Alien and Aliens review

Being born at a time where all best movies were released well before I was born (expect Mad Max) is an exciting position to hold. I’m able analysis how a particular movie has influenced not just movies but all parts of the media. Due to this, there are obviously many movies inspired by those classical pieces, however; those classical pieces for this generation become not something new and exciting but something typical as we see parts of the plots, characters, and ideas from those movies in new, sometimes better movies. While classic movies usually never are forgotten, or become redundant, as those films will stand the test of time as the panicle of a genre and they were the ones that have influenced most contemporize media and have revitalized entire genres by themselves. It doesn’t mean that those movies are any more interesting now, epically if something within the plot becomes a TV trope. Take Star Wars for instance, when it first came out its story was revolutionary. However today that kind of story is a tired TV trope within today's movies.

Take Alien (the first movie) and Aliens (the second movie); both are classical pieces of their respected genre (The Horror genre for Alien and the Action Genre for Aliens). They both have both been a part renewing interests in their respective genres at the time of them realize and have influenced many forms of media from their releases. However, as I’ve watched them both recently with my dad, I must say for me, there isn’t anything too special about them. While I did enjoy Alien and Aliens quite a lot, the plot of Aliens isn’t anything new or exciting, and the idea of the Alien in Alien (this gets confusing for me even to write) is nothing really terrifying to me as its design and concept has been repeated in so many types of media and different places. The movie (Alien) still managed to scare and frighten me due to its excellent pacing, soundtrack, and plot, while some of this I can say is because it is a great movie, but I would also consider that the horror genre is all that huge. Whereas a film like Aliens felt to me a tad bit too slow and adding unnecessary sub-plots or attempts to pull at your heart strings (such as the whole thing with the little girl still alive in the camp). Because I’ve seen it all done better in other films, while Aliens is a good movie, it felt like watching movies that I’ve seen before.

So, while the classics are good (that’s why they’re called classics) because they are good they influence the media. Thereby creating movies that copy the classic in some way, sometimes creating a saturation within the market of that plot hook, ending, a particular character. From that it makes it so that a generation which didn’t have that classic movie come out while growing up, makes the classic less valuable and wanted to the newer generation.

So in conclusion, Alien 9/10, Aliens 6/10.