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'Alien on an Oil Rig'

posted 11 years ago by uruseiranma
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I see Schlokmania summarized it very well to what I had thought.

Given that we have a woman who quickly seems to take no guff from the other crew members, and attempts to stay calm through the entire thing.

As well, we have duplicity that gets other crew members killed because the creature in question could somehow benefit one of the persons aboard or the company involved.

The downside is, the lead actresses' heavy-breathing/screaming as she pulled herself around during the last 15 minutes. At least Sigourney Weaver didn't sound like she was screaming with every other breath during her final confrontation.

After awhile, I do agree with some others, the monster scenes just felt like some weird tango of 'how long can we stretch the scene out.'

It's definitely no 'The Host.' At least given how lazy and idiotic the son in 'The Host' was, there was something enjoyable about the whole thing.

"Thanks, guys." "So long, partner."

- Toy Story 3 (9/10)

[–] prbronx5 11 years ago

I disliked The Host a lot less than Sector 7, but I disliked them both. Both had nicely designed monsters, but the monsters weren't scary. The creature in Sector 7 looked much more fearsome after it was torched.

Both movies had idiot characters running around screaming, bumping into things, getting knocked out and just being annoying. Both movies featured sappy family drama that took away from the so called horror.

The confrontations with the monsters came off like playing fetch with a large dog or something. No sense of fear, danger, NADA!!

Nice production values though.

[–] HotRod_SC 9 years ago

I agree with most of your points here, but disagree about the heavy breathing/screaming. This was more of a cultural thing, if you have watched enough asian movies you will realize asians, specially the women, are very vocal regarding EVERYTHING: this is a cultural trait that tends to exaggerate or emphasize singular emotions in the most loud way possible.

Of course Ripley wouldn't let her voice out in every scene, but that's because in our culture being quiet is synonym of being recollected and focused. It's not necessarily an ironclad rule that is followed by most asian movies, tho.

now this is acting: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2458172160/tt1528718