I just watched Alien Resurrection for the last time.
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flacnvinyl
MemberOvomorphFeb 18, 20126933 Views37 RepliesLast night I decided to open up the Quadrilogy, which I have watched many times, and watch the one I remember liking and watching the least... Resurrection.
The thought that came to my head over and over is how great everything looked, while the characters, writing, directing and general plot, ruined the movie. In particular the dialog is just cheap/bad. In Aliens, the closest comparison, Hicks/Hudson yelling fuck every two seconds works because they are running on adrenaline and scared to death. In Resurrection the only folks who seem genuinely surprised are some of the b-actors.
Several aliens get loose and they start evacuating the entire ship?? Why wouldn't they lock down the ship? They didn't even ATTEMPT to get things under control.
Ripley kills the alien, jumps up through the hole and says "Is it everything you hoped it would be?" It has no context.
The pirates see crazy stuff and are just stone-faced. No 'chitchat', nothing. No reaction. Being a trained mercenary is one thing, but to have NO reaction, just walking through the hallways all cocky... man.
The directing is HORRIBLE. Stupid zooms and weird angles. Cuts that are too quick...
There are 3 scenes that standout in the film. The first is the scene with the eggs. Waking up strapped into a chair about to be attacked by an alien is absolutely BRUTAL. It is a nightmare beyond belief... no control, something is coming, can't run... Man. We only see ONE guy wakeup, and we don't even see him get attacked by the facehugger. We just see him screaming. It would have been a viceral and very powerful scene to see all of the passengers waking up and screaming as they realize what they are experiencing. Don't misunderstand me, I'm not like Ushbuck/Buckethead wishing for a rape scene in Prometheus, I'm just saying that this scene could have been done right and instead came off pretty weak/tame.
Second scene... The 2 aliens attacking the 3rd 'weak' alien, in order to get its blood to eat through the floor to allow for escape. Great plot. Idiot scientists put some aliens together to see what would happen, and then we get chaos. Creative scene, but way too many closeup shots. Can't see anything but blood gushing. Makes the whole scene feel cheap and not scary.
Last scene.... Hybrid birth. They were trying way to hard to 'top' previous films. The alien 'womb' looked like it was added at the last minute. It doesn't go with Giger's design and just looks plain bad. The end creature just looks stupid and gross. I remember seeing it in the theater and thinking 'they just dont get it'.
Alien 3 I can appreciate in certain ways.. Aliens is a blast. Alien is a suspense-adventure-sci-fi-western and is a work of art.
Alien Resurrection just plain sucks. Does anyone actually like this movie? If so, please tell me why.
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GRRRRRRR!!February 18, 2012
Alien Resurrection sucks ass, BIG TIME!! But yet again I am one of the very few who enjoyed Alien 3, much more than Alien's!

