Damn Near Perfect
craigamore
MemberOvomorphFebruary 05, 20121379 Views12 Replies'Alien' is my all time favorite film, bar none......as some of you well know, reading my many and varied posts on the subject......I can honestly say that the film is, as my title suggests, Damn Near Perfect......thus implying that it isn't perfect........as difficult as that is for me to say.
Why do I bring this up? Well......there is precious little to talk about at this point..with the lack of new anything we've had recently.....I felt it was time to stir the pot, so to speak, and generate some honest, Geeky, heart felt debating.......
My two objections that I wish they'd fixed or managed to change in this, my favorite film, are as follows:
1 - When Ripley throws the dead facehugger off her shoulder and crawls backward on the floor, God HELP ME, that thing looks so rubbery fake that I can only think one thing, Hello Roger Coreman.....the only thing that salvages that moment is the "reflex action" and the rubber cup of a facehugger filled with all kinds of shellfish and nasty things to make it look real...genius idea, by the way, Ridley....as usual.
And no disrespect to Coreman...the man was brilliant at what he did...B movies....but 'Alien' isn't and shouldn't be a B movie.
2 - As sad for Ridley as I am that Ian Holm's head double shrank...come on man...edit around the thing....that shot of Ripley patting the skin flap down just makes me cringe every single time and the masked cut/jump cut from the double to Ian's head....it bother's me....seriously.
Those two objections may seem silly and nit-picky, but dang it.....The movie is almost perfect in my eyes...it's sooooo close....just those two little tiny things. God help me...I'm obssessed..................anyone else feel that way or have objections/issues of their own?
February 05, 2012
@ Bigbirdjimmy - the escape pod thing kinda goes with the nature of the crew. I remember hearing somewhere, being such a bunch of 'space truckers' they only bought an escape pod because of regulations, so they got the cheapest one they could get, thinking they'd never use it.
@ Artyoh - the molting thing would stand for each and every film, thus it seems that it is a thing the Alien can do - I have even imagined what it would look like, and it isn't pleasant.
My gripe is with the Alien itself - in some scenes it looks cool as hell, but in others it looks lame, such as...
- the peek-a-boo with Dallas in the tunnels (give me a cuddle)
- the lame-o sexy dance it does to Lambert
- falling away from the Narcissus, and the engine effect (yawn)
- the scuffle with Parker, it looks like Yaphet actually rips off some of the suit
Another gripe is the first scene where we see the Nostromo complete with refinery floating towards camera with the description at the bottom of the screen, I think that needs to be re-shot it doesn't even look like its from the same film its that degraded.
