Comments on: ALIEN (1979) https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/2012/04/alien-1979/ Thu, 08 Jun 2017 13:00:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: The Unaffiliated Critic https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/2012/04/alien-1979/#comment-648 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:23:13 +0000 https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/?p=7054#comment-648 In reply to adam.

Actually, I'm the imaginary one; she made me up. It's a Wizard of Oz, Whoopi Goldberg in The Associate type of scenario. (If you go to the very bottom of the Star Wars post, you can listen to an audio clip of N. doing her uncanny ventriloquist act in which she pretends to be both of us.)

I just wish she'd make me funnier.

]]> By: adam https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/2012/04/alien-1979/#comment-647 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:48:33 +0000 https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/?p=7054#comment-647 do you have an imaginary gf? the dialogue seems rehearsed.

]]> By: The Unaffiliated Critic https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/2012/04/alien-1979/#comment-480 Mon, 07 May 2012 14:05:51 +0000 https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/?p=7054#comment-480 In reply to Necia Dallas.

Dead Ringers is a movie that makes me squirm, and I don't even have a vagina. I'm pretty sure those guys could have given me one, however. (Surgical instruments should not look like Delia Deetz's sculptures from Beetlejuice.)

N. and I actually watched Dead Ringers early in our relationship—back when I really knew how to plan a romantic date night—but that conversation was, sadly, not recorded for posterity. Suffice to say it is a movie I'm not allowed to land on, even momentarily, when we're flipping channels.

]]> By: Necia Dallas https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/2012/04/alien-1979/#comment-478 Mon, 07 May 2012 06:28:44 +0000 https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/?p=7054#comment-478 You wanna see some vagina fear, "Dead Ringers" ought to keep you pretty busy talking. (I can't wait for Google to harvest this comment under my real name when employers search for me. Ah, privacy, we barely knew ye).

Anyway, those "instruments" Jeremy Irons' twin doctors used (and let's not even get into the groty and gigantically unsubtle biological hysterias presented later in "Existenz" made my dreams unhappy for months.

]]> By: ENQ https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/2012/04/alien-1979/#comment-476 Mon, 07 May 2012 00:32:17 +0000 https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/?p=7054#comment-476 In reply to The Unaffiliated Critic.

Yes, we've read poweres of horror (Kristeva), Speculum (Irigaray) along with other works with Cixous and Wittig; I've found there's a lot to be said about Kristeva's theory and the Alien movies. Its been an interesting go of it. Im focusing on the monserous female, and forced pregnancy as well as images of a gory birth. You'd be interested in Barbara Creed or Daniel Primley. They directly deal with kristeva and 70's films.

]]> By: edc https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/2012/04/alien-1979/#comment-471 Sat, 05 May 2012 17:00:48 +0000 https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/?p=7054#comment-471 In reply to edc.

and, I'm an idiot. all these years I thought little penny robinson was in aliens. guh!

]]> By: edc https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/2012/04/alien-1979/#comment-470 Sat, 05 May 2012 16:54:27 +0000 https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/?p=7054#comment-470 In reply to The Unaffiliated Critic.

dagnabit, you're right! but she was in lost in space.

]]> By: The Unaffiliated Critic https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/2012/04/alien-1979/#comment-469 Sat, 05 May 2012 14:47:13 +0000 https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/?p=7054#comment-469 In reply to ENQ.

I love it. It's been 20+ years since I read Kristeva, Irigaray, and Cixous, but I would love to know what they would make of Alien.

]]> By: ENQ https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/2012/04/alien-1979/#comment-466 Fri, 04 May 2012 21:01:08 +0000 https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/?p=7054#comment-466 Ironically, Im taking a french feminisms class in grad school, and read Kristeva as part of the course work; my final paper is about the abject vagina if you will and I chose Alien because, well I love the alien movies and watched them also as a child, and I stumbled across your site just to figure out the name of the face hugged victim "Kane" thanks by the way.. anyway I was surprised your (wife?) said that people fear the vagina after watching this because thats what I am currently writing on and had never seen it that way in my 20 something years of being in love with the series. lol. anyway, have a good one.

]]> By: The Unaffiliated Critic https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/2012/04/alien-1979/#comment-465 Fri, 04 May 2012 17:27:21 +0000 https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/?p=7054#comment-465 In reply to edc.

Not to be even nerdier, but it was her sister Angela who was in The Sound of Music. Veronica was the little girl in The Birds.

]]> By: edc https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/2012/04/alien-1979/#comment-463 Fri, 04 May 2012 13:39:53 +0000 https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/?p=7054#comment-463 not to be nerdy, but you know veronica cartright was also in sound of music, right?

]]> By: The Unaffiliated Critic https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/2012/04/alien-1979/#comment-428 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:47:02 +0000 https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/?p=7054#comment-428 In reply to Aerynne.

Thanks, Aerynne. And you're right, she still hasn't forgiven me. (All I have to do is hum a few bars of "When You're Sixteen Going on Seventeen" to get her to throw something at me.)

But it's SO much more fun for me when she absolutely hates the movies. (After we do Aliens, I have something in mind that she can really detest.)

]]> By: Aerynne https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/2012/04/alien-1979/#comment-427 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:25:38 +0000 https://unaffiliatedcritic.com/?p=7054#comment-427 Best Unenthusiastic Critic yet! You owed N a great film after talking her into watching Sound of Music.

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