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[quote]The US government would never kill journalists[/quote]
So that thing with Reuters journalists just never happened? Lol
Avian flu is not like regular flu, and its death rate is 60% as opposed to 2% of covid19 or whatever
[quote]why were they ugly in the source material.[/quote]
Because cartoons usually exaggerate certain facial features.
It’s not even brown face, all they did was dye his beard to make him look Arab. Alec Guinness already looked Semitic anyway, and he played a Jew in Oliver Twist before. Other than the blue eyes, he resembled the real Prince Faisal too.
Abre Los Ojos/Vanilla Sky
The movie would have been more interesting if the characters were surgically altered to become Navii somehow, or their transplanted consciousness was permanent. The constant switching back and forth made it too videogamey.
No, I think people just wanted a movie that wasn’t rushed through development and began filming without a finished script, and the lead actress making ridiculous demands.
It’s meant to be ambiguous to add to Ripley’s distrust of him.
They could have solved it by just having a facehugger hitch a ride on the Sulaco, instead of an egg.
Still doesn’t explain why the ship computer’s best course of action was to eject everyone into the middle of bumfukk nowhere and come crashing down in a fireball onto a planet with no type of safety measures or parachute. It’s almost like the ship wanted them to die.
Aliens the worst out of the series? Put down the crack pipe.
That’s kind of a running device in all the movies, where the leader or Captain of the crew is killed off early leaving the rest of the group directionless and infighting.
Which one? You must have watched the director’s cut version from the quadrilogy boxset where the opening is a guy squishing a big and blowing it through a straw onto a window. The original theatrical opening was more subdued.
[quote] For one, the movie just LOOKS fucking great. In 1997 we were in this weird period where CGI was a thing and filmmakers were using it, but they had not come to rely on it completely. It was only a tool to be used when necessary and practical effects still ruled the day. And because of that, so much of this film, which mostly falls back on animatronics, miniatures, a bit of stop-motion, and sets that are mostly physical, looks really good.[/quote]
The film does have a good lo-fi technological look to it that is in line with the previous films in the series. Lots of clunky looking computer monitors, blinking dashboard lights, and rusty metallic hallways. For this reason, it’s feels more a part of the Alien universe than Prometheus or Covenant with their high tech, utopian depiction of space travel. The Alien series was always influenced by the Moebius/Heavy Metal comics that had a steam-cyber-punk feel.
They’re both terrible, although 3 is actually watchable for the first 20 minutes, until Clemens is killed, then the film falls apart.
Resurrection only has one good scene: the failed Ripley’s clones.
As good as Empire is, I still think the first Star Wars is still the best movie in the series. Empire suffers from “middle child syndrome” and too much downtime with Luke running around with a muppet on his back, and Han and Leia going back and forth in a rather tiring romantic subplot. Also the characters aren’t even together most of the time. There’s a lot of cutting back and forth between three different narratives. This is why Empire has the stigma of being the most boring of the OT.
On the other hand, Star Wars is a non-stop rollercoaster from one great set-piece to another, with the four leads (and two robots) all having great chemistry and wisecracks. Not to mention it revolutionized the film industry and special effects, and was shot like a David Lean epic.
Well same difference, it seemed pretty clear he was meeting the guy on the dock to hand-off the embryos, and not leave the island.
I don’t really think the movie is pushing any big moral, it’s all a part of Malcolm’s view that whatever can go wrong will go wrong. It just so happened to do so disastrously on that night.
The scientists would have figured out they were breeding eventually anyway, but it goes into more detail in the book that Wu kept an all female population and was sterilizing them with radiation. But a freak oversight had caused some junk amphibian DNA to enter the gene sequence of compys and raptors, which escaped the island.
We don’t even need to test on animals anymore, considering we can run computer programs that do the job just fine. Animal testing is immoral.
I don’t think Nedry intended to leave with Dodgeson, otherwise there would be no point in Dodgeson meeting him on the island in the first place.
Hammond would have suspicion Nedry stole the embryos, but with no concrete evidence he wouldn’t be able to have him criminally charged. And they wouldn’t have found out until the hurricane had passed anyway, giving Nedry plenty of time to leave the country and disappear.
How is he trolling? Most people consider the first film the best, and the sequels all gradually declined in quality.