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Alien review continued:

Wrapping up editing critiques: Alien is like watching incense burn. It’s a 85-90min concept stretched to be around 2 hours yet it feels like 5 hours. I watched this yesterday and can’t even remember if any jump scares actually worked. How do you mess up jump scares?

Before the midwits come in and say, “omg TikTok brain can’t handle smart slow burn filmmaking and just needs jump scares!” I’m not into jump scare heavy films. In fact, I love slow burn horror like the Witch or LongLegs, or even artsy slow burn horror like Stopmotion or Censor. Horror doesn’t have to “scare me” to intrigue me.

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Adrian M Lopez 4mo ago 💬 1

Alien review continues:

The writing, while incredibly risky in one or two spots (which I’ll address), is also flat and meandering.

The good:

The movie literally explains NOTHING about the origins of the alien or the craft it was on or who or what the guy sitting in the telescope/driver’s seat(?) thingy was. Now that’s ballsy as fuck and deserves high praise. Also the way the face huggers implant their eggs is thoroughly violating and chilling. The safer route would’ve been, “oh they just sting you and implant the alien.” But that would completely undermine the excellent body horror elements.

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Adrian M Lopez 4mo ago 💬 1

Alien review continued:

The bad parts of the writing include repetitive structure, dumb character choices and the big reveal that it was planned all along by the Big Bad Capitalist Corp.TM.

I’ll get the quickest one out of the way: anti-capitalist sentiment is just so pervasive in today’s culture that it’s probably extra annoying to see it in an older movie, and admittedly this was the era when anti-capitalist themes started taking hold of art more and more so what should I have expected? Doesn’t mean I have to like it or pretend it’s deep. It’s just there and unexplored which is fine if you wanna make a statement instead of start a conversation.

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