Be sure to subscribe for upcoming reactions to Tron, The World's End, Forbidden Planet, and The Goonies! What are your thoughts on Resurrection? Like it? Love it? Hate it? In the end I feel this film is at times better and at times worse than Alien 3. 😅
My thoughts - well it is a 4th sequel, probably could have been worse. Sigourney Weaver is awesome as always. Too much goo going on. Thought the mother/baby bond (despite the baby being gross! Ha ha!) was put across relatively well. It is what it is!
Resurrection's premise sounded cool and fun...until I saw the movie. Proof that directors can be miscast too; I love Jeunet's other movies, but French and American senses of humor are already too different, and the extra gross-out is very French imo. (According to all involved, this was supposed to be the dark comedy entry in the series for some reason.) Some good scenes, but off-key tone and strangely tensionless stretches ruin the fun for me.
Fincher's movie didn't work, but you could tell that he understood what made the alien frightening, and it had fine performances and visuals. Jeunet's primary direction seems to have been "More snarls! More saliva! And the same for the creatures!"
I agree that its better than Alien 3 and worse at times. I thought that Alien 3 had more potential, but they just fucked so many things up. Whereas Resurrection is just a fun if you take it for what it is, but it really doesn’t do anything beyond that. Have you ever watched Terminator and Terminator 2? If not then i would say please please please could you react to those movies 😂. They’re absolutely fantastic. More James Cameron magic.
@@danfarmer3019 I second Dan's Terminator recommendation. Based on your reactions so far, Chris, I think you will particularly appreciate the first one. Smart, economic, cinematic storytelling.
6:17 She made that shot for real. The director wanted to use special effects but she wanted to do it for real so when she saw the scene in the script she practiced until she could do it in around 1 of 6 attempts. So the director said he'd give her the 6 shots to nail it. She missed the first 5 - this was the last attempt.
What we see in the movie is the very first attempt that was filmed. There was no limit set by the director, as Sigourney was determined to do it herself, so they thought it would be a really expensive shot as they expected would take a lot of attempts. They were ecstatic she got it in the first take, then horrified that Ron Pearlman broke character at witnessing it.
Well done for actually giving the whole quadrilogy a chance.. a lot of reactors haven't even seen Alien 3 just because they were told it's bad. I don't mind Resurrection, but I have to be in the mood for it.. definitely a very different thing to Alien/Aliens and eye-rolling at times.
I turn it off at a certain point, so I can miss certain aspects of the last act lol but my fella and I watch it from time to time for fun. It's at least more campy than the third one, because it had no chance of being suspenseful or scary like the first two.
Yeah. This is no where near the first two movies in any way. But I always enjoy watching Ron Perlman do his thing. And since they are going with the hybrid-thing, I do appreciate how Sigorney Weaver added some animalistic aspects to Ripley - Especially in her movements.
Agreed. Not a perfect movie, has its own flaws, but still WAAAAYYYYYYY better than anything 3 had to offer; they at least made an attempt to continue the lore, and I'll always respect that.
The ‘Alien’ franchise has had a tradition of showcasing up and comers in the directing world. Ridley Scott, James Cameron and David Fincher for the first three films respectively. Jean Pierre Jeunet was someone who looked promising to the producers at the time. My suggestion would be to check out “Delicatessen” and “Amelie” so you can see why the producers decided to take a chance on Jeunet. They rolled the dice and it came up…meh… And just to show that he’s had some misses as well, his latest project “Big Bug” is currently streaming on Netflix. Where “Amelie” was charmingly weird and chaotic, “Big Bug” is just plain weird and chaotic. This is easily the most accessible film he’s done. His films are for discerning tastes only. Most moviegoers simply find him too weird. My theory is that it’s perhaps difficult for such an oddball director to successfully navigate a big budget Hollywood franchise film. I believe he tried his best, but just couldn’t land the spaceship. As a side note, when Winona Ryder was offered the part of Call, her initial reaction to the story treatment was “wait…isn’t Ripley dead?” She too didn’t see the point of another sequel…
This movie is not great, but at least it’s watchable and has a sense of fun. That was my big issue with Alien 3. You kill off the survivors from Aliens and then Ripley spends the whole movie dejected and wanting to die. This one at least has an objective and has a Ripley who you can root for and who is proactive rather than spending the entire film being reactive. Plus I think the Betty crew are fun and much more relatable than anonymous bald headed, similar looking prisoners. I’d watch this one again over Alien 3 any day.
@@group-music there’s a difference between going back to basics and just saying fuck you to anyone who enjoyed the last film. You can make something different without feeling cheated.
I think it captured Ripley's realization that she hit a no way out hole. Her mistake was to come back to that planet in the second movie. It's meant to be hopeless. Cause there's no hope. She knows she is dead. So the movie couldn't be fun, heroic, etc etc... That's what the encountering the aliens means = death. The first message the crew in the first mvoie received wasn't a cry for help. It was a warning, as ripley said . Meaning, stay away or you die. So yes... Dark...death....and "in space, no one can hear you scream".
This is by no means an excellent movie but i enjoy it. It has its flaws but doesnt deserve the amount of outright HATE that it gets from some fans, same goes for the 3rd movie. Like a few others have said, thanks for at least giving the series a try in its entirety. Some reactors watch the first two then get put off by the haters saying to avoid the second two movies in the quadrilogy. I even own the full box set of DVDs which has every version of the movies, plus tons of extras and documentaries....yes I love this series as a whole, but i know i wont convert many people
I really enjoy this one. I have no idea why, it's everything you said, but there's something weirdly charming about it. Still, enjoyed your reaction a lot, and I'm grateful you gave it a shot!
Favorite Chris reaction to the Alien craziness: “I’m going to go ahead and disagree with the beautiful butterfly sentiment ‘cause the-ah-ah-a-nu-UH-uhhhhh.”
The goal for the company is to weaponize the alien. They want to tame it and sell it as a murder-monster to interested parties. Maybe develop some cool bio-tech from it while they're at it.
It's too bad Brad Dourif rarely gets to play more sympathetic characters. We know from Deadwood and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest that he's got a lot more to give than just the creepy psychopath.
Okay, so, I LOVE this movie. I watched it as a little 8yo kid and all the gore and mutations really both scared me and impressed me, like wow, that was the goriest most disgusting and visceral thing I think I ever watched in my life. As I got older, it only got better: I love the crew and cast of characters we are left with at the end, everyone plays of each other in such a fun way, I love how they can joke around here and there because come on, situation is grim enough, what else can we do. I LOVE the "new" Ripley, and how weird she is in this movie: as the previous clones suggested, during the process her human and alien DNA got mixed together, and we ended up with a very cold, weird, almost inhuman Ripley. I like how she struggles to remain human, how the aliens are calling to her (with the bit "I can feel it behind my eyes"), as it gives a little tiny glimpse of how aliens operate and what they feel without spelling it out - i love how subtle it is, with her smelling everything, getting distressed at the alien queen's pain, like, understanding it, feeling it too - really shows the idea of a hive mind (as with the white offspring at the end too - as she really felt it to be her child, and the pain she felt for killing it). And the effects, oh my god, the effects. I LOVE practical effects, and there's so much here - all the blood, and meat, and wrinkled skin and slime, and monsters, it's so good, so believable. Maybe it's because I find creatures with human features (haha, rhymed) really terrifying, but the white alien really got me - with human-like face, and puppy dog eyes, and how big it was. (not to mention its death scene - it's one thing to make it so the monster dies in one hit, or gets thrown away into space, but no - here we have a long agonising scene of it dying, with horrifying, almost human-like screams to boot), It also got me with the theme, which I find not many horror movies dabble into - reproduction horror and mutation. I watched many movies and never found one that gets this theme into such disgusting levels. The mutated clones, the human reproductive system in the alien queen, the newborn - it's the most literal showing of "mutation" I think I've seen in a movie. And it's not a glimpse, few seconds of screen time at the end, like many modern horror movies do, leaving "all the shocking revelations " on the screen for max 5 minutes - no - it goes on for a long, uncomfortable time. They really went all out with this, visually, without spelling things out more than it should be. Also people get creeped out by the scientist, who got kidnapped by the aliens during their escape - I love this guy. Such depravity with him being obsessed by the aliens, kissing the glass, just straight up admiring the specie - this actor really sold it - all of the actors did, really. I might be messed up in the head and I get why people call this movie a disaster and laughable attempt at aliens, but for me they made the aliens way more interesting in this one. Again, the first movie is a masterpiece of suspense, I had to learn to appreciate it (because at first I found it so boring and unewentful), and if I watched them both now, I'm sure I would love Alien much more than this one., but....here we are :D
to paraphrase ripley's lecture to burke in aliens "you don't see them turning on each other for personal gain" but they will to get out of a holding cell
It ain't great but after the DEBACLE of 3 my boy Joss had a long way to climb. This is fine, Ripley finally gets her happy ending, her ship, crew and little girl back and finally makes it to Earth.
I love this movie! The interactions between the members of the Betty crew are so much fun! Johnner is the most fun of all! When he shot that spider was a laugh riot!😂 But the most badass scene was DeStephano: "Begging your pardon, sir, but FUCK YOU!" And Paris ramming the baby alien through the dude's head! Magnificent! ❤❤ lol. And Ripley: "I thought you were dead?" "Yeah, I get that a lot!"😂 This movie is the kind that needs a few repeats before it grows on you and it's one of the best!
Most hilarious thumbnail pic ever! HA! I've never seen this.....and I never will! Not after that thumbnail! HAHAHAHAHA. I may have to watch this reaction, though, just to get the cliffnotes. :P
Just thought I'd try something different haha. This film is more static in quality, while Alien 3 had higher highs and lower lows. This is definitely odd to me towards the end.
I think most people didn't quite accept the alien/Ripley hybrid. I still think it's my third favorite "Alien" movie and that's including the ones with Predators.
"Alien Resurrection: Just when you thought nothing could top Weyland-Yutani skulduggery, "Ripley 8" shows that Company Stupidity is nearly immortal. Seeing "The Betty" crew reminded me of the "Bebop."
