Multiple Movie Review - Alien

Today is "Alien" "Aliens" "Alien 3" & "Alien: Resurrection"

Alien (1979)

Starring Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Tom Skerritt

A crew of seven, a cargo of refinery processing 20,000,000 tons of mineral ore and a course that was suppose to take them back to Earth ended up being a smaller crew, no cargo and a random course through space going nowhere. The curious signal they picked up, and investigated while knowing they were going off-course, came to be their undoing. First the egg hatches and the contents attaches itself to Kane's (John Hurt) face, although he was still alive, he didn't manage to stay that way after the parasite was removed from his noggin. Then the android Ash (Ian Holm) believes that keeping the beastly monster aboard the ship will help science. This angle is crazier than a shithouse rat! Ash then has trouble with his noggin when a crew member knocks it clean off. So when Dallas (Tom Skerritt) gets trapped in a remote part of the ship, he sits and thinks for a moment about the bridge, which could be miles from where he's at, at this point. He soon becomes a part of the main course for the hungry Alien. As always Lt. Ripley (Signourney Weaver) is the sole survivor because she was the only one who actually used her noggin.

Aliens (1986)

Starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser and Carrie Henn

The sole survivor with only her cat from the doomed Nostromo, Ripley is discovered by a salvage ship. Next she's back on Earth in no time, well, except for the fact it is 57 years later. The same planet that harbored the original Alien life-forms has been colonized by humans. So much for the final frontier. So we learn that it's the transmissions that have failed to keep the Company back on Earth informed of their settling in and making outer space life on an alien planet reportable. Ripley is sent with a team of Marines to wipe out any of the alien creatures and rescue any survivors. There is one survivor they help Rebecca 'Newt' Jordan (Carrie Henn) escape the deadly creatures. They really couldn't help anyone else as they were already sort of not going to be well. The only one (Reiser) who wanted to keep the alien for study and to help science was another crazier than a shithouse rat, rat. By the end Ripley and the little girl barely escape with their lives. Well, there is another survivor, but he's an android who only HALF survives as he was torn in half. He was standing next to the hidden alien where the hydraulic supports were located. The alien was extremely not in a good mood.

Alien 3 (1992)

Starring Sigourney Weaver, Charles Dutton, Charles Dance and Paul McGann

Hyper-sleep should have some kind of "guard on watch" feature because this was the one time Ripley wasn't so lucky. The alien did leave a care-package and proceeded to do away with her tiny crew. The crash landing the alien triggers on board, brings the ship down to Fiorina 161. A planet that hosts a mining colony and a prison facility. Not a good place. The prisoners are a religious cult and are allowed no weapons. This can't be good because, like wow, there's an alien running around loose and he's a real mean one. After a smorgasbord of tasty prisoner born-agains, the alien chows down on a tank full of hot lead. Ripley finally throws herself into a vat and destroys the alien that had laid dormant within her since the crash-landing. The alien entity was, as always, pissed off.

Alien: Resurrection (1997)

Starring Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon and Ron Perlman

Okay, so when one is cloned as a powerful human/alien hybrid 200 years after one's death, you could say that, at this point, it might have been in the best interests of everyone to just blow up a planet or two. This would have been a lot faster in this scientific study crap since that would have been the end result no matter how it was sliced by scientists in the lab or, scientists in general. Blowing up entire starships that seem to take up the size of a small town was no problem, so why should an alien planet be any different? But somehow it is different, because now the stupid army and the stupid company have decided to fill up the universe with the deadly alien creatures. Not to mention their own starships. Good thinking! Yeah. So then Ripley helps whoever she can to survive this go-round and Annalee Call (Ryder), who is also an android connects into the ship's main communication onboard transmissions and computer overrides it and tells the aliens to report to the deck that Mr. Hot Shot (I wanna clone some aliens) is running through at that present time. By this point, it's not even worth it, you're routing for the aliens. And of course Ripley, who still uses her noggin when it comes to knowing what to do next.

This has been my Multiple Movie Review. In theaters everyone can hear you scream.

(Note: they used the same tagline 'In Space No One Can Hear You Scream' for "Saturn 3" as well)