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F*ck bad reviews,
This is my favorite!
I LOVE IT!

And so ends my Alien marathon, dam you Prometheus! Resurrection was nowhere near as good as I remembered, it plays out in a very standard and boring way but seeing the xenophorphs in decent quality was nice.

I think Aliens still takes the top spot for me in the whole franchise. This one? 7/10.

Alien Resurrection
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Players: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pignion.
Science Fiction Horror- While I won't deny that I enjoyed Alien Resurrection, I think it was certainly a bit of a rehash of stuff in the previous three installments in the series. Ridley Scott's 1979 classic Alien started the franchise, then in '86 came James Cameron's even better Aliens, and then there was the downbeat and largely unpopular Alien3 in 1992. The series really could've ended there (they killed off Ellen Ripley in Alien3), but it didn't. Instead they made a fourth one, Alien Resurrection, and it's everything you've come to expect from the series and at the same time everything you've come to not expect. That doesn't really make sense, I know, but that's how the movie is.
The first thing they did to mix things up a bit was clone Ripley (Sigourney Weaver). I knew that was coming. What they did to her personality was a change (she's now a weirdo with a link to the alien queen's mind and reeeeallly bad fingernails), but not a change I really liked. The old Ellen Ripley was and is my favorite movie-hero of all time. For starters she's a woman, something you didn't find in many heroes from "back in the day." But while she's incredibly tough and no-nonsense, she also has a very good, protective heart (as seen when she unofficially adopts Newt in Aliens). And it's all made better by Weaver's intense delivery of the role. She's a great actress. But now this new Ripley... I'm not gah gah about it. She's quite frankly creepy, and Weaver can't give as good of a performance as she used to courtesy of Alien Resurrection's god-awful script (the one consistent thing about it: Can't come up with anything better to say? OK let's say a naughty word! Haha! Aren't we so cute!?).
And so without a good new Ripley, do any of the other characters make up for it? The answer to that is "Nay." They are your typical butthead-action-he-man types. When Ripley died in Alien3, it was a sad moment. When a character in Resurrection dies, you think "Eeew" and get no emotional reaction out of it. I know that sounds cold, but it's hard to care about any character the screenwriters didn't care about either. And then we have Winona Ryder thrown in to add a little girl power into the movie. Well, if you want girl power, don't chose Winona, who delivers every line in a whiney voice (she should be called Whinona), even lines when she's supposed to be tough. She does it in every movie I've seen her in, so I'm not sure why she was chosen. The only thing I'll give the actors is that none of them are terrible, but they just can't do much with a bad script.
Resurrection has a bushel of familiar moments. What? We're trapped on a spaceship with aliens on the loose? What? Some stupid organization wants to breed them as soldiers? What? Everybody dies one at a time? It's time for a new formula, honey. I'm pretty tired of it myself. Alien Resurrection can be given some credit for mixing things up a bit, though. We get the pleasure of seeing a half-human, half-alien monster, Ripley's new powers (she has acid blood and immense strength), as well as a new, slightly modified look for the aliens. They now have the skin-texture of a slimy cockroach (oh joy!) and the queen has no legs, just a big amorphous blob that she's stuck to (oh my!). Does it make the movie better than its predecessors? Heck no. But it does make it a bit more watchable.
The plot is inexplicably familiar... aliens are loose on a ship, and Ripley and some smugglers must get chased all the way to the other side of the ship where the hangar, and an escape ship, is. The aliens are on the run thanks to a bad idea of some military scientists to create an army of aliens. They clone Ripley (still with some alien DNA in her) and she gives birth to a queen. The queen grows, lays some eggs, and some smugglers deliver some bodies for the aliens to grow in to the scientists. Then pop goes the weasel, the aliens kill almost everyone on the ship, and the survivors are left with their predicament. It's mostly predictable, but the movie decides not to just gross you out, but to disturb you as well, so we get to see all of the botched Ripley clones, which are deformed beyond description, and the lovely new breed of alien. It's breasted, has eyes, and swishes around throughout the ship with very limp wrists. And it murders the queen. Bottom line, this movie is not for the faint of heart. I myself just fast-forwarded through the gruesome parts (that's how bad they were).
A good redeemer for this movie is the effects. I'm pretty sure not too many CGI graphics were in use (this is a 1997 movie and they weren't too realistic back then), and if that is so then the model work is fantastic. The aliens are very realistic, though not as scary as they were in the first two movies of the franchise. The sets are good, but they aren't used to enhance the suspense like the claustrophobic sets of the predecessors. The sets are very wide open, lots of room to move around in, but they are very nice looking.
But one thing did strike me about this movie. There was a bit of symbolic undertone to it. When Ripley must chose to kill her mutant baby, it is a heart-wrenching way of showing what an abortion is like. I felt so sorry for the alien, the first time the series had made me feel that way. Also, through the gnarly scene depicting the clones-gone-bad, the movie makes a statement about the misuse of cloning. And furthermore there are major anti-military undertones throughout the whole movie. Every one of the military men are sleazy, slimy, little worms who deserve it when the aliens whack them.
So how does the movie add up? It's a rehash when you get right down to it. It's got some little surprises, but don't expect much else except for a cheap exploitation flick. (R)
-reviewed by Samurai Sword

