Tank or Vasquez?
Both 5'3" of hot, butt kickin' female. (For the young'uns, Vasquez was the hottie in "Aliens" (1986).
"In a time of universal deceit,
telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
Oh my god beersandshots I *beep* love you! I was going to say that, but with everyone comparing the movie - I didn't want more people to not see the movie because they thought it was some kinda ripoff. Here's my thoughts on that Vasquez and Tank would be friends and kick ass together! My real thought is this: It's as if I'm getting to see a young Vasquez and I get to spend the whole second half of a movie with a very young Vasquez. Kinda like I'd always wished I could watch a movie about Vasquez. And don't even get me started how - as a woman - I am just so *beep* happy that finally I found a little indie film that went '*beep* it! I'm just going to have a badass Vasquez/Tank type character with no men having to hold her hand throughout the movie.' LOL.
shareSeconded, Melissa – it’s collaboration and cooperation that defines humankind, not competition and false dichotomies: so IMHO, not only Tank (Nicole Alonso, ‘Crawl or Die’, 2014), but ALSO Vasquez (Jenette Goldstein, ‘Aliens’, 1986), AND Trudy Chicano (Michelle Rodriguez, ‘Avatar’, 2009).
While I strongly admire the true grit of all three kick-ass women warriors, the former are straight ‘my-species-right-or-wrong’ soldiers; it’s only the latter who needed to find the courage to mutiny against the military, and side with the wider fight for justice against arrogant human-centric ecocide. Still, I very much hope ‘Crawl or Die’ proves to be sufficiently successful to prompt a second Tank-centric film – the more sci-fi/horror films foregrounding such determined and capable women warriors, the better, sez I.
Thankfully, I didn’t inherit my late mother’s claustrophobia, but nevertheless the space-limited trials that writer/director Oklahoma Ward put Nicole Alonso through had me squirming with discomfort – a most rare and welcome novelty these days. For folk strongly afflicted with claustrophobia, this seems bound to be either unwatchable and/or nightmare-inducing stuff!
I agree. I've seen so many films I feel desensitised to most things I see these days, but this one got to me. It's so prolonged, with nowhere to go and no parallel storyline to cut away to, you're stuck in these cramped spaces with her. The only option you have is to press stop, but I'm glad I didn't. Can't wait to see how the sequel turns out.
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