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with the Alien or even the Alien
vs Predator movies, aside from
names used in the movie. So, in
my opinion, it doesn’t deserve
to be here.

I haven’t written anything
about Prometheus in this
article. Prometheus, to me,
is a prime example of people
taking something too far, just
to earn money and ruining a
perfectly good thing to get it.
There’s a bunch of stuff that
just isn’t right about how the
Xenomorphs, or the creatures
like them, were created in that
movie, never mind all the plotgaps, and it doesn’t fit at all

one - except for Sigourney
Weaver (playing Ripley) and
the cat. And this is just the
result of one such creature. It
starts with a spaceship picking
up a distress signal and going
to investigate. As we all have
learned from previous horrormovies, this is never a good
idea. But they were told to go
there by the director anyway.
They find a bunch of slimy eggs,
and from it comes what we call

When you watch the first Alien
movie, simply called “Alien”,
you can tell that they were
just testing the water, seeing
what they could do. The movie
is basically all about a lot of
people running for their lives
and getting picked off one by

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a Facehugger, which does as its
name suggests and attaches
itself to the face of one of the
crewmembers.
They take him back to the ship
and not that much later, out of
his chest appears the fittingly
named Chestburster in a spray
of blood. This of course freaks
the crew out, but the creature
manages to escape. Before
long, they have a fully grown
Xenomorph on their hands,
and they start dying. The good
doctor on board is revealed to
be an android on orders
to get the Alien, as
they call it, to the
Company, whatever
the costs. This
doesn’t sit well
with the crew,
and they destroy
the android.
Eventually, only
one human and
the cat survive,
and Ripley initiates
the self-destruct of the
ship. Upon leaving in the
shuttle to survive the explosion,
she’s kind enough to take the
Xenomorph with her, but she
retracts that heartwarming
action by jettisoning the poor
creature out into space, before
going into cryo-stasis.
Fifty seven years later, the
second movie starts (luckily,
this was only seven years in our
time), when Ripley is rescued.
On the planet they found the
eggs, there’s now a colony. This
movie is called Aliens, adding

ARTICLE

M

y Alien-Addiction
started with the
movies. I just
completely adored
the black killing machines.
To me, they were the epitome
of awesome. Yes, the plot
leaves much to be desired and
there’s next to no character
building whatsoever in any of
the movies, but the creatures
are amazing. Sleek, black, with
silver teeth and a little insidemouth to properly bash in a
guy’s skull and eat his brains though you never actually see
them do that, and most of
the brains are splashed
about at the entry and they even bleed
acid. They’re fast,
climb walls and
are generally
deadly. No
matter how or
where you insert
a Xenomorph (as
that is what they’re
actually called, but
I’m hoping anyone that
reads this already knows
that), they will always look cool.

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