Alien Resurrection (1997)

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Who talked about it

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The Rewatchables

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Alien 3: 2 lines the host's read ×2

  1. lineage (sequel undoes ending): Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read). Resurrection brings Ripley back as a clone, which undoes Alien 3's chosen death.
    “My nuclear take is bringing her back to life as a clone is more disrespectful than killing, uh, hicks and newt in this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:06:26 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

Goldfinger: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Goldfinger ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read). The newborn alien sucked out the window repeats the Goldfinger ending, but sad.
    “it's the goldfinger ending.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:55:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Firefly (TV): 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Alien Resurrection ⇒ Firefly (TV) (the host's read). The Betty's space-pirate crew reads as proto-Firefly, Whedon's later show.
    “I mean, some proto firefly stuff.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:00 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Jurassic Park: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read). Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs.
    “the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Connected to

Alien 3: 7 lines contrast ×3 lineage ×2 theme ×2

  1. contrast (contrast): Alien Resurrection → Alien 3. Ripley died on her own terms taking the chestburster; Resurrection cuts the alien out of her clone.
    “Ripley dies on her own terms and she takes the alien chest burster with her, and she settles the score”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:22:30 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)

Joss Whedon: 4 lines craft ×2 industry ×1 career ×1

  1. craft (craft): Joss Whedon → Alien Resurrection. Whedon turned the which-one-is-the-android guessing game into plot because audiences expect it.
    “Well, it's that and that's that kind of Weedon thing where he's like the audience at this point is going to be waiting for that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:24:57 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Aliens: 3 lines theme ×1 craft ×1 contrast ×1

  1. theme (theme): Alien Resurrection → Aliens. Seeing Ripley cloned and cut open feels as cruel as Hicks and Newt dying off-screen at the start of the previous sequel.
    “this is the moment where I feel the way people describe the anger of Hicks and Newt getting killed at the beginning of alien cube.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:22:17 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Alien: 2 lines theme ×1 industry ×1

  1. theme (theme): Alien Resurrection → Alien. Ridley Scott's Alien is sexual in a Freudian way; Resurrection is the overtly sexual one.
    “This is also the most overtly sexual of the alien movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:04:14 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Alien: Covenant: 2 lines lineage ×1 verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Alien Resurrection → Alien: Covenant. David walked out of the Covenant press screening hearing grumbling that it was not their Alien; he does not get that anger.
    “I walked out of the press screening of covenant, and I remember one credit being like, I mean, that's just not my alien.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:43:47 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Prometheus: 2 lines contrast ×1 programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Prometheus → Alien Resurrection. The Patreon run continues with Prometheus then Covenant after this final Ripley film.
    “Tune in for Prometheus, tune in for covenant.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:17:13 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Anastasia: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Alien Resurrection → Anastasia. Number three that weekend was Anastasia, Don Bluth's penultimate movie, followed by Titan A.E.
    “Right, because he makes Titan AE after this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:04:07 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Bryan Singer: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Bryan Singer → Alien Resurrection. Brian Singer, director of The Usual Suspects, turned the job down, so Jeunet was not the top choice.
    “So then they approach Brian Singer, director of the usual suspects.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:10:46 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Clint Eastwood: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Clint Eastwood → Alien Resurrection. A Clint Eastwood Alien movie would be shot in real time, one two-hour take.
    “It'll be the 1st alien movie shot in real time.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:50:30 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Dan Hedaya: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Dan Hedaya → Alien Resurrection. Dan Hedaya, leader of the military folks on the ship, steals the early section.
    “Dan Hideea should be in every film by law.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:26:41 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Danny Boyle: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Danny Boyle → Alien Resurrection. Danny Boyle, fresh off Trainspotting, was the first choice and said no.
    “He just made train spotting.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:10:03 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Darius Khondji: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Darius Khondji → Alien Resurrection. Khondji shot it and it is good-looking, with cool sets.
    “Darius Kanji shot this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:19:40 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)

Delicatessen: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (shared director): Delicatessen → Alien Resurrection. Jeunet's Delicatessen already looks like an alien movie, so he suits Resurrection.
    “Instead, they went with June, who, like, if you've seen Delicatessen, which comes out a year before this, that looks like an alien movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:49:08 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

