Have to agree with skull-splitter here. As much as i love Gigars contribution to the original Alien, even in that film some of his work was nothing short of being a turkey (pun intended), whle for Alien3 FOX wisely pulled the rug from under him after he already went too far with his "kissing" alien, and I dont usually agree with FOX on most things anyway. Having said that, Gigars absense for Aliens and A:R, was more than obvious, only the colaboration between Winston & Cameron for the Alien Queen really stood out, the majority of the creature effects were pretty awful. The 4th film did show some promise, bringing back the smooth Alien heads was a good move and the eggs never looked better. Unfortunately everything in between, though mostly looked great, was either over the top or just unnecessary I thought.