PrometheusForTheWinFebruary 18, 2012
I did not understand this movie at all! To me it seems like they just ran out of things to do with tje franchise. The swimming scene sucked, and the "psycho alien baby" was so budget I just thought "really? That's what's hot everyone suicidal?" what happened to the good movies?
GuestFebruary 18, 2012
Dad and I shared a birthday It was his 34th and my 18th this year. Being
just 16 years apart made us more like brothers then Father and Son really,
and I loved that closeness. My dad is a head turner Adonis, a Tall Blonde
powerfully built man who resembles Brad Pitt
and I am proud to say I am dad's spitting image.
As close as we were, there was one major secret kept between us, Oddly
enough it was exactly what Dad did to earn our living? Every day he'd leave
the house for work as I left for school, him in one of his many $3,000.00
hand made suits. Get into his custom made 15 foot RV that was his office and
exotic lounge all rolled into one. His faithful driver would show up park
his own car and drive dad off to whatever was his job.
Early and many times over the years dad had been frank with me, I was
never to ask exactly what he did for a living, That what he did was totally
legal and I'd learn when I was older just what it was. We called this " OUR
AGREEMENT "
Early in life I was amused by our neighbors and my friends who would defer
to my dad and try to pry from me what it was he did do. I knew the
deference was due to them thinking my dad some sort of Crime boss that it was wise
not to upset him at any cost. Really I kind of liked the idea and enjoyed
the benefits of their deference to me as well.
Now by 2 weeks before my big 18th birthday I was also convinced dad was a
crime boss, There was just no other explanation to all the money and the
suits our housekeeper and cook, the drivers, expensive vacations and three
local restaurants dad owned in town but seldom visited or tended to himself.
Why the custom made RV and not a car?
This was not the only secret I had in my young life then. There was my
relationship with Jimmy Gears our next door neighbor who's dad was a single
Parent like mine and also well off as head of surgery at the local hospital.
Jimmy and I would spend many a sleep over as we grew up only difference
from other kids sleep overs is that when we planned or asked for a sleep over
it turned out Our dads agreed always, but it always turned out to be a
foursome sleep over, Our two dads made a night of it as well sleeping over in
the master bed room not far from our rooms. Jimmy and I took it as an over
protective single parent thing and paid little mind.
You guessed it Jimmy and I as many a young boys do, progressed from a
showing each other ours, to jerking each other off and even to sucking and
gloriously into fucking the hell out of each others holes.
I grew to love Jimmy and he me as only two boys into this sort of thing
could and do. Jimmy and I could be open and frank with each other as only two
male lovers can and so Jimmy reinforced the in me the neighborhood
conception of my dad as a Crime boss.
Jimmy worked himself up to a lather in fear that if ever our love became
known to my dad he'd have Jimmy snuffed, wiped out, taken care of, sent to
swim with the fishes as they say.
One night alone in Jimmy's bed I was as always trying to make light of his
fears.
" Jimmy do you think if my dad was really a Crime boss he'd be sleeping
right now down the hall in a bed with your own dad? Crime boss's just don't
clime into bed with other men."
I had said that without thinking and only as a means to ease Jimmy's mind
but hearing my own words suddenly enlightened my own mind. The truth of my
own statement opened my eyes to a possibility, We were in a large mansion
that had four bedrooms and here was our dads sleeping together in one bed?
Every other weekend it was the four of us sleeping in our home or at
Jimmy's and the same arrangement always. We'd take summer and winter vacations
to Paris, London, and it was always two a joining hotel rooms one for the
Dads one for us boys.
Jimmy propped up on one elbow naked after I had creamed his hole with my
teen cum was shocked at the thought.
" Holy Shit Brad, Our dad's are as into each other as you and I are"
The rest of that night we were up and talking about only that possibility,
Our dads were queer for each other as we were. We bought up all the signs
we had been missing to prove our case.
Jimmy remembered then that not long ago he noticed his dad had kissed us
good night wearing blue jockey shorts and my dad had on white jockey shorts,
In the morning he distinctly noticed that the briefs were reversed on them.
I recalled once finding two used rubbers that didn't flush down the toilet
after one of our sleep overs, Jimmy and I never used rubbers on each other.
How could we have been so blind? Was it that we were so involved in our
own sexual escapades we didn't see their's happening?
Jimmy bought it up first by asking
" If this is true Brad, would you be open to having sex with my dad and
would I be open to having sex with your dad?
I lay there and at his words was picturing his dad naked. The man was a
dream Hunk, Like my dad Blonde and the perfectly formed male body. I had the
excitement of one time or another having seen both Men's cocks and they
were both thickly and hung long and uncut.
I answered Jimmy's question slowly and deliberately more then a little
afraid my answer could piss Jimmy off.
" Jimmy to be honest it would be weird as hell at first but Yes I'd have
our kind of sex with both Men."
