news

"Rise of the Planet of the Apes", "Mad Max: Fury", "Bad Boys for Life", "A Quiet Place: Invasion Day", in 2024, after such a round of bloody storms named after "dog's tail", the horror film veteran Alien will be used as a representative to end the summer season, which may mean that Ridley Scott's signature is brought out to take charge of the overall situation.

To be honest, the taste is a bit strong. See "watch with caution" again, this time it's real. Although there is no hole-eyed Alien Queen, this movie also has the "first" of the Alien series in decades. "Alien: Reaper" can be regarded as Hollywood's face lost in the summer season in mainland China. Absolute tribute + quite compact + very neat, it has nothing to do with Blackwater and engineers, the concept has been reduced in dimension and the production has been upgraded, it is a space escape room, absolutely a kingdom of the senses.

One piece of news released by Alien: Taken: Death Stranding is that although Ridley Scott is not the director, he felt "relieved" after watching the movie, which is good news. Another good news is that parents are denouncing the movie for scaring their children. In fact, I don't quite understand why these parents don't take their children to see White Snake: The Floating Life, or even to see the latest Detective Conan. You said you bought a ticket for a horror movie, and if it's not scary after watching it, you will definitely complain; now it's scary, you complain too. Are horror movies too difficult to make?

Every time I talk about Alien, I have to praise the four directors of the four films. After the new millennium, Ridley Scott completed Prometheus with a more grand worldview and a more solemn attitude, leading horror films to philosophical thinking, not just the instinct of fear. With all due respect, the good news and the bad news are the same: Alien: Taken Flight does not require much background knowledge. It is a youth horror film, just like Final Destination replaced by Alien, just like all the youth horror films you have seen, except that the story takes place on a spaceship. So it doesn't matter where it fits into the gap of the past Alien stories.

To put it simply, at a station on the "Alien High-Speed ​​Train", the director got off the train and smoked a cigarette.

This stop only lasts 5 minutes. But the first feeling of something comes at the 33rd minute. The director is undoubtedly a fan of the Alien and knows all the forms of the Alien. Just like the tigers in Jingyanggang can pounce, flip, and cut, the Alien can hug the face, break the ground, and explode the head. The rhythm of the second half is very tight, with classic routines of cyborg conspiracy, suicidal brother and lucky female man. The cyborg Eddie fell from the sky in the elevator shaft and shouted: Get away from her, You ★! Sigourney Weaver in "Alien 2" is back in a dream. It really fully reviewed the growth stage of the Alien. The more creative thing is the scientific use of "alien blood + vacuum environment". The less suitable thing in the whole film is the integration similar to "The Fly".

As a sci-fi film, Alien: Reaper is a work that has not made any progress, but the filmmakers have also told us everything in advance. Isn't the word "Reaper" clear enough? As a horror thriller, Alien: Reaper is a very standard assembly line work. Ridley Scott would definitely not praise this kind of movie, after all, the director just got off the train at a small town station to light a cigarette, but the fact that it started to lead the single-day box office does show that the quality and types of movie sources in cinemas throughout August were too poor. I understand that the media that amplifies the scares of children still just wants to send out such a message:

The scale of censorship has indeed been expanded.

The steps for film ratings have indeed been slow.

(Jiang Nannan)

Editor Wang Cui