The 4th one is here! Ripley is resurrected and is now a clone/xenomorph hybrid which is pretty fun! Some cool things in this movie and some bizarre things in this movie for sure! It is fun though that's for sure! See y'all for Prometheus! Thanks for watching! Have a great day! :)
So, *Alien Resurrection* is actually a spiritual follow-up to the cute, clonely parable "City of the Lost Children" and not really a sequel to *Alien,* at all.
I swear at some point they compare the size of the ship to the size of our moon. Either way it seems like it's big enough to be a possible E.L.E. event causer. I love that whitish Alien, the way it makes the innocent eyes/face. Makes it scarier when it does evil. It's essentially a baby, so when it's dying it kinda gives you that "aww man that sucks" feels even though it needs to die. CGI looked decent though I swear I remember it not looking this good, but not terrible. I think maybe Ripley might not necessarily being chased, but trying to get to the shop before it leaves, maybe? I think I'd give this around a 7 out of 10 score. I actually saw this one in the theater. The first Alien movie I got to experience in the theater. By the way, the Alien franchise always makes me think of the same question, that I also get during a lot of zombie movies. What makes an alien decide to kill or to take home for implantation? What makes a Zombie just bite someone and then tear another one into pieces. It always just seems weird sometimes cause I'd guess a species like this would want to save as many victims for baby making as possible.
This is one of my favorite movies I don't care what anyone says I don't care about the loophole of how they got Ripley's body or blood I think it's cool that you can actually see what happens when the company finally gets the alien and what they wanted to do and also the visual effects are amazing
I think the answer is a bit of a kludge / cheat, that the aliens have a form of "genetic memory" and so when the queen was inside Ripley, maybe it somehow assimilated her memory into its genetics, or something, or vice versa, incorporated its genetic memory into her, and so when they retrieved Ripley's DNA from the prison planet, they got a commingled set of DNA from both the Queen and Ripley, and it took them a number of attempts to clone her / them both in a way that wasn't a complete monstrosity / aberration (hence the prior subjects 1-7)... And even then they were still commingled, with Ripley having some of the Aliens' characteristics (acid blood, etc.), and the Queen having some of Ripley's (reproductive system, etc.)
@@MGmirkin Yes, there is actually a "genetic memory" on earth. Insects and birds do not go to flying school, woodpeckers do not copy other woodpeckers to learn how to peck wood, beavers do not watch other beavers to learn how to build a dam and Human babies(when born in a tub or pool) do not just magically swim when born. It's called "INHERITED INTELLIGENCE" and yes it is and has been a very real part of our continuing Human\Mammal\Insect existence. Look it up. When you go to school for science, you learn this, if your parents did not tell you already.
Nope. Just one. You can see it in the deleted scenes. Ron Pearlman got so excited to witness it he went out of character cheering and yelling. They had to edit. Lol
According to the lore, Morse (the only survivor of the events of the third movie) wrote a book about his experiences titled „Star Beast“ (in real life a working title of the Original Movie). The Book was quickly suppressed by Weyland Yutani but a few copies made it out there, one surviving long enough to fall into Call’s hands which started her on her quest.
The end alien was just a baby , it didn't know any better and Ripley 8, it's mother , killed it . The betrayal was tragic and supposedly it's final scream has Mama mixed in .
Brad Dourif is cast as a mad scientist character and that's all they gave him to do. Ugh. This movie had a great cast, they just didn't have the script to make the best possible use of it.
Yeah, Joss has essentially said that he was asked to submit a script, and he submitted a joke script using his concept stage characters for Firefly, and was shocked when the script was chosen. He was then given very little time to rework the script in to something more serious.
Why, what else has he done that this guy might actually know (like widely-popular household-name films)? I can believe he's not aware of Jean-Pierre Jeunet. I'm not even really familiar with him or his works... Doubt many people are... Did he do City of Lost Children, or was that someone else? If so, that's the only other film of his I can recall the name of, and even that one is kinda' obscure...
@@MGmirkin I am shocked because I believe Oliver has studied filmmaking to some extent . I may be wrong about that , but from his understanding appreciation of different aspects of lighting and cinematography in his reactions leads me to this conclusion . As far as being household name films , City of Lost Children , Delicatessen , and Amélie are some very well known albeit French films .
Ok, so here's my take on the horrible alien hybrid thing at the end... I would not have included it in the film, because it is an abomination. Pathetic, twisted, wrong. It's behavior was neither alien, nor human. To me it came across like... Shit I was going to make a film reference I don't know if you've seen yet. Anyway, I think it was supposed to make you feel uncomfortable, and simultaneously that you felt sorry for it, but also wanted it to die. So yeah, can this film just be fun to watch? Sure. Is it an example of good filmmaking? Not even remotely.
Joss Whedon wrote the Screenplay to the film, but was a real pain to work with, as Director Jean Pierre Juenet had a hard time to working with Whedon and in a recent interview, he called him an idiot for ruining the Alien franchise.
There are a lot of puzzle pieces to love here but when you step back it’s a mess and that’s Whedon. I have loathed him for so many years and am so glad to finally live in a world where JW no longer has a golden pedestal to poop from. I love that his name is reacted to the way it always should have been.
I guess Whedon has fallen from grace and gets a lot of hate these days but it should be noted that his original screenplay is out there and can be read. The most notable thing is that the alien hybrid, Ripley, and Call end up fighting it out in a huge battle on the surface of the earth after they land. It's a much better ending. Also, as he stated in interviews, the dialogue was sometimes rearranged seemingly for no reason, with characters saying lines meant for other characters. Also, I would say the sensibility of the director, while certainly unique, did not exactly work tonally for the Alien franchise, at least in my estimation. The movie has an odd and surreal aesthetic that pushes against actually being frightening.
wheeedon blamed Frenchy for ruining the movie. Frankly , i love it that the french took over! jean said weeeedon makes movies for idiots, morans and geeks lol ..without the french this movie would not have had the impact and iconic final act as it does.
I think the term you’re looking for is “guilty pleasure.” I thought it was a much more ambitious, crazy-fun ride than the depressing, bleak Alien 3. AR had more insane scenes - clones 1-7, the underwater chase, the newborn and its death, etc. I don’t know why this film gets more hate than 3, because it tried something different: the genetic aspect of the aliens.
Nice to see reactions to these later sequels, I have a soft spot for this one in particular, though I never thought 3 was as bad as its rep either. I'm glad they got Jeunet to direct. He has a very distinctive style and it helps to make the movie stand out on its own. I recommend checking out his other films too.
Fan theory is that the Doctor in 3 took blood samples from Ripley whilst treating her. So, that's it, the end of the Alien series, Ripley squashes the bugs, get's her crew, ship and little girl back, finally makes it to Earth. She finally has her happy ending.
There's a lot of good stuff in Resurrection, but it's still a big mess. Winona Rider is really cute as Cal (3rd android gets a C name after Ash & Bishop 🤣🤣🤣), the crew of the Betty are very proto-Firefly, and feral Ripley is pretty badass. Also has a fun appearance by 'that guy' actor Leland Orser (the rescued chestburst victim) and a weird performance by Dan Hedaya (he ate so many lemons for that one scene he made himself sick 🍋)
The alphabetical Ash-Bishop-Call-David progression is one of the more amusing little details in the series. But then Covenant gave us Walter and ruined everything.
The final Alien hybrid was more Ripley than Alien. So when it saw the queen, it killed it, because "that's not my real mother". That's why the hybrid Alien has such a betrayed expression on its face, because Ripley is its real mother, yet Ripley's the one who has to kill it.