A plan was hatched, Each man had a private office in the basement of each
home, My dad's was locked up tighter then a bank vault but Jimmy's dad's
office was never locked. We'd join forces during the school week and
investigate that office for clue's. There was an hour each school day when we were
mostly alone except for our respective housekeepers up stairs. in both home
the house gym a joined the offices.
We found three film tapes the first marked " First rehearsal. "Jim and
Brad" We took the tape up to Jimmy's room excited to have found this treasure.
I wasn't really prepared for all the information it did in fact reveal to
us to shocked boys.
First was my dad big Brad talking to a group of men maybe four of them. It
seemed to be in a studio, there was a large bed with drinks on a table
next to it.
Dad was saying to the group.
" OK men for this test no matter what I want complete silence during the
filming and I want to run trough the whole sequence start to finish, we have
a new man here on the set and this is to be our personal tape so no real
need to be all that professional."
Then shockingly out comes or into camera range comes Big Jim dressed like
my own dad is shorts, T-Shirt and white socks, Wordlessly the two dad's
embrace and are all over each other humping cocks and tonguing each other like
gay lovers.
My dad surprisingly goes down and actually kissed Big Jim's socked foot
and then slowly peels off Big Jim's white socks and is holding up his
muscular foot and licking and kissing that manly bare foot all while Big Jim is
all smiles and bending to kiss my dad's head as the foreplay goes on.
Dad reaches up and in a flash not missed by the camera pulls down Big
Jim's shorts and the largest hard cock I've ever seen pops free and my dad is
now all over that monster bare long 9 inch cock. One camera catches him
sucking and devouring that monster cock while one camera shows his hand finger
fucking into Jim's hole as he sucks. Then two fingers and then, Lord
almighty Big Jim is pushing back on three of dad's fingers and loving it all.
Suddenly both dad's are on the large bed and naked as all hell and 69ing
each other and the three cameras are catching all the wonderful sucking.
Jimmy and I then estimate that my dad's cock is at least an inch longer at
maybe 10 inches.
My dad asks suddenly in all kinds of sexual heat.
" You want to be the bitch?
Big Jim rolls off my dads cock and at once is on his back legs up in the
air in submission to my dad.
There is some confusion with the cameras I suppose ad they move to get
into place and then We witness the head of my dad's cock up against Big Jim's
hole and then inserting into the spreading hole as big Jim calls out for
more of my dad's cock.
We watch shocked as all 10 inches of that thick ass big uncut bare cock
move slowly into big Jim's welcoming hole.
It was there the film ended with a chalk board being held up before the
camera saying " PART ON OF THREE"
As Jimmy was reversing the film in the machine his housekeeper calls up
the stairs.
" Its almost time Boys for dinner"
We rushed down to the office and return the tape as we found it. All four
of us were to eat at Jimmy's that night and then after go out together to a
movie. I was hard the whole meal looking at those two dads and later that
night Jimmy fucked me royal and I creamed in his ass a master load of my
cum.
Next day a Saturday I was called on the phone by Jimmy.
" We have a problem Brad,"
I joked back " Yea I know, How are we going to get our two dad's in bed
with us for a hot foursome?
Jimmy was not amused and in a sad voice said.
My Dad knows, Seems we didn't put the film we saw back in the right order
and he checked the office security cameras and saw it was us taking it. He
wants you to say nothing to Your dad and come over as soon as you can to
talk to the two of us."
I suppose I should have been afraid or at least worried but instead I was
excited and I responded to Jimmy
" This is great Jimmy, now the fucking cat is out of the bag, Out of the
fucking bag forever. Relax, Your already 18 as of last week and I'll be 18
in less the two days, its let the fun times begin my boy, Hey I'll be over
in a flash Jimmy."
As I rushed at full pace over to Jimmy's picturing his dad taking my dad's
cock the thought ran through my mind. " So what the hell does my dad do
for his living? Does he run a porno film company? Is he really a crime boss
who happens to have muscled into a Porno film business? His he rich enough
to have hired a Porno studio? I decided I just would have to wait but took
great satisfaction in knowing my handsome Blonde dad was hung unmercifully
large and was into fucking men like I would be in just two days. I was
thinking life was grand as I open the door and let myself into Jimmy's house we
never knocked on each others doors, we were like family to each other. Soon
I prayed to become four ass hole buddies.
I fully expected Big Jim to at least at first be playing the aggrieved and
violated dad. Demanding we at the very lease two apologies for having
violated his personal space as we had done. I heard them in the basement lounge
and walked down. There they were seated at the bar each with a tall glass
of beer in front of them,
Each bare chested and sweaty as all hell and provocatively wearing only
white briefs that were showing hot out lines of their cocks. Upon my entering
Jimmy popped up and scooted behind the bar and was pouring me a beer. I
couldn't believe my eyes, this wasn't like them to be like this it could have
only meant that they had just had sex, I knew the look and smile on
Jimmy's face, I wanted in.

