Reviewing a recent review.

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Sort of.  Over at Vox's, someone was saying something about something.  A movie.  I suggested the movie sucked.  That Alien, the series, was better.  They called me on that.  Since I really hadn't seen the movies in a while, I really wasn't prepared to back it up completely.  Still, I was sure, to my tastes, the Alien series was better.  Dated?  I just didn't know.

As I am replacing lost movies I am also filling some gaps.  One of those was the Alien series.  I refused to buy the movies until they were packaged together, and all in bluray.  It just so happens, that as I was selecting movies, I found the Alien series as I wished and on sale.  Okay.  I pulled the trigger on that without much fuss.

I was very surprised that the first movie was out in 1979.  Seriously?  As I remembered it, it was out in '85.  It might have been that in never came to where I lived.  Small towns had one movie house, which often only showed one or two movies, and showed those for a long time.  We just didn't get the newest, biggest, or those the owners considered controversial.  What may have happened was that I didn't see the movie until I was in the Navy.  I remember it was Orlando, Florida.  It was 1986, in late spring or early summer.  I was in nuke power school, and had my first real weekend without having to wear dress blues off base, and without serious restrictions regarding time, plus I had some money.  I could rent a car.

I am almost certain it was the first movie.  Perhaps they were bringing it out with, or in advance of, the second in the series?  I just can't be sure.  The thing is, now that I review them, the first movie isn't really too badly dated (as I see things).  Actually the second movie is more dated.  Too histrionic, among other things.  I have seen the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd so far.  The first and third are still okay, the second was just a bit too silly.  I am betting the fourth is, as I remember it, my favorite.

It isn't the best sci-fi/horror out there, by far.  It just isn't too bad.  There are huge secular and feminist type flaws in it.  And yet, it's about what you can expect.  In these times I would reject such, out of hand.  This series, as with much of the pop-culture of my youth which I have an attachment, is grandfathered in to a degree.  Very little of it would be acceptable if new.  Some of it just went away anyway.  Some of it stayed.  Well, now I know.  I'll go to bat for it, at least compared to some of the worse stuff, one way or another.  A Space Odyssey, for example.  Bleh.

Good night.