This is like a bad fan made film, with a b-movie budget. It has fun elements and plays with the Alien universe in interesting way. However, like it's predecessor, it is not an Alien movie. There are truly, only two, and some fantastic comics by Darkhorse.
Resurrection was ... weird. But goofy fun. Basically Ripley is now like part human, part alien, not quite "all there" in a sense. And alot of the other characters are kinda' caricatures or cardboard cutouts in a certain sense. But it's goofy fun even if it loses the thread a bit...
Alien^3 got a lot of hate for its opening (killing off the survivors of Aliens, other than Ripley, and tearing away the "happy ending" die Newt, Hicks, and Ripley). The rest of the movie was ... okay. It did what it set out to do, and I respect it for that, even if I will never really "forgive" the opening. Anyway, on to part IV... ;)
So, yeah, the "newborn" as it's commonly referred to, is a weird thing that's kind of a subject in and of itself, in terms of how it was kind of used in the movie... This movie kind of "remixed" elements of the aliens + humanity. So, Ripley wasn't completely human. the xenomorphs weren't completely alien, but had some human DNA commingled in. The "queen" wasn't fully xenomorph, didn't have an ovipositor and egg sac, I guess? Though, clearly there were eggs. Or if it had an ovipositor it **also** had something of a more human reproductive system, as shown in the ending, when it kind of "gives birth" to the "newborn," which is more human than alien (hence the eyes, which xenomorphs don't have), but still alien. It almost immediately kills the queen, seemingly in either disgust [for being born as what it is, like "how dare you give birth to me?"], or hatred (likely from Ripley's influence / genetic memory, or whatever the movie's conceit is?). It's made to be disturbing more than scary, and also slightly sympathetic. Its birth is kind of an accident of nature / genetic engineering. It should never have been created, it's an abomination, of sorts, and it may well know it. And it seems to know that Ripley is, in a sense, its mother or grandmother, and so there's a kind of familial connection there, and Ripley uses that to her advantage to lull it into a false sense of security, in order to destroy/murder it. And that final scene is the "newborn" basically being killed via infanticide and/or "betrayal" by a family member. So, while we're supposed to hate it, we're also supposed to feel its betrayal by Ripley and its not understanding why its mother/grandmother is killing it, as well as its fear of its impending doom, and the overall horror/pain of the gruesome way it's dying. So, yeah, you're feeling how you're supposed to feel, both elated and disgusted at its death... 'Cause, well, it kinda' makes you think a little bit, about the conflicting feelings. Overall, again, the movie is goofy and weird, enjoyable but, kinda' "bad," as you say. It's one of those moviee you love to hate, and hate to love, but there it is. ----- Now go watch AvP (Aliens vs. Predator). It's a fun popcorn action flick with lots of callbacks to the originals. and AvP: Requiem (basically "Part II" as it picks up right about where AvP left off), and has a few more callbacks...
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It is a deliberate choice to made the hybrid monster to have those tender human eyes at times, I thought it was pretty cool and how clone Ripley connected to it. I still like Alien^3 a little more, but this is a fun movie nonetheless
They got a sample of Ripley/Alien DNA because at the beginning of Alien 3 the movie's doctor took a blood sample from Ripley. It had to have come from that. And in the cloning process, Ripley and the aliens' genes got contaminated with each other, producing these strange results.
The movie was a product of it's time. They desperately wanted something different after 3 underperformed. Something more like a popcorn movie with lots of monsters. Personally I'm a big fan of the hybrid... there's something really unnerving about how it can seem innocent one second and then ferocious the next. Can't wait till you do Prometheus!
The basketball scene took so many takes. On the last one they were about to say we'll just do it in cgi, but Sigourney asked for one more take. She nailed it but they didn't pull the camera back enough so it looks like it was faked. Also when the shot was made ron pearlman couldn't help but smile and laugh which almost ruined the take
The extended cut of this one is also worth watching. Not as dramatically different as the extended Aliens or Alien 3, but it has a different beginning, ending, and a couple of tweaks that imo make it a better experience. Also, for Firefly/ Serenity fans, this movie is fun to see the genesis of those characters. It's almost a hybrid clone of the Alien and Firefly franchises.
Jeunet and Whedon = not a good mix. But you might want to check out other movies by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Also, I like the director's cut of this one just a little bit better. Same with Alien 3's "Assembly Cut" (or whatever it's called).
They absolutely wanted you to feel sympathy for the alien, at least they wanted you to feel RIPLEYS sympathy for the alien, given their shared origin, its like her putting down her child or siblind. However they sort of backed themselves into a corner where the very act of making it sympathetic made it not a good villainous monster. Maybe there was a better way to design it, or maybe they created a story idea that ultimately couldnt work on both levels simultaneously by definition.
This can be called a Guilty Pleasure. It's also for fans of director Jean-Pierre Juenet (which I am) who barely speaks English and this is his only American film and because of his poor English he needed an interpreter. He's a very quirky eccentric film maker who uses a lot of strange camera tricks (note Brad Douriff's continued distorted face and the birth of the Xenomorph). He was chosen because he impressed everybody with "Delicatessen" and "City of Lost Children". He decided to make it a dark comedy and was encouraged to add more violence. However, he didn't get along with Joss Weldon. After he finished A4 he went and made the acclaimed "Amelie" which introduced Audrey Tautou. He only made about 4 more movies and several shorts because his weird camera effects and stories make it hard to find backers. Then due to the loss of backers he didn't make another film for 10 years until he got backing from Netflix this year to make "Bedbugs." It's worth the time to check out his stuff on YT.
He's an excellent director. He's just a really weird choice for this series because of his quirky sense of humor, which doesn't quite mesh with the tone of the previous three films. And if the special features are any indicator, he felt somewhat obliged to deliver a conventional Hollywood action film despite his natural arthouse tendencies, so this film may warrant comparisons to David Lynch's Dune (another case of a director playing against his strengths).
Yeah. I think that if you see Delicatessen and City of Lost Children before A4 you get a better idea of what his intentions were. There's also a directors cut that you can find on DVD that amps up the camp in a way that is more consistent with his filmography even though it pushes further away from the Alien franchise. I remember how stoked I was to see this when it came out because I loved both the director and Alien.
@@jeremybates7332 Yes, I prefer the longer cut for that reason. If it has to be silly, it should be more consistently silly. You could even argue that it's thematically appropriate in a film that deals with the absurdity and meaninglessness of bringing back Ripley and the aliens (i.e. the franchise itself).
Ron Purrlman also played the Viceroy in Star Trek Nemesis. :) I also noticed Leland Orser, and the actor who played Lon Suder in Star Trek ... lots of trekkie people in this movie.
About the lemon. Google, Why do Americans call the British ‘limeys’?. That lemon was medicinal, and probably a huge treat for someone stuck on a space craft for so long.
Definitely like this better than Alien 3, it has Wynonna, a more diverse cast, more action, more aliens, a water/action sequence. "Aliens vs Predator" was next and I like that one too the same as this one, then Prometheus and Covenant. Then Requiem.
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Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet is famous for his wildly insane camera work. Also, I thought it had the most underrated horror music score by John Frizzell.
