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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...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: Alien Resurrection | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reconciling Highbrow, Big-Budget Films | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fear of Genetics Meets Cellophane and Custard | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fear of Genetics Meets Cellophane and Custard | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 24, 1997 | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

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