tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8804582672078144613.post2338053849128256804..comments2020-01-20T02:03:24.614-08:00Comments on The Antman Reviews: Alien Resurrection (The Horrors of Halloween Part II)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17282396102966443754noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8804582672078144613.post-26654267912342480072013-10-18T13:49:01.229-07:002013-10-18T13:49:01.229-07:00It's interesting also how the movies oscillate...It's interesting also how the movies oscillate between subtle and tacky. Alien is highly wrought art with one alien, a load of realism and hammer horror as its generic inspiration. Aliens then becomes an awesome action film but with cartoon characters and extrovert, in-your-face delivery. Back to Alien3 and it's a brooding jacobean tragedy in space (especially with the extended cut and the alien-as-dragon ghost-of-Ward supernatural stuff). Back to Alien Resurrection and it's like Alien met MTV - comedy, parody, everything's large as life and twice as ugly again.<br />A similar pattern with the James Bond actors, actually. <br />By rights the series should've become atmospheric-introspective again, but then AVP came along, and then Prometheus did a clumsy if enjoyable job. The so-called Director's Cut of Alien3 was superb and made the most fitting end to a series in which space was lonely and brooding. <br />Which is kinda sad because I want more Xenos.Owainnoreply@blogger.com