My Favorite Movie

Rating: Null/10 (21 April 2000)

As I am not a fan of suspense (My favorite Hitchcock movies are 'Lifeboat' and 'Rear Window', his movies with the best dialogue) I didn't find ALIEN the best movie I'd ever seen, but certainly the best MONSTER I had ever seen (slo-moed those brain snatching scenes to death). ALIENS added more creatures, action-adventure, Paul Reiser as an excellent badguy, a really annoyingly whiney Bill Paxton, and the last 20 minutes as possibly the most interesting, intense, monsteralated, and female (if not non-gender specific) heroine confrontational scene/climax of all time (or at least since IT CONQUERED THE WORLD......That's a joke, by the way....I mean the IT CONQUERED THE WORLD part)...I still can't believe they cut out the Ripley's daughter scene or the machine-gun slaughtering of the Aliens. ALIENS 3, I believe, is the best acted movie, and I love the idea of no firearms. But after reading IMDb's scenes that were deleted, a great movie was turned into a good movie. Which brings us to ALIEN:RESURRECTION, possibly my favorite movie. First, Ripley is no victim, at any point, during this movie. There may have never been a more powerful, yet sympathetic hero/ine, in movie history. She is one step ahead of/behind all the other characters. Speaking of which, all the other characters are played to peak performances, not to slight anyone, but I thought perfectly played by Dan Hedaya, Leland Orser, Michael Winscott, and really, all other performers, including Winona Ryder ("Okay, she's a toaster oven. Can we go now?"). Best Dialogue and characters in all 4 movies. Without a doubt, best views of the Aliens (and Alien:the next generation). In your face effects. Brad Dourif excellent also. But main strength of movie is power of Ripley, Eight. Absolutely, hands down, the hero of this movie. Only thing from rest of ALIEN series that can touch it is last 20 minutes of ALIENS. A REVIEW WRITTEN BY AN ADMITTEDLY RIPLEY,8 fan.