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I always really wanted Parker and Lambert to make it out with Ripley. Every time I watch, a small part of me still thinks "they might make it."
Imagine if they hadn’t killed Newt and Hicks before the first scene in Alien 3. I was actually depressed for days after that. To make it out of everything in Aliens only to buy it while immobilized and helpless in a stasis unit off screen. Not cool man. Not cool.
I always really wanted Parker and Lambert to make it out with Ripley. Every time I watch, a small part of me still thinks "they might make it."
Imagine if they hadn’t killed Newt and Hicks before the first scene in Alien 3. I was actually depressed for days after that. To make it out of everything in Aliens only to buy it while immobilized and helpless in a stasis unit off screen. Not cool man. Not cool.
Had I written Jaws II, I'd actually have followed Hooper's character instead of Brody, and maybe had it set on one of his research vessels. this would make more sense, as it's believable with Hooper's line of work as a marine biologist. It would basically involve a similar plot to the first film, but at least it would be a more plausible premise and not a complete rehash of the first film.
Parker was great, Lambert was a great screamer. I really love Alien, and in part it is because of the diverse crew. (I'm also fond of Sunshine for the same reason.)
For more random Alien trivia: If you read the panels that either show up briefly in Aliens (or maybe on the special release stuff) where they review the crew backgrounds, interestingly both Dallas and Lambert were apparently transsexuals routinely reassigned at a young age according to their profiles.
I saw something recently about Lambert being transsexual but I never realized that was in Parker's file as well!
I have to wonder if reassignment surgery at that point in the future is just a normal, common thing parents do, or perhaps it's done to satisfy some weird government gender quota. The latter wouldn't surprise me given the dystopian future of that universe.
Instead we eventually got Deep Blue Sea and The Meg.
Deep Blue Sea was dumb but fun. The Meg was mostly just dumb. I actually quite enjoy the 47 Meters Down franchise though. Implausible and impossible as the second film's premise was, it was still kind of cool.
Deep Blue Sea is one of my guilty pleasures in life; and yeah, my thought on The Meg too... pretty much just "Thomas Jane wrastles a really big shark with his bare hands" kind of film. Both just centered around scientists who discover / awake the sharks, though, so that was the tie in.
I didn't see the 47 meters series; I watched The Shallows and was indifferent, mostly, it had some tense moments but then parts of it were unbelievable.
Jason Statham was just ridiculous in The Meg. He really is the new Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Shark films are cool because they're almost plausible, like the writers take a vague understanding of actual science and twist it into monster movies. I liked the concept of a warmer layer of ocean separated from the ocean above by a layer of chemicals in The Meg. While this is based in reality and similar layers have been found at bottoms of water bodies, the possibility of something like a giant shark surviving in this layer is unlikely, given there wouldn't be enough oxygen to sustain it, let alone enough food. Even if the shark could have adapted over time to survive in that zone, it would be unable to survive in the shallower layers of oxygen rich water, which would be like poison to it. But otherwise a fascinating place to visit in a movie.
I'm not sure how I feel about Christian Bale.
It's weird. I don't particularly like HIM... but I tend to really like some of the characters he has played in movies, and he's been in a lot of movies I've really enjoyed. I think he's talented as an actor as well, even if I don't really take to him.
I am not sure what this means.
That happened to me a long time ago with Val Kilmer. My intuition was firing off alarms and I knew it was only a matter of time before the answer would be revealed. In an interview, he said all he ever wanted was to be famous. That's all I needed to hear before flipping him the bird. Pacino once said, "This is what I’m meant to do, with this, everything suddenly coheres, and I understand myself.†Very different individuals.
I always really wanted Parker and Lambert to make it out with Ripley. Every time I watch, a small part of me still thinks "they might make it."
I'm not sure how I feel about Christian Bale.
It's weird. I don't particularly like HIM... but I tend to really like some of the characters he has played in movies, and he's been in a lot of movies I've really enjoyed. I think he's talented as an actor as well, even if I don't really take to him.
I am not sure what this means. Typically if I like an actor's repertoire of films, some of that affection bleeds over to them as well. But if someone invited me to a lunch with Christian Bale, I might go out of curiosity but not enthusiastically. But I'd be thrilled to go meet Hugh Jackman or Bill Hader or Robert DeNiro.
I like the original Alien the best; I think the blue collar space trucker vibe of the Nostromo is really cool and feels "real."
Yes, and I think that's kind of how space travel will end up, unfortunately. By the time it's accessible enough for poor people, they'll be doing it as hired labor, essentially punching a few buttons on otherwise mostly automated ships. All of the wonder of space will sapped by the harsh, cold reality of being a low wage worker in a thankless, high risk job, on a cold ship, hauling resources in hopes of getting a tiny bonus if they deliver ahead of schedule. No one cares about truckers, despite it being a high risk job, right up there with police work and firefighting. People take supply chains for granted, such a shame. Most people have no idea how fragile it all is too. They get their gadgets and doohickeys on amazon and it arrives on their doorstep with the recipients having no real idea of the complexity and precariousness of it all.
Well, I don't know. A lot of things could change.
Another part of the "blue collar" thing that I like about the movie is the way they realized the character of Dallas as a sympathetic middle manager type. i had an immediate supervisor at a shit job that was like that (and even looked like him).