Re: Aliens (Spoilers)

On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, [email protected] wrote:
> So, I watched Alien and Aliens on Blu-Ray today.  They looked great.

Heh.  At least one reviewer disagrees -- if only because James Cameron has 
retroactively imposed the orange-and-teal colour palette on it:

http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/aliens-teal-orange/

For more on this insidious practice, and how it has affected the industry 
as a whole, see this:

http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html

> Can I just say that I kind of had forgotten how near perfect the 
> storytelling is in Aliens?

It is indeed, isn't it.  :)

> But what also stood out?  The finale... uh, has anyone else noticed that 
> the Queen getting on the ship is basically the fault of Ripley?  If she 
> had just taken Newt and ran?  Queen gets incinerated.  But nooooo...

Heh.  I always wondered why Ripley wasted her time destroying the aliens 
one by one, instead of just leaving them to be nuked (okay, she finds it 
cathartic, I get that... but still...), but I never quite thought of her 
as being the one who set the Queen free...

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