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Alien: Resurrection

The Alien franchise was destroyed the moment Sigourney Weaver was allowed influence over its stylistic direction. Vincent Ward lit the fuse with his script for Alien 3, killing off Newt, Bishop, and Hicks (I'm still pissed off about that) and David Fincher finished it off. Most people hated it. But then came along Alien: Resurrection which made a bad thing worse. Josh Weadon has walked away from it, not because he'll admit his script sucked, but because he contends director Jean-Pierre Jeunet executed everything wrong. Nonetheless, the critics applauded it and rest of us shook our heads in disgust about what could have been had the original William Gibson script for Alien 3 been green-lit instead. Bah.

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I don't get the appeal and applaud of, "Citizen Kane."

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I know you don’t like Stanley Kubrick, but I think there is probably a better representation than Dr Strangelove for this question, especially from Kubrick.

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Point taken, but it was late and was tired of looking up annoying artsy fartsy stills from movies that annoy me.

Edited to 2001: A Space Odyssey, because you know how much I hate that movie.

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Hahaha yup

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My vote is for something so despicable and repulsive that I’m torn about even giving it the honor of recognition: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Puke.

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I'm going with an even more ridiculously arty film in the Alien series - Prometheus. It does have the advantage of being so stupid for being sort of funny. Please pray for my soul, because I laughed very hard at the sequence with the automated abortion machine.

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I was fortunate enough to get such bad reviews from friends who were Alien fans that I bypassed it all together. Sounds like I made the right call there.

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It’s pretty offensive how stupid the “scientists” are in Prometheus. I remembering laughing out loud at the theater during many scenes.

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Speaking of Kubrick... I’m going with Clockwork Orange. Not only is it beyond strange and artsy fartsy, but also one of the most evil movies I’ve ever gotten only 10 min into and had to abruptly rip the plug out of the wall in horror. “Disturbing” is an understatement.

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I like how one critic put it-

“It is, I’m afraid, nothing more than a garish Pop-art poster pretending to be a work of art”

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I’m going with Gaspar Noe’s Enter the Void. I have a pretty high tolerance of artsy, pretentious films. But I got nothing out of this movie. I’m a fan of the movies that inspired this one, but this is just a seizure-inducing, LSD-laced trip.

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