My favorite part of the movie was Ripley all the way through, it just enhanced and how bad ass she is. It was her but just a darker version of her and quite honestly it was a little sexy
The book is so much better. It explains everything. It even shows how the cross-contamination effected Ripley and the Aliens (for example they kill one of the other aliens in the jail because of Ripley expressing that "you don't see them f%cking themselves over" where before an alien hadn't and usually doesn't hurt another alien.) Really good book
"Sorry everyone who loves this movie." I'm sure there are some, but I've never encountered them. It's far from the worst movie I've ever seen, though. The cast is solid. You identified the best scene (by far). The crew of the Betty were like a very early draft of the Serenity crew, but a lot darker (and harder to root for, as you pointed out). I find the whole thing tolerable and moderately entertaining until Ripley gets separated from the rest of the group -- it's a very gooey train wreck from there on out.
@@CasualNerdReactions in the first episode (or one of the first episodes) of Firefly, there is a scene where they're looking at a monitor and there's a Weyland-Yutani logo, the evil corporation in Alien. Was sort of an Easter egg I guess but it's really fun to think they could be in the same universe.
In the Alien Movie Universe, the synthetic persons are introduced in alphabetical order: Ash, Bishop, Call and David. This movie is a fine movie, but a bit disappointing as an Alien film. However, there are good ideas and moments : Ripley DNA and Alien genetics mixed up, the Aliens learning about the red punishment button, Alien drones ripping up another drone in order to use the drone’s acidic blood to escape their cell, the horrific series of botched Ripley clones, the Betty crew hijacking sleeping colonists to act as Guinea pigs, the operating system of the Auriga being “Father”, as opposed to M/TH/R in Alien. Some things are silly: Ripley clone having acid blood, the silly looking “Newborn” alien, chestburster host using it to kill someone else, and some over use of bad CGI. Some problems with characterization - can’t sympathize or care about the Betty crew because they kidnapped and sold sleeping colonists. Also, for the third time in the series, an alien creature jumps aboard an escaping ship and we blow an Alien out into space in the final battle - an overused finale.
While horrifying, I always thought the xenomorph design was grotesquely beautiful. I always felt in this movie that it was telling that as they tried to add humanity to the monster it only made it uglier and more monstrous.
It was the second movie that made me a fan. An infestation, in much longer environment was much scarier and Ellen Ripley was an unusual hero. It showed that being maternal and scared doesn't make a person any less of a badass. I used to own all 4 movies on DVD and watched all of the movies regularly. I didn't watch the 4th movie, Aliens Resurrection very often. I think that Aliens 3, wrapped the story up nicely and I didn't feel that there was much that could have been added. The 4th movie is more of a gross out slasher than a scary monster movie. Bringing a person back from the dead, who has been completely incinerated, using DNA, is a trope that I saw used a lot in soap operas. It kicks me out of the story. In the series, I think that the reason why the xenomorphs are preserved as a possible biological weapon for use in warfare. When the xenomorphs were resurrected, their genetic makeup included human DNA and wouldn't have been quite the same organism as the xenomorphs from the previous movies. Ellen Ripley's clone ( I'm using the word clone loosely ) had a genetic makeup that included alien DNA and wouldn't have been the same person as the woman who died in the 3rd movie. The "alien baby" had a connection with Ripley due to being genetically related. At least that is my take on it. I don't think that the 4th movie was very good.
That guy who keeps saying "what's in me" plays almost the same part in Se7en. He gets to yell "get this thing off me." Leland Orser. I watch this movie often. I skip Aliens. You should watch Ron Perlman in Quest For Fire. It's great and he doesn't get to talk at all.
"His arms are so hairy!" Dan Hedaya (General Perez) was cast as Carla's ex-husband, Nick Tortelli. At one point (before he was cast), Carla showed Diane his picture. Diane: Is he wearing mohair pajamas? Carla: Naw, he's naked! At least they found an actor who matched that description. On M*A*S*H Margaret (Hotlips) described her fiance as having no neck and one eyebrow (continuous on the brow ridge). When he finally shows up on the show they just cast a good looking guy.
When the alien got blown into space through the window, that was the original ending for the first Alien film. They couldn't make the effect work due to technological constraints, so they changed it to what we all see now.
It really says something for how amazing those first two Alien movies are that people still have faith in the franchise, even though literally nothing that's come out of it since has been any good.
Alien: My favorite of the series. Great horror, great science fiction. Aliens: One of the best sequels ever made (the best is Godfather II). Great action-adventure. Alien3: I like “The Assembly Cut” more than “The Theatrical Cut” but a big step backwards from the first 2 Alien Resurrection: SO BAD… But I love it for that very reason. Laughed my ass off watching this one.
I would have spared you this pain my friend. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's earlier films Delicatessen and City of Lost Children were brilliant and I had some small hope for this outing of the Alien, but alas the studio prevailed once again. I recommend all of Jeunet's other films highly though.
You kind of picked up on it, but the “Firefly vibes” with the crew of “The Betty” are basically my favorite part of this movie. Because in my opinion the characters are all kind of prototypes of the beloved characters in “Firefly”. You have a badass with a name traditionally for girls in Christy combine that with Perlman’s character’s general look and anti-social attitude and you get, Jayne. There is a quirky mechanical genius, a tough woman as the lieutenant, and also a captain who is smarter and nobler than he initially seems though not as much as Malcom of course. Then you have the Ripley clone, a strongly neurodivergent engineered super soldier woman. If you combine her with Ryder’s character a big browned eyed innocent he is much more than she seems, you basically get River. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. lol
The first two movies are of course the best. This is a nostalgic but hokey one I still enjoy. And she's not Ripley so I enjoy her being a different character with the same face. They wanted the xenomorphs for the same reason as Wayland Corp in Aliens (biological weaponry).
What saved this movie for Me was the crew of the Betty. I enjoyed their interaction. I wished they had all survived & were spun off into their own series. I guess this was a Firefly precursor.
Alien Resurrection is a replacement for Alien 3 creation. It wouldn't been need have it not had an Alien 3....IN THE FIRST PLACE! What a horrible web that was woven when that decision was made!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I liked Winona in this, but then I was the right age to fall for her pretty hard when Beetlejuice came out, so... take my opinion on her with a grain of salt. I also liked Sigourney as this version of Ripley who's coming to terms with being a hybridized science experiment with animal instincts, who just happens to have Ripley's memories. I enjoyed the sort of proto-Firefly-ness of the Betty's crew, as well, even if they aren't all particularly good people on the face of it. However, I do not like gross, disgusting, stuff, and so the appearance of the alien baby, plus the scenes with the failed Ripley clones and the alien baby having its insides sucked out of the ship by the vacuum of space are a bridge too far for me. There are also moments that, rather than feeling organic to the story, very much feel like the movie makers yelling "Hey, look at this! Wooo, Hollywood spectacle, am I right!?" The grenade spiraling down into the escape pod being one of them. Ripley mercy-killing the other clone with the flamethrower does seem like a terribly painful way to go, when she could have done it quicker with a knife, but then you have to realize that the flamethrower was only used as a callback to the previous movies, not because it made the slightest bit of sense. I don't think think any of the failures of this movie can be laid at the actors' feet.
I wasn't a huge Winona fan after 'Beetlejuice', but 'Heathers' got me. Started liking the 'weird chick who is actually smarter than the other girl's' vibe she projected.
As a former actor, l love this movie only to watch Sigourney Weaver’s performance. Her presence, even simply standing still, made everyone she acted with seem anemic. And that’s the point, I guess. Her technique and total submersion into being one of the aliens was so complete, no one else could stand their ground against her. You’ve heard the old saying, Acting is action and reaction. Her acting was so powerful, no one could react against her wall of intensity. Man, I sure would have loved the chance to try! Winona did fine, but she kept being Winona, and not letting herself go and release the killer android that she was intended to be. There were script problems that did not aid her in fully becoming that character, so not totally her fault. It also didn’t help Winona that Sigourney had full script control. That was how they lured her back for a fourth film. She originally said no but they dangled that carrot of full script approval in her face and she took it. Plus the millions. She took that, too.
I like that the Alien franchise was done by four critically acclaimed directors with very diverse techniques. It's interesting to see their own unique take on an alien movie. I understand how fans of the franchise dislike this movie as it seemed very separate from the earlier ones. In my case, I saw Alien Resurrection before any other Alien films so I had zero expectations when it comes to the story or Ripley's character. Also, by the time I saw this movie, I already watched Delicatessen, Amelie and City of Lost Children, which made me aware of what to expect in terms of the director's style. Not making excuses, but Jean-Pierre Jeunet is an auteur who is used to having complete creative control of his movies. He also has a permanent production crew and prefers to work with actors from his other films. Alien Resurrection was his first Hollywood production movie- and the first time where he wasn't allowed to change the script. Worse, back then, he only knew three English words and had to work with non French speaking cast and crew. Sadly, these struggles were evident in many parts of the movie. This is a far cry from the quality of his earlier movies, but I still enjoyed it a lot, especially the underwater scene (water is JPJ's thumbprint) and Ron Perlman shooting at an alien while hanging upside down. The Newborn is my favorite among all the aliens in the franchise. It had a unique, human like design (the only flesh colored, tail-less alien), and its eyes' resemblance to human ones made me feel for it, which made it even creepier. Alien Res does not reflect Jeunet's creativity and talent as a storyteller. I encourage anyone who is curious enough to have a peek at Amelie (comedy drama) and Delicatessen (dark comedy). Highly recommended for those looking for a unique surreal treat for the senses.
It's all about the money for the Doctor. The Xenomorphs are worth a fortune to the right buyer and they are highly profitable military assets if they can be tamed. THAT'S why he was so desperate to bring them to Earth.
Yeah. When we told you these two movies (3 snd 4) were absolute trainwrecks, did you think we were exaggerating? Fun Fact: When pre-production was underway, the original 'Alien Queen' could not be located and the molds that were used to build the original were damaged beyond usefulness. Fortunately, the original life-size puppet was located in the personal collection of an avid Alien (1979) fan. Bonus Fact: Sigourney Weaver signed on to the film largely because of one scene in particular, when Ripley 8 encounters her previous 7 aborted genetic incarnations. ...And the $11 Million helped too.
