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<blockquote>how would they even know about it?</blockquote>Didn't one of the characters make it back to Yvaga, which would be a connection to inform earth of the Romulus disaster? Earth would have already been aware of the possible danger in space.
<blockquote>“It’s supposed to slot in between the first movie and the second movie</blockquote>So why did people on earth in <i>Aliens</i> act as though this middle movie never existed?
<blockquote>Blame it on Sarah Conner followed by Ellen Ripley for all the female leads</blockquote>Ellen Ripley came first, in 1979. Sarah Conner (1984) was a stereotypical and unconvincing knockoff. She's only memorable because of the popularity of her franchise. Unlike Ripley, she was never infused with any real character.
<blockquote>I’m just surprised it’s not a black woman this time around.</blockquote>Been there, done that. You forgot about Sanaa Lathan's lead in Alien vs. Predator (2004).
<blockquote>we shouldn't be expecting to hear something like that in the future.</blockquote>The characters are dressed almost the same as in 2024. Accents change more slowly when groups are less isolated. Today's movies and TV accents will last longer than in the past.
<blockquote>If you hate immigrants so much then who’s going to pick your crops?</blockquote>Before the 1960's, black labor did most of the cotton picking and other field farm work in the US. They also did most of the maid work.
<blockquote>So essentially, this is basically a reboot of the 1979 movie for a brand new generation</blockquote>It completely lacks the suspense and character gravity that made the first one so popular.
<blockquote>I was loving it until they forced in the ‘get away from her you bitch!’ line</blockquote>They also borrowed the Ian Holm "You have my sympathies" line.
<blockquote>Abigal was responsible for get own kidnapping as it was a trap for the "kidnappers".</blockquote>Thanks for the clarification. Doesn't change the fact that Joey was responsible for her own predicament since she was still a kidnapper.
Wouldn't letting someone go allow them to alert authorities to her prior murders? What would be the benefit to Abigail for causing herself to be placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list?
Alien
Aliens
Alien: Resurrection
Alien: Covenant
Prometheus
Alien: Romulus
Alien 3
Nothing below Covenant is rewatchable. I really didn't like Prometheus, but I still found the character interplay somewhat interesting. Romulus was just chase scenes with no story or interesting characters. I can't even remember what Alien 3 was about.
<blockquote>She did'nt love him one bit,she just loved how the marriage to him made her look</blockquote>Her intro scene to the guy made it clear that she was absolutely smitten by him, without a doubt. Did you see the look in her eyes throughout the entire scene?
Women solve three necessary tropes for horror movies. One of which requires a female in a leading role.
* They provide the damsel in distress.
* They are perceived to be easier to scare.
* They can be the "Final Girl" horror survivor.
<blockquote>...and Joey saved her ass.</blockquote>Joey was responsible for kidnapping Abigail and putting her in that predicament in the first place.
<blockquote>The only two characters who do anything good or selfless are female.</blockquote>Only if you think a female child kidnapper and bloodthirsty female murdering vampire can be "good"...
* Movie couldn't decide whether it was a war mission movie or a horror movie. Failed at horror.
* Often lacked a sense of showing where soldiers were located during their mission. Too many "nick-of-time" saves with heroes showing up silently from nowhere.
* Didn't like the "hero" whose disobedience to command (and mission) caused most of their problems in the movie.
* Didn't like the badass farm girl who seemed better trained with weaponry and fighting than the soldiers.
* Child was used mostly to cause trouble for the soldiers' mission.
<blockquote>the "zombies" are not actually zombies, they're live people with some substance to made them strong and fast</blockquote>The zombies at the end were in morgue drawers, resuscitated from the dead.
The movie establishes that the mutant has been around for 40 years, meaning she was born no later than 1982 (in 2022). Not enough time for an incest birth.
Inbreeding doesn't make sense for the short timeline given. It was due to sloppy writing.
* The homeless guy told us that the mutant woman had been living in the house for 40 years.
* The entire purpose of the 1980's flashback was to show when Frank started his kidnapping spree.
* No other woman could have been the mother of the mutant except someone who was kidnapped around the time Frank started the kidnapping spree in the 1980's.
* There could be no incest involved if the mutant's mom was a random kidnapped woman.
<blockquote>This movie would never play in American theaters!</blockquote>The US allows more freedom of expression in movies than any country in the world. Any reluctance to show child deaths has more to do with box-office impact than censorship. Plenty of movies where children have been killed have been shown in American theaters.
* Dawn of the Dead (1978)
* Mimic (1997)
* High Tension (2003)
* The Mist (2007)
* Martyrs (2008)
* The Woman in Black (2012)