ALIEN!

Watched the first scary movie of the month.

Now I have never seen "Alien." Not all the way through, I'd only seen the monologue at the end where Ripley is making the last entry in the shuttle holding her cat.

Well, lots of screams in this one ONLY because of fluids. There is that gel shit that comes out of the alien, there is that creamy looking sweat off the robot, I mean-imagine being on the goo crew for this film.

There were lots of "oh no he didn't" moments:
-See that picture above? No way do I want some acidic blooded octopus blob attached to my face.
-A robot! A robot! Really? And filled with white puss goo? Really!
-What the hell is that puncher thing that comes out of the alien?
-Why in the hell, when you got some foreign acidic blooded thing attached to a crew member in a sick room, does everyone come in with either no protection or just a surgical mask? Where are the bio hazard suites? Seriously?
-OPEN COFFEE. The people on this ship are java addicts of the worse kind and there are computers, electronics and they drink coffee in open cups. AND LEAVE IT BY THE COMPUTERS. It could fall. It could destroy the wiring. I mean, they got that whole alien thing on board killing everyone but it could have gotten a lot worse if someone's coffee spilled and destroyed the motherboard or something.


I remember in a film theory class, there was an essay by a feminist film theorist that said "Alien" was all about man's fear of the power of woman and birth. So while watching this thing, I was really searching for the placenta hater references.
I did find a couple....like those pods with the aliens inside, the fact that Ripley is always the one who is right and NO ONE listens, the fact that main control is called "Mother."

But really, after watching this film, I have to say the deep meaning is that cats rule. Because not only does Jones the orange tabby survive but escapes the clutches of the Alien THREE TIMES. And when Ripley and Jones get to blast into the ever after, that cat is a cool cucumber. Absolutely no signs of stress, she still wants to be picked up, she wants to snuggle, she could care less.

So I think the lessons to take from this film are:
-If a woman says "Don't open the hatch cause there is some ugly ass creature sucking on that guy's face"-you should really listen
-Cats rule over dogs. For this viewing month...Cats 1, Dogs 0
-Angela hates goo