You *tried* to like it, Chris. Props for the genuine effort. But then...well...this movie. You might have trouble believing that you'd likely *LOVE* the other films of this director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet. (He was a *weird* choice to direct this.) Amelie is a _different_ sort of movie one might argue - as is Delicatessen, and City of Lost Children, and...etc.
I can’t help but wonder if Whedon’s had directed this one how it would have turned out. I read an Interview where he said they did everything wrong even though they followed his script somewhat closely. I don’t know. 😅 could be worth checking out one of his films that aren’t franchises.
@@CasualNerdReactions Alien 4 _does_ look and feel like a Jeunet movie...but it's like if Hitchcock made a sex-ed video. It wouldn't be boring, but it would also be weird, uncomfortable, and *not* do its job. Jeunet's films are mad-cap, silly, fairy-tales that while they have macabre shadows to them sometimes, they border on being annoyingly heart-warming cartoons. But just border...I think they're absolutely fantastic celebrations of creativity and joy. Alien 4 is creative, certainly, but so would be Hitch's sex-ed video - so 😵💫🫣😱🤢.
After one hundred takes she finally sank that basketball and the camera man let the ball go out of frame making it look like it was faked. What a bummer.
In case you didn't know this.......she really did make that basketball shot. I saw that on some video about how the film was made and it was cool how everyone flipped out because she made the shot. Also...you may feel like me, with your disappointment, the first Alien is simply the best, and something gets taken away the more sequels that show up.
I actually really like this movie. I think it's a great cast. Two hundred years after the events of Alien 3, scientists on the space vessel USM Auriga create a clone of Ellen Ripley, named Ripley 8, using DNA from blood samples taken before her death. The Xenomorph queen's DNA has been combined with Ripley's, so the clone grows up with an embryo inside it. The scientists extract the embryo, raise it, and collect its eggs while keeping Ripley 8 alive for further study. As a result of the Alien's DNA inside her, the clone has enhanced strength and reflexes, somewhat acidic blood, and a psychic link with the Xenomorphs. Additionally, the Xenomorph's genetic memory allows the clone to have some of Ripley's memories. The body's in the tubes are just abducted human's. Probably homeless or criminals. The scientists want them to birth alien soldiers. Well no she didn't know there were 7 other clones so of course she didn't ask for them. The Alien Queen, through the mixing of the two species dna developed a uterus and gives birth to a Xenomorph with human traits. Unable to bond with the Queen, the hybrid Xenomorph recognizes Ripley 8 as its mother, so it kills the Alien Queen. I actually liked Ripley's character as much as the original, due to her merging with her nemesis...which I thought was a cool twist. Your squeamishness is not a fault of the movie, so I can't understand your complaints other than you just thinking it was gross...which it is...it's supposed to be. I also don't understand why you seem so confused as to why the corporation and military do these things that they do. They're the bad guys! Plain and simple. Doesn't take a genius to figure that out. They want all of the scientific benefits that come from obtaining these specimens and being able to study them and reap the rewards and prestige of being the ones to make the discoveries and gain the monetary and scientific benefits. Plus did I mention they are the bad guys. Not as good as the first two but I really liked this one as well.
Does it help if you realise that Ripley never made an appearance in this movie? This wasn’t Eleanor Ripley, it was a failed cloning of her. The weird crossover between Ripley and the Alien is the first and only time we got to a portion of the Aliens’ emotions, even though imperfectly and through the imperfect expression that is this Ripley’s expressions. Which emotions are human? Which are Alien? Which are an amalgamation of both? I just wish they had gone a bit deeper into that…but I still found it fun.
I've often joked that the human/xenomorph hybrid must have had muscle and organ tissue composed of gelatin and bones of moistened graham crackers to be squeezed through that pinprick sized hole. Either that or the atmospheric pressure within the ship must have been roughly equal to the water pressure that imploded the "OceanGate" sub that tried to sight eye the Titanic! Plus, there was no elegance to that design, nothing of Giger's craftmanship.
I love this movie! It feels like an Alien comic book to me with a dumb corporation doing dumb corporation things and a cool crew with some funny/stupid one liners. It's not as serious as the other ones for sure but it's fun. I like that I can root for the Aliens in this one without feeling guilty.
I like how the clone Ripley doesn't have her personality and the acting was great! She looks more creepy and a little more psycho. And there are some great scenes in it, like how the baby Xenomorph burst through Larry's chest and went through the doctor's skull lol but yeah, there is something I can't put finger on it, that even though I like this movie, it's sill not my most favorite one in the franchise
HEY Chris!! Again, I gotta tell ya...THANK YOU for at least experiencing the awful sequels. lol You really need to see why most think it's so bad and have your own opinion. I hated what they did to Ripley (My favorite bad ass female character) and the last abomination (as you called it) was the worst attempt of a mutated alien I ever saw...how dare they do that to my favorite Alien. UUUUGGGHHH!! Great reaction and as always, have a good one!! ~Dawne
Joss Whedon hated how this movie turned out, and many of his fans noted that the cast of his show Firefly a few years later bore a distinct resemblance to the Betty crew, apparently his attempt to show what he really wanted them to be just like what happened with Buffy.
Yes! I read an article where he stated that they did everything wrong. The real challenge of having someone else interpret and direct your script. No doubt I would have enjoyed it more with his interpretation... I'm not sure it would have redeemed it, but darn I love firefly.
This one and the third movie both get an only ok rating from me, my favorites will always be one and two. I also really enjoyed the second prequel called Alien Covenant, hopefully you do reactions to both prequel films also, Prometheus and Alien Covenant. regardless I had fun watching your reaction to this and hopefully you enjoy the prequels more than this one if you decide to do them.
Well...I like Alien Resurrection better than Alien 3. And that's not saying much. lol All Companies/Military want Aliens because they are the ultimate weapon. Drop a few eggs on an enemy's planet and no more enemies. Also, a Chestburster could be snuggled past any security looking for technological weapons. I did like the reproduction aspects because the Aliens adapt to whomever they burst out of. The Alien in Alien 3 was dog-like because it came out of a dog. The Queen received aspects from Ripley just as she got Alien aspects.
As an Alien movie, this is horrible, but I can't help give it some love due to the sheer self aware acting from a brilliant cast, that makes this a guilty pleasure. IF you want a great film, check out The City Of Lost Children with Ron Perlman and Dominique Pinon and Dominique Pinion and Dominique Pinon and... I have a real soft spot for this flick seeing them together again.
There's a lot to like in Alien 4. Great cast of oddballs, interesting setting, interesting ideas. And there's a lot to cringe at. Mostly the writing and lack of character development. I land on the slightly higher end of the like/dislike divide, and barely like Resurrection. The cast is almost too good for the final product. Perlman and Rider are wasted, Dourif does his creepy shtick but is quickly eliminated, and Weaver is almost feral as Ripley2 (which I kind of enjoy). A pair of underrated character actors - Michael Wincott (The captain of the Betty) and Leland Orser (the rescued chestburst victim) - are fun, but I wish they had more to do. And poor Dan Hedaya eating a ton of 🍋 to shoot that one scene 😖
Chris I'm sorry but your reaction to this aliens had me dying laughing 🤣. Only part I enjoyed from this movie was the ladder scene. Sci fi/ Thriller movie suggestion: Radius (2017)
I never understood why the studio didn’t understand that after Aliens we wanted to see more about the Aliens and the colonial marines. Some of the books covered it. Aliens came to Earth and the military found their home planet. Why not a story like that? Instead we get Alien Resurrection.
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This movie was unnecessary. Now, what certainly is different fornyou is that you never waited for a new alien movie. It was.nice going to the movies to watch a new alien movie, especially after Ripley died. The "baby" and the queen to have a womb were part of the experiment. Keep in mind they had 8 Ripleys. The "baby" was the first. They were certainly going to continue experimenting till they got to the point of having a perfect enhanced organism, as Ash said in the first movie. The womb meant they didn't have to use eggs and have humans impregnated. For me, rhe idea of the.movie makes total sense. It also shows rhat despite being gross, the "baby" had human feelings and didn't want to be a monster, so he immediately rejected the alien morher and went after Ripley. It was still a beast, in nature. And true, that was not Ripley. It was a copy, with alien DNA. You should also understand that there was a lot of discussion about cloning people when the movie came out . All the ethical dimension of this idea. Anyway, i think they ahould have kept it as a trilogy.
I liked this movie _mostly_ because it's so much better than Alien 3 😅 I figure they knew they couldn't make a movie that resembled the atmosphere for _Alien_ because you cannot do it better than Ridley Scott. And they wouldn't be able to make it as good as James Cameron either. Still, having Alien 3 as the wrap up felt really nasty, so I can imagine they would want to have at least some redemption for the saga. Alien: Resurrection didn't try to take itself too serious and to me it feels more like a fanservice movie to wash away the poor taste of Alien 3. In that sense they did a pretty good job imho. It also helps that they have a pretty good cast and Josh Whedon usually manages to have a good mix of action and humor in his movies.
Joss Whedon hates this movie- the studio changed most of the ending- particularly the "offspring" which was written as a chalk white Xenomorph Queen with human intelligence. Instead, the studio insisted on....that.
Oh boy. I read somewhere that he said this film is a perfect example of doing a script the wrong way. I’d be curious to see what the film would have been had he also directed.
no question the first 2 alien movies are the best.however, I also liked II and IV. at least the idea to complete the storyline. the realisation is poor though. I can*t describe it better. the storyboards got weird, I agree. nevertheless, Sigourney never disappoints.
I actually went to see this at the cinema... Boy was I disappointed. I thought is was ok (not great) until the appearance of the hybrid baby, from that point it just crashed and burned.
This wasn't too bad but needs to be redone with a different cast because that's were they went wrong. And the drool is all wrong. It should be thicker and more slimey and less like water
Alien by way of the CW. This movie was stupid and not needed, many fans don't consider it canon. It seemed orders of magnitude worse in 1997, but in watching this reaction it actually seems very ahead of it's time. Like it was a circa 2023 attempt at a franchise reboot, it feels very "current year" in every way. And that is not a compliment to the writers, director or effects artist, especially since Disney now owns Fox Studios and this IP. This does for Alien what Last Jedi did for Star Wars.
