There is some nice world-building in the first part, that I would have enjoyed to be exploited more, before it switched to being a scare-fest. It is a very well-crafted movie, with amazing directing and sound design, but as all other Aliens except the first one, it lacks the sort of elegance and tension from the movie that started it all. Still, it has succeeded the feat of making my entire theater collectively GASP (viewers will guess at which reveal). At any rate, that was at least a very nice entertainment.
PS: I recently tried out the video game Alien: Isolation from 2014, and the set design of this opus is exactly like in the video game.
PS2: I heard some James Horner-esque harshly metallic sounds in there. An homage from Benjamin Wallfish to Aliens' soundtrack? (foreshadowing the homage via catchline later)
There is some nice world-building in the first part, that I would have enjoyed to be exploited more, before it switched to being a scare-fest. It is a very well-crafted movie, with amazing directing and sound design, but as all other Aliens except the first one, it lacks the sort of elegance and tension from the movie that started it all. Still, it has succeeded the feat of making my entire theater collectively GASP (viewers will guess at which reveal). At any rate, that was at least a very nice entertainment.
PS: I recently tried out the video game Alien: Isolation from 2014, and the set design of this opus is exactly like in the video game.
PS2: I heard some James Horner-esque harshly metallic sounds in there. An homage from Benjamin Wallfish to Aliens' soundtrack? (foreshadowing the homage via catchline later)