Firefly (TV): 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Alien Resurrection → Firefly (TV). The Betty's space-pirate crew reads as proto-Firefly, Whedon's later show.
    “I mean, some proto firefly stuff.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:00 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Flubber: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Alien Resurrection → Flubber. Flubber was number one on the Thanksgiving 1997 weekend; Resurrection opened number two with 25 million.
    “It is it's flubber.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:03:02 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Godzilla: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Alien Resurrection → Godzilla. 1998 Godzilla and the first Jurassic Park shot their CGI creatures in rain and night to hide the rendering.
    “the 98 Godzilla is set in the rain constantly, and why in Jurassic, the 1st Jurassic”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:26:19 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Goldfinger: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Alien Resurrection → Goldfinger. The newborn alien sucked out the window repeats the Goldfinger ending, but sad.
    “it's the goldfinger ending.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:55:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Heavy Metal: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Alien Resurrection → Heavy Metal. Ripley 7's mutant looks like French graphic novels, Moebius and Metal Hurlant.
    “Like, this is Mobius, metal herlon shit.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:11:15 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Independence Day: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Alien Resurrection → Independence Day. Another 90s creature-effects tentpole of the same era.
    “An independence day in between as well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Jean-Pierre Jeunet: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Jean-Pierre Jeunet → Alien Resurrection. Jeunet brought his French crew and could not talk to the writers, producers or actors; the film is cohesive visually.
    “And this movie is very cohesive visually.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:58:55 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

John Wick: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Alien Resurrection → John Wick. John Wick is the only modern equivalent of a major franchise built on fatalism.
    “I feel like the only modern equivalent is, um, John Wick, in terms of a major franchise being so based around kind of fatalism.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:15:43 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Jurassic Park: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Alien Resurrection → Jurassic Park. Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs.
    “the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Leland Orser: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (shared actor): Leland Orser → Alien Resurrection. Orser, the lust-victim actor in Se7en, is recognized as 'Alien Resurrection guy.'
    “Alien resurrection guy?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:42:42 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Michel Gondry: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Michel Gondry → Alien Resurrection. Joke: Gondry nearly directed Resurrection with a yarn lookbook.
    “My joke is that Gondry almost did it, and it was a look book made out of hell.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:48:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Alien Resurrection → Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Number seven was Clint Eastwood's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
    “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:09:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Alien Resurrection → Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. The prior week's number one had fallen to number six.
    “Big drombat annihilation.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:07:08 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Paint Your Wagon: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Alien Resurrection → Paint Your Wagon. The next Alien should be an Eastwood musical in the style of Paint Your Wagon.
    “He should be painter wagon.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:10:42 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Peter Jackson: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Peter Jackson → Alien Resurrection. Peter Jackson was also asked and was not pumped; Alien 3's failure made the job a poison chalice.
    “So now it's kind of like a poison chalice.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:10:23 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Saturday Night Live: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Alien Resurrection → Saturday Night Live. The creature too awful to live begging 'kill me' is a funny trope, like an Eddie Murphy SNL sketch.
    “The the SNL, uh, uh, Eddie Murphy cake.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:13:21 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Sigourney Weaver: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Sigourney Weaver → Alien Resurrection. Her height is why the basket shot in Alien Resurrection is believable.
    “this is why it's believable when she lands that basket, an alien resurrection.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:30:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Space Jam: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Alien Resurrection → Space Jam. Ripley shooting hoops in the 24th century is a 90s basketball moment.
    “Would you say they're space jamming right now?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:39:51 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Taxi Driver: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Alien Resurrection → Taxi Driver. One crew member has a Travis Bickle gun-sling rig.
    “So this guy has the, like, Travis Bickle... It's got the gun, the gun slings, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:07 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Terminator: Dark Fate: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Alien Resurrection → Terminator: Dark Fate. Studios kept trying to make Terminator something different, unlike Alien's willingness to hire dark people.
    “Versus, I feel like 3 Terminator movies in a row where they were like, I don't know, can we make it into something different?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:16:31 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

The Jackal: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Alien Resurrection → The Jackal. Number five was The Jackal, a remake of The Day of the Jackal with Bruce Willis and Richard Gere.
    “Jackals a remake?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:06:28 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Alien Resurrection → The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Resurrection came out the same year as The Lost World, with Independence Day in the mix.
    “This comes out the same year as Lost World.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:45:51 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

