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“Paco, is there anything you like about the film?”
Yes: the score. The music is really good. I’m sitting through the closing credits because the music is so good.
The sets and cinematography are also quite good. They really had good atmosphere and shots. Eventually film companies gave up making big sets like this. It’s still 1997 and they still make sets.
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#alienresurrection
The number of exposition characters is ridiculous.
There’s the character who is an alien. And suddenly Sgt Exposition gives a whole speech about the history of androids.
And whenever they need some exposition, the computer pops online to explain what is happening.
And there’s the scene with the queen where the dude is somehow alive to narrate. But the queen doesn’t lay eggs? Or does, because we saw eggs somehow? But ALSO gives birth? And here’s there to narrate until he’s no longer needed.
And some of the lines. “We did it. We saved the Earth.” That one goes down with one the all-time great lines from Flash Gordon: “Flash! Flash! I love you! But we only have 14 hours to save the Earth!”
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#alienresurrection
They brought the infected dude.
And they pull various things right from the original films. The computer is named “Father”? In Alien it was “Mother.”
There’s a scene of lighting up the ship by remote. Just like in Aliens.
And so much strobe and fog.
It appears the aliens just exude water.
The writing and acting is really terrible. Sigourney Weaver is amazing. She can act even with this shit script.
So many stupid things. Like blasting these clone tubes with a flame thrower, and they explode because they got fire on them? And then the ship’s fire suppression system does nothing.
And then there’s the whole “we have to swim through a flooded kitchen… several times” thing. So it turns into a shark movie for a few minutes.
And the whole thing is just “we have to get from point A to point B”.
And then there’s the whole dude who is infected but they bring him with them. Like a zombie movie.
One thing I notice about Alien Resurrection is that it is that the plot doesn’t make any sense. In other Alien films they were grabbing people to use as hosts for face huggers so they could get more aliens. In this film they’re just randomly killing.
And Ripley’s superhuman, hybrid killing machine character doesn’t work for me.
They have taken a character we think we know and made her strange and hard to know.
