Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Feb 08, 2021, 01:07:09 PM
Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on Feb 08, 2021, 04:36:29 AM
It is still far and away the worst of the six Alien movies, though.
Nah, Alien Resurrection still wears that crown for me... and was my internal go-to compliment after exiting the theater after both prequels. At least it wasn't as bad as Alien Resurrection!. But alas, they all slot in the bottom of my Alien rankings anyway.
Resurrection is the second worst in my book, just above
Prometheus, and they are definitely the two films with the most issues, but I just find
Resurrection to be the more fulfilling overall experience overall (
Prometheus has what may just be the sexiest space suits ever put to film, though, so on top of the ideas in
Prometheus that I dig, it also really has that going for it
). For me, I feel that
Resurrection owns its tone through and through (even if its tone isn't quite consistent with the preceding films), so it is at least internally consistent in and of itself in a way that
Prometheus just isn't (I tend to get
really hung up on
Prometheus' sloppy editing, especially). Sigourney also gives one hell of a performance, and I find the movie to be grotesque in a rather enjoyable way.
Resurrection is pure pulp - it's like a silly 90s Dark Horse Aliens comic with a sick sense of humor come to life; I see it as being pretty removed from the other films in both tone and timeline, but it also doubles down on some weird concepts that I find to be right at home in this universe. Where else would I turn if I wanted to watch some clone derived of Alien and human DNA caress its genetic abomination of a 'grandson?'
Covenant sits above
Resurrection to me, much closer to the first three films.
Also, I do still find it amusing the way that Ridley (quite accidentally, mind you) helped
Resurrection's weird cloning shenanigans and DNA melding make
more sense than ever before, given what we now know about the Pathogen, the way it seems to interact with human hosts, and the way it was used as the core building block with which to create the Alien itself.