I eat lemons, once in a while. Dunno, ever since childhood I would occasionally enjoy a slice of lemon or two, with a bit of salt sprinkled over them. My palate just really enjoys the sour citrus. Definitely not a whole one though and indeed they would not crunch when bitten. This sequel was so cool for me when it was released because it felt based a lot more on the Dark Horse comics that took up the "Alien" license. Cloning xenomorph hybrids for combat purposes is a concept straight out of those comics and it was so neat to see on the big screen. Ahhh, if only "Alien vs. Predator" had committed to taking more from its comic book roots. Oh well. It could have been worse. - There is in fact an extended edition of "Alien Resurrection" that, if nothing else, spotlights more dialogue from Whedon's script that was mercifully cut or altered for the theatrical version and helps add some appreciation for what we ultimately got. Like you said, an enjoyable sequel but not the best it could have been.
Thank you for the review. I agree it is the lesser of the first 4. I don't think the Director was the right fit for this franchise, but still appreciated his contribution. I have seen his work prior to this one and hence I still like this movie for its fun and quirky factor. As another posted, I would also encourage to give Delicatessen, City of Children and Amelie a watch. The camera angles are much more eccentric in these French films, particularly the 1st two. Amelie is considered his best work and probably the easiest to consume.
Took me a while to really like this movie, even through I still consider it inferior to 3 (which itself was a step below 1 and 2). But it has a lot to like about it: Weavers' performance, (most of) the Cast (Ron Perlman and Brad Dourif are always a win), the production design by Nigel Phelbs (really love the sets), the top-tier practical effects (and modelwork), Darius Khondji's eccentric cinematography, John Frizells' Score (which is both beautiful and terrifying in equal measures). And that Swimming-Scene is exceptionally well made. I'd even say that the cinematography has aged well for being 25 Years old. On the other hand, its tonally uneven, often quite dumb and probably too eccentric for its own good. It doesn't take itself as seriously as the others did and thus comes across as less of an "Alien"-Film and more like just another monster-movie but one that is very well made on a technical level.
I do like this film, but the last 15 or so minutes really lets it down. If they would’ve been able to nail the landing, I think this movie would be looked on more favorably.
In my opinion this movie is based not on the previous aliens movies but rather on the dark horse comics. The dark horse comics have a ton of really great aliens stories and even the story this is loosely based on is a fair bit different from what is shown in the movies. This is why it feels different from the previous movies as its story feels more like reading one of those comics and less like an aliens movie. If you want to see more aliens content I suggest checking out the aliens comic book series. Some of the stories are not perfect while others are pretty amazing. Too bad this is where the franchise pretty much died as after this it was merged with something else.
The movie is not bad. I think it is important to keep in mind that this is the fourth of the franchise and it had to start out from a situation where the story didn't really allow for an easy continuation. So I guess the intention really was to just go all out and have as much fun with it as possible. In that respect the movie is actually quite good. It would have been interesting to see the franchise continue from this point on. Unfortunately the remaining movies of the franchise are all prequels. Oh, and...... I eat lemons...... now and then. Not very often but at times I do.
Well, at least this one doesn't make me angry, as some of the other movies of the franchise or the related AvP franchise do. Covenant I don't like for many reasons, which I won't post here because of the potential spoilers. The second AvP movie is the one I like least, mainly because of the characters and the fact that it is so dark that I can barely see anything. Those two are "bad" in my opinion. And I am not talking about "so bad it's good". Heheh.
You know, stealing a bunch of colonists going to a new life on a new world and selling them to a military base that's using them as hosts for alien eggs has GOT to be the most EVIL thing I've ever seen in a space or fantasy movie, EVER! That guy that woke up with one in him, he thought he was coming out of hyper-sleep to a welcoming party on a new planet. What he got was chestburster PTSD. Not cool, man. And, honestly, if any one of us was to be a character in this movie, we wouldn't be a hero, or a villain, we'd be the background characters that get screwed over. Just like in superheroes and Godzilla movies, we're the people running around and dying in the carnage happening all around us. It's not fair.
I think Alien 3 tried to be a very serious lowkey drama and mostly failed, and Alien Resurrection tried to be a big messy sci-fi action party with one liners and nutty ideas and mostly succeeded
I feel like this movie could have been better if they'd made Ripley the villain, as you speculated about at the start. But that would have required dropping the "pity for the aliens" angle, either by making them unpitiable or by giving them Ripley's hero role, with Ripley's villain turn shocking us either way. The hybrid was all Jeunet. He and Joss completely refused to understand or accept what the other was going for. Whedon wanted funny drama post-Buffy proto-Firefly sci-fi without caring about the Alien franchise, Jeunet wanted psychosexual horror like the first movie, but felt the sex needed to be front and center, and the studio wanted contradictory bullsh-t. They all got their wish, but there was clearly a monkey's paw involved.
I liked this film when it came out even though parts of it jumped the shark. I big thing that I never understood is why, initially, would aliens would kill humans if they needed them to complete their reproductive cycle. Good performances save a lot of the story. Along with Tuco from The Closer, you have Hellboy, the deep throated baddie from The Crow, the original Chucky, and Nick Tortelli from Cheers.
I actually do not mind the events of this movie. Really they can all still exist in canon with only one slight tweak.... If you remand the 3rd movie to just a hyper sleep fueled fever dream, These events can perfectly well take place just because they already have samples of Ripley's blood from her initial rescue from 57year hypersleep in the Nostromo escape pod, and Xenomorph samples have been driving Weyland-Yutani and the Military to act since OUR era. (You will see this in other parts of the franchise). So they have a number of legitimate sources for cloning material. Whether you use alien three's timeline or the dark horse comic timeline, 200 years In the future gives you a lot to play with, And that works very well. She wasn't running because she was being chased she was running because she was racing and the hybrid actually Got there 1st and hid as aliens are likely to do do. The hit-and-miss mental connection is a dangerous thing because it goes both ways. Now it is time to get into the aliens versus predator content. Enjoy!!
The 2 visuals that stick with me between viewings are: the hybrid Queen giving birth instead of laying eggs; & the Ripley clone with alien limbs begging for help. Also, I'd picked up on the early throw away line indicating Winona's character is a robot. Why does no one catch that?
This was just another insult to injury after Alien3 towards the whole franchise. Didn't need to exist. Or at the very least, written better. It still falls into the same tropes about studying and capturing the xenomorphs for profit, despite being constantly proven to be too dangerous. Makes me profoundly upset Neill Blomkamp's project never came to fruition.
I mean, it was **always** going to happen in-universe. Eventually, the Company (or someone) was going to get their hands on one and try to misuse it, and it was always going to go horribly awry... So, it's **not** unexpected. Personally, I always thought they were going to get it back to Earth, and then Earth was going to get infested, and they'd eventually film Aliens: Earth War, or something like it. But, no such luck.
@@MGmirkin I understand what you're saying. The concept of researching the aliens goes hand in hand with resurrecting Ripley. Something original as you mentioned like an invasion would've been more refreshing. I know it's widely despised, but Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem dealt with this exact scenario very well. I actually liked that film. R rated as opposed to its predecessor and no bizarre plot points like how the Predator worked alongside a human. The sequel just worked better for me.
Saw this in the Thearter in my late teens with friends... the Human Baby Alien scared the shit out of me especially its death, just the mannerisms and sounds going from violent to sympathetic and back again. Still cant really watch it without a sense of revulsion, only real time a movies made me feel like that. lol decades latter and I had to still mute the sound and look away when it died in your reaction... just like I did in the thearter, and im not ashamed to say that. Its not the best Aliens movie, but its still an ok film... one thing I just realized though is when the commander gets his brain poked, im surprised he pulled some out to look at it, since that would be from his visual cortex, meaning he's probably blind at that point lol.
