ALIEN

Advantages: GREAT FILM
Disadvantages: NONE

...Alien. A true classic and still as fresh today as when it was made in 1979. We follow the crew of the Nosromo, a deep space mining vessel as it has its return journey interupted by a unknown signal from an unexplored world. They investigate the signal and one of the crew ends up with his face covered by an alien creature. this later falls off but the damage has all ready been done. Shortly afterwards an alien bursts from John Hurts stomache and then the alien slug grows into an enormous 9ft killing machine. What happens from this point on I will not divulge here, surely you've seen it? The film began a huge 'alien' type spin offs and clone type films. But none ever to match the original. The only negative from a personal point of view was it was all too dark. The special effects are nothing special but the performances from...

MaldivesHoliday 26.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of Alien (DVD)

The aliens vs. the Pearsons

Advantages: A brilliant film
Disadvantages: None

...A summer vacation for the Pearson family looks set to be a miserable one with failed exams, family disputes, boring activities and no TV to greet them, along with the surprise arrival of Bethany's irritating boyfriend, Ricky. But the vacation turns into an even worse one when cousins Tom and Jake come across four aliens on the roof who announce that they are going to kill all the humans and take over the world. At first it seems hard to believe that the two-foot tall, cute looking things can be so dangerous, but when they bring out their powerful high-tech weapons and take control of Ricky with a mind control device, the pair realise they are much more menacing than they seem. Gathering the rest of the Pearson children, along with any household items they can pass of as weaponry, the family must battle against the aliens and try to...

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Review of Aliens In The Attic

Blonde Aliens

Advantages: Alot of hot women, funny
Disadvantages: The decoy look and effects

...Decoys 2 is a 2007 film directed by Jeffrey Lando (never heard of him). It is a straight to DVD sequel to a not so well known film and I really wasn't expecting a lot from it. Especially after reading the blurb which gives the gist that sexy female aliens are going about seducing men so they can lay their eggs. This sounded like one of those really trashy films that's all about getting as many sex scenes into a film as possible with a very weak story line pulling them together. I hadn't seen the first film and I was expecting to just take a quick look at this film and watching something else but I was pleasantly surprised as it was quite good. The film starts and two teenagers are kissing in the back of the car as they start to undress the girl's stomach bursts open and all these tentacles jump out and down the guy's throat. Then we...

Phelthew 15.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Decoys 2 - Alien Seduction (DVD)

A.L.I.E.N. - AN OUTSTANDING MOVIE !

Advantages: IT DOESN'T GET BETTER THAN THIS
Disadvantages: NOTHING

...Alien. = Written by Alan Dean Foster and Directed by Ridley Scott. And made way back in 1979, how time flies. This brilliant film is one of my all time favourites. Sci-Fi meets Horror but done with a touch of class. The spaceship, Nostromo, is heading back to Earth after a successful mining trip when it receives what seems to be a distress signal coming from a crashed 'Alien' spaceship. The crew are awakened from their hibernation and set off to discover what they can about the weird alien ship. But what they find is the stuff of nightmares. With a superb cast of; Sigourney Weaver ... Ripley John Hurt ... Kane Ian Holm ... Ash (My Precious) Tom Skerritt ... Dallas Veronica Cartwright ... Lambert Harry Dean Stanton ... Brett Yaphet Kotto ... Parker Soon the horror will...

Maximus-Qualitus 14.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Alien (DVD)

Aliens AND Monsters Really Exist?

Advantages: Excellent Special Effects, Simple Storyline
Disadvantages: 3-D not available in all viewing options

...Easter is nearly upon us, which means the usual release of children friendly movies with this one being an exception. I was lucky enough to get tickets for a private screening at the Waterloo Imax Cinema and a great treat it was for us and the little ones. Starting in Modesto, California, the plot centres around Susan, a normal young lady about to marry the man of her dreams and live in supposed married bliss when she experiences the radioactive fallout of a meteor which falls to Earth. After absorbing a substance called quantonium, Susan grows into a giant and is captured by a secret group within the US military who operate to capture different types of monsters. An alien called Gallaxhar seeks out the quantonium and after tracing it to Earth, heads to Earth to retrieve the quantonium. After the US military fail to overcome...

jupiter28 09.04.2009 (04.04.2009) · Read review
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Review of Monsters Vs Aliens

Aliens? I Think Not!

