from the twisted mind behind Alien: Resurrection… Amelie
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The weird quirkiness of Resurrection at least makes it stand out amongst the series. It’s main problem is it’s a bad Alien film, i think if it was not part of the franchise people would probably remember it as a weird cult fave.
I kinda want to see a follow-up about clone Ripley and Ron Perlman living in post apocalyptic France trying to raise a mutant xenomorph baby or something
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Resurrection is cool cause it’s got Winona Ryder in it.
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i saw this in the theatre run they just had. theres a pre-movie interview where ridley scott has the most prominent spherical moose knuckle ive ever seen on a seated man. him and the romulus guy talk a whole lot about what happens in the movie. if i hadnt seen it before id be like hm whats going on why isnt this AFTER the film
also the AMC iw as at the sound was fucked up and all the low basses were uncomfortably rumbly like i was in the trunk of someones car while they blast three six. every time yaphet kotto talked he was almost completely unintelligible. im positive this was the shitty soundsystem in the place cuz ive never had this much trouble hearing dialogue! i dont understand what was up with the sound mixing
it was cool seeing all the ship stuff real big but i dunno i can only handle so much switch switching and hall talking and sweating. it kinda felt like an episode of house in presentation at times
i would rather just hold otno my memories of watching this movie as a kid than ever see it again
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It’s sad because Alien is one of those movies that’s really a victim of its own success. As time goes on almost nobody can go in blind and have the experience of surprise that made it iconic & seminal in the first place. They know what’s going to happen after John Hurt gets facehugged, they know what Giger’s Alien looks like, or else they’ve absorbed these things by osmosis through the 45 years of pop culture Alien has influenced. And then the re-release just doubled down on that and turned it into an academic exercise for absolutely everybody.
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The thing about alien though is that if the horror bits don’t work perfectly it collapses back to being a great sci-fi movie for me so it’s totally something that’s easy for me to enjoy nevertheless. But I’m a sucker for big hallways and chunky dirty tech covered in vacuformed plastic.
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if I hadn’t seen the movie before tho I’d be a little miffed at them just explaining the entire plot
based on the trailer of the new alien literally the only thing that the guy absorbed from the first movie is dirty white plastic
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I’ve seen a lot of people compare it to the Alien: Isolation game, which is accurate, because the thing both Isolation and this have in common is being a karaoke version of the original movie
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Seems like the use case for a flashlight that tells you there’s an alien inside you to be pretty minimal unless all these characters are replicants.
It must be said as well that this is such an awful credit to witness. Alien, from the director of Evil Dead. The Exorcist, from the director of Halloween. The Exorcist 2, from the director of The Shining 2.
It’s funny to think that Alvarez has the most studio experience of anybody to ever direct an Alien movie prior to their directing an Alien movie. He’s what Fox wanted when they hired Fincher for Alien 3: A shooter with zero cachet who would take any note dictated to him and be grateful for the opportunity.
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“This could be our only ticket out of here.”
“This place gives me the creeps.”
“What the hell is this?”/“What the fuck was that?!”
“There’s something in the water!”
“Stop playing around, man!”
“Whatever comes, we’ll face it together.”
ChatGPT movie
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that’s the fede alvarez guarantee
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I saw this movie! Spoiler free review is I liked it! Even though it had some corny and predictable stuff in it, it had enough cool and original moments to be worthwhile. I’m glad they finally made another Alien movie about blue-collar colonists in indentured servitude to the Company, and not another space ship full of nerds (sorry Noomi Repace and Katherine Waterson). It’s the grimy, fucked up Alien world u know and love!!! This is an Alien movie!!! Even though Alien Isolation came out a decade ago and sort of did it already, it’s still cool to see all this Alien 1 production design again. No, my friends, it wasn’t a piece of shit. A few spoilerish thoughts will follow. Do not click if you don’t want to be spoiled!!!
Don't do it!!!!!
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The incubation time in this movie is off the charts!!! Like 10 minutes between getting facehugged to chest explosion. I guess nobody gives a fuck anymore. It’s been 50 years since Alien 1, we know what’s gonna happen. Nobody is expecting a person to NOT hatch a xenomorph after being implanted so let’s just skip straight to it?!
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There’s a bit where they overcome the whole acid blood burning thru hulls thing by turning off the gravity. Absolute plasma rifle vs Xenomorth carnage follows. Then they have to float thru this room without getting burned by this floating acid. It was so badass that the whole time I was thinking “if they had put this in Alien 4 that movie woulda turned out alright”.
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I think the deepfaked Ian Holm is still pretty unnerving but maybe this works because he’s an android, idk.
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They actually no joke unironically say 2 of the most iconic Alien franchise lines in this movie and they are completely unnecessary. (“Get away from her you bitch” and “I won’t lie about your chances”).
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So even with this obvious fan-service stuff in there, there’s still some stuff to chew on after the movie is over. Like, the ending is kind of a downer. Yeah, Rain makes it out alive and is in cryosleep on her way to her new colony. But if you know anything about Weyland-Yutani, chances are that this colony is gonna suck just as bad. There isn’t some moment where Andy gets access to some WY database and says, “hey wait, this colony sucks! let’s go here instead”.
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I liked it too. Helps to go in with no expectations.
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This ended up being truer than even my most cynical expectations could’ve predicted. It’s a movie where within the first 30 seconds you get a recreation of Alien 3’s corporate logo gag (only dyed-in-the-wool ad man Fincher could have come up with something like that), and from then on it announces itself as an algorithmic slurry of Alien-ness. Somebody years from now trying to hazily remember the Alien series could ask their friend, “Wait, what was the one where the lady gave birth to the alien? No, it wasn’t Prometheus, that lady gave birth to a squid. This one was more like a weird lanky hybrid of a human and an alien. Resurrection? No, because Sigourney Weaver wasn’t in it. I think it was Romulus. But wait, they use the acid blood to suck it out of a hole in the ship don’t they? Maybe it was Resurrection…”
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I saw the new Alien last night. The sets and some of the effects shots look great. The story is nothing special (what if we just do the same thing, but a little bit different?) but it works as a generic framework for the action scenes and suspense.
I think most sequels/franchise films would be better if they didn’t try so hard to tie in directly with past movies but just did their own thing. Fury Road not caring about the timeline but having a vision vs. Blade Runner 2049 weighed down by its shoehorning in the old characters and things, for example.
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