When you wondered why they brought the aliens back made me think of an unintentional meta-comment within this film: it was, like too many sequels, a shameless money grab. The corporation in the films only wants the aliens for financial reasons, and this sequel, I think, was only made to try and squeeze a bit more money out of the franchise. Anyway I look forward to you seeing some films you actually enjoy.
I think Alien Resurrection fails because it is so painfully and aggressively 90s. 90s effects, attitude, cinematography, editing, direction and writing. Plus it’s an early example of Joss Whedon’s greatest weakness as a writer - confusing personality quirk with actual character development. I can name specific characters in ALIEN, ALIENS and ALIEN 3 that I like and feel genuinely sad when they die, but no one in Resurrection - not even Ripley because she’s not the actual Ripley - gets an emotional response from me as an audience member. Saw this in theaters in 1997 and was very disappointed as a lifelong ALIEN fanatic. Another great reaction!
Cloning was all over the news at the time(they succesfully cloned a sheep) I guess writers took the idea from that. I like the same scene as you, after that the movie goes down, especially "Ripley's son". I would say that I like the director's aesthetic but not the movie. You should see other Jean-Pierre Jounet movies like Amelie or the city of lost children.
The half I like, I like a lot such as Winona Ryder's Casting, the action, the chase in a claustrophobic setting. What I didn't like is subjective such as the casting of everyone else could've been better. Killing off the leader of the "bad guys" first trope I hate, a Xenomorphs spitting acid blood up a ladder was random as F' (No where in this franchise does a xenomorph have this power), the guy who's face was hit with the acid just falls to his death without even trying to shake a dead Xenomorphs corpse from his foot. Ripley having sex with an Alien (Her idea btw) and everything to do with that was weird in a bad way, not enough likable characters. Aliens had a lot of likable characters and that makes a huge difference. Everyone from Vazquez to even Hudson were likable. Alien 3/Resurraction/AVP/AVP2 all suffer from bad casting or not likable characters. Why do they want the aliens? Take a step back from film land and look at humanity's view on aliens in real life. Half of us swear they don't exist. So, there's the other half spending as much money and doing everything they can to prove they exist. So from the film's POV, if they found out if they had a human who died while pregnant with an alien (Ripley) and that if they cloned her they'd clone an alien too. They would definitely green light this and cover it up. I personally find it weird people watching these movies even bother to ask why the humans are actively trying to capture an alien.
Well the director J.P.Jeunet is known for making films that look green and gross. Check out The city of lost children or Delicatessen. I just don't think that was what the franchise needed.
I kinda hate this movie for how much it wasted the cast's potential. They cast Brad Dourif as a mad scientist and that's all they did with him? Guy is awesome when given the right material (Child's Play, Exorcist 3, Star Trek: Voyager, unforgettable guest appearance on The X-Files). Same for Michael Wincott (Elgin) who was great as the villain in The Crow. Leland Orser and Raymond Cruz had also carried bigger movie or TV roles, It's like they went all out casting Alien : Resurrection, but the writer had no idea what to do with the cast. This movie could have been sooo much better than it was.
OH man, why does the end look like some sort of Alien/Ripley fan fic porn. All that licking and caressing.. The horror. Easily the worst of the franchise, but weirdly enough, I remember not thinking it was 'that bad' at the time. I get you on the 'rooting for Ripley because it's Ripley' and the 'why should i care cuz it's not Ripley.." definitely a plot conflict or issue when you really need someone to root for and you don't really have one. Also, it's interesting that in the first film, the blood/gore were minimal and the 'scares' were from not knowing where the alien would be coming from at any given moment. This flick was chock full of aliens and went for the gross out route. I prefer the former method.
I completely agree with your opinions comparing the source of fear between the first and this one. One comment I made in the full length that I didn’t include (because I took a long time to say it) was that I felt this film was consistent in what it delivered, unlike the third. Using the effects as as an example, things looked consistently ok, but in the third there were moments that looked WAY better and moments that looked WAY worse. In the end I have to give the edge to 3. It had more fearful moments for sure.
This movie get so much hate but I thought it was so cool when I first saw the first 7 the Practical effects andthe graphics were just awesome when it first came out
I totally get what you mean by it being better or worse than Alien 3 at different moments. For me, the monster effects and some parts of the sets are a lot better than Alien 3, but that's mostly due to the subpar CGI they used for the alien in 3. The actual plot and some dialogue, though..... Resurrection goes in a really crazy direction. It's also not the best when you realize or remember that most of the people you're following essentially did mass human trafficking or illegal bio-weapon experiments.
@@group-music Ok, my mistake. Not CGI, just some very poor compositing from bluescreen footage that looks like bad CGI to the casual viewer. Doesn't really change my earlier thoughts.
Alien 3 never happened. Therefore, this one never happened. Even so, it's still better than Alien 3. At least it actually has production values. Something completely lacking in Alien 3.
@@panicboy3705 It's at least interesting for the prototypical Serenity crew. If any good came from the movie, it was inspiring Whedon to do Firefly. Besides, there were some decent scenes like the underwater sequence. If I had to watch either 3 or 4 again, I'd definitely watch 4.
@@richardb6260I guess we can agree to disagree. The only thing I feel that #4 has over #3 is the visual effects. The alien special effects are terrible in #3, but I felt the premise was better. Except for the killing of Newt/Hicks, of course.
I don't think I included it in my final edit, but I actually give the edge Alien 3, but not by much. It's just that the parts of Alien 3 that worked for me really worked. It had higher highs and lower lows, while this one was more static in quality.
Alien: Resurrection is a better movie than Alien 3. A critic said that Alien 3 was a betrayal of the events that happened in Aliens. That all the effort that Ripley went through to save Newt in Aliens were all for nothing in Alien 3
I would agree with that! I don’t dislike the plot point that newt and hicks are killed, but to do it essentially off screen is an undoing of plot rather than a progression.
I never got on board with this movie because I could never accept the premise that you could clone a pregnant woman with the embryo still intact. Science fiction or not. And for me the film could never rise above that absurdity. Still enjoyed your reaction, though!
i am about to say several thing that many will not like. first, i can't stand joss whedon. there are very few things he has touched that i like. second, i actually like alien 3 & 4. the hate they both get is undeserved. james cameron, another person i can't stand, turned a story driven sci fi film with thriller & horror elements, into the typical 80's/90's overblown action flick. so a return to more story driven films was not received well. also, the commentary written into them was a little heavy handed. 4 was to move the series from ripley to call. but between the bad reception the film received & winona's legal & personal troubles, the idea was scrapped. third, both films, especially 3, had too many cooks in the kitchen. ultimately it affected the final product. bonus, usually i would prefer directors/extended cuts. but for both of these films, i prefer the theatrical versions. they might not be the intended visions, but they are the most complete.
My opinion: this movie isn't a good Alien movie, but it would have been a good standalone sci-fi/horror movie. Well, if Jean-Pierre Jeunet hadn't been the director. He's not a bad director, but he's the wrong choice for this movie. The hybrid baby and the xenomorph queen's womb was all his idea. The movie is just pulling in too many directions. That said, I actually like this one more than Alien 3. I've finally (reluctantly) accepted that Alien 3 is a *better made* movie, but that doesn't mean I *prefer* it. The Betty crew does have that Firefly-like camaraderie going for them, and I really like Distephano (the soldier who sides against the evil scientist) and Purvis (the guy with the chestburster on an egg timer). Johner is a shitty person, but I have a huge longstanding celebrity crush on Ron Perlman, so I mostly just ignore how shitty he is and admire the fact that he's played by Ron Perlman. I... um... I'm not sure what Brad "Chucky" / "Grima Wormtongue" Dourif was doing, exactly. I can't fault him for it, the script is all over the place, he probably just decided "oh, it's one of *those* scripts, this calls for over the top scenery chewing". But I enjoyed his character the least.
Should this movie have never existed? No. God no. Am I happy that it does? One thousand percent yes! It's like when garbage reaches peak perfection space trash in movie form.
Be sure to subscribe for upcoming reactions to Tron, The World's End, Forbidden Planet, and The Goonies! What are your thoughts on Resurrection? Like it? Love it? Hate it? In the end I feel this film is at times better and at times worse than Alien 3. 😅
My thoughts - well it is a 4th sequel, probably could have been worse. Sigourney Weaver is awesome as always. Too much goo going on. Thought the mother/baby bond (despite the baby being gross! Ha ha!) was put across relatively well. It is what it is!
Resurrection's premise sounded cool and fun...until I saw the movie. Proof that directors can be miscast too; I love Jeunet's other movies, but French and American senses of humor are already too different, and the extra gross-out is very French imo. (According to all involved, this was supposed to be the dark comedy entry in the series for some reason.) Some good scenes, but off-key tone and strangely tensionless stretches ruin the fun for me.
Fincher's movie didn't work, but you could tell that he understood what made the alien frightening, and it had fine performances and visuals. Jeunet's primary direction seems to have been "More snarls! More saliva! And the same for the creatures!"
I agree that its better than Alien 3 and worse at times. I thought that Alien 3 had more potential, but they just fucked so many things up. Whereas Resurrection is just a fun if you take it for what it is, but it really doesn’t do anything beyond that.
Have you ever watched Terminator and Terminator 2? If not then i would say please please please could you react to those movies 😂. They’re absolutely fantastic. More James Cameron magic.
@@danfarmer3019 I second Dan's Terminator recommendation. Based on your reactions so far, Chris, I think you will particularly appreciate the first one. Smart, economic, cinematic storytelling.
When I saw this movie when it came out at age 22, I always thought the scene where the alien/human hybrid was killed as kind of sad.
6:17 She made that shot for real. The director wanted to use special effects but she wanted to do it for real so when she saw the scene in the script she practiced until she could do it in around 1 of 6 attempts. So the director said he'd give her the 6 shots to nail it. She missed the first 5 - this was the last attempt.
The reason the shot cuts so abruptly is that Ron Perlman shouted "Holy shit!"