The Aliens franchise - The Haunted House, The Action Movie, The Art Movie, and the Bad One. I agree the alien at the end is too human, and I think that's the point. It's tragic, and the more human eyes suddenly makes you feel empathetic towards it. But it was so slimy and grosssss. I guess that was the point.
I always thought the aliens in this movie looked more like giant roaches than frightening extraterrestrial monsters. It's a weird movie, more like a satirical dark comedy than a horror or action film. Didn't do as well as the previous three at the US Box Office but it did do extremely well in France.
I think the movie miss an lot of opportunities. Instead of having all humans for the face huggers, there should have been gorilla, cheetah, elephant or hippo and we could have seen some many alien variations. Maybe even a flying animal..
This was a weird entry, no Alien 5 the last sequel, everything after is a cross over and prequel, will you check the Predator movies to prepare for Alien Vs Predator?
Out of all the alien movies, I'd say this was my least favourite, doesn't mean I think its a bad movie, just wasn't overly struck on a few things, was still an okay movie but not the best, like you I enjoyed alien 3 more then resurrection, think this was made as a more blockbuster movie then anything. I'd recommend the next one you watch is promethus, as the next alien movie ties into that so I'd watch promethus first then watch alien covenant
This is certainly the worst Alien film (outside of the AVP movies, of course), but if you're in the mood for an utterly silly farce that's fully aware of the corporate cynicism behind its very existence, then it's kinda entertaining on those terms. For years, I couldn't forgive it for ruining the cathartic ending of Alien 3, but on the other hand, Ripley's sacrifice thwarted the efforts of Weyland-Yutani for two centuries, so it wasn't a complete waste. Too bad for her that there is no escape from the demands of a franchise.
Something I never understood about this movie is that why did nobody go back to LV-426? Sure, the atmospheric processor exploding was a thing but the explosion wasn't that big that it destroyed the derelict. The Aliens vs Predator and Aliens vs Predator 2 games of the early 2000s explore this much better, imho. AVP1 has a level which includes the derelict, and AVP2 states that LV-1201 was found from logs of the original derelict. Oh, well, we all have our preferences, innit?
@@weepingscorpion8739 If I were a greedy Fox executive in the 1990s, I would have slightly tweaked the opening of Alien 3 so that the fate of Hicks was more ambiguous--though with the heavy implication that he died, of course. Then I would have suggested going forward with a still-very much alive Michael Biehn for Alien 4, which would likely feature either the remains of the derelict Engineer ship or some other premise (AVP, perhaps?). But I'm with the Brandywine producers on this one. Alien 3 is the proper end of the story, even if that's not the most lucrative and franchise-friendly stance to take. That being said, I have learned not to hate Resurrection.
Saw this in the theatre as well when it came out. At 35:53, you talk about the hybrid alien and how goofy it looked and that it wasn't scary. Everything you felt about that was exactly what everyone else felt, what I felt during its reveal, but you talk about it as if it's your "gotcha moment" and that they didn't make you feel the way they wanted you to feel about it. In fact, are of your fellings about it is exactly what you were supposed to feel! What's the thing to do these days? Feel exactly what it was designed to make you feel and then turn it against the filmmakers as the flaw of the film? Ypu keep proving that what they did work and then make it seem like they didn't mean to do that?
I finally realized what is happening. This new generation has such low quality movies today , that they go back and watch our trash movies, but don't realize why we hated them so much, because to them these movies are amazing compared to the crap they get served. Go watch The Fly II. You'll think you've found an Oscar winner!! LoL 🤣🤣🤣
For me, the Alien series officially ends with Alien 3. Resurrection is a nice "what if" story with some cool moments, but it goes too far off the rails for me to consider it an official Alien movie. It only gets worse after this. Oy!
you YAWNED at one point i think ...lol ..from that i could tell in your body language you couldnt wait for it to be over. its not an easy watch..but it has memorable scenes. the NEWBON Xeno was suposed to look more disturbing and Abomination like ..nothing like an xeno as we know...that was the point!
Ugh, what a hot mess. I guess I can see how it’s a guilty pleasure for some, but… it’s just NOT good. You know that’s not how a vacuum works, right? Like, not. At. All.
Have you ever put your hand over the tube of a vacuum cleaner? Now imagine that times like 10,000... Pretty sure it works exactly like that. [/sarc] J/K... Also: it's a movie, dude... Don't overthink it. It's science-"fiction" not science-"fact.'
@@MGmirkin Except that’s not how it works. A vacuum doesn’t have any inherent “sucking” power. The force that pushes the air out into the vacuum is nothing more than the air pressure of the cabin, which is less than 15 psi. A typical vacuum cleaner produces air pressure at least twice that. But yes, it’s just a movie. (A bad one.)
The 4th one is here! Ripley is resurrected and is now a clone/xenomorph hybrid which is pretty fun! Some cool things in this movie and some bizarre things in this movie for sure! It is fun though that's for sure! See y'all for Prometheus!
Thanks for watching! Have a great day! :)
This is a written and by design a graphic novel styled movie. Thus the camera angles. Each alien movie is a different styled movie.
So, *Alien Resurrection* is actually a spiritual follow-up to the cute, clonely parable "City of the Lost Children" and not really a sequel to *Alien,* at all.
Prometheus (1) + Alien Covenant=Prometheus 2 (2012+2017) are the Prequels from the Alien-Movies
I hope you will watch the Alien vs Predator films lastly, leading into viewing all of the Predator franchise next..
I swear at some point they compare the size of the ship to the size of our moon. Either way it seems like it's big enough to be a possible E.L.E. event causer.
I love that whitish Alien, the way it makes the innocent eyes/face. Makes it scarier when it does evil. It's essentially a baby, so when it's dying it kinda gives you that "aww man that sucks" feels even though it needs to die.
CGI looked decent though I swear I remember it not looking this good, but not terrible.
I think maybe Ripley might not necessarily being chased, but trying to get to the shop before it leaves, maybe?
I think I'd give this around a 7 out of 10 score. I actually saw this one in the theater. The first Alien movie I got to experience in the theater.
By the way, the Alien franchise always makes me think of the same question, that I also get during a lot of zombie movies. What makes an alien decide to kill or to take home for implantation? What makes a Zombie just bite someone and then tear another one into pieces. It always just seems weird sometimes cause I'd guess a species like this would want to save as many victims for baby making as possible.
People can think whatever they want, the photography and music of Alien Resurrection are incredible for a 1998 movie
This is one of my favorite movies I don't care what anyone says I don't care about the loophole of how they got Ripley's body or blood I think it's cool that you can actually see what happens when the company finally gets the alien and what they wanted to do and also the visual effects are amazing
I think the answer is a bit of a kludge / cheat, that the aliens have a form of "genetic memory" and so when the queen was inside Ripley, maybe it somehow assimilated her memory into its genetics, or something, or vice versa, incorporated its genetic memory into her, and so when they retrieved Ripley's DNA from the prison planet, they got a commingled set of DNA from both the Queen and Ripley, and it took them a number of attempts to clone her / them both in a way that wasn't a complete monstrosity / aberration (hence the prior subjects 1-7)...
And even then they were still commingled, with Ripley having some of the Aliens' characteristics (acid blood, etc.), and the Queen having some of Ripley's (reproductive system, etc.)
