Alien The Rewatchables
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Alien

Apex Mountain

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  • Weaver's Apex is placed later around Ghostbusters, Aliens and Working Girl.
  • Hurt's Apex is placed at The Elephant Man following Alien.
  • Stanton's Apex alternatives include Paris, Texas as an iconic rather than commercially dominant role and his busy 1980s run through Red Dawn, Pretty in Pink and Escape from New York; his long association with Nicholson is jokingly proposed.
  • Skerritt's Apex is Top Gun.
  • Kotto's Apex alternatives are Homicide, Midnight Run and Live and Let Die, with debate about the Bond role's subsequent effect on his opportunities.
  • Scott's Apex is assigned to Gladiator rather than Alien; Blade Runner is rejected on financial-success grounds.
  • Alien movies as a category are rejected for Apex here.
  • Dripping and secreting are proposed as an Apex with joking pushback.
  • Movie cats are disputed against the Godfather cat.
  • Hawaiian shirts in space receive affirmative Apex discussion, praising Stanton's timeless thermal-shirt, Hawaiian-shirt and trucker-hat look.
  • Stealth Joseph Conrad references are proposed for Apex alongside Apocalypse Now, leaving a shared alternative rather than an unqualified sole choice.