Quote from: Scorpio on Dec 07, 2017, 09:54:43 AM
Quote from: Perfect-Organism on Dec 07, 2017, 01:42:05 AM
Quote from: Scorpio on Dec 06, 2017, 09:37:12 PM
Remove the swearing and ALIENS is PG-13, easily. Perfect for Disney.
Ive often said that Aliens is a Disney movie. It was arguably the first of the so-called adult fairy tales. Listen to the music as the drop ship ascends to the Sulaco...
It does, yes. Like something Spielberg would make. Only slightly edgier.
There's hardly any blood and most of the violence is offscreen. It's mainly action and fast cutting. All the others at least have gore (except AVP) or intense sequences of body horror (Prometheus).
The goriest sequence in ALIENS is the chestburster but there's hardly any blood in that scene. And people complained about the bloodless chestburster in AVP, go figure.
You would be right, except you're purposely omitting a few other scenes of graphic violence and gore. Here is the small list -
• Frost's death by immolation.
• Crowes' death via shrapnel. Showing blood coming from the mouth of his corpse.
• Drake's Death by acid spray. Which is pretty damn graphic.
• Hudson getting his arm burned by acid.
• Ferro's death. Complete with a good amount of blood thrown into the cockpit.
• Attempted face-hugging of Ripley. With ovipositor/penis organ wagging around. Attempting to insert itself into her mouth and throat.
• Vasquez's leg gets acid burned.
• Hicks gets sprayed with acid on his face, as well as as his chest and arm are burnt.
I'm sure I might have missed some other instances. None of that is PG-13 even without the swearing included. You seem to be under the impression that every Alien movie needs copious amounts of gore for it to be a true Alien movie.
What you neglect to realize is that even A L I E N wasn't a mindless splatter fest. In fact, save for the chest bursting scene. None of the other deaths ever touch that level of gore and violence again. Brett's death is a quick cut, Dallas' death is never shown, Ash doesn't count because he's an Android, Parker is the closest to prolonged gore we get since the chest bursted scene and Lambert's death is again not shown and what DOES happen is left unexplained.
As James Cameron said ( and I'm paraphrasing.) " You don't create fear with gore. You create disgust ". A L I E N 3 is the only film in the series that uses excessive gore in it's story. Even Prometheus doesn't have that much gore. Covenant would be the most recent example of Alien 3 levels of gore. Which didn't much matter ultimately due to it being less than a success at the box office.