The Rainmaker: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Alien Resurrection → The Rainmaker. Number four was Coppola's Rainmaker, an underrated slumming adaptation of a bestseller.
    “It's from one of our great directors.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:04:37 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Westworld: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Alien Resurrection → Westworld. The robot world-building feels like Westworld's reveal of robots outside the park.
    “Like a Westworld thing when you realize like there's actually robots like outside of here”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:33:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Joss Whedon → Alien Resurrection. Resurrection is a rare sole Whedon screenplay credit from that period.
    “This is just a rare Wheedon soul screenplay credit in that period.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:26:22 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

contrast (6)

  1. contrast (contrast): Alien Resurrection → Alien 3. Alien 3 is grim; Resurrection is whimsical and odd.
    “Well, the last one's just so grim, whereas this one is kind of whimsical.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:04:06 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Alien Resurrection → Alien 3. Alien 3 ended with Ripley's noble sacrifice in lava; Resurrection undoes it by cloning her.
    “She falls into lava, and that's the end of that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:07:24 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Alien Resurrection → Alien 3. Ripley died on her own terms taking the chestburster; Resurrection cuts the alien out of her clone.
    “Ripley dies on her own terms and she takes the alien chest burster with her, and she settles the score”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:22:30 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): Alien Resurrection → Prometheus. Prometheus has a stacked cast on one level; Resurrection puts a second movie star above the title with Weaver and loses balance.
    “it's putting them above the title, it's kind of implying that it's going to be kind of a two-hander”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:47:45 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. contrast (contrast): Alien Resurrection → Terminator: Dark Fate. Studios kept trying to make Terminator something different, unlike Alien's willingness to hire dark people.
    “Versus, I feel like 3 Terminator movies in a row where they were like, I don't know, can we make it into something different?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:16:31 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. contrast (contrast): Alien Resurrection → Aliens. In Aliens she rescues Newt and in Alien 3 the convicts find purpose; in Resurrection there is no purpose to the fight.
    “in aliens, she's rescuing newt and like, you know, even in alien 3, they kind of, by the end of it”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:40:03 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

craft (7)

  1. craft (craft): Sigourney Weaver → Alien Resurrection. Her height is why the basket shot in Alien Resurrection is believable.
    “this is why it's believable when she lands that basket, an alien resurrection.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:30:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Darius Khondji → Alien Resurrection. Khondji shot it and it is good-looking, with cool sets.
    “Darius Kanji shot this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:19:40 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Joss Whedon → Alien Resurrection. Whedon turned the which-one-is-the-android guessing game into plot because audiences expect it.
    “Well, it's that and that's that kind of Weedon thing where he's like the audience at this point is going to be waiting for that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:24:57 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Alien Resurrection → Taxi Driver. One crew member has a Travis Bickle gun-sling rig.
    “So this guy has the, like, Travis Bickle... It's got the gun, the gun slings, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:07 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): Alien Resurrection → Aliens. In Aliens you see them fleetingly; in Resurrection animatronics let an alien stand in front of you for ten seconds.
    “But this is the 1st one where it's like, yeah, an alien's just standing in front of you.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:45:18 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. craft (craft): Joss Whedon → Alien Resurrection. The acid-blood tricks in Resurrection are Whedon-style fan service, while Jeunet is the better visual stylist.
    “The stuff like using the acid in creative new ways.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:57:46 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. craft (craft): Alien Resurrection → Godzilla. 1998 Godzilla and the first Jurassic Park shot their CGI creatures in rain and night to hide the rendering.
    “the 98 Godzilla is set in the rain constantly, and why in Jurassic, the 1st Jurassic”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:26:19 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

industry (10)

  1. industry (industry): Joss Whedon → Alien Resurrection. Whedon wrote a big epic ending on Earth and the studio planned to split it into two movies with an Alien 5 on Earth.
    “There'll be an alien 5 that's set on earth.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:11:29 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Alien Resurrection → The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Resurrection came out the same year as The Lost World, with Independence Day in the mix.
    “This comes out the same year as Lost World.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:45:51 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): Alien Resurrection → Independence Day. Another 90s creature-effects tentpole of the same era.
    “An independence day in between as well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. industry (industry): Alien Resurrection → Alien. The first three Alien movies were summer releases; this one opened at Thanksgiving.
    “The 1st 3 are all summer releases, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:01:13 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. industry (industry): Alien Resurrection → Flubber. Flubber was number one on the Thanksgiving 1997 weekend; Resurrection opened number two with 25 million.
    “It is it's flubber.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:03:02 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. industry (industry): Alien Resurrection → Anastasia. Number three that weekend was Anastasia, Don Bluth's penultimate movie, followed by Titan A.E.
    “Right, because he makes Titan AE after this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:04:07 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. industry (industry): Alien Resurrection → The Rainmaker. Number four was Coppola's Rainmaker, an underrated slumming adaptation of a bestseller.
    “It's from one of our great directors.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:04:37 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  8. industry (industry): Alien Resurrection → The Jackal. Number five was The Jackal, a remake of The Day of the Jackal with Bruce Willis and Richard Gere.
    “Jackals a remake?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:06:28 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. industry (industry): Alien Resurrection → Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. The prior week's number one had fallen to number six.
    “Big drombat annihilation.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:07:08 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. industry (industry): Alien Resurrection → Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Number seven was Clint Eastwood's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
    “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:09:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (7)