@@MGmirkin Yes, there is actually a "genetic memory" on earth. Insects and birds do not go to flying school, woodpeckers do not copy other woodpeckers to learn how to peck wood, beavers do not watch other beavers to learn how to build a dam and Human babies(when born in a tub or pool) do not just magically swim when born. It's called "INHERITED INTELLIGENCE" and yes it is and has been a very real part of our continuing Human\Mammal\Insect existence. Look it up. When you go to school for science, you learn this, if your parents did not tell you already.
Fun fact, she really threw the basketball over her back into the hoop. It took multiple takes.
Nope. Just one. You can see it in the deleted scenes. Ron Pearlman got so excited to witness it he went out of character cheering and yelling. They had to edit. Lol
According to the lore, Morse (the only survivor of the events of the third movie) wrote a book about his experiences titled „Star Beast“ (in real life a working title of the Original Movie). The Book was quickly suppressed by Weyland Yutani but a few copies made it out there, one surviving long enough to fall into Call’s hands which started her on her quest.
The end alien was just a baby , it didn't know any better and Ripley 8, it's mother , killed it . The betrayal was tragic and supposedly it's final scream has Mama mixed in .
Call me crazy, but I really enjoyed this one!
Crazy 😋
Brad Dourif is cast as a mad scientist character and that's all they gave him to do. Ugh. This movie had a great cast, they just didn't have the script to make the best possible use of it.
Yeah, Joss has essentially said that he was asked to submit a script, and he submitted a joke script using his concept stage characters for Firefly, and was shocked when the script was chosen. He was then given very little time to rework the script in to something more serious.
Sounds like a typical excuse from Joss Wheadon
I can't believe you don't know Jean-Pierre Jeunet . You need to explore his films .
Why, what else has he done that this guy might actually know (like widely-popular household-name films)?
I can believe he's not aware of Jean-Pierre Jeunet. I'm not even really familiar with him or his works... Doubt many people are... Did he do City of Lost Children, or was that someone else? If so, that's the only other film of his I can recall the name of, and even that one is kinda' obscure...
@@MGmirkin I am shocked because I believe Oliver has studied filmmaking to some extent . I may be wrong about that , but from his understanding appreciation of different aspects of lighting and cinematography in his reactions leads me to this conclusion .
As far as being household name films , City of Lost Children , Delicatessen , and Amélie are some very well known albeit French films .
Not only that , but it's hard to believe that none of his Patreon members have requested any of these .
Ok, so here's my take on the horrible alien hybrid thing at the end... I would not have included it in the film, because it is an abomination. Pathetic, twisted, wrong. It's behavior was neither alien, nor human. To me it came across like... Shit I was going to make a film reference I don't know if you've seen yet. Anyway, I think it was supposed to make you feel uncomfortable, and simultaneously that you felt sorry for it, but also wanted it to die. So yeah, can this film just be fun to watch? Sure. Is it an example of good filmmaking? Not even remotely.
I like this one. Winona Ryder hates water but she braved it out and did the scene.
Joss Whedon wrote the Screenplay to the film, but was a real pain to work with, as Director Jean Pierre Juenet had a hard time to working with Whedon and in a recent interview, he called him an idiot for ruining the Alien franchise.
There are a lot of puzzle pieces to love here but when you step back it’s a mess and that’s Whedon.
I have loathed him for so many years and am so glad to finally live in a world where JW no longer has a golden pedestal to poop from. I love that his name is reacted to the way it always should have been.
I was surprised he wrote a lousy alien movie.
I guess Whedon has fallen from grace and gets a lot of hate these days but it should be noted that his original screenplay is out there and can be read. The most notable thing is that the alien hybrid, Ripley, and Call end up fighting it out in a huge battle on the surface of the earth after they land. It's a much better ending. Also, as he stated in interviews, the dialogue was sometimes rearranged seemingly for no reason, with characters saying lines meant for other characters. Also, I would say the sensibility of the director, while certainly unique, did not exactly work tonally for the Alien franchise, at least in my estimation. The movie has an odd and surreal aesthetic that pushes against actually being frightening.
So basically same as everyone who ever worked with Wheadon lol
wheeedon blamed Frenchy for ruining the movie. Frankly , i love it that the french took over! jean said weeeedon makes movies for idiots, morans and geeks lol ..without the french this movie would not have had the impact and iconic final act as it does.
I think the term you’re looking for is “guilty pleasure.” I thought it was a much more ambitious, crazy-fun ride than the depressing, bleak Alien 3. AR had more insane scenes - clones 1-7, the underwater chase, the newborn and its death, etc. I don’t know why this film gets more hate than 3, because it tried something different: the genetic aspect of the aliens.
Nice to see reactions to these later sequels, I have a soft spot for this one in particular, though I never thought 3 was as bad as its rep either. I'm glad they got Jeunet to direct. He has a very distinctive style and it helps to make the movie stand out on its own. I recommend checking out his other films too.
Yeah....Sigourney took over 100 takes to make that one perfect basketball shot...but it was a real shot when she made it.
This movie allowed the audience to see how tall Sigourney Weaver is.
Thanks, Oliver! 👾 #RolyPolyOllie #JeanPierreJeunet #AlienResurrection
Fan theory is that the Doctor in 3 took blood samples from Ripley whilst treating her. So, that's it, the end of the Alien series, Ripley squashes the bugs, get's her crew, ship and little girl back, finally makes it to Earth. She finally has her happy ending.
There's a lot of good stuff in Resurrection, but it's still a big mess. Winona Rider is really cute as Cal (3rd android gets a C name after Ash & Bishop 🤣🤣🤣), the crew of the Betty are very proto-Firefly, and feral Ripley is pretty badass. Also has a fun appearance by 'that guy' actor Leland Orser (the rescued chestburst victim) and a weird performance by Dan Hedaya (he ate so many lemons for that one scene he made himself sick 🍋)
The alphabetical Ash-Bishop-Call-David progression is one of the more amusing little details in the series. But then Covenant gave us Walter and ruined everything.
Then you're saying it is worth watching for all these fun moment after all, yes?
The final Alien hybrid was more Ripley than Alien. So when it saw the queen, it killed it, because "that's not my real mother". That's why the hybrid Alien has such a betrayed expression on its face, because Ripley is its real mother, yet Ripley's the one who has to kill it.
This is like a bad fan made film, with a b-movie budget.
It has fun elements and plays with the Alien universe in interesting way.
However, like it's predecessor, it is not an Alien movie.
There are truly, only two, and some fantastic comics by Darkhorse.
Resurrection was ... weird. But goofy fun.
Basically Ripley is now like part human, part alien, not quite "all there" in a sense.
And alot of the other characters are kinda' caricatures or cardboard cutouts in a certain sense. But it's goofy fun even if it loses the thread a bit...
Alien^3 got a lot of hate for its opening (killing off the survivors of Aliens, other than Ripley, and tearing away the "happy ending" die Newt, Hicks, and Ripley). The rest of the movie was ... okay. It did what it set out to do, and I respect it for that, even if I will never really "forgive" the opening.
Anyway, on to part IV... ;)
So, yeah, the "newborn" as it's commonly referred to, is a weird thing that's kind of a subject in and of itself, in terms of how it was kind of used in the movie...
This movie kind of "remixed" elements of the aliens + humanity. So, Ripley wasn't completely human. the xenomorphs weren't completely alien, but had some human DNA commingled in.