She nailed it! 🏀
What we see in the movie is the very first attempt that was filmed. There was no limit set by the director, as Sigourney was determined to do it herself, so they thought it would be a really expensive shot as they expected would take a lot of attempts. They were ecstatic she got it in the first take, then horrified that Ron Pearlman broke character at witnessing it.
Well done for actually giving the whole quadrilogy a chance.. a lot of reactors haven't even seen Alien 3 just because they were told it's bad. I don't mind Resurrection, but I have to be in the mood for it.. definitely a very different thing to Alien/Aliens and eye-rolling at times.
I actually think I'll enjoy both alien 3 and 4 more upon rewatching lol
I turn it off at a certain point, so I can miss certain aspects of the last act lol but my fella and I watch it from time to time for fun. It's at least more campy than the third one, because it had no chance of being suspenseful or scary like the first two.
@@CasualNerdReactions You can also watch "Amelie" directed by the French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
Resurrection is great if you think of it like the Dark Horse comics from the 90s
@@miller-joel it is "objectively" not dog vomit. It is a movie.
I like this movie. Ron Perlman is a wonderful actor. Story made sense. Sigorney Weaver looked really good.
Too bad Ron Perlman is a horrible person
Yeah. This is no where near the first two movies in any way. But I always enjoy watching Ron Perlman do his thing.
And since they are going with the hybrid-thing, I do appreciate how Sigorney Weaver added some animalistic aspects to Ripley - Especially in her movements.
Agreed. Not a perfect movie, has its own flaws, but still WAAAAYYYYYYY better than anything 3 had to offer; they at least made an attempt to continue the lore, and I'll always respect that.
The ‘Alien’ franchise has had a tradition of showcasing up and comers in the directing world. Ridley Scott, James Cameron and David Fincher for the first three films respectively. Jean Pierre Jeunet was someone who looked promising to the producers at the time.
My suggestion would be to check out “Delicatessen” and “Amelie” so you can see why the producers decided to take a chance on Jeunet. They rolled the dice and it came up…meh… And just to show that he’s had some misses as well, his latest project “Big Bug” is currently streaming on Netflix. Where “Amelie” was charmingly weird and chaotic, “Big Bug” is just plain weird and chaotic.
This is easily the most accessible film he’s done. His films are for discerning tastes only. Most moviegoers simply find him too weird. My theory is that it’s perhaps difficult for such an oddball director to successfully navigate a big budget Hollywood franchise film. I believe he tried his best, but just couldn’t land the spaceship.
As a side note, when Winona Ryder was offered the part of Call, her initial reaction to the story treatment was “wait…isn’t Ripley dead?” She too didn’t see the point of another sequel…
"They rolled the dice and it came up…meh" Compared to the Prometheus movies, this is a masterpiece
I really enjoy in this movie because it asks the question of who *really* is the monster
This movie is not great, but at least it’s watchable and has a sense of fun. That was my big issue with Alien 3. You kill off the survivors from Aliens and then Ripley spends the whole movie dejected and wanting to die.
This one at least has an objective and has a Ripley who you can root for and who is proactive rather than spending the entire film being reactive. Plus I think the Betty crew are fun and much more relatable than anonymous bald headed, similar looking prisoners. I’d watch this one again over Alien 3 any day.
@@group-music there’s a difference between going back to basics and just saying fuck you to anyone who enjoyed the last film.
You can make something different without feeling cheated.
I think it captured Ripley's realization that she hit a no way out hole. Her mistake was to come back to that planet in the second movie. It's meant to be hopeless. Cause there's no hope. She knows she is dead. So the movie couldn't be fun, heroic, etc etc... That's what the encountering the aliens means = death. The first message the crew in the first mvoie received wasn't a cry for help. It was a warning, as ripley said . Meaning, stay away or you die. So yes... Dark...death....and "in space, no one can hear you scream".
Ripley's blew up so many ships that the moment she stands on another one, she's like " I've got to blow up this one too...".
This is by no means an excellent movie but i enjoy it. It has its flaws but doesnt deserve the amount of outright HATE that it gets from some fans, same goes for the 3rd movie. Like a few others have said, thanks for at least giving the series a try in its entirety. Some reactors watch the first two then get put off by the haters saying to avoid the second two movies in the quadrilogy. I even own the full box set of DVDs which has every version of the movies, plus tons of extras and documentaries....yes I love this series as a whole, but i know i wont convert many people
I really enjoy this one. I have no idea why, it's everything you said, but there's something weirdly charming about it. Still, enjoyed your reaction a lot, and I'm grateful you gave it a shot!
I dig this comment.
Yeah, Aliens, with Ron Perlman, Joss Whedon writing & the director of Amelie? I’m all the way in!
Favorite Chris reaction to the Alien craziness: “I’m going to go ahead and disagree with the beautiful butterfly sentiment ‘cause the-ah-ah-a-nu-UH-uhhhhh.”
I thought I summed it up quite nicely 😅
@@CasualNerdReactions yep
The goal for the company is to weaponize the alien. They want to tame it and sell it as a murder-monster to interested parties. Maybe develop some cool bio-tech from it while they're at it.
It's too bad Brad Dourif rarely gets to play more sympathetic characters. We know from Deadwood and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest that he's got a lot more to give than just the creepy psychopath.
Okay, so, I LOVE this movie. I watched it as a little 8yo kid and all the gore and mutations really both scared me and impressed me, like wow, that was the goriest most disgusting and visceral thing I think I ever watched in my life. As I got older, it only got better: I love the crew and cast of characters we are left with at the end, everyone plays of each other in such a fun way, I love how they can joke around here and there because come on, situation is grim enough, what else can we do. I LOVE the "new" Ripley, and how weird she is in this movie: as the previous clones suggested, during the process her human and alien DNA got mixed together, and we ended up with a very cold, weird, almost inhuman Ripley. I like how she struggles to remain human, how the aliens are calling to her (with the bit "I can feel it behind my eyes"), as it gives a little tiny glimpse of how aliens operate and what they feel without spelling it out - i love how subtle it is, with her smelling everything, getting distressed at the alien queen's pain, like, understanding it, feeling it too - really shows the idea of a hive mind (as with the white offspring at the end too - as she really felt it to be her child, and the pain she felt for killing it). And the effects, oh my god, the effects. I LOVE practical effects, and there's so much here - all the blood, and meat, and wrinkled skin and slime, and monsters, it's so good, so believable. Maybe it's because I find creatures with human features (haha, rhymed) really terrifying, but the white alien really got me - with human-like face, and puppy dog eyes, and how big it was. (not to mention its death scene - it's one thing to make it so the monster dies in one hit, or gets thrown away into space, but no - here we have a long agonising scene of it dying, with horrifying, almost human-like screams to boot), It also got me with the theme, which I find not many horror movies dabble into - reproduction horror and mutation. I watched many movies and never found one that gets this theme into such disgusting levels. The mutated clones, the human reproductive system in the alien queen, the newborn - it's the most literal showing of "mutation" I think I've seen in a movie. And it's not a glimpse, few seconds of screen time at the end, like many modern horror movies do, leaving "all the shocking revelations " on the screen for max 5 minutes - no - it goes on for a long, uncomfortable time. They really went all out with this, visually, without spelling things out more than it should be. Also people get creeped out by the scientist, who got kidnapped by the aliens during their escape - I love this guy. Such depravity with him being obsessed by the aliens, kissing the glass, just straight up admiring the specie - this actor really sold it - all of the actors did, really. I might be messed up in the head and I get why people call this movie a disaster and laughable attempt at aliens, but for me they made the aliens way more interesting in this one. Again, the first movie is a masterpiece of suspense, I had to learn to appreciate it (because at first I found it so boring and unewentful), and if I watched them both now, I'm sure I would love Alien much more than this one., but....here we are :D
to paraphrase ripley's lecture to burke in aliens "you don't see them turning on each other for personal gain" but they will to get out of a holding cell
It ain't great but after the DEBACLE of 3 my boy Joss had a long way to climb. This is fine, Ripley finally gets her happy ending, her ship, crew and little girl back and finally makes it to Earth.
I love this movie! The interactions between the members of the Betty crew are so much fun! Johnner is the most fun of all! When he shot that spider was a laugh riot!😂 But the most badass scene was DeStephano: "Begging your pardon, sir, but FUCK YOU!" And Paris ramming the baby alien through the dude's head! Magnificent! ❤❤ lol. And Ripley: "I thought you were dead?" "Yeah, I get that a lot!"😂 This movie is the kind that needs a few repeats before it grows on you and it's one of the best!
I have no doubt I'd enjoy it more on the next go round.
Most hilarious thumbnail pic ever! HA! I've never seen this.....and I never will! Not after that thumbnail! HAHAHAHAHA. I may have to watch this reaction, though, just to get the cliffnotes. :P
Just thought I'd try something different haha. This film is more static in quality, while Alien 3 had higher highs and lower lows. This is definitely odd to me towards the end.
I think most people didn't quite accept the alien/Ripley hybrid. I still think it's my third favorite "Alien" movie and that's including the ones with Predators.
ALIEN 3 Haters:
“ALIEN 3 sucks!”
Literally every movie with the ALIEN in it since ALIEN 3:
“Hold our beers.”
Nah 3 is the worst
😅 we'll see how I feel after watching the final 2 films.
"Alien Resurrection: Just when you thought nothing could top Weyland-Yutani skulduggery, "Ripley 8" shows that Company Stupidity is nearly immortal. Seeing "The Betty" crew reminded me of the "Bebop."
My favorite part of the movie was Ripley all the way through, it just enhanced and how bad ass she is. It was her but just a darker version of her and quite honestly it was a little sexy
The book is so much better. It explains everything. It even shows how the cross-contamination effected Ripley and the Aliens (for example they kill one of the other aliens in the jail because of Ripley expressing that "you don't see them f%cking themselves over" where before an alien hadn't and usually doesn't hurt another alien.)
Really good book
"Sorry everyone who loves this movie." I'm sure there are some, but I've never encountered them.
It's far from the worst movie I've ever seen, though. The cast is solid. You identified the best scene (by far). The crew of the Betty were like a very early draft of the Serenity crew, but a lot darker (and harder to root for, as you pointed out).
