Find A "Happy Place"

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Rewatching Aliens always makes me feel happy. Weird, I know,* but I get all happy about the fistfight at the end, in which Ripley tries to kill the Queen with a forklift (¡olé!). Plus I have a Weird Crush on Bishop. He just wants to be loved. I WILL BE YOUR FRIEND, BISHOP.**

I just found out there’s a full treatment of at least one of the thirty or so much more awesome screenplays people came up with before shitting out the actual Alien3. None of them is quite as good as my own headcanon, in which the four survivors of Aliens go off to battle the aliens at their source—Ripley and Hicks because fuck aliens, Newt because she sneaks along to be with Ripley, and Bishop because the aliens present an imminent threat to life in the universe and he takes the first law of robotics very seriously. So we wind up Ripley, Hicks, and Bishop running missions and teaming up with new mercenaries (maybe the goofs from Serenity vs. Alien Resurrection***) and Newt out in ops with a wall o’ computers and they all have crazy space adventures forever. Also, there are ponies.

By the way, you may be amused by the art of my awesome buddy Lychee, who has really taken off with some crazy suggestion my subconscious made years ago of Wolverine vs. Xenomorph. We both still agree that this would be excellent, since Wolverine could potentially survive incubating one. Maybe if we all ask her nicely she’ll still draw that bit of the comic we were making where Wolverine’s chestburster makes its appearance, which was HILARIOUS, but for now you can enjoy her stuff!

PS: Lychee also did my default icon, visible up there, which is a portrait of me. You can view the full thing here, where you will shit bricks when you realize that the things flying around me are my swarm of xenofairies. I am still super pleased that she made this drawing of me.


*Not as weird by my buddy Liz, whose Happy Movie is Schindler’s List. Liz is a little odd.

**On the other hand, watching Alien makes me regard Bilbo Baggins with a certain amount of suspicion. The Lord of the Rings has become a weird experience with me, what with my fear that Bilbo will start stuffing magazines into people and my inability to avoid inserting “DAMMIT, JIM” before every line Éomer utters.

***Resurrection was not really a bad movie; it was just not a very good movie. I liked the Betty crew, though—I’ll give Joss Whedon credit for damn fine characters.

Comments

[stormteller.livejournal.com]

And do you in fact carry a wand in your beltloop? Because I think it's a good look.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Actually, yes, from time to time. Next to my pocketwatch's chain.

(The wand helps me think. I tend to just twirl it in my fingers when I'm working something out.)

[stormteller.livejournal.com]

Most people would use a pen, methinks.

[marsdejahthoris.livejournal.com]

Unapologetic Ripley/Hicks shipper here. Out of the four, Aliens is FAR and away my favorite movie, and yes, my headcanon involves a great deal of happily ever after and nuking the site from orbit, just to be sure. :)

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

I've got that same Weird Crush. Not only does he just want to be loved, he has dignity. He wants to be turned off rather than be seen all torn up!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

*grin* Except of course that NEVER HAPPENED. ;) But yes. Dignity!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I have to admit I rather like the potential of the Betty crew better than the reality of the Serenity crowd, but then I've always been a little out of sync regarding Joss Whedon. I do feel that Ron Perlman is always an improvement to something, however.

The weird thing about Resurrection is that it was a bunch of good ingredients that went together badly, like combining tuna and chocolate. Jean-Pierre Jeunet has made some great crazy movies, the actors were all pretty good, the special effects weren't bad, and the writing wasn't terrible, ut it just came out a mess.

I haven't gotten to watching Millennium yet--I have a friend who likes it, but I often take a while to watch TV shows. (Hell, I only got through part of Farscape before fizzling ...) Wanting to be Bishop's BFF does seem to fit right in with my tendency to zero in on the quiet nerd, though!

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[(Anonymous)]

Now that I no longer have a VCR or a tape of Schindler's List, I don't use it as my happy movie anymore. I switched to the Muppet Movie. Most people would say that is an improvement.

~Liz

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[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I must admit, I can't argue with them.

And I am not surprised at all, either. Yay Muppets!

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Alien Resurrection didn't come together anywhere nearly as well as it should have, but it was still a damn fun movie.

For some reason though (probably just contrariness), my favorite of the series is the Alien III Director's Cut. That one really grabbed me.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

For some reason though (probably just contrariness), my favorite of the series is the Alien III Director's Cut. That one really grabbed me.

Man, you're weird. ;)

My sister feels that Resurrection is an okay movie if you just assume it's really high-budget fanfiction, or a completely unrelated movie with some coincidental similarities. (And I love how Joss Whedon hates it and insists its failure is everybody else's fault. He wrote a perfect script, you fools!)

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much how I feel about Resurrection. There was fun stuff in it, and the Betty crew is entertaining, but it doesn't really come together. Partly because character-humor-centric Whedon and artsy psychedelic hyper-visual weirdo Caro (wasn't it Caro, not Jeunet?) is a totally bizzarre mismatch.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it kind of just wasn't right--plus it built on Alien 3, which DID NOT COUNT, so.

It was Jeunet. In the City of Lost Children commentary he and Ron Perlman talked about doing Resurrection, and I know he's got one other Go-To actor in it, too (Dominique Pinon). I like his weirdass stuff, yeah, but it didn't work for this movie.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

City of Lost Children was awesome. I still need to see Delicatessen.