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Serenity and sublimity.(Film)(Movie review)
IT IS ALWAYS REFRESHING when audiences insist on seeing what they want instead of the fare stations or networks believe they ought to watch. This is how the free market is supposed to work and so often doesn't. It happened to Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, and now it's happened to Joss Whedon--twice. The first was when his Buffy the Vampire Slayer was supposed to last only twelve episodes--half a season. Consequently, he rounded off the series with a resounding climax, only to find Buffy was so popular that it continued for a further six seasons with a spin-off, Angel, that proved nearly as successful.
Given this, one might have expected the networks ...
- Sigourney Weaver hopes for another `Alien' sequel.
- Newspaper article from: Zap2It.com December 9, 2004 700+ words
...at age 55, Sigourney Weaver says she hopes...yet another "Alien" film. The...1987 sequel "Aliens") and was...latest in "Alien: Resurrection...hope that the Alien won. The Predator...6099): Sigourney Weaver For information...
- RIPLEY'S BACK FOR NEXT ROUND AS A CLONED AND CONFLICTED ACTION MACHINE;...
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) November 26, 1997 700+ words
...cool,'' Sigourney Weaver says. Few...been the ``Alien'' series...follow-up ``Aliens,'' director...ambush that ``Aliens'' so brilliantly...with a baby alien gestating inside...s with the Aliens in this film...feels like an Alien, too. To...maybe not. Sigourney ...
- Look who's alienated - Sigourney Weaver finds Ripley's 'Antarctic side' in...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Verniere, James November 23, 1997 700+ words
...my imagination? Or is Sigourney Weaver, currently winning raves...the newly cloned and alien-ated Ellen Ripley in...Riding Hood with the Alien as the wolf and Ripley...whom Ripley bonds in "Aliens," reinforces that film...of awe and wonder. "Alien 3," the most disappointing...
- Sigourney Weaver: A new breed of heroine // She returns to `Rambolina' role in...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Lloyd Sachs July 13, 1986 700+ words
...Take Gotham native Sigourney Weaver. She says she enjoyed...during the shooting of "Aliens" at Pinewood Studios...unpleasantries in "Aliens," on the contrary...potential. In addition to "Aliens," Weaver also will...your career. When `Alien' came out, I really...
- Bad to the clone; 'Resurrection' brings out Sigourney Weaver's darker side as...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Verniere, James November 26, 1997 700+ words
...probably best sums up "Alien Resurrection," the...the long-running "Alien" series. A lean, mean Sigourney Weaver (complete with hair...DNA mixes human and alien elements. In other...telepathic union with other aliens. She also is able...
- Loving the Alien; YOU CAN'T GET MUCH MORE DEAD THAN PLUNGING INTO A PIT OF LAVA...
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England) Donnelly, Ian Hyland/Gabrielle November 23, 1997 700+ words
...The end of the last Alien movie saw Sigourney Weaver plunging to her death...They may make another Alien film but obviously...Ripley is born again in Alien Resurrection, to...brave' - there's no Sigourney Weaver in that scene at all...
- BELIEVE IT OR NOT, RIPLEY IS BACK SIGOURNEY WEAVER RETURNS IN 'ALIEN...
- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) Kopp, Craig November 27, 1997 700+ words
...dead, meaning the ''Alien'' movie series lives on and Sigourney Weaver is back on screen fighting alien space bugs with acid in...to Ellen Ripley in ''Aliens 3.'' The ''crazy'' director of ''Alien Resurrection,'' Frenchman...
- Alien menace: Lt. Ripley is Hollywood's mythical woman - butch and ready to...
- Magazine article from: National Review Bowman, James January 26, 1998 700+ words
...is to be found in the Alien series of films, whose...recent installment, Alien Resurrection, manages...that in the original Alien (1979) Sigourney Weaver's archetypal character...that in the sequel, Aliens (1986), her chief...
