The Reel Rejects - ALIEN RESURRECTION (1997) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:05 Let's watch this. All right, let's get resurrected. Wow. All right. Alien resurrection. We did it, guys. He watched it. We did the thing.

Starting point is 00:01:25 We did it. You guys, once you're going over to Apple and Spotify so you can hear. our discussion to see what we had to say about this movie. Also, don't you forget to go to rechecknationshop.com where you can get so many teas like these and get yourself a nice she-jacked sweater, cult of she-jacks, with other merch coming soon. Yeah. A lot of really cool stuff on the horizon.

Starting point is 00:01:49 Also get your Tony Stark, Dr. Doom shirt, see yourself become the villain on rejectation shop.com. Now, Tara. Yeah. what did you think of alien resurrection how did you feel you know that ending i actually really kind of liked that like more towards the end the kills i what i like the most is the practical effects uh and the makeup department did an amazing job her baby looked insanely cool and weird the death at the end of it going through the window and like how that

Starting point is 00:02:30 looked was wild to me. I liked that. I thought it was very intriguing. I think the negatives were stuff I already said that I wasn't as attached to the characters. So when someone seemed like they were almost going to die, it kind of was like not that big of a deal except for Wynona. But I don't know if it's because characters really built up really well or if it's

Starting point is 00:02:51 because it's Wynonna. I think, well, we both felt that way where we're like we don't want her to die. And she did feel like the most human. of them all and it was an interesting take for her being the um the computer but her being very humane and i like the them two together in the end as like buddies yeah but yeah there was some weird weird stuff too but i thought that the kills and like the the practical effects were were really cool and the shots i think mostly like the director and the cinematographer set up some very dope shots they gave us something super cool to look at which i did appreciate yeah i there's some

Starting point is 00:03:35 things i appreciate about the movie yeah i think kind of similar to what you said i think that some of the v of the effects were really cool you know some of the the weapons really cool like really like the guy who had the the guns and he was very uh good with his precision and far as far as like where he was shooting to take out certain obstacles and people within the movie i think that it was very very interesting seeing Sequoini Weaver played this version of Ripley and part of me was watching it wondering how much was it

Starting point is 00:04:04 like the paycheck and how much was it her taking up the opportunity to play a new version of the character she's already played before yeah kind of similar sentiments to what you said I really like Winona writer in this movie and again I'm not sure that's just how

Starting point is 00:04:20 she presents herself as an actress she's just very likable or I think after the twist I was really endeared to her Because she was the most humane out of all of them Ron Perlman had to make some really weird choices It was fun You know I think that he was able to

Starting point is 00:04:37 Really go there and I felt like Sometimes I felt like he's in a different movie than everybody else But you know I didn't mind it I didn't mind it I thought it was a good time With his specifically But yeah kind of to go over Some of the stuff I didn't like as much I don't know this one didn't feel like it had

Starting point is 00:04:56 the same stakes or the same attention or i think it was the least scary out of all of them i don't think i ever felt that that thing from the first two like the the heartbeat motif and the tension and the fear of they're being an alien because i felt like they wanted to again expand their mythology and kind of go in different directions with how they wanted to present these rather than engrossing us in what made this exciting in the first place was the fact that we are humans that don't stand a chance against these beings. So for them to kind of divert from that and kind of take in this new direction, it just didn't leave us feeling very, or at least I can speak for myself, very emotionally engaged with what was happening. Even though I was watching it,

Starting point is 00:05:48 I was like, there were certain scenes I was entertained by, like, watching these aliens still get their kills off, you know? Yeah. And, you know. I think the most emotional scene was the one we called out between Sigourney and Winona. Totally. You know. Yeah, yeah, totally. That was the most emotional scene.

Starting point is 00:06:07 And, you know, there's a lot of alien juice, a lot of goop in this movie. I would think just overall, I would have liked to have seen something that had stronger characters and something. something that had more tension in their action because I think that it's interesting comparing the last movie to this movie because even though the last movie felt like a step down from the first two because of some writing choices I still feel like that movie did want us to care about their characters and wanted us to have some suspense have some element of tension there but you know there were some cool stuff like again the visuals were very cool I would like the design of these new xenomorphs with their grills, their silver teeth, and the humanoid alien is really cool.

