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Aliens Special Edition. Stories of how it got made are amazing, the way it was made are amazing (real model alien queen versus Weaver actually in a Power Loader, back projection, models, he brought it in $7,000,000 under budget!), it's a clever anti-corporate culture commentary, a Vietnam allegory, Giger's beasties and hive are great, it has disturbing psycho-erotic comments on variants of motherhood far superior to the wankfest that was Resurrection, it had a great truckers in space Outland coffe cup rims on the monitor desk set, it has the astounding ability to produce tension through suggestion (the sentry gun scene with the dropping bullet count and the beeping of critical guns for instance), it manages to make the traditional one left ending work (You did good Bishop), it has a fantastic bunch of heroes nearly all of whom have some emotional weight when they die, the battle in the nest is amazing for the way you can only see what Gorman can see before Ripley crashes through the walls, it has amazing dialogue. Ahem, sorry that ran away from me a bit, but I quite like it. Even more it was a defining film of my youth, whenever we slept at some one else's house we did the wakeup scene in the morning, we all turned into Hudson at Laserquest (I still do), we qouted without realising ("Hey Top what's the op?" "Whoopi-fuckin-do.").
This film makes me feel good. I watch it over and over again and still notice new bits that make me smile. (I only really noticed the staredown between Ripley and the queen towards the end of last year). It rocks harder than ninjas and pirates. Because of this film I even enjoyed watching Hellraiser 4, Leprechaun 4, and look foward to Jason 10. |
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