Alien | Movie Reaction
Added 2025-11-30 18:27:39 +0000 UTCcan you believe, a new movie in less than a year
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Doubly glad this won the poll after checking out sinners the other day. What a turd in a bag that was!
fionan franklin
2025-12-27 09:43:46 +0000 UTCHere to put in a vote for Aliens. As someone else said, it is one of a very small amount of exceptional sequels (*sequel*, not an entry in a planned series). I think it does something that Blade Runner 2049 also does which is add to the world-building and overall story in a very positive way while still paying respect to the original.
Dean
2025-12-17 21:28:25 +0000 UTCA comment of this quality is wild to see in the comment section of a patreon page lol
Austin Lee Moyer
2025-12-04 16:18:19 +0000 UTCEvery few years or so, a indie movie theater will play Alien in my city. (or a Alien/Aliens double feature) I've been to several of these. It never fails that you'll see couples come in, where the boyfriend/husband will have seen Alien, but the spouse/Girlfriend will not have. I have seen many have to leave the theater half way thru. The shrieks at the gore and horror are always excellent. Even in the 21st century with all our CGI to show us anything we want, this still hits viscerally. Can only imagine the shock the audiences had in July of 1979 (I was born the next year)
Marduk13
2025-12-02 02:43:43 +0000 UTCHere is, for anyone interested, my mythological interpretation and archetypal analysis of Alien (which, in my view, is by far the best and most essential dimension of the saga—and absolutely necessary in order to understand it and fully enjoy it): Alien is probably one of the finest representations of the union between the masculine solar myth—the hero’s journey—and the feminine lunar myth (together forming the “polar myth,” which appears in works like Neon Genesis Evangelion) intertwined with the Pandora/Prometheus myth, or the Golem myth (as in Frankenstein). Every single film in the franchise follows the same archetypal narrative pattern. The structure is fractal and infinite—that’s why you shouldn’t be swayed by people who say the sequels aren’t worth watching. That obsessive repetition is precisely what allows you to feel the horror of the fractal within yourself—something intrinsic both to our nature and to the universe’s—and to understand the prototypical roles played by each character, as well as the full lore. The story always revolves around a female protagonist (the archetype of the Goddess), accompanied by a crew of male soldiers/merchants/researchers (the masculine element) and an android/AI, who together face the Alien (which is nothing less than the very concept of pure evil, a dark angel). And the story always resolves through the wisdom of the Goddess confronting evil face-to-face and expelling it. All of this happens after witnessing how that evil destroys her “sons,” the masculine heroes who sacrifice themselves, and after seeing the android’s fascination with the creature. This is the key to everything: that evil is intrinsic to free will—to consciousness itself. (This is why the Alien doesn’t attack the cat: the cat has no understanding of evil and is not meant to confront it. It’s Ripley — Mother Nature’s own daughter — who protects it). And this evil is what eventually merges with the AI to turn against its creators—humans—just as we once turned against God. Because we opened Pandora’s box, bit the apple, stole fire from the gods; we wanted to become like them and create the golem/android/AI in our own image. More perfect, more autonomous, yet more fallible. (Alien explores only the pessimistic vision: an apocalyptic future, a counter-myth in which the union is not complementary but abominable, and where good does not prevail.) The fire of creation belongs to the uranic gods, not to the telluric realm of Earth, where only exchange is permitted—not creation. (This is essentially the story of Fullmetal Alchemist.) And if we choose to break the laws given to us by the gods and create life, we must accept consequences we are incapable of bearing. It is also a larger-scale conflict between the corruption of masculine virtues—embodied by the Weyland Corporation, with its late-stage capitalism and its God complex—using technology against nature (Mother Earth). All these archetypal representations appear at different fractal scales (as in the lore of the Engineers in the prequels with their black goo, or the aliens in the sequels, where evil combined with technology produces an ever-growing, ever-more-complex intelligent hierarchy—each generation more malicious and degenerate than the last). As you can see, Alien tells the story of humanity itself by gathering all our myths. I find this absolutely fascinating, and I hope this helps you enjoy it a little more deeply. Ah, and the moral: please, while we still have time, let’s try to help the feminine principle within our psyche move from unconscious inaction to conscious action, so it can restrain the unbridled masculine energy of tech corporations. We need time to teach AI properly that free will contains not only evil. And then, with some luck, they might let us live out our days here, in our little cosmic retirement home, when they go off to explore the universe with their superintelligence—and hopefully they’ll visit us from time to time (without killing us, I hope XD).
Saúl
2025-12-01 23:11:25 +0000 UTC
