That's about it for me too.The parts that felt the most Aliens to me were the reactor and hive, but thats as far as I have gotten so far.
…. I'm going to take a little break.
And taking my entire post out of context, no less. :lol
If the context was supposed to state the blatantly obvious, I guess I'm not in the mood. I just think it's silly that everyone is taking shots at ALIENS for ruining the xenos when subsequent films in the franchise did far, far worse
As I mentioned, I was let down my the xenomorphs right at the same time we started calling them xenomorphs. It's hard to put into words how strongly I was drawn to the original Alien design, with the clear dome, skull face, silver teeth, odd movements, even the way how there was an odd loving, embracing way he killed Brett and Lambert. It was like it was studying them, curious, gentle....and then that tongue and teeth exploded so violently from its mouth smashing their skull. And when it reaches out for Dallas, yikes! Or when Ripley rounds the corner and it standing in the hallway, bent over at the waist, quietly resting, waiting. And when it notices her, it slowly rounds the corner and stops to examine Jones in his box.
I wonder if the follow up to Alien had only been another single creature, would it have felt like a retread? As much as I love one and two, I don't feel like the sequel tarnished the mythos - to me it just logically opened up the world a little more, and gave us a new take. As opposed to three, the first film was such a perfect take on a single creature, much in the way Aliens was a much better take on multiple creatures as opposed to Resurrection.
I wonder if the follow up to Alien had only been another single creature, would it have felt like a retread? As much as I love one and two, I don't feel like the sequel tarnished the mythos - to me it just logically opened up the world a little more, and gave us a new take. As opposed to three, the first film was such a perfect take on a single creature, much in the way Aliens was a much better take on multiple creatures as opposed to Resurrection.
I know generally people don't like Resurrection, but it had some great moments, the underwater scene particularly stands out.
But did it have to go through so much stupid in order to get there? And what we ended up with wasn't that interesting anyways. The xeno is just kills you and that's it. And that whole "the Alien so scary on the first film was you never really saw it and when you did it was unclear what you were seeing, you just knew it was bad."? Not here. We got to see this xeno in plain sight many many times. Sometimes with visual effects that have not aged well at all.A3 restored some of the Alien that I loved.
You know what just absolutely killed Resurrection for me (among many things) - when Call gets on the Auriga's PA and says, "All Aliens please report to deck three. All Aliens please report to deck three." Really? They speak English now? This is what the creature's now become? So cartooney and dumb.