My 2nd or 3rd...yeh 3rd favorite of the series. The director's cut was phenomenally better, except for the new beginning wit hthe insect...that was terrible. Kept it from being 9/10.

Received the first news today that hints of a potential return to Hell isle Tekong. News of an upcoming IPPT bodes ill for me. Hope to evade it. Watched Ren Ci Charity Show yesterday, really quite touching esp the stunt by the reverend on Ice. Anita Mui's cremation 2day, kinda sad that another celeb dies again so fast. Sigh, bad news seems to be all around.

Reviewing Alien resurrection, a watchable movie with the expected bangs and violence. Faintly entertaining, but not as good as the predecessors, esp my fav: Aliens, the second instalment of the series. Ripley's character is not fully developed, and thus the audience feels little attachment to her, unlike how the would root for the female Arnie in previous instalments. Here she is almost ambiguous as the "mother" of aliens and even professes feelings for aliens, quite unlike the guns abazing Ripley that once was assciated and lacking the finess of previous Alien movies. Nontheless a watchable, if unspectacular film.

Still going through my old reviews alphebetically, here's the shitty review of Alien Ressurection!

ALIEN RESSURECTION

Well, let's just say that I know firmly believe that the Alien movies should be officially put to bed and never touched again.

In the forth of the series, Alien Resurrection, Ripley the Vampire Slayer is cloned by the military two-hundred years after her death in Alien

The Aliens franchise has gone on for far to long. It should have ended after Aliens, but it still lives on. I will admit a bit of excitment over the new Aliens film coming out later this summer, but it will probably suck...

Alien

Written by: Joss Whedon
Released 1997


Oh my! When a franchise runs out of ideas they just slap the word resurrection to it and expect the audience to open wide an swallow a whopper. Horrible...horrible rubbish! The producers of this mess should be shot...

Apparently, the Company cloned Ripley because she had alien blood. Oh who cares? This was just so bad....


"'This 'Alien' should never have been resurrected."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE


The whole series grade: 27 total points/ 4 films
6.75 for the series.:fresh:

And endless stupidity, like this for example:
How did the alien get into Ripley's chest in the beginning of the film in the first place? It's hardly explained


But what I really hated about the film is that there is absolutely nothing astonishing in it, just 95% action and gore, and 5% story. The only thing good about this film that prevents it from getting the "perfect" ZERO star treatment is the creature effects and design. Everything else was just plain awful.

One of the worst sequels I've ever seen.

Despite opinions to the contrary, I enjoyed this movie. I was a little confused at times, as I always am when I watch an Alien movie, but it was good. There's this great underwater scene that any science-fiction fan needs to check out. The android thing got on my nerves... there's always a "secret android" and it gets on my nerves. Sigourney Weaver shines, though. Recommended.

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