I find the whole thing tolerable and moderately entertaining until Ripley gets separated from the rest of the group -- it's a very gooey train wreck from there on out.
You've encountered one. I love this movie, perfect stylized sci fi camp. Much more entertaining than the bleak corporate infected Alien 3
Definitely easy to see the early firefly vibes and serves to make me appreciate firefly even more!
@@CasualNerdReactions in the first episode (or one of the first episodes) of Firefly, there is a scene where they're looking at a monitor and there's a Weyland-Yutani logo, the evil corporation in Alien. Was sort of an Easter egg I guess but it's really fun to think they could be in the same universe.
In the Alien Movie Universe, the synthetic persons are introduced in alphabetical order: Ash, Bishop, Call and David. This movie is a fine movie, but a bit disappointing as an Alien film. However, there are good ideas and moments : Ripley DNA and Alien genetics mixed up, the Aliens learning about the red punishment button, Alien drones ripping up another drone in order to use the drone’s acidic blood to escape their cell, the horrific series of botched Ripley clones, the Betty crew hijacking sleeping colonists to act as Guinea pigs, the operating system of the Auriga being “Father”, as opposed to M/TH/R in Alien. Some things are silly: Ripley clone having acid blood, the silly looking “Newborn” alien, chestburster host using it to kill someone else, and some over use of bad CGI. Some problems with characterization - can’t sympathize or care about the Betty crew because they kidnapped and sold sleeping colonists. Also, for the third time in the series, an alien creature jumps aboard an escaping ship and we blow an Alien out into space in the final battle - an overused finale.
While horrifying, I always thought the xenomorph design was grotesquely beautiful. I always felt in this movie that it was telling that as they tried to add humanity to the monster it only made it uglier and more monstrous.
Interesting point!
It was the second movie that made me a fan. An infestation, in much longer environment was much scarier and Ellen Ripley was an unusual hero. It showed that being maternal and scared doesn't make a person any less of a badass.
I used to own all 4 movies on DVD and watched all of the movies regularly. I didn't watch the 4th movie, Aliens Resurrection very often. I think that Aliens 3, wrapped the story up nicely and I didn't feel that there was much that could have been added.
The 4th movie is more of a gross out slasher than a scary monster movie. Bringing a person back from the dead, who has been completely incinerated, using DNA, is a trope that I saw used a lot in soap operas. It kicks me out of the story.
In the series, I think that the reason why the xenomorphs are preserved as a possible biological weapon for use in warfare. When the xenomorphs were resurrected, their genetic makeup included human DNA and wouldn't have been quite the same organism as the xenomorphs from the previous movies. Ellen Ripley's clone ( I'm using the word clone loosely ) had a genetic makeup that included alien DNA and wouldn't have been the same person as the woman who died in the 3rd movie. The "alien baby" had a connection with Ripley due to being genetically related. At least that is my take on it.
I don't think that the 4th movie was very good.
I think you summed it up nicely when considering the 4th movie a gross out slasher vs monster movie.
That guy who keeps saying "what's in me" plays almost the same part in Se7en. He gets to yell "get this thing off me." Leland Orser. I watch this movie often. I skip Aliens. You should watch Ron Perlman in Quest For Fire. It's great and he doesn't get to talk at all.
"His arms are so hairy!" Dan Hedaya (General Perez) was cast as Carla's ex-husband, Nick Tortelli. At one point (before he was cast), Carla showed Diane his picture.
Diane: Is he wearing mohair pajamas?
Carla: Naw, he's naked!
At least they found an actor who matched that description.
On M*A*S*H Margaret (Hotlips) described her fiance as having no neck and one eyebrow (continuous on the brow ridge). When he finally shows up on the show they just cast a good looking guy.
When the alien got blown into space through the window, that was the original ending for the first Alien film. They couldn't make the effect work due to technological constraints, so they changed it to what we all see now.
Would have been Interesting to see how I’d have felt about it had it been in that film instead of this one.
That is true but it was actually originally for Lambert.
It really says something for how amazing those first two Alien movies are that people still have faith in the franchise, even though literally nothing that's come out of it since has been any good.
ALIEN IV: THE APOLOGY.
Alien: My favorite of the series. Great horror, great science fiction.
Aliens: One of the best sequels ever made (the best is Godfather II). Great action-adventure.
Alien3: I like “The Assembly Cut” more than “The Theatrical Cut” but a big step backwards from the first 2
Alien Resurrection: SO BAD… But I love it for that very reason. Laughed my ass off watching this one.
I would have spared you this pain my friend. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's earlier films Delicatessen and City of Lost Children were brilliant and I had some small hope for this outing of the Alien, but alas the studio prevailed once again. I recommend all of Jeunet's other films highly though.
You kind of picked up on it, but the “Firefly vibes” with the crew of “The Betty” are basically my favorite part of this movie. Because in my opinion the characters are all kind of prototypes of the beloved characters in “Firefly”. You have a badass with a name traditionally for girls in Christy combine that with Perlman’s character’s general look and anti-social attitude and you get, Jayne. There is a quirky mechanical genius, a tough woman as the lieutenant, and also a captain who is smarter and nobler than he initially seems though not as much as Malcom of course. Then you have the Ripley clone, a strongly neurodivergent engineered super soldier woman. If you combine her with Ryder’s character a big browned eyed innocent he is much more than she seems, you basically get River.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. lol
The first two movies are of course the best. This is a nostalgic but hokey one I still enjoy. And she's not Ripley so I enjoy her being a different character with the same face. They wanted the xenomorphs for the same reason as Wayland Corp in Aliens (biological weaponry).
What saved this movie for Me was the crew of the Betty. I enjoyed their interaction. I wished they had all survived & were spun off into their own series. I guess this was a Firefly precursor.
Alien Resurrection is a replacement for Alien 3 creation. It wouldn't been need have it not had an Alien 3....IN THE FIRST PLACE! What a horrible web that was woven when that decision was made!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I liked Winona in this, but then I was the right age to fall for her pretty hard when Beetlejuice came out, so... take my opinion on her with a grain of salt.
I also liked Sigourney as this version of Ripley who's coming to terms with being a hybridized science experiment with animal instincts, who just happens to have Ripley's memories. I enjoyed the sort of proto-Firefly-ness of the Betty's crew, as well, even if they aren't all particularly good people on the face of it.
However, I do not like gross, disgusting, stuff, and so the appearance of the alien baby, plus the scenes with the failed Ripley clones and the alien baby having its insides sucked out of the ship by the vacuum of space are a bridge too far for me.
There are also moments that, rather than feeling organic to the story, very much feel like the movie makers yelling "Hey, look at this! Wooo, Hollywood spectacle, am I right!?" The grenade spiraling down into the escape pod being one of them.
Ripley mercy-killing the other clone with the flamethrower does seem like a terribly painful way to go, when she could have done it quicker with a knife, but then you have to realize that the flamethrower was only used as a callback to the previous movies, not because it made the slightest bit of sense.
I don't think think any of the failures of this movie can be laid at the actors' feet.
I wasn't a huge Winona fan after 'Beetlejuice', but 'Heathers' got me. Started liking the 'weird chick who is actually smarter than the other girl's' vibe she projected.
As a former actor, l love this movie only to watch Sigourney Weaver’s performance. Her presence, even simply standing still, made everyone she acted with seem anemic. And that’s the point, I guess. Her technique and total submersion into being one of the aliens was so complete, no one else could stand their ground against her. You’ve heard the old saying, Acting is action and reaction. Her acting was so powerful, no one could react against her wall of intensity. Man, I sure would have loved the chance to try! Winona did fine, but she kept being Winona, and not letting herself go and release the killer android that she was intended to be. There were script problems that did not aid her in fully becoming that character, so not totally her fault. It also didn’t help Winona that Sigourney had full script control. That was how they lured her back for a fourth film. She originally said no but they dangled that carrot of full script approval in her face and she took it. Plus the millions. She took that, too.
Across all the films her acting is not a complaint one can make. 👏
I like that the Alien franchise was done by four critically acclaimed directors with very diverse techniques. It's interesting to see their own unique take on an alien movie.
I understand how fans of the franchise dislike this movie as it seemed very separate from the earlier ones. In my case, I saw Alien Resurrection before any other Alien films so I had zero expectations when it comes to the story or Ripley's character. Also, by the time I saw this movie, I already watched Delicatessen, Amelie and City of Lost Children, which made me aware of what to expect in terms of the director's style.
Not making excuses, but Jean-Pierre Jeunet is an auteur who is used to having complete creative control of his movies. He also has a permanent production crew and prefers to work with actors from his other films. Alien Resurrection was his first Hollywood production movie- and the first time where he wasn't allowed to change the script. Worse, back then, he only knew three English words and had to work with non French speaking cast and crew. Sadly, these struggles were evident in many parts of the movie. This is a far cry from the quality of his earlier movies, but I still enjoyed it a lot, especially the underwater scene (water is JPJ's thumbprint) and Ron Perlman shooting at an alien while hanging upside down. The Newborn is my favorite among all the aliens in the franchise. It had a unique, human like design (the only flesh colored, tail-less alien), and its eyes' resemblance to human ones made me feel for it, which made it even creepier.
Alien Res does not reflect Jeunet's creativity and talent as a storyteller. I encourage anyone who is curious enough to have a peek at Amelie (comedy drama) and Delicatessen (dark comedy). Highly recommended for those looking for a unique surreal treat for the senses.
One day I'll have to check out the director's other films! I have no doubt this isn't a true reflection of his work!
It's all about the money for the Doctor. The Xenomorphs are worth a fortune to the right buyer and they are highly profitable military assets if they can be tamed. THAT'S why he was so desperate to bring them to Earth.
Yeah. When we told you these two movies (3 snd 4) were absolute trainwrecks, did you think we were exaggerating?
Fun Fact: When pre-production was underway, the original 'Alien Queen' could not be located and the molds that were used to build the original were damaged beyond usefulness. Fortunately, the original life-size puppet was located in the personal collection of an avid Alien (1979) fan.
Bonus Fact: Sigourney Weaver signed on to the film largely because of one scene in particular, when Ripley 8 encounters her previous 7 aborted genetic incarnations. ...And the $11 Million helped too.
