Word: alienating
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Because of money, I guess, for starters. Also, because it's the coolest space monster ever. Because of visual stylist Jean-Pierre Jeunet of Delicatessen fame. Because of whole ship mama Sigourney Weaver. Because of genetics and the human attachment to willful mediocrity. Because we've never seen an alien underwater (where you also can't scream). Because bounty hunters watch the TV shopping network. Because of Dominique Pinon's forehead. Because aliens bleed acid, and androids bleed semen. Because alien-human hybrids have pixie noses. And, always, because of the deeper issues...
...deeper issues. Alien Resurrection isn't appreciably better than the movie after which no sequels need have been made, and necessarily worse. By itself, it's an average to good action movie starring more than the usual number of people who maybe saw the word "acting" in a book once (Sigourney Weaver's rather good, Pinon's on leave from the stage). But as always, it's the deeper issues, the pressing questions, the intriguing half-truths tussling with the universal in the dust--it's these things that lead us back. Accordingly, please find attached a primer of issues...
...director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, hurries us past all the desperate explanations required by sequels to movies that ended up pretty definitively (the last we saw of Ripley in Alien 3, she was taking a dunk in molten metal). Since most of these are incomprehensible anyway, especially as they are constantly interrupted by fires, floods and explosions, Jeunet is eager to get on with the really scary stuff. This is not, given the movie's self-satirizing impulse, as terrifying as it once was. But on the whole, the eek-for-yuks trade-off is more than fair--hip without being...
...very first tale, In Broad Daylight, invites Western readers into an alien landscape and a harrowing situation. White Cat, the young narrator, learns from his friend Bare Hips that the Red Guards have caught Old Whore, a local woman accused of prostitution, and will parade her through the streets to the place of public denunciations and punishment. White Cat is excited at the promised spectacle, as is everyone in the town; a bleak place like Dismount Fort offers few public diversions...
Like the way-too-wide-eyed Cusack, Eastwood lingers over these mild deviates from the norm as if they were the critter in Alien Autopsy. This film might have trusted more in Spacey's sly glamour, and in Williams as a wily game player to the death. Possibly...