The "queen" wasn't fully xenomorph, didn't have an ovipositor and egg sac, I guess? Though, clearly there were eggs. Or if it had an ovipositor it **also** had something of a more human reproductive system, as shown in the ending, when it kind of "gives birth" to the "newborn," which is more human than alien (hence the eyes, which xenomorphs don't have), but still alien. It almost immediately kills the queen, seemingly in either disgust [for being born as what it is, like "how dare you give birth to me?"], or hatred (likely from Ripley's influence / genetic memory, or whatever the movie's conceit is?).
It's made to be disturbing more than scary, and also slightly sympathetic. Its birth is kind of an accident of nature / genetic engineering. It should never have been created, it's an abomination, of sorts, and it may well know it. And it seems to know that Ripley is, in a sense, its mother or grandmother, and so there's a kind of familial connection there, and Ripley uses that to her advantage to lull it into a false sense of security, in order to destroy/murder it. And that final scene is the "newborn" basically being killed via infanticide and/or "betrayal" by a family member. So, while we're supposed to hate it, we're also supposed to feel its betrayal by Ripley and its not understanding why its mother/grandmother is killing it, as well as its fear of its impending doom, and the overall horror/pain of the gruesome way it's dying. So, yeah, you're feeling how you're supposed to feel, both elated and disgusted at its death... 'Cause, well, it kinda' makes you think a little bit, about the conflicting feelings.
Overall, again, the movie is goofy and weird, enjoyable but, kinda' "bad," as you say. It's one of those moviee you love to hate, and hate to love, but there it is.
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Now go watch AvP (Aliens vs. Predator). It's a fun popcorn action flick with lots of callbacks to the originals. and AvP: Requiem (basically "Part II" as it picks up right about where AvP left off), and has a few more callbacks...
Kudos for the honest review and not being afraid to call it a "bad movie."
What the chicken nuggets?
Ollie,your food-based comments/insults never fail to surprise me 🤣
I forget which review you said this in,but you called someone a ham sandwich 🤣 Not just a sandwich,a ham sandwich. It was so out of nowhere,I never forgot it 🤣🤣
It is a deliberate choice to made the hybrid monster to have those tender human eyes at times, I thought it was pretty cool and how clone Ripley connected to it. I still like Alien^3 a little more, but this is a fun movie nonetheless
They got a sample of Ripley/Alien DNA because at the beginning of Alien 3 the movie's doctor took a blood sample from Ripley. It had to have come from that. And in the cloning process, Ripley and the aliens' genes got contaminated with each other, producing these strange results.
The movie was a product of it's time. They desperately wanted something different after 3 underperformed. Something more like a popcorn movie with lots of monsters. Personally I'm a big fan of the hybrid... there's something really unnerving about how it can seem innocent one second and then ferocious the next. Can't wait till you do Prometheus!
The basketball scene took so many takes. On the last one they were about to say we'll just do it in cgi, but Sigourney asked for one more take. She nailed it but they didn't pull the camera back enough so it looks like it was faked. Also when the shot was made ron pearlman couldn't help but smile and laugh which almost ruined the take
Came here for this! You can just see him start to smile at the end before the cut
I remember watching the unaltered clip in a making-of and someone (probably Jeunet) exitedly screamed "YES! YES!" in the background. :D
The extended cut of this one is also worth watching. Not as dramatically different as the extended Aliens or Alien 3, but it has a different beginning, ending, and a couple of tweaks that imo make it a better experience. Also, for Firefly/ Serenity fans, this movie is fun to see the genesis of those characters. It's almost a hybrid clone of the Alien and Firefly franchises.
Jeunet and Whedon = not a good mix.
But you might want to check out other movies by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
Also, I like the director's cut of this one just a little bit better. Same with Alien 3's "Assembly Cut" (or whatever it's called).
They absolutely wanted you to feel sympathy for the alien, at least they wanted you to feel RIPLEYS sympathy for the alien, given their shared origin, its like her putting down her child or siblind. However they sort of backed themselves into a corner where the very act of making it sympathetic made it not a good villainous monster. Maybe there was a better way to design it, or maybe they created a story idea that ultimately couldnt work on both levels simultaneously by definition.
yk, i really liked this movie, the alien aside, the characters were fun, i love LOVE the underwater scene especially
also, the budget was largest of all the budgets, just fyi [70M]
This can be called a Guilty Pleasure. It's also for fans of director Jean-Pierre Juenet (which I am) who barely speaks English and this is his only American film and because of his poor English he needed an interpreter. He's a very quirky eccentric film maker who uses a lot of strange camera tricks (note Brad Douriff's continued distorted face and the birth of the Xenomorph). He was chosen because he impressed everybody with "Delicatessen" and "City of Lost Children". He decided to make it a dark comedy and was encouraged to add more violence. However, he didn't get along with Joss Weldon. After he finished A4 he went and made the acclaimed "Amelie" which introduced Audrey Tautou. He only made about 4 more movies and several shorts because his weird camera effects and stories make it hard to find backers. Then due to the loss of backers he didn't make another film for 10 years until he got backing from Netflix this year to make "Bedbugs." It's worth the time to check out his stuff on YT.
He's an excellent director. He's just a really weird choice for this series because of his quirky sense of humor, which doesn't quite mesh with the tone of the previous three films. And if the special features are any indicator, he felt somewhat obliged to deliver a conventional Hollywood action film despite his natural arthouse tendencies, so this film may warrant comparisons to David Lynch's Dune (another case of a director playing against his strengths).
Yeah. I think that if you see Delicatessen and City of Lost Children before A4 you get a better idea of what his intentions were. There's also a directors cut that you can find on DVD that amps up the camp in a way that is more consistent with his filmography even though it pushes further away from the Alien franchise. I remember how stoked I was to see this when it came out because I loved both the director and Alien.
@@jeremybates7332 Yes, I prefer the longer cut for that reason. If it has to be silly, it should be more consistently silly. You could even argue that it's thematically appropriate in a film that deals with the absurdity and meaninglessness of bringing back Ripley and the aliens (i.e. the franchise itself).
Ron Purrlman also played the Viceroy in Star Trek Nemesis. :) I also noticed Leland Orser, and the actor who played Lon Suder in Star Trek ... lots of trekkie people in this movie.
About the lemon. Google, Why do Americans call the British ‘limeys’?. That lemon was medicinal, and probably a huge treat for someone stuck on a space craft for so long.
Did they get Ripley's DNA from her hair (shaved head, Bipley) in Alien 3??
I think it was blood samples.
I blame Clemens. The Lannisters ruin everything.
Definitely like this better than Alien 3, it has Wynonna, a more diverse cast, more action, more aliens, a water/action sequence. "Aliens vs Predator" was next and I like that one too the same as this one, then Prometheus and Covenant. Then Requiem.
You should definitely watch Jean-Pierre Juenet's other, more personal movies. All are worth your time.
I watched this in the cinema and loved it. It’s very different to the others but it’s still great.
I could not do the Vulcan Salute when I first tried it either. 🖖 I taped my fingers (not too tight) together when I was 11 for about a week and can do both hands with ease to this very day. 🤔 🖖 "Achievement Unlocked!!"
Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet is famous for his wildly insane camera work. Also, I thought it had the most underrated horror music score by John Frizzell.
This one has a stellar cast.
I eat lemons, once in a while. Dunno, ever since childhood I would occasionally enjoy a slice of lemon or two, with a bit of salt sprinkled over them. My palate just really enjoys the sour citrus. Definitely not a whole one though and indeed they would not crunch when bitten.
