Paul Farquhar
Legend
I quite enjoyed Resurrection. Never seen any of the AvP movies, but I read the original comic.
Spoilers Alien: Questions
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MGibster
Legend
Have you seen what people were wearing and the color choices for home interiors? I don't blame anyone for thinking everyone went through the 70s coked out of their mind. Someone thought it was a good idea to make toys for a movie that's an allegory for sexual assault. Drugs? Maybe.
Bedrockgames
I post in the voice of Christopher Walken
The monster was also an allegory for Crohns disease though. The sexual element is there, as are other layers of meaning, but I think that went over most peoples heads. I don't know. Most monsters have a sexual layer of meaning to them but we don't really think much about vampire or werewolf toys either. No kid or parent who bought that toy was consciously thinking of this particular symbolic meaning of the alien
Bedrockgames
I post in the voice of Christopher Walken
We can make fun of these things all we want, but there are fashion and color choices today that will look equally dumb in twenty or thirty years. Everything is dated with the passage of time
Ryujin
Legend
And then there's the stuff that people really wore in Medieval times, rather than the mud brown and biker gear the movies always show.
Clint_L
Legend
Trying to wrestle this back around to Alien, one thing I really love about the film is the costume and set design. We were used to depictions of the future that were pristine, but here we have a bunch of, essentially space truckers. And their job kinda sucks. It's more relatable.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
It's amazing that "crappy middle manager for jerk corporation" is such a powerful trope that Stranger Things was able to make everyone deeply suspicious of the deeply lovable Paul Reiser decades after he appeared in Aliens, just by being Paul Reiser from Aliens.
100% more relatable than "well, there's this empire run by evil space wizards." I know and hate jerk corporations and middle managers already.
Just watched Alien again.
My god, that's a masterpiece. The pace, the suspension, the unexplained mysteries... you feel John Hurt is the main character until that scene... Weaver is so, so good. The closed sets, fully built (with four walls and ceiling) make it feel so real and inspire such natural perfomances, and make things feel so claustrophobic. It's all just.. so, so good.
Eh. Different people like different things. I like masterful film-making.
My god, that's a masterpiece. The pace, the suspension, the unexplained mysteries... you feel John Hurt is the main character until that scene... Weaver is so, so good. The closed sets, fully built (with four walls and ceiling) make it feel so real and inspire such natural perfomances, and make things feel so claustrophobic. It's all just.. so, so good.
Eh. Different people like different things. I like masterful film-making.
Bedrockgames
I post in the voice of Christopher Walken
Outland is another movie that got this kind of space aesthetic (though the design isn't as good as Alien)
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
I always thought Tom Skerrit was meant to be the leading man fake-out in Alien. In any case, we were definitely not meant o realize that it was going to be Ripley until at least the halfway point of the film. (As opposed to Romulus, which lets us know immediately who the star of the film is.)
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