I believed you! I just tend to like most things, so I figured there was a chance I'd still enjoy it. 😅
LOL! 🤣
You *tried* to like it, Chris. Props for the genuine effort. But then...well...this movie.
You might have trouble believing that you'd likely *LOVE* the other films of this director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet. (He was a *weird* choice to direct this.) Amelie is a _different_ sort of movie one might argue - as is Delicatessen, and City of Lost Children, and...etc.
I can’t help but wonder if Whedon’s had directed this one how it would have turned out. I read an Interview where he said they did everything wrong even though they followed his script somewhat closely. I don’t know. 😅
could be worth checking out one of his films that aren’t franchises.
@@CasualNerdReactions Alien 4 _does_ look and feel like a Jeunet movie...but it's like if Hitchcock made a sex-ed video. It wouldn't be boring, but it would also be weird, uncomfortable, and *not* do its job.
Jeunet's films are mad-cap, silly, fairy-tales that while they have macabre shadows to them sometimes, they border on being annoyingly heart-warming cartoons. But just border...I think they're absolutely fantastic celebrations of creativity and joy.
Alien 4 is creative, certainly, but so would be Hitch's sex-ed video - so 😵💫🫣😱🤢.
After one hundred takes she finally sank that basketball and the camera man let the ball go out of frame making it look like it was faked. What a bummer.
In case you didn't know this.......she really did make that basketball shot. I saw that on some video about how the film was made and it was cool how everyone flipped out because she made the shot. Also...you may feel like me, with your disappointment, the first Alien is simply the best, and something gets taken away the more sequels that show up.
I actually really like this movie. I think it's a great cast. Two hundred years after the events of Alien 3, scientists on the space vessel USM Auriga create a clone of Ellen Ripley, named Ripley 8, using DNA from blood samples taken before her death. The Xenomorph queen's DNA has been combined with Ripley's, so the clone grows up with an embryo inside it. The scientists extract the embryo, raise it, and collect its eggs while keeping Ripley 8 alive for further study. As a result of the Alien's DNA inside her, the clone has enhanced strength and reflexes, somewhat acidic blood, and a psychic link with the Xenomorphs. Additionally, the Xenomorph's genetic memory allows the clone to have some of Ripley's memories. The body's in the tubes are just abducted human's. Probably homeless or criminals. The scientists want them to birth alien soldiers. Well no she didn't know there were 7 other clones so of course she didn't ask for them. The Alien Queen, through the mixing of the two species dna developed a uterus and gives birth to a Xenomorph with human traits. Unable to bond with the Queen, the hybrid Xenomorph recognizes Ripley 8 as its mother, so it kills the Alien Queen. I actually liked Ripley's character as much as the original, due to her merging with her nemesis...which I thought was a cool twist. Your squeamishness is not a fault of the movie, so I can't understand your complaints other than you just thinking it was gross...which it is...it's supposed to be. I also don't understand why you seem so confused as to why the corporation and military do these things that they do. They're the bad guys! Plain and simple. Doesn't take a genius to figure that out. They want all of the scientific benefits that come from obtaining these specimens and being able to study them and reap the rewards and prestige of being the ones to make the discoveries and gain the monetary and scientific benefits. Plus did I mention they are the bad guys. Not as good as the first two but I really liked this one as well.
There is along cut in which the survivors land on earth to discover that they are to late and the planet is completely destroyed,.
She actually made that back hand basket for real.
LEGEND.
Does it help if you realise that Ripley never made an appearance in this movie? This wasn’t Eleanor Ripley, it was a failed cloning of her.
The weird crossover between Ripley and the Alien is the first and only time we got to a portion of the Aliens’ emotions, even though imperfectly and through the imperfect expression that is this Ripley’s expressions.
Which emotions are human? Which are Alien? Which are an amalgamation of both? I just wish they had gone a bit deeper into that…but I still found it fun.
I totally appreciate that you’ve watched all of the alien movies, I just know the disappointment involved. I’m here for it though.
I've often joked that the human/xenomorph hybrid must have had muscle and organ tissue composed of gelatin and bones of moistened graham crackers to be squeezed through that pinprick sized hole. Either that or the atmospheric pressure within the ship must have been roughly equal to the water pressure that imploded the "OceanGate" sub that tried to sight eye the Titanic! Plus, there was no elegance to that design, nothing of Giger's craftmanship.
I love this movie! It feels like an Alien comic book to me with a dumb corporation doing dumb corporation things and a cool crew with some funny/stupid one liners. It's not as serious as the other ones for sure but it's fun. I like that I can root for the Aliens in this one without feeling guilty.
Alien comic book is actually a great descriptor!
I always enjoy your reactions, Chris. Even to a bad movie. :)
I like how the clone Ripley doesn't have her personality and the acting was great! She looks more creepy and a little more psycho. And there are some great scenes in it, like how the baby Xenomorph burst through Larry's chest and went through the doctor's skull lol but yeah, there is something I can't put finger on it, that even though I like this movie, it's sill not my most favorite one in the franchise
Personally I loved this movie thanks Chris!
HEY Chris!! Again, I gotta tell ya...THANK YOU for at least experiencing the awful sequels. lol You really need to see why most think it's so bad and have your own opinion. I hated what they did to Ripley (My favorite bad ass female character) and the last abomination (as you called it) was the worst attempt of a mutated alien I ever saw...how dare they do that to my favorite Alien. UUUUGGGHHH!!
Great reaction and as always, have a good one!!
~Dawne
Abomination is not a bad word for it haha
I liked this movie. It certainly wasn't equal to 1 or 2, but it had many merits.
Joss Whedon hated how this movie turned out, and many of his fans noted that the cast of his show Firefly a few years later bore a distinct resemblance to the Betty crew, apparently his attempt to show what he really wanted them to be just like what happened with Buffy.
Yes! I read an article where he stated that they did everything wrong. The real challenge of having someone else interpret and direct your script. No doubt I would have enjoyed it more with his interpretation... I'm not sure it would have redeemed it, but darn I love firefly.
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This one and the third movie both get an only ok rating from me, my favorites will always be one and two. I also really enjoyed the second prequel called Alien Covenant, hopefully you do reactions to both prequel films also, Prometheus and Alien Covenant. regardless I had fun watching your reaction to this and hopefully you enjoy the prequels more than this one if you decide to do them.
"This is just gross ... and kinda stupid" serves as a good review of the film overall.
Haha I’ll accept that.
People just don't understand French Cinema lol
I definitely do not.
One of the best sci fi.
I don't care much for the horror aspect, I just enjoy the sci fi aspect if it.
Well...I like Alien Resurrection better than Alien 3. And that's not saying much. lol
All Companies/Military want Aliens because they are the ultimate weapon. Drop a few eggs on an enemy's planet and no more enemies. Also, a Chestburster could be snuggled past any security looking for technological weapons.
I did like the reproduction aspects because the Aliens adapt to whomever they burst out of. The Alien in Alien 3 was dog-like because it came out of a dog. The Queen received aspects from Ripley just as she got Alien aspects.
As an Alien movie, this is horrible, but I can't help give it some love due to the sheer self aware acting from a brilliant cast, that makes this a guilty pleasure. IF you want a great film, check out The City Of Lost Children with Ron Perlman and Dominique Pinon and Dominique Pinion and Dominique Pinon and... I have a real soft spot for this flick seeing them together again.
There's a lot to like in Alien 4. Great cast of oddballs, interesting setting, interesting ideas.
And there's a lot to cringe at. Mostly the writing and lack of character development.
I land on the slightly higher end of the like/dislike divide, and barely like Resurrection.
The cast is almost too good for the final product.
Perlman and Rider are wasted, Dourif does his creepy shtick but is quickly eliminated, and Weaver is almost feral as Ripley2 (which I kind of enjoy).
A pair of underrated character actors - Michael Wincott (The captain of the Betty) and Leland Orser (the rescued chestburst victim) - are fun, but I wish they had more to do.
And poor Dan Hedaya eating a ton of 🍋 to shoot that one scene 😖
Chris I'm sorry but your reaction to this aliens had me dying laughing 🤣. Only part I enjoyed from this movie was the ladder scene.
Sci fi/ Thriller movie suggestion: Radius (2017)
I’m glad you can laugh at me 😅. Let’s call it with me on this one haha
I never understood why the studio didn’t understand that after Aliens we wanted to see more about the Aliens and the colonial marines.
Some of the books covered it. Aliens came to Earth and the military found their home planet. Why not a story like that? Instead we get Alien Resurrection.
Definitely not the movie I needed.
If you want fun and fear with aliens, call some friends over and try playing the alien RPG by free league games. It’s easy to learn, fun to play and also scary.
This movie was unnecessary. Now, what certainly is different fornyou is that you never waited for a new alien movie. It was.nice going to the movies to watch a new alien movie, especially after Ripley died. The "baby" and the queen to have a womb were part of the experiment. Keep in mind they had 8 Ripleys. The "baby" was the first. They were certainly going to continue experimenting till they got to the point of having a perfect enhanced organism, as Ash said in the first movie. The womb meant they didn't have to use eggs and have humans impregnated. For me, rhe idea of the.movie makes total sense. It also shows rhat despite being gross, the "baby" had human feelings and didn't want to be a monster, so he immediately rejected the alien morher and went after Ripley. It was still a beast, in nature. And true, that was not Ripley. It was a copy, with alien DNA. You should also understand that there was a lot of discussion about cloning people when the movie came out . All the ethical dimension of this idea. Anyway, i think they ahould have kept it as a trilogy.
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I liked this movie _mostly_ because it's so much better than Alien 3 😅
I figure they knew they couldn't make a movie that resembled the atmosphere for _Alien_ because you cannot do it better than Ridley Scott. And they wouldn't be able to make it as good as James Cameron either. Still, having Alien 3 as the wrap up felt really nasty, so I can imagine they would want to have at least some redemption for the saga.
Alien: Resurrection didn't try to take itself too serious and to me it feels more like a fanservice movie to wash away the poor taste of Alien 3. In that sense they did a pretty good job imho. It also helps that they have a pretty good cast and Josh Whedon usually manages to have a good mix of action and humor in his movies.
