Slime and grime, what more do you need?

There were the cinema advert. Where the slogan was first heard. 'In space no one can hear you scream.', could this freak you out any more? OK, granted this was before my time (being only 16 I was in diapers when the majority of them came out), but it does have that creepy feeling even today - just another piece of evidence to the long-lasting effect these movies have made on society and the world in general.

The first movie - Alien - was a bit slow, predictable to begin with, but altogether a pretty good movie, hands-down. Sigourney Weaver played a most excellent part in this as the 'damsel-in-distress', gone bad! Though her wardrobe choice for a space-age setting was left little to be thankful for.

The second - Aliens - was a little better, having established the enemy and that it would be unrelenting in its pursuit of universal domination - isn't that theme a bit used by now? However, as Ripley had a whole marine team to aid her in flushing out a 'possible' (pfft, please) Alien incursion it made it a little bit easier for her. In the sense that she did relatively nothing all the movie long. Not that that's a complaint, Sig really needs to sit on her bum and earn cash... *cough cough*. So the story was a bit better, having a massive army of seemingly never-ending waves of aliens... shouldn't there have been an alien limit? Has anyone ever counted the number of aliens and compared it to the number of colonists stated, I would, but I'm not sad enough...yet. It ended pretty well too - she got her new-age marine toy-boy from a time when she should've been dead and she also 'adopted' the cute little girl Newt.

It was such a shame the survivors didn't make it to Alien 3 (did the titlists just have a day off or something?), oh wait, no...one did. Who was it? Wait, don't tell me, I've got it... Sig! Earning more than my parents combined in a year by sitting and moaning that she didn't get her favourite shampoo...Lordy, Lordy. This one took it back to the fear factor, what happens when you don't have space-age technology? You burn the buggers. Where? In a huge industrial sized incinerator...handy that was there, huh? They couldn't have made the prison facility on a farming planet could they? No, the indestructible woman just has to get a fighting chance. You'd have thought that she would've had a mental break-down by the third film huh? Anyway, back to the non-rant part of this review, they did good, all those rapists and murderers - saving all of humanity at the cost of their lives. Who does that? No one, thats who. And can I just ask how can an alien be frozen one second and the next its just all foamed up? I mean they die from fire and heat, so, wouldn't the cold at least affect them somehow? But she eventually dies - after the introduction to the mind and designer behind the robots...how could he still be living? How does she die? Well, she has a queen alien burst out her chest just as she's flying dramatically to her molten metallic doom. Yet they still manage to get DNA for cloning. HOW???

OK, the fourth, and quite possibly my favourite. Alien Resurrection, as the title suggests is when military people clone Ripley and the queen growing inside her. They grow the queen. They grow the 'improved' Ripley. She has acidic blood in a human body? I think not Mr Script-writer. This one has the funniest line in it though 'So Ripley, I, like, heard you met these things before. So I was, like, wondering, what did you do? ~ *small snigger* I died.'

So they're pretty good, overall a nice watch one long day when there's no sun and all the kids are bored of Robots and Madagascar.