I haven't watch Bob in years, basically since he went off the deep end, I'm not going to start now to verify this... but if this is true, then yeah, even as a film snob he's a moron. I don't know, I've learned that snobs tend to get that way because they're so exposed to whatever. I know I'm a terrible one on some things, but I know how I got there.drisko wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2017 8:43 am
Alien - Make the alien the good guy. Because Bob can't think of a way to make xenomorphs scary any more, he thinks they should be the heroes now. And because alien has always been about women it should be a young queen the company has capture and are trying to force breed her so she breaks out and the movie becomes Die Hard where it's one hero against a group of villains. He actually said that. Because after forty years of being single-minded killing machines, we're just going to buy this one as a hero
I just assume that whatever the snob has as his prime snobbery, he'll at least generally understand. This is just sad.
The sky's orange in my world, why do you ask?
Incoming Sperg, btw. Alien is one of the most well known movies ever made and the making of it no less so. I'm a damn scrub on the subject, and even I know that it's never been 'about women.' Having a good female lead doesn't change that. For pity's sake, Ripley was originally written to be played by a man, and famously so.
If there's an overaching theme to the Alien series, it's 'Corruption.' In all its forms, really. It's also not terribly subtle. The thing itself shares a lot in common with zombies, really. I'd say vampires too, but there's a bit more at play there if they're done right.
The producers have openly and explicitly said that the first movie is about rape and being violated. Paraphrased, but one of them actually said, "Most monsters, they catch you and eat you. That's not really scary. These aliens, they violate you." They wanted to disturb people with it, especially the men in the audience. I can run down a list of it all, but whatever, and most people know it.
The second's just on the nose. The third's largely about being cast into Hell (seriously, the planet's called Fiorina, a la Dante's Inferno, and it takes place in a prison foundry) and ends with Ripley dragging the 'demon' back into the fire.
The fourth, which no one talks about for good reason, is about freaks and outcasts. So... individuals looked down on for being different? Seriously, even the aliens gang up and murder one of their 'lessers' at one point. It's about love and acceptance and OH MY GOD IT'S HIDEOUS! THROW MY GRANDBABY FREAK OUT THE AIRLOCK!