Joss Whedon hates this movie- the studio changed most of the ending- particularly the "offspring" which was written as a chalk white Xenomorph Queen with human intelligence. Instead, the studio insisted on....that.
Oh boy. I read somewhere that he said this film is a perfect example of doing a script the wrong way. I’d be curious to see what the film would have been had he also directed.
no question the first 2 alien movies are the best.however, I also liked II and IV. at least the idea to complete the storyline. the realisation is poor though. I can*t describe it better. the storyboards got weird, I agree. nevertheless, Sigourney never disappoints.
You should try watching Supergirl: The Movie. It's definitely a guilty pleasure. Like this movie, it has its moments.
I actually went to see this at the cinema...
Boy was I disappointed.
I thought is was ok (not great) until the appearance of the hybrid baby, from that point it just crashed and burned.
That is similar to how I felt. I thought it was ok, but the baby just didn't work for me.
This wasn't too bad but needs to be redone with a different cast because that's were they went wrong. And the drool is all wrong. It should be thicker and more slimey and less like water
Alien by way of the CW. This movie was stupid and not needed, many fans don't consider it canon. It seemed orders of magnitude worse in 1997, but in watching this reaction it actually seems very ahead of it's time. Like it was a circa 2023 attempt at a franchise reboot, it feels very "current year" in every way. And that is not a compliment to the writers, director or effects artist, especially since Disney now owns Fox Studios and this IP. This does for Alien what Last Jedi did for Star Wars.
When you wondered why they brought the aliens back made me think of an unintentional meta-comment within this film: it was, like too many sequels, a shameless money grab. The corporation in the films only wants the aliens for financial reasons, and this sequel, I think, was only made to try and squeeze a bit more money out of the franchise.
Anyway I look forward to you seeing some films you actually enjoy.
I think Alien Resurrection fails because it is so painfully and aggressively 90s. 90s effects, attitude, cinematography, editing, direction and writing. Plus it’s an early example of Joss Whedon’s greatest weakness as a writer - confusing personality quirk with actual character development.
I can name specific characters in ALIEN, ALIENS and ALIEN 3 that I like and feel genuinely sad when they die, but no one in Resurrection - not even Ripley because she’s not the actual Ripley - gets an emotional response from me as an audience member.
Saw this in theaters in 1997 and was very disappointed as a lifelong ALIEN fanatic.
Another great reaction!
Agreed I didn't feel there was anyone I could latch onto. Call would be the closest.
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Cloning was all over the news at the time(they succesfully cloned a sheep) I guess writers took the idea from that.
I like the same scene as you, after that the movie goes down, especially "Ripley's son". I would say that I like the director's aesthetic but not the movie. You should see other Jean-Pierre Jounet movies like Amelie or the city of lost children.
uh that reminds me - if you haven't seen it -
The Name of the Rose
1986
The half I like, I like a lot such as Winona Ryder's Casting, the action, the chase in a claustrophobic setting. What I didn't like is subjective such as the casting of everyone else could've been better. Killing off the leader of the "bad guys" first trope I hate, a Xenomorphs spitting acid blood up a ladder was random as F' (No where in this franchise does a xenomorph have this power), the guy who's face was hit with the acid just falls to his death without even trying to shake a dead Xenomorphs corpse from his foot. Ripley having sex with an Alien (Her idea btw) and everything to do with that was weird in a bad way, not enough likable characters. Aliens had a lot of likable characters and that makes a huge difference. Everyone from Vazquez to even Hudson were likable. Alien 3/Resurraction/AVP/AVP2 all suffer from bad casting or not likable characters. Why do they want the aliens? Take a step back from film land and look at humanity's view on aliens in real life. Half of us swear they don't exist. So, there's the other half spending as much money and doing everything they can to prove they exist. So from the film's POV, if they found out if they had a human who died while pregnant with an alien (Ripley) and that if they cloned her they'd clone an alien too. They would definitely green light this and cover it up. I personally find it weird people watching these movies even bother to ask why the humans are actively trying to capture an alien.
Well the director J.P.Jeunet is known for making films that look green and gross. Check out The city of lost children or Delicatessen. I just don't think that was what the franchise needed.
This could have been so much better. I only liked Ripley's character.
I kinda hate this movie for how much it wasted the cast's potential. They cast Brad Dourif as a mad scientist and that's all they did with him? Guy is awesome when given the right material (Child's Play, Exorcist 3, Star Trek: Voyager, unforgettable guest appearance on The X-Files). Same for Michael Wincott (Elgin) who was great as the villain in The Crow. Leland Orser and Raymond Cruz had also carried bigger movie or TV roles, It's like they went all out casting Alien : Resurrection, but the writer had no idea what to do with the cast. This movie could have been sooo much better than it was.
The cast was absolutely great!
OH man, why does the end look like some sort of Alien/Ripley fan fic porn. All that licking and caressing.. The horror. Easily the worst of the franchise, but weirdly enough, I remember not thinking it was 'that bad' at the time. I get you on the 'rooting for Ripley because it's Ripley' and the 'why should i care cuz it's not Ripley.." definitely a plot conflict or issue when you really need someone to root for and you don't really have one.
Also, it's interesting that in the first film, the blood/gore were minimal and the 'scares' were from not knowing where the alien would be coming from at any given moment. This flick was chock full of aliens and went for the gross out route. I prefer the former method.
I completely agree with your opinions comparing the source of fear between the first and this one.
One comment I made in the full length that I didn’t include (because I took a long time to say it) was that I felt this film was consistent in what it delivered, unlike the third. Using the effects as as an example, things looked consistently ok, but in the third there were moments that looked WAY better and moments that looked WAY worse. In the end I have to give the edge to 3. It had more fearful moments for sure.
@@CasualNerdReactions I agree with that.
This movie get so much hate but I thought it was so cool when I first saw the first 7 the Practical effects andthe graphics were just awesome when it first came out
I totally get what you mean by it being better or worse than Alien 3 at different moments. For me, the monster effects and some parts of the sets are a lot better than Alien 3, but that's mostly due to the subpar CGI they used for the alien in 3.
The actual plot and some dialogue, though..... Resurrection goes in a really crazy direction. It's also not the best when you realize or remember that most of the people you're following essentially did mass human trafficking or illegal bio-weapon experiments.
@@group-music Ok, my mistake. Not CGI, just some very poor compositing from bluescreen footage that looks like bad CGI to the casual viewer. Doesn't really change my earlier thoughts.
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Is that the guy from the lust murder in se7en?!
Never noticed that
It is! Wild.
Most Alien fans just pretend this movie never happened.
Alien 3 never happened. Therefore, this one never happened. Even so, it's still better than Alien 3. At least it actually has production values. Something completely lacking in Alien 3.
@@richardb6260 #3 wasn't amazing, but nowhere near this bad.
@@panicboy3705 It's at least interesting for the prototypical Serenity crew. If any good came from the movie, it was inspiring Whedon to do Firefly. Besides, there were some decent scenes like the underwater sequence. If I had to watch either 3 or 4 again, I'd definitely watch 4.
@@richardb6260I guess we can agree to disagree. The only thing I feel that #4 has over #3 is the visual effects. The alien special effects are terrible in #3, but I felt the premise was better. Except for the killing of Newt/Hicks, of course.
I don't think I included it in my final edit, but I actually give the edge Alien 3, but not by much. It's just that the parts of Alien 3 that worked for me really worked. It had higher highs and lower lows, while this one was more static in quality.
Alien: Resurrection is a better movie than Alien 3. A critic said that Alien 3 was a betrayal of the events that happened in Aliens. That all the effort that Ripley went through to save Newt in Aliens were all for nothing in Alien 3
I would agree with that! I don’t dislike the plot point that newt and hicks are killed, but to do it essentially off screen is an undoing of plot rather than a progression.
I never got on board with this movie because I could never accept the premise that you could clone a pregnant woman with the embryo still intact. Science fiction or not. And for me the film could never rise above that absurdity. Still enjoyed your reaction, though!
I struggled with that premise too.
i am about to say several thing that many will not like. first, i can't stand joss whedon. there are very few things he has touched that i like. second, i actually like alien 3 & 4. the hate they both get is undeserved. james cameron, another person i can't stand, turned a story driven sci fi film with thriller & horror elements, into the typical 80's/90's overblown action flick. so a return to more story driven films was not received well. also, the commentary written into them was a little heavy handed. 4 was to move the series from ripley to call. but between the bad reception the film received & winona's legal & personal troubles, the idea was scrapped. third, both films, especially 3, had too many cooks in the kitchen. ultimately it affected the final product. bonus, usually i would prefer directors/extended cuts. but for both of these films, i prefer the theatrical versions. they might not be the intended visions, but they are the most complete.
My opinion: this movie isn't a good Alien movie, but it would have been a good standalone sci-fi/horror movie. Well, if Jean-Pierre Jeunet hadn't been the director. He's not a bad director, but he's the wrong choice for this movie. The hybrid baby and the xenomorph queen's womb was all his idea. The movie is just pulling in too many directions.
That said, I actually like this one more than Alien 3. I've finally (reluctantly) accepted that Alien 3 is a *better made* movie, but that doesn't mean I *prefer* it. The Betty crew does have that Firefly-like camaraderie going for them, and I really like Distephano (the soldier who sides against the evil scientist) and Purvis (the guy with the chestburster on an egg timer). Johner is a shitty person, but I have a huge longstanding celebrity crush on Ron Perlman, so I mostly just ignore how shitty he is and admire the fact that he's played by Ron Perlman.
I... um... I'm not sure what Brad "Chucky" / "Grima Wormtongue" Dourif was doing, exactly. I can't fault him for it, the script is all over the place, he probably just decided "oh, it's one of *those* scripts, this calls for over the top scenery chewing". But I enjoyed his character the least.
I respect anyone who can come to a place to say 3 is a better movie while still enjoying 4 more. 👏
Should this movie have never existed? No. God no. Am I happy that it does? One thousand percent yes! It's like when garbage reaches peak perfection space trash in movie form.
I like this movie, and hey…it’s all about sci-fi…😄👽