This sequel was so cool for me when it was released because it felt based a lot more on the Dark Horse comics that took up the "Alien" license. Cloning xenomorph hybrids for combat purposes is a concept straight out of those comics and it was so neat to see on the big screen. Ahhh, if only "Alien vs. Predator" had committed to taking more from its comic book roots. Oh well. It could have been worse. - There is in fact an extended edition of "Alien Resurrection" that, if nothing else, spotlights more dialogue from Whedon's script that was mercifully cut or altered for the theatrical version and helps add some appreciation for what we ultimately got. Like you said, an enjoyable sequel but not the best it could have been.
AvP is part of the Predator franchise not of the Alien franchise
It's a cross-over, and is part of both franchises. 🙄
@@MGmirkin nope as long as Ridley Scott is in control its not and he said there are no Predators in the Alien Universe
Thank you for the review. I agree it is the lesser of the first 4. I don't think the Director was the right fit for this franchise, but still appreciated his contribution. I have seen his work prior to this one and hence I still like this movie for its fun and quirky factor. As another posted, I would also encourage to give Delicatessen, City of Children and Amelie a watch. The camera angles are much more eccentric in these French films, particularly the 1st two. Amelie is considered his best work and probably the easiest to consume.
Took me a while to really like this movie, even through I still consider it inferior to 3 (which itself was a step below 1 and 2). But it has a lot to like about it: Weavers' performance, (most of) the Cast (Ron Perlman and Brad Dourif are always a win), the production design by Nigel Phelbs (really love the sets), the top-tier practical effects (and modelwork), Darius Khondji's eccentric cinematography, John Frizells' Score (which is both beautiful and terrifying in equal measures). And that Swimming-Scene is exceptionally well made. I'd even say that the cinematography has aged well for being 25 Years old. On the other hand, its tonally uneven, often quite dumb and probably too eccentric for its own good. It doesn't take itself as seriously as the others did and thus comes across as less of an "Alien"-Film and more like just another monster-movie but one that is very well made on a technical level.
I do like this film, but the last 15 or so minutes really lets it down. If they would’ve been able to nail the landing, I think this movie would be looked on more favorably.
In my opinion this movie is based not on the previous aliens movies but rather on the dark horse comics. The dark horse comics have a ton of really great aliens stories and even the story this is loosely based on is a fair bit different from what is shown in the movies. This is why it feels different from the previous movies as its story feels more like reading one of those comics and less like an aliens movie. If you want to see more aliens content I suggest checking out the aliens comic book series. Some of the stories are not perfect while others are pretty amazing. Too bad this is where the franchise pretty much died as after this it was merged with something else.
The movie is not bad.
I think it is important to keep in mind that this is the fourth of the franchise and it had to start out from a situation where the story didn't really allow for an easy continuation.
So I guess the intention really was to just go all out and have as much fun with it as possible.
In that respect the movie is actually quite good.
It would have been interesting to see the franchise continue from this point on. Unfortunately the remaining movies of the franchise are all prequels.
Oh, and...... I eat lemons...... now and then. Not very often but at times I do.
It's bad.
But, it's "fun bad" not "bad bad," if you know what I mean... So, we give it a pass...
Well, at least this one doesn't make me angry, as some of the other movies of the franchise or the related AvP franchise do.
Covenant I don't like for many reasons, which I won't post here because of the potential spoilers.
The second AvP movie is the one I like least, mainly because of the characters and the fact that it is so dark that I can barely see anything.
Those two are "bad" in my opinion.
And I am not talking about "so bad it's good". Heheh.
You know, stealing a bunch of colonists going to a new life on a new world and selling them to a military base that's using them as hosts for alien eggs has GOT to be the most EVIL thing I've ever seen in a space or fantasy movie, EVER! That guy that woke up with one in him, he thought he was coming out of hyper-sleep to a welcoming party on a new planet. What he got was chestburster PTSD. Not cool, man. And, honestly, if any one of us was to be a character in this movie, we wouldn't be a hero, or a villain, we'd be the background characters that get screwed over. Just like in superheroes and Godzilla movies, we're the people running around and dying in the carnage happening all around us. It's not fair.
I think Alien 3 tried to be a very serious lowkey drama and mostly failed, and Alien Resurrection tried to be a big messy sci-fi action party with one liners and nutty ideas and mostly succeeded
24:02 Which makes you wonder why it didn't just spit the acid in the cage, instead of killing one of their own.
Huh... all these years and that one got past me. Maybe its because they needed to get out fast, to avoid the button press...
I feel like this movie could have been better if they'd made Ripley the villain, as you speculated about at the start. But that would have required dropping the "pity for the aliens" angle, either by making them unpitiable or by giving them Ripley's hero role, with Ripley's villain turn shocking us either way.
The hybrid was all Jeunet. He and Joss completely refused to understand or accept what the other was going for. Whedon wanted funny drama post-Buffy proto-Firefly sci-fi without caring about the Alien franchise, Jeunet wanted psychosexual horror like the first movie, but felt the sex needed to be front and center, and the studio wanted contradictory bullsh-t. They all got their wish, but there was clearly a monkey's paw involved.
That alien son she had and it’s death disturbed me then and now
I liked this film when it came out even though parts of it jumped the shark. I big thing that I never understood is why, initially, would aliens would kill humans if they needed them to complete their reproductive cycle. Good performances save a lot of the story. Along with Tuco from The Closer, you have Hellboy, the deep throated baddie from The Crow, the original Chucky, and Nick Tortelli from Cheers.
I actually do not mind the events of this movie. Really they can all still exist in canon with only one slight tweak.... If you remand the 3rd movie to just a hyper sleep fueled fever dream, These events can perfectly well take place just because they already have samples of Ripley's blood from her initial rescue from 57year hypersleep in the Nostromo escape pod, and Xenomorph samples have been driving Weyland-Yutani and the Military to act since OUR era. (You will see this in other parts of the franchise). So they have a number of legitimate sources for cloning material. Whether you use alien three's timeline or the dark horse comic timeline, 200 years In the future gives you a lot to play with, And that works very well.
She wasn't running because she was being chased she was running because she was racing and the hybrid actually Got there 1st and hid as aliens are likely to do do. The hit-and-miss mental connection is a dangerous thing because it goes both ways.
Now it is time to get into the aliens versus predator content. Enjoy!!
i looove your shirt! Great music!
He was eating a lemon because he was drinking whiskey. Whiskey sour. She did it in one take-th-cam.com/video/uks0Z5DaIZA/w-d-xo.html
With the exception of the awful Alien Muppet baby thing at the end, I quite enjoyed this.
I'd love an alien res urrection
This movie is so fun!
The human looking alien will make more sense in Prometheus.
I was disturbed and disappointed the baby killed the queen
The 2 visuals that stick with me between viewings are: the hybrid Queen giving birth instead of laying eggs; & the Ripley clone with alien limbs begging for help.
Also, I'd picked up on the early throw away line indicating Winona's character is a robot. Why does no one catch that?
This was just another insult to injury after Alien3 towards the whole franchise. Didn't need to exist. Or at the very least, written better. It still falls into the same tropes about studying and capturing the xenomorphs for profit, despite being constantly proven to be too dangerous. Makes me profoundly upset Neill Blomkamp's project never came to fruition.
I mean, it was **always** going to happen in-universe. Eventually, the Company (or someone) was going to get their hands on one and try to misuse it, and it was always going to go horribly awry... So, it's **not** unexpected.
