Who here likes Alien 4?

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MemberOvomorphMarch 27, 2012

I am of course talking about Alien Ressurection. Now when normally the public agrees a movie sucks, I tend to agree with them also. But I never understood the hate for Alien 4. I'll give you the reasons why I like it first -grotesque and artistic cinematography...there is something truly creepy about that intro and all the horrible fetuses etc..watching this movie makes me wanna puke...that's a good thing...it is definitely more visually interesting than aliens or alien3 i think...alien wins because of the derelict -the newborn..pretty good idea I thought..ripley takes some alien dna, and the queen receives some human dna..pretty good sci-fi writing on a Michael Crichton level -The crew are cool...yup, they manage to reinstall that feeling from Alien, when they make you give a shit about the crew...no scarf wearers (Im looking at you Prometheus)...Michael Wincott dies far too early though, he is too cool a character to kill off so early...I also love Ron Perlman and Winona...cool cast Now the things I don't like: -They show too much of the Alien...to be honest tho, after Aliens we pretty much saw everything anyway -I hate that space marine guy that ends up tagging along.. jarhead moron..the rest of the military is also too comical and not serious enough..Aliens had a good balance of comedy and realism with their military -the CGI Alien...looked terrible...CGI=not scary Anyway would like to hear reasons why you like Alien Ressurection

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March 28, 2012

I thought Alien 3 is a cool movie, especially with all the 'problems' with its production. Its gritty, raw, lovely textured, great music and cinematography (superb really,) Ripley had a better story arc then she did in Aliens. I never understood why people didn't like it, maybe it was because of Hicks and Newt's death. Don't misunderstand, before the movie came out I collected Alien magazines and some of the story's featured a teenaged Newt finding love with a synthetic (who didn't even know he was one) all brilliant and fascinating ideas, so yeah I was I little disappointed after seeing it for the first time, but I reckon people should take it how it is.... I great throwback to what Alien was all about. -Plus who can forget some of the best lines like "do you want it on your feet or on your ****ing knees! and f' it... lets go for it!" -yeah back to the OP's original question.... I reckon Alien 4 is proof that even with a (so called) good director, without an exciting script and new thinking it was going to bomb. I still think there's nothing wrong with some of the miniature work, but the whole movie was just walking the halls with a lot of "what the h3ll are these things!!" boring really, still I'm glad someone like it.

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March 29, 2012

Alien Noerection(Alien 4) was horrendous on so many levels. Not scary, not frightening, not spooky, not claustrophobic in any way. It was goofy and ruined by semi retarded CGI. The Aliens were slimy jet black muscular pieces of terd....not serpentine demonic unknowns from the previous movies. Ron Periman was ok but that's about it. Ripley was ridiculous. Winona was an unbelievable dumb character, and who the hell is still in a wheelchair like that 200 years in the future? The swimming Aliens almost ruined the whole franchise for me, and I feel I saw them waaay to much...no mystery left I suppose. Even the much maligned Alien 3 was a gem compared to this farse! The mutants, babies, half breeds were all wrong too...trying to be disturbing but failed by shoving it in our faces. This movie made me go back and fall in love with Alien 3. I don't consider Alien Noerection canon or part of the Alien universe, so I'm sooooo excited for Ridley Scott to bring this franchise back. Sorry, I know the original poster wanted to know who liked this movie and not dislike...but had to vent

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March 29, 2012

I can't find Jean-Pierre's review of Alien. Can someone point me to it.

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March 29, 2012

Just started watchinf the old ones again before Prometheus. Just did Alien and Aliens. still have to continue to with 3 and 4. Am i the only one disliking the military in Aliens? they are sooo unreal. I'll come back after watching 3 and 4.

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March 29, 2012

About the review Fluide Glacial is a humoristic magazine. the review was a fake review making a joke.

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March 29, 2012

@Shinobix9x Glad to know he was just having a bit of fun, as I said before. My question remains though if the humor in the mag is directed at targets viewed by its writers with disdain or not. And every joke as they say . . . He did try to bring some of that humor to Alien Resurrection which is one of the reasons I think it doesn't work. Or maybe it is just his humor. I mean Parker and Brett and are funny, Hudson is the scene stealer of the series, but the humor in Alien Resurrection just doesn't fly for me. But who knows, maybe he is making it a bigger point, like the author and Scott did with Hannibal: poking fun at what the series has become. If I watch it purely as satire I may appreciate it more. Also, I am with you on the marine fakeness. But it works (again, for me) because the movie is just pure fantasy action. The characters are fantasy marines and still likeable. Even Gorman. Don't forget, Cameron is the guy who wrote Rambo. Now, I don't like the direction Cameron took Aliens in but he did it brilliantly.

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March 29, 2012

lets face it, there are 4 very different Alien films, each one from the other. The only thing is what flaws there are, I mean, Aliens, Alien3 and resurrection have flaws IMO, but even resurrection is better that many other sci-fis. flaws in alien 4 : - alien cages are not acid proof. after hundreds of years after Alien, this is ridiculous. - ripley ´s strange behaviour - scene with the cocooned scientist, when baby alien mutant is born, as he , still cocooned, explains the plot..in love with the baby mutant, then his head gets eaten by it.. my god how silly. - CGI aliens this no dark comedy, this is just bad.

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March 29, 2012

Because of the "wait" until getting something new, I enjoyed it, but was disappointed and don't consider it a "real" Alien movie... But, then again, I don't really consider A.2 a "real" Alien movie, though it is certainly more "real" than is A.3 or A.4...

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March 30, 2012

I always found it odd that Whedon panned Alien Resurrection because after Buffy and Firefly/Serenity it feels exactly like something that he would have made, even down to the semi-comedic tongue-in-cheek tone to it. Now maybe Whedon was going for something more dark and sinister, but it just feels like a Whedon movie to me. As for the movie itself, I like it. A lot. I mean, it's a part 4. Considering that most part 4 movies are absolute crap, I appreciate that the film tried something different instead of trying to re-create Aliens or something. There weren't too many tonal directions to take after Alien3. An Alien movie with some black comedy is one of the few places you could have taken another Alien movie. That said, I would be interested to have seen what a different director could have done. I think JPJ did a good job and all, but for a 1997 movie, I would have liked to see what a younger director like Jonathan Mostow could have done with it.

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March 03, 2013

I personally love the first 3(Alien being the favorite of course.) Number 4 grew on me. I enjoyed how tricky the Aliens were and theit tacts and what not. The visual aspect as pretty good. Althoug i do agree that the script was out to the wrong use. I read on wikipedia the writer, i believe it was Joss Whedon. hated the movie because the script was interpreted and acted wrong. Overall, i find this to be an actually very good movie.

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March 08, 2013

I like all ALIEN movies...

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March 10, 2013

Alien 4 has plenty of good parts. But the creature at the end is unforgivably bad. It's a sick, stumbling abomination that shares nothing of the sleek horror handed down to us by H.R.Giger. I really don't know what they were thinking when the film makers went down that route.

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March 11, 2013

Alien 4 was crap, plain and simple! Nuff said.

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March 27, 2013

I like it, but don't love it.

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May 13, 2013

alien ressurection was by far the worst one in the series that little hybrid alien at the end looked like crap. it's the only aliens movie i hated it kept the series from becoming one of my favorites.

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July 03, 2013

I really like this movie, but in a detached, non-commited sort of way. IMO it is a deranged, nearly satirical epilogue to the franchise. What makes it worthwhile is Jeunet's visuals and the sheer lunacy of the whole thing. It's a completely aesthetic pleasure for me and a thrilling opus overall. But I will never take it seriously, not as canon.

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