While its impact on film and popular culture can't be denied, Aliens is most impressive to me for how it neuters the Alien in question. With lurid action pieces that see the heroes of the film mowing down xenomorph after xenomorph, Aliens forgoes the otherworldly and almost primal sense of fear that came with witnessing a single xenomorph pop onto screen. Amid all the spectacle, I realized I no longer see xenomorphs as the eldritch space demons I saw them…
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Prometheus 2012
What's interesting about Prometheus is that it presents itself to be existentially concerned with questions of the human experience -- who are we, why were we created, where do we hail from as a species -- without really caring to expound on these questions and yet moralizing them all the same.
These questions can admittedly never have satisfying answers and Prometheus does not offer any compelling takes on the matter. What it does instead is to ask what sort of…
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