Starting point is 00:06:54 The practical effects, watching Ripley take out the humanoid Ripley alien experiments was cool as well. But yeah, there's a lack of urgency within this one, which I feel kind of broke the suspension of disbelief because there are these characters that are in this dire situation that kind of. clearly none of them signed up for, but we're stopping to kill a vat of aliens. We're stopping to help this guy who's clearly going to die. And I think by the time we get to what his actual resolution is, it felt more like a decision the script made than the characters made. Right.

Starting point is 00:07:32 Because there's no logical reason for them to take somebody who's going to die. And the only other time we've seen that, it was Ripley and Alien 3. And even that, it was like, why she's still alive for so long? There's an alien in our belly. But, yeah, I think overall this was, I didn't hate, I don't always say, I wouldn't hate watching it. I wasn't like dreading, slogging, trying to get through it. But I also wasn't emotionally engaged.

Starting point is 00:07:59 It was just kind of like, it was there. Yeah. I felt like. I'm trying to severely get through life right now. But I also, I was, I was trying to decide on decipher whether it was me feeling like shit or if the movie was like. taking a minute and also not suspenseful because I did not get scared once and you guys know how jumpy I am. But that also may be because I really don't feel well. Could be that. But I also

Starting point is 00:08:28 think there was a lack of suspense because I think I could have jumped a few times. So I think the pacing of it, it just felt slow. And I think, you know, smarter moves could have been made to then have that new guy who has the chess burser come in closer to the end or something. Because logically, and the smartest writing choice would be he's there. We have bigger things going on here. So it would be kill him. You have a, I smell it. Okay, dead.

Starting point is 00:09:00 I would have respected the characters more because we have to keep moving and we know the chest burches is going to come out of you anyway. I loved the kill. I get why they kept him alive. The kill was awesome. Chasper's coming out, going through the guy's head. Amazing, and it's West, so it's a real, like, revenge kill, which I really enjoy, but I'm like, ah, is there a way that we could have brought him in a little later?

Starting point is 00:09:26 And then he sees Wes and Chasper's just that way, we're not, like, dragging him around because they don't know that it made the character seem very smart. It kind of made him seem a little dumb, dragging this like guy around with the chest burser inside it just seemed like why why are we doing that there's a few little things like why are we touching the the stuff i get that rippley was smelling it saying like the the nest is is here but she could already smell like i don't there was super exactly she didn't need to like touch it we could just see it see it on her feet and go all the nest

Starting point is 00:10:00 is clear like i didn't there was some moves in here that i didn't understand that i thought was lack uh kind of like lagging the time i don't think we needed to take the time on it i thought we needed to maybe move a little bit quicker yeah but saying that i still was i still was entertained um but yeah i wasn't scared at all and i don't know if that's because of how i feel or because of the movie it may be a mixture of both yeah like i said like a lack of like a lack of um yeah there's inconsistency within the logic the fact that that black dude should have died instantly from the acid because it burned through metal it looked like he just got like a little fire scar on the side of his face yeah just a little burn little bunny poo and i yeah i wish i was

Starting point is 00:10:49 more invested i'm curious to know obviously this is a movie that i know i knew nothing about this movie other than the fact that people don't like it and i didn't know why people didn't like it and i'm sorry to get it and i wonder what the alien the hardcore fans like about this movie what they dislike about this movie because funny enough like through cultural osmosis I had a vague knowledge of what like a xenomorph looks like you know just like the big head thing kind of remind me of of cell from dragon bull zy but the hybrid monster in this one with like the humanoid face I had never seen anybody talk about that thing before and I I understand probably why it's this a freaky little human white

Starting point is 00:11:35 Alien, you know, more a thing. But I did say I did feel spad for it when it was dying. Yeah. When you see its eyes, he felt like really like, ah. Yeah. No, don't care me, Mama. Exactly. Yeah, I feel bad.

