
loaded question: what movie characters’ bad experiences make you feel better about your own life?
Inspired by TV writer JP Larocque noting that from Ripley’s perspective, Alien, Aliens, and Alien 3 took place over about six weeks.
Inspired by TV writer JP Larocque noting that from Ripley’s perspective, Alien, Aliens, and Alien 3 took place over about six weeks.
Cold War propaganda that is weirdly apolitical. Sunny, breezy homoeroticism that is surely unintentional. What a hoot this is! Mostly not in a good way, but its impact on pop culture cannot be denied.
Devoid of personality and soul, this hellish Frankenstein monster of processed entertainment product wallows in a stew of borrowed ideas and imagery and does absolutely nothing fresh with them.
The Auto-Tuned boy-band version of the apocalypse. You will forgive that every plot point that isn’t a cliché is in fact a plot hole because the hero is so dreamy and impossibly perfect, right?
A rote disappointment. There is nothing shocking or even mildly unexpected here. But there is an ironic weakening of the power of the xenomorphs to terrify.
Plain pure fun. At its best, it’s Lord of the Rings meets Aliens, with incredible imaginative grandeur and genuinely breathtaking 3D depth.
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I don’t recognize this show anymore.
An underwater heist of Nazi loot? Awesome. Submarine movies don’t get much better than this intensely suspenseful popcorn adventure.
I’m getting a Robocop-on-Gallifrey vibe. No, wait, Colonial Marines on Gallifrey.