F--- it - lets go for it!February 18, 2012
uh, dont remember that bit in the movie........
will someone please remove this oxygen thief-pea brain !!
BishyFebruary 18, 2012
I think going into it's pre-production, everyone had the right idea. A good script with a similar premise to Aliens: survive/get the fuck away from the aliens asap with the whole resurrection/hybrid-genetics twisted into the story and Ripley as a reluctant hero. Initially they tried to get Danny Boyle who would've delivered the goods. The problem was in miscasting Jean Pierre Jeunet for his visionary works and misreading what tone he would bring to the story. At the time, he had done incredible stuff with Delicatessen and City of Lost Children but the tone and character of those films does not translate into our expectations. Resurrection looks great as a film, but it's too much of a comic book in its portrayal and fantastical of a world to believe and feel any true horror. Jeunet doesn't make horrors or even thrillers, for that matter. He creates nightmarish worlds where humanity prevails in ironic, humorous, and romantic fashion. The Alien Franchise is rooted in realism, futureshock, and plays upon innate fears of -- interspecies (and genetic) rape, being preyed upon, and being alone in the dark.
DropyourlinenFebruary 18, 2012
Take The Pain, Can't you think of anything different? Other than posting about your family all the time?

flacnvinylFebruary 18, 2012
Wow.
Seriously wow.
I got a few paragraphs in until I realized what he had posted. Ushbuck/Buckethead... just trolling again.
BTW, you are right... I forgot all about the swimming scene. I HATE CGI though... Damn smiling Aliens!

Kane77February 23, 2012
@Bishy
I dont think Jeunet was a miscast for directing the movie, there were great french actors, which were great in his films, too.. I watched Alien3 two days ago, and it really lacks of many things. I mean, there was everything there, great designs, atmosphere ..
the worst scenes ( for me):
- alien escape scene ( mentioned above). With all the futuristic tech there, cloning etc..,200 years from alien3, THEY DIDNT THINK OF GETTING ACID PROOF ALIEN CAGES?
- the cacooned scientist in the baby alien birth scene, who has to explain ( while beeing cocooned of course) whats going on about the altered alien queen´s bith cylus etc..ridicilous..baadd
-CGI aliens
- cloned Ripley and her alienated behavior..Of course she dies in alien3, but there were other possibilities..

Kane77February 23, 2012
..one possible , better vision wouls have been to make it like Terminator4, which is one of the greatest SCIFis ever. Imagine alien 4, 200 years from alien3, in a dark, post apocalyptic world, after a worls war 3 whatever..wow

SpartacusFebruary 23, 2012
once again my 2 cents is that in order to be posting here at all, just to show up here, you had to have found at the very least one tiny thing in each of the 4 films that you liked. Your EGO and Mine are incredibly sneaky but the bottom line is if you are here at all, you liked something, maybe even just one thing, but you found something redeemeable in each of the first 4 films...end of long winded story.

Ripley Clone 8February 23, 2012
Thank You Spartacus! Too much bashing on 3 and 4. If you want to use a film for a punching bag just look at Alien vs. Predator: Requiem. LOL, now thats a film to bash my friends.
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Engineer Prototype - Model GAJ84February 23, 2012
I wouldn't say Resurrection was crap, just my least fave out of the 4. Faves are in order they were released. Each film has its own flaws, just some more than others.
geekatheusFebruary 23, 2012
re-flacvinyl with u all the way on alien3,the extended cut is brings it up to a way higher standard,i regard it only slightly under aliens,tho i think it closer to alien in its horror vibe over action! as for alien re-jection... i consider it the first part of another trilogy,avp/avpr/resurrection! friday nite cinena fodder for teens courtesy of pws anderson to rank alongside his other GREATS res-evil 1,2,3,9,19.....etc Tho have to say,really enjoyed event horizon! tho obviously heavilly influenced by sir ridleys classic,our beloved,ALIEN!!!!!! peace
geekatheusFebruary 23, 2012
ps know anderson wasnt responsible for all the above just these filns seen of the sane canon! great to b here with cool folk like ya"lll BTW peace

SSgt FettFebruary 23, 2012
@Ripley Clone 8 LOL you judgement couldn't possible be clouded cause it's maybe YOUR favorite movie out of the series.....just spit balling here lol

Ripley Clone 8February 23, 2012
@SSgt Fett. Actually man I love each one equally. I honestly don't have a favorite. I'm just using the Ripley 8 character as my username because Ellen Ripley is well known. I love Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection. They are ALL great films. so no Resurrection is not my favorite. ALL 4 films are.
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SpartacusFebruary 23, 2012
I personaly hated the ending as well and that creature, but I loved the way they drank scotch in space and the banter between Johner and Ripley and Ripley and the DR. and Coles portayel as well...Loved a lot of that film, including the Betty, and now, these days I want Guns Up My Sleeves!!!

