Thanks for summarizing this more clearly than I could. I disagree, though, about the quality of the film. It certainly isn’t as great as the first three movies (the director’s cut of Alien 3 is very, very good), but it’s a fine film in its own right, and it stays true to the major theme of the earlier movies: Ripley suffers.
Thank you for the laugh! My secretaries think I am going crazy in my office. 
This.
When you spend zillions on a non-sequel movie with great special effects, you probably don’t want to go too edgy with a story.
The Garfield movies. They made the cat look like the comics. I noticed in the trailer for the first that Odie was just a regular dog. Did they make him a CGI character like his comic in the next?
Weren’t they on Site B in the book the Lost World, too?
This is timely. I tried to sit through The Matrix 2 & 3 when they were on TV this week, but find it an impossible task. So what happens? Please tell me the machines win!
For everyone asking about Twilight, the way to watch this and any other movie you have no normal intention of seeing is with Rifftrax. The Twilight series was some of the funniest shit I’ve seen.
Quoth Ellen Cherry:
Y’know, before this thread, if anyone had asked me “Hey Chronos, you want to see Sigourney Weaver in a lesbian sex scene?”, I would have said “Hell yes”. I think I can say that I’m a wiser man now, as a result of reading this.
Quoth Smapti:
No, not at all. They shamelessly ripped off a bunch of other sources, too.
Which isn’t actually all that bad a thing. There’s no new plot ideas in fiction, just new combinations of them. And it wasn’t a plot-driven movie, anyway.
Eventually? Trinity dies, the boss of the machines asks for help in bringing the Agent Smiths (plural; he’s turning everyone in the Matrix into copies of himself) back under control, Neo fights Smiths for a while, then lets himself get assimilated, and then gets crucified thereby destroying all the Smiths, and the machines realize that the whole war with the humans thing was all just one big misunderstanding and everything’s hunky-dory now.
Worse yet, the village was founded by a group of people who were seeing grief counselors (the guy who got the idea was dealing with the murder of his dad), who apparently decided that modern society sucks rocks and made them all sad, and they should chip in together and make an awesome old-school village to hide away and raise happy kids. I gather that they assumed they’d never produce murderers amongst their own people. (Oops. One of their developmentally-disabled teens stabs a romantic rival out of jealousy, and dresses up as a monster too.) They paid off the government to treat their village and the surrounding woods as a no-fly zone and as a super-important wildlife preserve so they wouldn’t encounter outsiders or have planes fly overhead and confuse people.
I didn’t hate it, I felt there was a decent film trying to get out, but that it didn’t quite work.
You don’t need to worry, Ripley does not get it on with an alien.
You forgot the best part of this – this part happens in the “real world”. The “interesting” interpretation of this is that the “real world” is simply another level of the Matrix since there are clear violations of physics involved, but a better interpretation is that the writers either didn’t realize they weren’t in the Matrix anymore, or didn’t care, or thought it would be all mysterious and shit.
It’s modern times and the monster isn’t real.
Woah…crucified you say?
Thor? It’s a perfectly ok movie. Not great. Not bad. An enjoyable way of killing $10 & two hours.
No. They find out that the spots on the X-ray (or whatever it was) are not cysts or tumors, but instead the machine is broken and puts spots on whatever it’s taking pictures of.
LL Cool J goes to tell her. They admit they’ve been in love with each other for years, but never said anything, and she ends up with exactly enough money to quit her job, marry him, and open up an award winning restaurant - which is her life long dream.
Ripley mates with the queen, unless that series of shots was just them snuggling. Seriously, they’re holding each other in the dark, and then “babby is formed”. Short of an X rated shot, I think the director implied as much as he dared. Some brave soul that owns it should turn on the commentary.
He was until Friday the 13th Part 6. That’s the part he rose from the dead for the first time and officially became a supernatural entity.
He was human in all the movies before that (and just continually surviving all the kill “attempts” at the end of every one).
When exactly please? Because your recollection does not match with mine. IIRC, when Ripley encounters the queen it is already big with child, and then it gives birth.
All right, since we’ve already spoiled “The Village,” can anyone tell me what happens in “The Happening”?
If you can buy most religious bullshit it all makes perfect sense. Even if you don’t buy it but can understand it, it makes decent enough sense.
-Joe
People in the northeastern part of the US go crazy and try to kill themselves in various ways. It’s probably due to plants making spores to thin out the humans’ numbers because we’re fucking up the planet in a big way, but that’s mostly a theory - we do know it seems to be plants exuding invisible Bad Stuff into the air, which is carried on the wind, and at least initially hits larger groups/population centers harder. Eventually they just stop doing it, and when we think everything’s all hunky-dory, people in Paris start acting weird.