piajartist

This entire Alien story was originally a very horrifying sci-fi expererience. As we past the first movie, they seemed to be filled with too much Hollywood action and attitude. The characters have too much of the macho attitude towards the aliens. The acting went downhil in this movie, and Weaver isn't fooling anyone with her attempt to be a dark evil human with thoughts of an alien within. This movie did have a lot of nice close-ups of the aliens and the queen, so if you respect the anatomy of the Alien you should check it out mainly for the effects not the plot, its one of those kind of movies.

Alien took my breath away, and was the defining movie that reeled me into Sci-Fi. Aliens had even more aliens and then came the queen. Alien 3 didn't need to be told, the story wasn't convincing. Perhaps the fatal flaw was setting it in a space prison. It's hard to care for characters who are murderers and rapists. I wouldn't waist the time to watch this but you should definitely watch the first two.

This movie appealed to a lot more people than the original Alien for some reason. Personally, I love the first one the most. The second seems to attract more people because the number of aliens is quite large, not to mention the queen and her lair is introduced. Weaver plays the story right, but the marines really seem to dumb-down the movie. This would be a good movie to watch in the dark and turn up the stereo. It's very intense, but lacks a true horrifying reality.