His novelization is heavily edited so as to remove any potentially offensive phrases, and I wonder if that was his choice or the edict of someone in the production end. Foster once again is at his best creating tension by skillfully blending tropes of the horror and science fiction genres. This is a good novelization of an early draft of the screenplay. "Get away from her, you!" loses something in this version. But maybe that's how the early draft of the script was written. I would prefer any other movie/novelization to this one any day. It's still a bunch of people trying to make it out alive from a difficult situation (trying not to get eaten/made into incubators by the aliens). It's basically the same book as the first with some changes (Newt, people being told about the creatures etc.). No matter how hard I think about it, I cannot say why I'm not fond of this installment. When Earth loses contact with LV-426, they send her together with the Marines to find out what happened, only for her to face her nightmarish creatures once more. Moreover, LV-426, the planet on which Ripley's crew found the aliens on, is being colonized. Ripley is rescued after the events in the previous book, and nobody believes her story (or if they do, they do their best to discredit her).
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The second movie is my least favorite out of the Alien franchise. When Earth loses contact with LV-426, they send her together with the Marines to find out what happened, only for her to face her nightmarish creatures 1.5 stars
He's readable and sucks you into the story, but some of it fell apart after the first few chapters.moreġ.5 stars The second movie is my least favorite out of the Alien franchise. Overall it's enjoyable, especially for fans of the series, and I loved Foster's writing style overall. Wow, really? Playing it safe in the novelization from of Aliens is not cool, no matter what universe you're in. That's the most quotable line from the movie! It has been replaced with: I can get taking out some of the language and the reader wouldn't notice, but to remove all of it? Even the epic one-liner showdowner from Ripley from the queen was removed. I had to remove another star because it was censored. Obviously the author didn't agree on dragging out the same scenes I would. I took one star away from some of my favorite parts of movie being glossed over in the book.
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On the other hand, having it written down, the author was free to extend some musing dialogue, pausing for thought about the alien and the strategies they needed to come up with for proper combat. Some of the tense nail-grinding was removed from the scene where they first discovered the aliens, a few deaths lost their epic showdown appeal, and the ending fights with the queen seemed shortened and with less oomph. Written down it lost a little impact, especially in some of the well-constructed action scenes. Reading it, I envisioned the actors in their roles, the score powerfully pushing through the action and run scenes, the beautiful, uncomfortable design of the ship and aliens. Since it's a novelization of an existing movie that's superior, it gets a three star rating for different reasons.įirst, the story most of us know and love is great written down. Written down it lost a little impact, e If this has been an original novel, and the movie came from it, then it would have been a five star easy.
First, the story most of us know and love is great written down. Since it's a novelization of an existing movie that's superior, it gets a three star rating for different reasons. If this has been an original novel, and the movie came from it, then it would have been a five star easy.
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