Personally, I always thought they were going to get it back to Earth, and then Earth was going to get infested, and they'd eventually film Aliens: Earth War, or something like it. But, no such luck.
@@MGmirkin I understand what you're saying. The concept of researching the aliens goes hand in hand with resurrecting Ripley. Something original as you mentioned like an invasion would've been more refreshing. I know it's widely despised, but Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem dealt with this exact scenario very well. I actually liked that film. R rated as opposed to its predecessor and no bizarre plot points like how the Predator worked alongside a human. The sequel just worked better for me.
0:02 What was that?
Saw this in the Thearter in my late teens with friends... the Human Baby Alien scared the shit out of me especially its death, just the mannerisms and sounds going from violent to sympathetic and back again. Still cant really watch it without a sense of revulsion, only real time a movies made me feel like that. lol decades latter and I had to still mute the sound and look away when it died in your reaction... just like I did in the thearter, and im not ashamed to say that.
Its not the best Aliens movie, but its still an ok film... one thing I just realized though is when the commander gets his brain poked, im surprised he pulled some out to look at it, since that would be from his visual cortex, meaning he's probably blind at that point lol.
The newborns death is so sad
The Aliens franchise - The Haunted House, The Action Movie, The Art Movie, and the Bad One. I agree the alien at the end is too human, and I think that's the point. It's tragic, and the more human eyes suddenly makes you feel empathetic towards it. But it was so slimy and grosssss. I guess that was the point.
I always thought the aliens in this movie looked more like giant roaches than frightening extraterrestrial monsters. It's a weird movie, more like a satirical dark comedy than a horror or action film. Didn't do as well as the previous three at the US Box Office but it did do extremely well in France.
I think of locusts or cicadas especially in Aliens when Hicks peeks up the ceiling and they are everywhere. EWW!
Lol, I saw your shirt and thought that had to be a band.
I think the movie miss an lot of opportunities.
Instead of having all humans for the face huggers, there should have been gorilla, cheetah, elephant or hippo and we could have seen some many alien variations. Maybe even a flying animal..
Sigourney Weaver made that shot on the first take.
Roly: JC she got blasted in the face ..
Me: I’ve seen that movie on the hub 😂🤦🏻♂️
Aww come on - who doesn't love a crunchy lemon?
French director makes it a cool one off. once 3 & 4 are each on its own. 5 would be a great movie. Prequels are a new set of stories
Maybe lemons crunch in the future 😄 | she wasn't running away the knew the betty starts and wanted to reach it
This was a weird entry, no Alien 5 the last sequel, everything after is a cross over and prequel, will you check the Predator movies to prepare for Alien Vs Predator?
Out of all the alien movies, I'd say this was my least favourite, doesn't mean I think its a bad movie, just wasn't overly struck on a few things, was still an okay movie but not the best, like you I enjoyed alien 3 more then resurrection, think this was made as a more blockbuster movie then anything.
I'd recommend the next one you watch is promethus, as the next alien movie ties into that so I'd watch promethus first then watch alien covenant
It's not a great alien movie...but it is entertaining. I definitely don't hate it.
Honestly I actually liked this one, better than alien 3 at least
I saw this in theatres and wasnt happy lol
You should react Doctor Who (2005).
4:28 Superbeast.
This is certainly the worst Alien film (outside of the AVP movies, of course), but if you're in the mood for an utterly silly farce that's fully aware of the corporate cynicism behind its very existence, then it's kinda entertaining on those terms. For years, I couldn't forgive it for ruining the cathartic ending of Alien 3, but on the other hand, Ripley's sacrifice thwarted the efforts of Weyland-Yutani for two centuries, so it wasn't a complete waste. Too bad for her that there is no escape from the demands of a franchise.
Something I never understood about this movie is that why did nobody go back to LV-426? Sure, the atmospheric processor exploding was a thing but the explosion wasn't that big that it destroyed the derelict. The Aliens vs Predator and Aliens vs Predator 2 games of the early 2000s explore this much better, imho. AVP1 has a level which includes the derelict, and AVP2 states that LV-1201 was found from logs of the original derelict. Oh, well, we all have our preferences, innit?
@@weepingscorpion8739 If I were a greedy Fox executive in the 1990s, I would have slightly tweaked the opening of Alien 3 so that the fate of Hicks was more ambiguous--though with the heavy implication that he died, of course.
Then I would have suggested going forward with a still-very much alive Michael Biehn for Alien 4, which would likely feature either the remains of the derelict Engineer ship or some other premise (AVP, perhaps?).
But I'm with the Brandywine producers on this one. Alien 3 is the proper end of the story, even if that's not the most lucrative and franchise-friendly stance to take. That being said, I have learned not to hate Resurrection.
Really, they could have just used the plot from one of the comics, where they came across the Alien homeworld pre-"Prometheus" nonsense...
@@MGmirkin I can't stand those Dark Horse Comics stories, and I enjoy Prometheus, so I would probably see things differently there.
Saw this in the theatre as well when it came out. At 35:53, you talk about the hybrid alien and how goofy it looked and that it wasn't scary. Everything you felt about that was exactly what everyone else felt, what I felt during its reveal, but you talk about it as if it's your "gotcha moment" and that they didn't make you feel the way they wanted you to feel about it. In fact, are of your fellings about it is exactly what you were supposed to feel! What's the thing to do these days? Feel exactly what it was designed to make you feel and then turn it against the filmmakers as the flaw of the film? Ypu keep proving that what they did work and then make it seem like they didn't mean to do that?
Special Effects???
I finally realized what is happening. This new generation has such low quality movies today , that they go back and watch our trash movies, but don't realize why we hated them so much, because to them these movies are amazing compared to the crap they get served. Go watch The Fly II. You'll think you've found an Oscar winner!! LoL 🤣🤣🤣
For me, the Alien series officially ends with Alien 3. Resurrection is a nice "what if" story with some cool moments, but it goes too far off the rails for me to consider it an official Alien movie. It only gets worse after this. Oy!
congrats you managed to edit almost all the good parts out..
23:59 Bite your tongue and spit blood.
I think this should have been a different monster movie aka not an Alien movie. The tone doesn’t match with the previous 3.
nice view at the beggining.. grrrrr
you YAWNED at one point i think ...lol ..from that i could tell in your body language you couldnt wait for it to be over. its not an easy watch..but it has memorable scenes. the NEWBON Xeno was suposed to look more disturbing and Abomination like ..nothing like an xeno as we know...that was the point!
Avoid having anything white/light behind where the in video image it, it comes through video image too much and is distracting
Please take the white sheet or whatever it is off of the bedpost - its very distracting and makes it look like there's a ghost in the movie!
Ugh, what a hot mess. I guess I can see how it’s a guilty pleasure for some, but… it’s just NOT good.
You know that’s not how a vacuum works, right? Like, not. At. All.
Have you ever put your hand over the tube of a vacuum cleaner? Now imagine that times like 10,000...
Pretty sure it works exactly like that. [/sarc] J/K...
Also: it's a movie, dude... Don't overthink it. It's science-"fiction" not science-"fact.'
@@MGmirkin Except that’s not how it works. A vacuum doesn’t have any inherent “sucking” power. The force that pushes the air out into the vacuum is nothing more than the air pressure of the cabin, which is less than 15 psi. A typical vacuum cleaner produces air pressure at least twice that.
But yes, it’s just a movie. (A bad one.)
Compared with modern Alien, Predator, etc movies, this movie is awesome and BRUTAL.