Starting point is 00:11:49 That was a good move on their part, making it seem a little more humane, had the eyes in there that you could really feel the sadness. And the connection, though, with Ripley and the kid there at the end, I was like, why are they touching so much? I get it. It seemed a little odd. I was a little thrown off by that, but also to your point,

Starting point is 00:12:13 a drop of her blood burnt through spaceship glass. Yeah. And that same acid just left a little scar on that guy's face. This doesn't make sense.

Starting point is 00:12:26 So there's some logical stuff that's not, you know. What did you think of Ripley in the movie? Yeah, she was mostly Ripley at the very end When she steps in, she's like, oh, I get called that a lot about, where did you come from? I don't remember her line about death. And at the very, very end, she sits at the helm of the spaceship. And you're like, oh, that seems like Ripley.

Starting point is 00:12:46 It's weird that there still wasn't that removed part of her where now she's a clone and kind of like she's Ripley, but we're not sure. And it's been 200 years. And it seemed like a more of a subdued performance, which it was obviously probably directed by Jean-Pierre saying you have to make a point, you're a clone, you're learning, people are teaching you, whatever. But then at the very end, she seemed way more Ripley. And I was like, oh, I would have liked to see that Ripley through all of the movie, even if she was a clone.

Starting point is 00:13:21 There's no, like, real explanation except I was like, they're like, she doesn't have many memories, fine, but your DNA is still like you have your personality, right? I would have liked to see her through the whole being Ripley, the end Ripley. that we saw here in the last part of the movie being that type of Ripley all the way through. It's not to say that she still wasn't a badass. There was just some weird character moves, but I assume

Starting point is 00:13:44 were written in the script, but absolutely directed more so to be like you need to seem like a clone for the beginning maybe. Yeah, some of her the directing on her felt a little weird or inconsistent. I'm like, I can't tell

Starting point is 00:14:00 who you're supposed to be, what you're supposed to be. And it was hard to because of the, I don't know if it was because the screen time was split because it felt like in the other three I knew clearly that okay Ripley is the lead of this movie but I felt like that role kind of fluctuated between Winona Ryder and Ripley in this movie or like maybe they were like co-I guess they're kind of co-leads but yeah and it's weird because watching this movie came out with the mid to late 90s and watching the first one which came out in like the 70s or the 80s I don't remember at the time of that we're shooting this but the fact that these

Starting point is 00:14:34 first two movies did such a better job of building tension yeah i think it's it's a testament to the directors mainly exactly yeah to the directors and you know just because something is older doesn't mean it it loses its impact and i think yeah some movies are just timeless and have that effect where they can still work 10 15 20 40 years later yeah some directors can work with a shitty script and make up for it in directing characters in a way with a script and with dialogue and obviously

Starting point is 00:15:11 cinematographic my brain cinematic shots wow the struggle is real today with cinematic shots that that I think like for example with Alien One he got everyone together

Starting point is 00:15:30 and they knew each other for at least a month prior, or they shot some of the last scenes in the beginning so that that first scene would be the last scene that they shot so that it would read to the audience the type of camaraderie that they had. And that's how a director thinks, because if we see that in the beginning of a movie, if it's lacking at the end,

Starting point is 00:15:55 we don't need to be that close at the end. We're fighting off aliens, right? And Ripley's left in the first one. So I think it's a big testament to directors and their ability to either speed up a film or make it feel like the pacing might not be right. And again, the director is in those editing rooms too. Editors make some great, great choices and can make or break a film. But the directors, they're also helping them make those choices.

Starting point is 00:16:20 So I don't really know what to say about this one where all of the stuff falls. But, yeah, I mean, one and two are going to be my favorite. Yeah, yeah, I would agree. I would agree. Okay. I feel like we've said a lot about this movie. Yeah, we did. We did some juice there.

Starting point is 00:16:36 You did some juice, Tara. Do you have any final thoughts before we close it out? No, I just, I need to go to bed. I also need to go to bed. It's been a long day. Thank you guys for watching. It's been a pleasure. Let us know you guys' thoughts, feelings about the franchise, this movie.

Starting point is 00:16:51 Any interesting facts you want to share with us in the comments below. And yeah, we will see you guys in the next one. Love you. Bye. You know.

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The Reel Rejects - ALIEN RESURRECTION (1997) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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