Alien or Aliens?

[Spike0503]

mZuzek said:

Spike0503 said:
Personally, Aliens is the best one for me. It has an amazing mix of drama, horror and action that has no visible flaws aside from a somewhat weak performance by the Weyland-Yutani guy.

Alien is an excellent film and one of my top 10 horror movies of all time but the whole thing with the cat at the end seemed rather silly to me. I'm not a pet person so you can call me callous but going back for the cat seemed like a really stupid decision by such an intelligent character as Ripley.

So Ripley would leave the cat to die because she's "intelligent"? She obviously cares about the cat, it's a living being like any other and at that point in time, the only companion she can have if she does manage to save it.

I think when you say you're "not a pet person", really what you're meaning to say there is that animal lives don't matter. Ripley clearly wouldn't agree with you.

You make a fair point. Ripley being an extremely intelligent and competent individual isn't mutually exclusive with her desire to save the cat. I recognize that now. It's just that, personally, I don't consider the choice to put your life at risk for a pet to be a good idea in any way, shape or form. As Don Ferrari has said, I value the lives of humans a thousand times more than animals. It's just my personal belief and I don't put my values above yours or anyone else's.

I would also like to point out what you said before, Ripley doesn't seem to hold the pet in any high regard during the rest of the movie so that may be a flaw. Though I have rationalized through the many times I've seen the movie that, after losing so many friends and people dear to her, saving the cat was perhaps some sort of personal goal or redemption that Ripley wanted to achieve. Not that I agree with it! lol, but I can at least understand that point of view.