Wow, really? Playing it safe in the novelization from of Aliens is not cool, no matter what universe you're in. That's the most quotable line from the movie! It has been replaced with: I can get taking out some of the language and the reader wouldn't notice, but to remove all of it? Even the epic one-liner showdowner from Ripley from the queen was removed. I had to remove another star because it was censored. Obviously the author didn't agree on dragging out the same scenes I would. I took one star away from some of my favorite parts of movie being glossed over in the book.
On the other hand, having it written down, the author was free to extend some musing dialogue, pausing for thought about the alien and the strategies they needed to come up with for proper combat. Some of the tense nail-grinding was removed from the scene where they first discovered the aliens, a few deaths lost their epic showdown appeal, and the ending fights with the queen seemed shortened and with less oomph. Written down it lost a little impact, especially in some of the well-constructed action scenes. Reading it, I envisioned the actors in their roles, the score powerfully pushing through the action and run scenes, the beautiful, uncomfortable design of the ship and aliens.
Since it's a novelization of an existing movie that's superior, it gets a three star rating for different reasons.įirst, the story most of us know and love is great written down. If this has been an original novel, and the movie came from it, then it would have been a five star easy.
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