Word: alienated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says, "I wanted to convey sheer size." Cameron could be his spiritual heir. The man who made The Terminator for $6 million has become the high priest of Hollywood bloat. He is also the movies' mad toymaster: he keeps falling in love with an imposing machine (a cyborg, an alien, a submarine, a Harrier jet, an ocean liner) that he then spends great amounts of time and energy destroying...
...Violence. Fat chance. In an attempt to compensate for Q&A above, Alien Resurrection dies on the way to being reborn and we have to see the placental remains: super space goop gore, custard again and a man picking and looking at a piece of his brain from his blown-out-like-JFK skull before dying. The thrill of Alien was in the mutual hunt: nothing happens, for good reason...
Fish Drown In Mainstream. Cf. The Rainmaker. Alien was all about space's anti-style, the work of the master sci-fi craftsman Ridley Scott--a victory. Jeunet tries valiantly--exploiting Hedaya's body hair, letting bounty hunters give foot massages, thrilling to the goofy jive of outer space--but there's little definitive indication he directed the second half of the movie...
...sensibility that led to making the ordinary, world-running-down feel of a ship maintaining its emergency lighting and water release a key shock point of Alien--this is missing. I don't want to see a bunch of ragtag ruffians conducting a Goonies-like escape through creepy funhouse ship, or to witness the most beautiful and most horrific outer space being being Salad-Shot through a window...
...fair alien, we hardly knew...