Alien Franchise Watch-Along: Resurrection

Artistic depiction of the event by an eyewitness **Alien AliensAlien 3Alien: ResurrectionPrometheusCovenant ** Alien: Resurrection (1997, dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet)Not unique to this movie, but it does always feel intrinsically wrong for the 20th Century Fox fanfare to not immediately transition into the Star Wars theme.**Still an orange opening, except it’s closeups of grotty/distorted organic material. No nebula when we get to space, just an ugly-ass ship. The overbearing theme music is here to stay, it seems.**Oh boy, written by Joss Whedon.**Things feel off from go: it looks like a low-mid Sci-Fi Channel movie outing and yep, we’re stuck leering at nude Ripley. It’s not like this series hasn’t ogled her before, but this feels worse. Probably because it immediately follows "Written by JOSS WHEDON".**Wait, why are they cloning Ripley if they want the Burster? Can’t they just clone it and implant it in livestock, since there's apparently enough of its DNA in Ripley's blood to clone a…