Word: outerness
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...sensibility that led to making the ordinary world-running-down feel of a ship maintaining its emergency lighting and water is missing. Who wants to see a bunch of ragtag ruffians conducting a Goonies-like escape through a creepy funhouse ship, or to witness the most beautiful and horrific outer space being Salad-Shot through a window? O, fair alien, we hardly knew...
...volumes through the film's self-conscious silence regarding the gender issue. Indeed, the political gesture must have been important to him, because for the film it was commercial suicide: the nudity earned the film an R rating, thus excluding the entire preteen market who buy action figures, love outer space, love giant killer bugs and pay to see their favorite movies multiple times...
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...
...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...
WORKING ENVIRONMENT: Near outer space. The U-2 can fly above 70,000 feet. Its cruising speed is a relatively slow 430 m.p.h., which can make it vulnerable (seven have been shot down), and its range is more than 4,000 miles. Dress code for pilots: a full-pressure astronaut-like suit when flying. They breathe 100% oxygen and wear UCDs--urinary-collection devices--for obvious reasons...