Alien: Alone is now available to watch online and marks the release of the last of the Alien: 40th Anniversary Shorts. Noah Miller’s short brings us a different take on an Alien entry!
“Hope, an abandoned crew member aboard the derelict chemical hauler Otranto, has spent a year trying to keep her ship and herself alive as both slowly fall apart. After discovering hidden cargo, she risks it all to power up the broken ship in search of human life.”
And as usual, now you’ve seen Alien: Alone, head on over to the Alien Anthology YouTube channel to check out their Meet the Filmmaker video introducing us to writer/director Noah Miller and producer Patrick Ridge!
Keep checking back in with Alien vs. Predator Galaxy as we’ll be uploading an interview with Noah later tonight for your listening pleasure! And now that all the Alien: 40th Anniversary Shorts are all available, now would be a perfect time to head back and check out our review episode!
What did you think of Alien: Alone? Be sure to sound off in the comments section below and let us know!
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I loved the model work, I know it doesn't stand up as well when compared to the other shorts with ship shots but we were always a slightly different production.
The model was about 4 feet, absolutely gorgeous too, it probably needed to be about 15 to 20 feet, but I knew we didn't have the cash/resources to make something massive-- we could've gone cgi but I really wanted the process to feel like making a movie in that era, that was important and just plain fun for me. So it wasn't just the final product that was an homage, but the production itself.
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I'm being a bad fan and can't recall which particular concept you're thinking of. Do you have a copy?
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Oh I understand it was dying, it just looked funny when she was holding it to the guy's face.
Yeah that is a good point as well
I assumed that had something to do with the fact the Facehugger was dying, so she had to help it through the process.
David was Weyland's personal prototype, it's not entirely unreasonable to assume he was constructed to a higher standard than the presumably mass-produced Hope.
I think one part that lets it down a little is the impregnation scene, they could have just from cut from when he got knocked out to just showing him wiith a hugger on him. Instead the scene shows issue with the practical effect of the creature walking and the android having to hold it on him. Other than that, I enjoyed this one.
I can't recall if it was stated in the short but I wonder how long was the ship drifting for, the android needed maintence and power yet David was "fine" after being alone for over ten years.
I stand by my statement.
Two kinds of crazy.
I used the exact same description in another thread. I really didn't like the hugger shots. Say what you like about it, but the facehugger just sitting there is off. Maybe if it was scurrying around, or sitting dormant I could buy it. The short was ok, I just though that aspect of it wasn't really well executed.
The biggest problem with the droids in the Alien series, at least from a human perspective, is that they mostly lack Asimov's 3 Rules of Robotics in their programming. Only Bishop and maybe Walter seem to possess them. I think Bishop's decision-making is most obviously influenced by them. Call is compassionate, but I think she arrived there more or less on her own.
It didn't come across like that to me. I didn't really see the problem with the depiction of the Facehugger's behaviour.
It's clear from the director's comments that it wasn't intended to show it was a "pet". If that's how it comes across its an issue of execution, not intent.
Yes, Hope has a line that says this. But being the sophisticated movie viewers that we are, a character's explanation for what's going on is always prime suspect in unreliable narrators. What we observe is cutesy cooing and chirping from the face-hugger - designed to evoke what, i wonder?
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^this
I'd love to have seen Alone with a bigger budget and a bit longer.
However
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Only real complaint I can muster is that the music at the very end struck me as really out-of-place, which is disappointing because otherwise the score is by far the best from any of these shorts.
Other than that, this was really very good. Excellent performance from the lead. Without question the most thought-provoking of the six.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention the model shots. Sure, they may have looked kinda hokey, but man did I get a kick out of them. Reminded me of oldschool Red Dwarf
Is this a serious possibility? I'd definitely be interested in seeing something like that.
When that happens, I look forward to seeing it.
The soundtrack was really good. Neat that it's got a stand-alone release.
Well this certainly has me intrigued.
Perhaps. He also has an ego.
Not for reasons unknown - they didn't like being told what to do.
Also Call was masquerading as a human.
How should she act?
Anyway - this was pretty good. Looked the part, but also a little niggling that left me a teensy bit unsatisfied that I can't put my finger on.
Soundtrack was a cracker.
If I ever get around to polishing up the 20min cut, there's a lot more going on with her. There's a tiny tiny tiny left over clue in the crew photo.
Do you not see the irony of a human saying - of a sci-fi robot - "STOP THAT, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO ACT LIKE I EXPECT YOU TO!"
Dude... That's, like... the whole point. They don't necessarily act 'like they should' or in the way their creators intend or expect. You turn on an AI with intelligence comparable to (yet distinct from) a human being, you better be ready for some unexpected results. Call was sentient. She acts however the hell she wants, because she has human-level intelligence and free will. The idea that androids have to be written a certain way isn't just dogmatic; it's antithetical to most of science fiction as a genre. I mean, 'androids not behaving the way we think they should' is basically the entire plot of Blade Runner! It's a feature, not a bug.