Alien or Aliens?

[DonFerrari]

Spike0503 said:

mZuzek said:

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.

I don't know what is the problem on recognizing that a smart person made a dumb decision. Most movies and other media is based on people making dumb decisions. And actually that is my biggest grief with most of media, they portray someone as a genius but then that person make very lousy decisions.