The Passions of Joan of Arc + flesh-dissolving alien (spoilers)

Rating: Null/10 (27 September 2000)

No, really. I saw _La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc_ with my roommate. Nearly all of the camera angles involving Ripley were copied from that movie, including:
1. The head shaving scene
2. Lots and lots of closeups of Joan's/Ripley's face
3. Being surrounded by bald, angry men
4. Death by fire
And notice that Ripley first wakes up in a place that could easily be the cell of a monastery (what in the world are stained glass windows doing in a prison colony anyway?) and the abundance of crossed-shaped objects.
As for the AIDS thing, I didn't quite see that, but my roommate commented that the entire Aliens series seemed to be playing on the fear of pregnancy. (There's something _living_ inside my abdominal area! Aah!)