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Half-Assed Internet Research

Practical effects, production conflicts and the extended cut

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  • British crew tea-break conflicts
  • A lightweight Newt dummy for carrying scenes
  • Carrie Henn repeating slide takes
  • Fourteen puppeteers operating the alien queen
  • Heavy prop weapons
  • Henriksen’s reported illness from Bishop’s milky effects mixture
  • Reuse of the alien-nest set for Batman
  • Editing out the colony sequence
  • Weaver’s objections to cutting Ripley’s daughter backstory
  • Franchise timeline complications
  • Alien: Isolation’s Amanda Ripley premise
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Apex Mountain

Weaver, Biehn, and Goldstein: yes

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Picking Nits

Ripley ignored, inconsistent logic and survival mechanics

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  • Authorities ignore Ripley’s experience
  • Claims of no comparable alien life versus Marines’ alien-sex talk
  • Ripley’s financial situation after hypersleep
  • Newt surviving alone
  • Destroying the eggs despite an imminent explosion
  • Ripley’s exposure inside the power loader
  • Holding on during airlock decompression
  • Sparing Burke needs more justification
  • Marines overlook the ceiling
  • The Marines’ effectiveness is questioned and defended as Vietnam commentary
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Probably Unanswerable Questions

Hypersleep, transfer changes and Bishop’s future

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  • Whether Ripley’s teeth were altered in the 4K transfer
  • Biological needs during and after hypersleep
  • How to spend the first moments after waking decades later
  • Relative horror of cocooning, implantation and being torn apart
  • A deleted Burke cocoon scene and timeline logic
  • Bishop’s reconstruction after losing half his body
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