As for Alien/s. The first is more about the Alien within us, it was made in a time when the cold war was still around, and hence paranoia, still a bit bmovieish. To me, It’s more about looking around in the dark recesses of our souls and finding the dark stuff. It’s quite a long dark suspensful trek, like apocalypse now or something. I’s that dark quivering base cortex horrible part of humanity we don’t want to find or look at.But it’s there, and it’s horrible. It’s a huge brilliant visual metaphor. The Alien is us.
Aliens copies the visuals from the original (the best bits any way), takes the Alien as just something on a planet to be battled with with guns and marines etc. is a very good action film with lots of guns and gung ho stuff. It’s very American!
The original is a far more cerebral, intelligent film, and it gives you time to think. It just depends what type of film you fancy at the time eh? The fascinating thing about a good film, like any work of art, is that you can apply yourself to it in a different way in a different time in your life and still get a different response. You can’t do that with Police Academy.
