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Morning Discussion
by Alice O'Connor, Dec 28, 2009 5:00am PSTIt truly is the most wonderful time of the year. Friends and family gather round, feasts are held three days in a row and there's enough half-melted refrozen snow slush for you to feel some kind of victory. Unless, of course, so much flu courses through your veins that even your sloshed uncle is more alert, stabler and a better conversationalist than you.
I ended up mostly playing King's Bounty: Armored Princess. It's fun. That's my review.
I've tried almost every potion, poultice, syrup, pill, powder, lozenge and tincture under the sun, all to no avail. Desperate times call for desperate measures and it'll be a cold day in Walthamstow before I let Kwanzaa be ruined too so if I'm not on the mend by tomorrow it'll be the ole Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap. Dilute! Dilute! O.K.!
I never liked female action heroes, as they always came off like some... I don't know. Just not cool, fake and smug. It always were overdone in my opinion, not only with heroes but also villains. Like that annoying uzi woman in underwear from The Transporter 2.
But Ripley, dayum sister, that was badass. The first female action hero I found truly awesome.
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One of my favorite scenes is when Stanton's character stands under a water leak, letting it run over his face (shortly before his demise). The camera stays on him for a long time as he does this, half a minute or more. He's not an especially important or well-developed character, but Scott nevertheless has us witness an unexpectedly intimate moment, this world-weary blue-collar mechanic indulging in a moment of quiet sensation right before the alien brutally kills him.
Most horror movies have a character do something really superficial to make us "care" about them before they die. Maybe an asshole saves a puppy or whatever. But in this silent scene, Scott manages to give Stanton's character full weight, full dimension, establishing him as a human being and telegraphing to us that he's almost surely going to die. The foreshadowing manages to be genuinely tragic, which is something you never expects in this genre.
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