Ripley Clone 8February 23, 2012
lol, thanks Sparty. Now you got me wanting guns up my sleeves. Damn you Sparty! Damn you! LOL. just kidding. I enjoyed every bit of Resurrection and and the last 3 films. The bashing for Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection can get pretty darn ridiculous on some other forums. I've even seen people to go so far as bash Cameron's Aliens. Its like WTF??!! Every film to me was awesome. Movies are there for you too enjoy and there not there for you to be so analytical and critical about EVERY little thing.
And as one critic said about Resurrection,
"How people defecate on this so vehemently, I fail to see. Continuity errors? Every movie has some. Unexplainable plot elements? It is sci-fi. You've already accepted that a spider crab can make love to someone's face, have a small creature grow in their chest, burst out of it and within hours transform into a huge slimy predator. I would think a clone with memories isn't such a gigantic leap."
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RickFebruary 23, 2012
Hey Guys,
All I have to say is "Father is Dead Asshole" that sums it up for me, funniest part of the whole movie. I also think there is some overlooked dialog in the movie about the android war which relates to some contextual remarks that don't make sense until you see the uncut footage. Like whats his face complaining about earth and how he would "rather be on the ship with the things". Those comments didn't make sense until we saw the uncut footage of Ripley and Winona on Earth and France is decimated with the Eiffel Tower destoyed, then it draws everything together. I am sure there is some post and pre storyline there that we can make assumptions about.
Regards,
Rick



BellaisanAlienFebruary 23, 2012
The design of the Alien in Resurrection is also poor those massive feet and claws; clown xeno. Don't get me started on the newborn............

SeanMarch 08, 2012
I like it. Watched it the other night. I can appreciate all the movies for what they are.

alteredstate.March 08, 2012
The comments on ressurection by H R GIGER on the anthology extras are less than flattering when it came to that film .
I agree with engineer prototype who took the words right out of my mouth with the order of preference and that being the order in which they were made.
Loved the basketball scene where she gets the basket right at the last moment for real as well apparently.

SpartacusMarch 08, 2012
I'll tell ya something else about Resurrection that was really really well done...John Frizzell's scoring of that film...I actually went out and baught that soundtrack on CD!

Ripley Clone 8March 08, 2012
I have the entire Limited Edition Alien Resurrection: Expanded Edition score by John Frizzell. Its FANTASTIC!!
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alteredstate.March 08, 2012
The guy running around saying what's inside me was very reminiscent to the character he played in seven i remember thinking that at the time lol

SpartacusMarch 08, 2012
do you know how many times he said that exactly, I believe it is listed in the "Prometheus Movie Trivia" Thread we made. It was a lot !!!


SpartacusMarch 08, 2012
He says "what" x 2
Then "Whats inside me" x 5
Then "What's in f****'ng side me" The final time
For 6 !!!

Ripley Clone 8March 08, 2012
@Spartacus, I know right, brilliant minds think alike I guess. I wish they had an expanded edition of Elliot Goldenthal's score for Alien 3.
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Ripley Clone 8March 08, 2012
@Spartacus, I love Alien 3 too. The soundtrack is just so God Damn Powerful. It would be nice to have an expanded version of that score. Plus all the scenes that were taken out of the movie also included a large portion of soundtrack. I know Elliot made a lot of alternative pieces for many of the scenes. An immense amount of music was put into Alien 3. I don't know why they haven't released an expanded version for the film?
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SeanMarch 08, 2012
The film's biggest weaknesses are Ryder as Call -- a weak character and Ryder doesn't have the gravitas to tackle an Alien movie, IMO. I also think they should have kept Wincott around a lot longer. I think he would have made a great anti-hero along with Pearlman.
Whedon has bashed the film for getting his script wrong, but I think the tone was handled great. And from what I have seen of his movies and shows, I think that is actually pretty close to how he writes. His tone is always kind of smart-assy and he's always writing about space pirates.
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