The most horrifying part of that scene is actually the lack of what you see and the sounds coming over the loudspeakers. Even after watching the movie many times, I still find that part very unsettling.
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The most horrifying part of that scene is actually the lack of what you see and the sounds coming over the loudspeakers. Even after watching the movie many times, I still find that part very unsettling.
Subsequent movies were utter tripe tho. Aliens was the last good Alien film, and I wouldn't say it particularly explored her femininity. I'd say instead it showed a fairly believable character, who displayed a range of emotions that made sense given her situation.
Don't even bother with Alien 4 which is utter horse muck. Alien 3 had good bits but was overall poor/misguided, and I don't recall Ripley's femininity being a driving motivation for the story as a whole.
In any case, movies back then could explore character aspects in a natural, non-intrusive way that didn't flash neon signs saying, "Look at this! We're doing a movie which features diversity! And trans people! Look at us! Look!"
That's the difference. Today you see how blatant the various social agendas are. Not only are they not subtle, they tend to take centre stage. As others have said, they grate especially when the story is so poor you're looking for crap to criticise anyhow.
If they spent more time putting together a good story/script, and less time shoe-horning every SJW theme in they can think of, maybe we wouldn't be so **** off about it.
Tokenism and social agendas stand out like a sore thumb when the movies are lacking the essential elements of a good story/film.
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Alien 3 was pretty crap (a long, long time since I've watched it, though), but I actually think Resurrection had some good stuff.
Motherhood was a big theme of Aliens and Resurrection - you surely didn't miss that? I can't remember 3 enough to comment much, though.
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I think the argument has gone off tangent a bit. The point originally being made was people liked well made characters of any background before the recent "strong independent woman" thing gave us unlikeable badly written ones. Thinking back over the last 40+ years most of the "diversity" battles have been won and victory is more or less assured. Thus it is ironic at this point that so many figurehead "diversity" characters are so awfully written and seem to be doing genuine damage to the concept.
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3 was murdered by the studio sadly. You can dig up the original script for 3 on the net these days and it sounds so blinking awesome, just got sabotaged
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The William Gibson script, no relation to the one filmed, has just been released in comic form by Dark Horse, looking forward to reading it.3 was murdered by the studio sadly. You can dig up the original script for 3 on the net these days and it sounds so blinking awesome, just got sabotaged
It's good but mainly just because it's so different to what we saw. I'm not convinced if it had made it to screen it would have been received any more favorably than what we had already.
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Agreed. Some especially silly stuff going on in the finale...
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The Emperor is very prominent.
Is this real? Honestly im a massive SW fan but bringing the Emperor back in some way is just desperation. Its a massive red flag that Disney know the fans are fed up after TLJ.
I feel like they need to make this a fun, completely off the walls romp and just ignore trying to make a coherent story at this point.
Would sorta make sense if Palpatine is actually Darth Plagueis, that's always the theory that's been kicked around since episode 3 at least.
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I wish they could just remake TLJ with JJ, it's the only way SW could be saved really.
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I always had the impression he was Plagueis' apprentice as the smile on his face when he talks about having the power to save others but not himself made me think Palpy killed him.