  1. lineage (sequel): Alien 3 → Alien Resurrection. Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died.
    “As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Alien: Covenant → Alien Resurrection. The fourth film had pirates.
    “Alien four, I guess.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): Alien Resurrection → Firefly (TV). The Betty's space-pirate crew reads as proto-Firefly, Whedon's later show.
    “I mean, some proto firefly stuff.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:00 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): Alien Resurrection → Jurassic Park. Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs.
    “the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage): Alien Resurrection → Heavy Metal. Ripley 7's mutant looks like French graphic novels, Moebius and Metal Hurlant.
    “Like, this is Mobius, metal herlon shit.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:11:15 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (lineage): Alien Resurrection → Goldfinger. The newborn alien sucked out the window repeats the Goldfinger ending, but sad.
    “it's the goldfinger ending.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:55:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. lineage (sequel undoes ending): Alien 3 → Alien Resurrection. Resurrection brings Ripley back as a clone, which undoes Alien 3's chosen death.
    “My nuclear take is bringing her back to life as a clone is more disrespectful than killing, uh, hicks and newt in this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:06:26 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

people (4)

  1. people (shared actor): Leland Orser → Alien Resurrection. Orser, the lust-victim actor in Se7en, is recognized as 'Alien Resurrection guy.'
    “Alien resurrection guy?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:42:42 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Dan Hedaya → Alien Resurrection. Dan Hedaya, leader of the military folks on the ship, steals the early section.
    “Dan Hideea should be in every film by law.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:26:41 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Jean-Pierre Jeunet → Alien Resurrection. Jeunet brought his French crew and could not talk to the writers, producers or actors; the film is cohesive visually.
    “And this movie is very cohesive visually.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:58:55 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. people (shared director): Delicatessen → Alien Resurrection. Jeunet's Delicatessen already looks like an alien movie, so he suits Resurrection.
    “Instead, they went with June, who, like, if you've seen Delicatessen, which comes out a year before this, that looks like an alien movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:49:08 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Prometheus → Alien Resurrection. The Patreon run continues with Prometheus then Covenant after this final Ripley film.
    “Tune in for Prometheus, tune in for covenant.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:17:13 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

theme (8)

  1. theme (theme): Alien Resurrection → Alien. Ridley Scott's Alien is sexual in a Freudian way; Resurrection is the overtly sexual one.
    “This is also the most overtly sexual of the alien movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:04:14 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Alien Resurrection → Aliens. Seeing Ripley cloned and cut open feels as cruel as Hicks and Newt dying off-screen at the start of the previous sequel.
    “this is the moment where I feel the way people describe the anger of Hicks and Newt getting killed at the beginning of alien cube.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:22:17 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): Alien Resurrection → Space Jam. Ripley shooting hoops in the 24th century is a 90s basketball moment.
    “Would you say they're space jamming right now?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:39:51 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. theme (theme): Alien Resurrection → Saturday Night Live. The creature too awful to live begging 'kill me' is a funny trope, like an Eddie Murphy SNL sketch.
    “The the SNL, uh, uh, Eddie Murphy cake.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:13:21 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. theme (theme): Alien Resurrection → John Wick. John Wick is the only modern equivalent of a major franchise built on fatalism.
    “I feel like the only modern equivalent is, um, John Wick, in terms of a major franchise being so based around kind of fatalism.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:15:43 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. theme (theme): Alien Resurrection → Westworld. The robot world-building feels like Westworld's reveal of robots outside the park.
    “Like a Westworld thing when you realize like there's actually robots like outside of here”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:33:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. theme (theme): Alien Resurrection → Alien 3. The alien-hybrid birth echoes Alien 3's mommy-child relationship; this one is treated as parent and child.
    “But much like an Alien 3, it's like, oh, hey, mommy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:48:20 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. theme (theme): Alien Resurrection → Alien 3. The studio could not settle on a sad ending, perhaps afraid after Alien 3.
    “They just can't... settle on a sad ending and they should have.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:59:09 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Alien Resurrection → Alien: Covenant. David walked out of the Covenant press screening hearing grumbling that it was not their Alien; he does not get that anger.
    “I walked out of the press screening of covenant, and I remember one credit being like, I mean, that's just not my alien.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:43:47 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