Advantages: Some new information
Disadvantages: Not a film, definately a documentary, very long and slow

...After seeing a trailer for this film on a recent Disney film both me and hubby watched he decided that it looked very interesting and fancied watching it, I personally was not keen but thought what the heck we will see if it is good. I have to say that I was not impressed at all with it and thought that it was not actually a film but an hour and a half documentary which they are calling a film. The setting for the ?film? is out in the middle of the ocean aboard a massive ship. The crew are in fact marina biologists who arte investigating like in the depths of the ocean and are trying to discover new ?alien? life forms down there. The crew have decided for some reason to let NASA join them on this mission so they can work together and investigate these life forms and discover if there are some similarities between the life forms here...

sewbizzie 22.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Aliens Of The Deep (DVD)

Alien Resurrection

Advantages: The under water scene
Disadvantages: Awful, annoying characters; Ultimately grotesque; This isn't the "real" Ripley; Bad jokes

...Oh dear. Even for a dedicated and passionate Alien follower, such as myself, it is hard to see any good in Alien Resurrection. So immensely grotesque (even for my liking); a cold, heartless Ripley that is a disappointing far cry from the female action hero we used to love; and a group of wannabe badass marines that neither come close to the crew from Aliens they aspire to be, or strike any emotional chords with the audience- this is one ugly, ugly film. Two hundred years later, some arsehole scientists have decided to mess with Ripley's DNA in an attempt to "resurrect" the franchise and the alien inside her. Unluckily for avid Alien fans, Ripley #8 is nothing like the original Ripley as her DNA has become entwined with that of the alien, making her a sarcastic, egotistical monster, littered with bad humour. What's worse is Winona...

andycarrington 10.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Alien Resurrection (DVD)

My Kind of Aliens and Monsters

Advantages: good animation and storyline, some funny moments, family film
Disadvantages: None

...change for Sarah and the other monsters when an alien ship lands on Earth and the General who is in charge of the monsters talks to the president and suggests that the monsters are used to destroy this alien. Will Sarah and her monster friends be able to destroy the alien and will she ever get her old life back or is she destined to be a monster forever? Well I will admit that this film did look watch able from the trailer which I had seen but I would not have been my first choice. The storyline was good but very predictable which find with all children?s films. I though that the characters were all very good and despite being called monsters there was nothing at all scary about any of them. The one which was my favourite had to be B.O.B as he had no brain as at times did actually make me laugh with the daft things he did. I found...

sewbizzie 01.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Monsters Vs Aliens (DVD)

Loving The Alien

Advantages: Really thrilling
Disadvantages: None

...When you think about it, actually sit down and turn your mind to the matter in an attempt to fathom out the reality and the thinking behind it, the success of Alien was quite simple and easy to understand. After all, what is the underlying power of the horror movie? Rather than the creation of a foul, unworldly, horrible monster at the root of all our fears, it is the creation of suspense and a deeply felt but barely articulated sense of helplessness in the face of some dark, evil, nameless Other. It is not the monster that is the cause of our distress, but rather our fear of an unspoken, unseen, unheard, but very strongly sensed embodiment of evil. Once we get our first glimpse of the creature all that suspense and fear implodes and we are left with a thrilling race against time while the forces of good pit their wits and power...

dave27 01.06.2003 · Read review
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Review of Alien (DVD)

Aliens, Aliens Everywhere

Advantages: Special Effects Are Ok
Disadvantages: Everything Else

...Aliens, Aliens Everywhere I've loved the Alien films for a long time and despite quite a few poor reviews I liked the first AVP film. At the end of the last film it was clear that they had left it open for a sequel with the infected predator giving birth to a alien/predator cross breed (as we all know Aliens take on the form of their hosts). The predators ship with mutant alien on board crashes in the only place it's possible for a ship to crash land on Earth, North America. In this case a small town in Colorado (of course). With plenty of hosts to infect the aliens can have a field day. Their only problem is one predator who comes to sort things out when he gets wind of what's happened, he is the fly in the ointment. Let the battle commence. Conclusion = Despite the poor reviews I was...

lilmsnaughty1979 27.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Aliens Vs Predator - Requiem (DVD)