Let me preface this by saying that I like Aliens. I have come around to it in the last few years, thanks to a reevaluation prompted by FM Tommy Alpha.
But it doesn't hold a candle to Alien. I want to say they don't even belong in the same franchise.
Alien is a tense, spooky mystery that unravels more and more into full blown horror. It's a crew of a half dozen unarmed people put up against an unstoppable death engine that can't be reasoned with, even communicated with. Essentially, if you see it, you are dead.
Aliens, hey, great action film but not scary and fairly low stakes. That unstoppable agent of the void? Well, let's multiply it by a few hundred and just mow them all down with machine guns. Oh and also? The big bad at the end can communicate and reason.
Oh and also fuck Cameron for pulling out the old "no higher calling than motherhood" trope.
Since nobody asked: Alien 3 is underrated but also is an overcorrection, with its dirt, grime, and bleakness, for the gloss and sheen and toys and happy ending of Aliens.
Curry Pervert wrote: Mon Aug 26, 2024 7:35 pmAliens is a decent film, but it's my least fav of the first 4. I also really like the fourth one, but it seems to get a lot of flack.
That's just a bizarre thing to say. You're comfortable admitting that? In public?