what-if (6)

  1. what-if (what-if): Danny Boyle → Alien Resurrection. Danny Boyle, fresh off Trainspotting, was the first choice and said no.
    “He just made train spotting.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:10:03 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Peter Jackson → Alien Resurrection. Peter Jackson was also asked and was not pumped; Alien 3's failure made the job a poison chalice.
    “So now it's kind of like a poison chalice.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:10:23 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): Bryan Singer → Alien Resurrection. Brian Singer, director of The Usual Suspects, turned the job down, so Jeunet was not the top choice.
    “So then they approach Brian Singer, director of the usual suspects.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:10:46 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (what-if): Clint Eastwood → Alien Resurrection. A Clint Eastwood Alien movie would be shot in real time, one two-hour take.
    “It'll be the 1st alien movie shot in real time.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:50:30 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. what-if (what-if): Alien Resurrection → Paint Your Wagon. The next Alien should be an Eastwood musical in the style of Paint Your Wagon.
    “He should be painter wagon.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:10:42 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. what-if (what-if): Michel Gondry → Alien Resurrection. Joke: Gondry nearly directed Resurrection with a yarn lookbook.
    “My joke is that Gondry almost did it, and it was a look book made out of hell.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:48:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Alien Resurrection: Production trivia: Danny Boyle and Peter Jackson and Bryan Singer were approached and passed before Jeunet.
    “They ask Peter Jackson.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:10:12 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Alien Resurrection: The drinking game: rules from Instagram stories, including someone saying 'the company'.
    “Four, someone says the company.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:14:14 · Angela Ferragudo (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Alien Resurrection: The Fox logo at the start is clearly from the film print, grain and all, not an HD transfer.
    “clearly the logo from the film print from this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:17:42 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Alien Resurrection: Golden age of animatronics: the aliens can stay in bright close-ups for ten seconds without cutting away.
    “This is the peak of animatronic technology before the entire art form is largely thrown in the toilet.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:44:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Alien Resurrection: The worst-case scenario joke: aliens loose on Earth becomes a Kenner toy line of animal mashups.
    “create an entire early 90s Kenner toy line of fun alien animal mashups.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:35:39 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Alien Resurrection: The newborn's chest cavity was a hybrid genital design cut from the film as too intense.
    “it's supposed to be kind of like this sort of like hybrid genital thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:47:58 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Alien Resurrection: The newborn was originally designed to look like Ripley.
    “Originally, they wanted it to look like Ripley, which would have been crazy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:49:27 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Alien Resurrection: Ending gets read as acting out: alien movies are violent so Jeunet shows how violent.
    “Also, it's acting out, which I support.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:57:01 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Alien Resurrection: Credits: personal stunt trainer, movement coach and drama coach to Weaver, all separate.
    “Personal stunt trainer, Ms. Weaver, movement coach to Ms. Weaver, drama coach to Ms. Weaver.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:02:06 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Alien Resurrection: Opening weekend at Thanksgiving 1997: number two, 25 million, behind Flubber.
    “All right, so number 2 alien resurrection.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:03:28 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Alien Resurrection: The second-to-last credit is the video game.
    “The 2nd to last credit on the movie is play the video game.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:05:49 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Alien Resurrection: Joke that Michel Gondry's near-miss lookbook would have been all yarn, down to a yarn alien.
    “The alien is in a bull of yarn and he comes out and it's a yarn alien.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:48:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Alien Resurrection: The only good scene is Ripley finding the room of failed clone experiments, used as an analogy for deformed Jerry Maguire.
    “It's the only good scene in Alien Resurrection where Sigourney Weaver finds the room with all the abortion.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:43:21 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.