Alien Resurrection.
Up to this point I had more positive to say about alien the negative.
Even Alien 3 which I understand is a very disliked movie by a lot of people.
But my God at least it felt like it tried.
Alien Resurrection is just really corny and not all that fun.
I was hoping for a action-packed film with lots of stupid over the top amusement, but it just doesn't deliver on it all that well.
We spend a lot of time sitting around with characters who aren't interesting and there's a huge array of people in this movie. Who are all fighting each other more than the aliens are.
I can't think of another movie where the aliens are so incidental to their own plot.
Okay you technically need the alien queen to give birth to the alien human hybrid creature which doesn't make any sense given that aliens already had aspects of humanity in them from their very first encounters back in the original alien. But now he's got this superhuman alien thing composed with mammal Lake skin flabby body parts disgusting tongue and strange-looking beady eyes. I've come to nickname the thing the Derby alien. Or ''Derpimorph''
and the worst part is it only comes about in the last 10 minutes of the film. The rest of the time it's just people running from one place to the other with a huge array of characters that gets slim down over time. The fan a bit of them being killed off by other humans.
So I'm going to forcefully stop myself otherwise I will just blather on about every inconsistency in the film.
And God knows that there's already a hundred other people that have done that.
Some of them are okay, most of them are actually really bad with their analysis.
And I just don't want to become one of those people.
All I'm hoping is that whoever made the movie gives Out decent paychecks all the workers.
I hope it's Sigourney Weaver and Ron Perlman and all the set designers and costume designers and everybody else who was engaged for this project made a decent amount of money. Because they deserve money for this thing. It's not their fault that it was a big mess. And Sigourney Weaver is kind of fun. She kind of doesn't care anymore character perspective or personal. This movie reminds me of those very subpar Resident Evil films. To such an extent that I wonder is I wonder if their entire stick wasn't taken directly from this film.
I've heard some people say the movie might have done better if it wasn't linked with the other Alien films.
If it was allowed to stand on his own two feet.
And I can kind of agree with that.
At the end of the day what you have here is a bog standard action flick and if you want something to put on during a party or just to have as a background this isn't all that bad. You can watch it well enough without caring and it has one or two entertaining moments to it.
I just don't think it's worth all that much discussion. And ultimately if it wasn't on film it would probably be forgotten the time. It's 'The Phantom Menace problem' all over again, maybe it would have been better on its own but nobody would care if it was.
So I wanted to bring up something here that I hadn't mentioned in the earlier aliens reviews. That is sexualization.
Yeah I know it sounds good clickbait article conversation but there's a bit of Merit to it here.
You see in every alien movie Ripley to some extent is sexualized. In the first movie it came about at the very end when she undressed after thinking she finally stopped the evil monster.
It was used as a point of vulnerability for the main character and really it's just there as a form of titillation for the audience.
It was used as a point of vulnerability for the main character It's something of a cliche in the old slasher film genre. Honestly I don't really consider it that big of an issue but I kind of wish it was removed from the movie initially. As I think they could have just avoided the cliche from the start.
But at the very least it did serve some sort of (story) purpose. And it was sort of set up in the beginning that when you freeze yourself in these tubes you do generally tend to undress.
Then you have Aliens* and Alien 3 which also kind of push on this narrative but with nothing too obnoxious.
There was a scene in the third movie involving a group of men wanting to molest her. But there is a actual reason for it.
Once again you could probably remove this from the movie and have no real effect on the strucsher. It serves to show that this one particular prisoner was actually not as much a degenerate as you think he was. That he had some form of moral responsibility.
Anyways I bring all that up here because the forth alien movie is really going out of its way to both sexualize Whitley by showing her constantly naked and also having a bunch of really direct flirtation with a bunch of other characters as well. In fact this whole movie is full of weird lust. Rather be dubbed ragtag group of rebels all throwing sexual terms at each other or the weird relationship between this one scientist and this alien monster that wants to eat his face.
Why is there a conversation about the legitimacy of cyborgs? In every other alien movie cyborgs are just kind of there.
Grant you there all Bishop models played by the same actor but they don't seem to have the same idea in their head.
They're synthetic, they're not real and yet they have their own during for life and want to have their own preservation.
So why wouldn't this cyborg made supposedly hundreds of years later by other synthetics not have the same ambition.
It just feels weird and stupid. Like they couldn't be bothered to come up with an actual story for the girl so they just gave her that I'm a robot and therefore I exist but do not live or some sort of gibberish. It's unwarranted in the movie like this
I guess I should also be open to the idea that I might just be suffering with a bit of alien fatigue. I've watched all four movies in a row and there's a good possibility that if I saw this on its own months or even years away from the other flicks I may have enjoyed it better.
I've seen it a few times before and there's a good chance I'll see you in a few times in the future. In fact I almost guarantee it will pop up on various media outlets in the same vein as the day after tomorrow.
It's just one of those weird movies that everybody sees at some point because they won't stop showing it.
*I think Aliens is the least defending of all the films. We have a scene of Ripley in her underwear but it's simply because she's giving out of the cryogenic tube it's not really anything else to it. None of the other characters are sexualized. At least traditionally. We do have a scene of Jenette Goldstein doing a bunch of push-ups which could be seen is quite sexy but kind of in a macho masculine send. The shame that a lot of women don't get to show that sign off in film.
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