Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on Mar 29, 2024, 10:52:40 AMResurrection definitely has a more heightened, exaggerated tone, and a style/execution more comparable to comics than to the previous films themselves, but I wouldn't say it feels like parody at all to me. It is earnestly setting out to be another Alien movie, not to riff on and make fun of the ones that came before it.
Taken on its own, I really like the look of A4, even if it's somehow inappropriate.
Given the tasks, the ship should actually be completely bright and clear.
Similar to the Prometheus. Only when the aliens break out and perhaps cut off the power supply could they turn the ship into a huge nest and from then on things only get scary.
So the ship is kind of scary right from the start and that doesn't really fit.
I didn't like the atmosphere in A4 because everyone here is way too cool and it didn't fit with the previous films at all.
When Ripley discovered and killed the clones, the mood in the cinema changed and I thought: well, now things are finally getting more serious. but unfortunately that wasn't really the case.
Quote from: Local Trouble on Apr 01, 2024, 01:53:07 AMThe runner survived being submerged in molten lead. I gotta think the queen has a decent chance of surviving the ocean depths.
Even if the sequel to AvP looked different, it was perhaps planned as an open ending to possibly pick up again and bring the Queen back.
Another inconsistency in the matter is actually the resistance of the xenos, which always seems to vary.
In Aliens they are probably able to demolish steel doors, which suggests a very robust exoskeleton.
But they are effortlessly crushed by the APC. (Well, it also weighs a few tons)
But apparently Wolf can casually crush a xeno head.
In the A3 novel, after being locked up, the alien rams into the thick steel door and dents it, so that Dillon briefly feared it would break. I think if the xenos can withstand that, then they would generally have to be much more robust, especially in confrontations.
Quote from: SM on Apr 01, 2024, 11:03:15 PMWe don't know that it would killed her. Might've just restrained her long enough for the Queen to pop.
Maybe I missed something but I always wondered why the dog alien didn't just kidnap Ripley when it attacked the infirmary.
perhaps this creature was incapable of starting a nest. Still, it might have been safer for the brood to capture Ripley.