Real Vs. Reel

With­out her emo­tional dis­play of wak­ing from her night­mares it would not have been believ­able that she would want to face the mon­sters that dom­i­nate her sleep in real life again. In addi­tion, she knew she was betrayed by Weyland-Yutani as a crew mem­ber of the Nos­tromo and that she would have to trust them again that she would not be expend­able. After see­ing this movie so many times, I got this deep sense that many of the Marines sent in to res­cue the colonists were absolutely expend­able and I often won­der if they didn’t mean for Rip­ley to die as well.

But I really have to knock off a point for the robot-walking alien which looked so fake and because that lit­tle clip was just so unnec­es­sary to the film. It could have been left out com­pletely and it would have built more sus­pense to see the alien later on and wouldn’t have avoided my expec­ta­tion that it would start pop­ping and locking.

He is a mon­ster in the sense that he is the Franken­stein mon­ster of his own mak­ing. He is a Godzilla of his own design that can tear down build­ings in the blink­ing of a rapid-eye-movement. He is an unstop­pable force that even real­ity can­not defeat because he changes real­ity. The only way to defeat him is to keep him awake and undreaming.

There seems to be a lot of mag­net­ism and light needed for time travel here. Well, I give up. What’s that about? If I lay on a bed of mag­nets in the sun, will I get younger?

How would lit­tle baby Jabba ever grow up to leave his world and be the king­pin of a black mar­ket in a dan­ger­ous cor­ner of the Star Wars galaxy? He’s got no fingers!

The equip­ment that they use is cer­tainly not too futur­is­tic for a film set in 2254. What else do you expect for grunts at the end of the uni­verse to be packing?