were actually memorable.
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Although Lee has gone to the other extreme.
Still, Alien 3 had an anticlimatic ending? The one where the heroine killed herself? Buh?
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Well there was that lead-boil sprinkler thingy, then the corporation steps in and she just oh, ok, I give up, I'll just hop over here then. And considering Kain, I wonder how she managed to keep that smile as the baby-queen tore through her ribcage, it must've hurt at least a bit.
Maybe I was just so depressed, there was that recording machine playing the Nostromo-message on the garbage heap and then they shut everything down.
I felt like taking a long cold shower with my clothes on and listen to "Adagio for strings". *snort*
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I once had sex while the William Orbit dance version played in the background, that's sort of similar. 8)
No, I know no-one else understands it, but for some reason of all the films Alien 3 struck a chord with me. Partly because I first saw it at about 5 in the morning at the end of a video marathon, and the weird lighting on that planet worked really well with dawn creeping in through the curtains.
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For the record, I believe you'll find that I didn't say I liked Alien Resurrection. I just liked it better than 3. This says nothing at all.
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