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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 348384" data-attributes="member: 8">Yes, I had a feeling I was watching a model spaceship on a string, but sometimes the most basic trickery is also the most convincing. Or perhaps I should say enticingly convincing.The awakening scene (which was real) looks like the most beautiful Disney animation.[ATTACH=full]42256[/ATTACH]As always, the funny moments is in the detail, not the joke.Near the end of the film, when Ripley is both exhausted and completely fired up by her survival instincts, she shouts &quot;goddammit&quot;. The panic and frustration is very real and there&#039;s nothing badass or lighthearted about the exclamation, but it made me chuckle anyway.Then there&#039;s the name of the spaceship &quot;Nostromo&quot; that sounds like a 1960s Italian vampire film - and it&#039;s almost an anagram for &quot;Monster&quot;.I&#039;m sure I wasn&#039;t disappointed when I watched it for the first time so I guess it was good for the time it was made. Heck, I probably wanted&nbsp; to see more &amp; bigger.But now, watching them back to back, it&#039;s easy to see that one ALIEN film still looks remarkably fresh while the other ALIEN movie looks painfully dated.Instead of &quot;Disney&quot;, the 1986 film gives us &quot;Transformers&quot; the TV series.Is that the one where she throws herself (and an alien egg?) into a vulcano or something like that?I&#039;m not sure if I&#039;ve watched the third sequel, and I have ignored the two prequel movies altogether, but for no particular reason (though I shudder to think what the ALIEN vs. PREDATOR films look like).In essence, ALIENS does what a sequel needs to do: return to place where it all went wrong, like they always return to Haddonfield and Camp Crystal Lake (and even Peyton Place). It would not have been possible to make it mysterious again, we know what we&#039;re dealing with but that also means it&#039;s nothing more than waiting for the kill count to begin. Even if everything about ALIENS was top-notch it would still be the cheaper kind of entertainment.I&#039;m not saying that ALIENS is a complete failure, I&#039;m sure it&#039;s got plenty of &quot;popcorn&quot; value. The seriously bad sequels belong to Poseidon, The Exorcist and Rosemary&#039;s Baby.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 348384, member: 8"] Yes, I had a feeling I was watching a model spaceship on a string, but sometimes the most basic trickery is also the most convincing. Or perhaps I should say [I]enticingly[/I] convincing. The awakening scene (which was real) looks like the most beautiful Disney animation. [ATTACH type="full"]42256[/ATTACH] As always, the funny moments is in the detail, not the joke. Near the end of the film, when Ripley is both exhausted and completely fired up by her survival instincts, she shouts "goddammit". The panic and frustration is very real and there's nothing badass or lighthearted about the exclamation, but it made me chuckle anyway. Then there's the name of the spaceship "Nostromo" that sounds like a 1960s Italian vampire film - and it's almost an anagram for "Monster". I'm sure I wasn't disappointed when I watched it for the first time so I guess it was good for the time it was made. Heck, I probably [I]wanted[/I] to see more & bigger. But now, watching them back to back, it's easy to see that one ALIEN film still looks remarkably fresh while the other ALIEN movie looks painfully dated. Instead of "Disney", the 1986 film gives us "Transformers" the TV series. Is that the one where she throws herself (and an alien egg?) into a vulcano or something like that? I'm not sure if I've watched the third sequel, and I have ignored the two prequel movies altogether, but for no particular reason (though I shudder to think what the ALIEN vs. PREDATOR films look like). In essence, ALIENS does what a sequel needs to do: return to place where it all went wrong, like they always return to Haddonfield and Camp Crystal Lake (and even Peyton Place). It would not have been possible to make it mysterious [I]again[/I], we know what we're dealing with but that also means it's nothing more than waiting for the kill count to begin. Even if everything about ALIENS was top-notch it would still be the cheaper kind of entertainment. I'm not saying that ALIENS is a complete failure, I'm sure it's got plenty of "popcorn" value. The seriously bad sequels belong to Poseidon, The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby. [/QUOTE]

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