Tag Archives: Sigourney Weaver
Ghostbusters II (1989) | Ivan Reitman
February 25, 2021 Kooky SpooksAnnie Potts, baby, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, ghost, Harold Ramis, Ivan Reitman, New York City, Peter MacNicol, Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver, single mother, slime, spirit, Statue of Liberty, Wilhelm von Homburgqwipster
Five years after the events of Ghostbusters, the heroes are zeroes again, bankrupt after getting sued by the city for the destructive aftermath of clearing out the city of spooks. There's also a Federal restraining order prohibiting them from continued ghostbusting. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) is now the host of a cheesy local cable talk show called, "World of the Psychic." Occult bookstore owner Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) gets side work with Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson), cosplaying as Ghostbusters for childrens' birthday parties. Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) is back at Columbia University, investigating how human emotions affect psycho-magnetic energy. Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) is a single mother after leaving Venkman for his inability to commit, having a baby, now eight months old, with another man. Louis Tully (Rick Moranis) applies his knack for accounting to become a tax lawyer.
They reunite after being approached by Peter's ex, Dana, who reports a strange occurrence involving her baby's carriage traveling on its own. They discover rivers of mood slime running beneath the city, converging on the Manhattan Museum of Art, where Dana works as an art restorer, including a life-size portrait of Medieval sorcerer warlord, Vigo the Carpathian. Vigo's spirit lives within his portrait, and to enter into the realm of the living, he needs a baby to be his vessel to come to the mortal realm and continue his reign of terror. He makes a deal with Dana's boss, Dr. Janosz Poha (Peter MacNicol), to secure her baby, Oscar, in exchange for a date with her.
Ghostbusters (1984) | Ivan Reitman
February 11, 2021 Kooky SpooksAnnie Potts, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, ghost, Ghostbusters, going into business, Harold Ramis, Ivan Reitman, New York City, Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver, William Athertonqwipster
Ghostbusters centers on three university researchers (Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis) of paranormal activity who go into business of their own once they get into trouble for their uncouth antics, and their grant money runs out. They emerge on the scene as the "Ghostbusters", a trio of exterminators (of sorts), willing to investigate phenomena from anyone in New York City willing to call their number and pay their fees. Though the public is initially skeptical, these men soon become heroes, then celebrities, for their success rate, drawing the attention of the media, as well as the EPA (who are curious about their containment system), as the amount of ghostly appearances seems to be on a major upswing.
Sigourney Weaver co-stars as a cellist named Dana Barrett, who is one of the first in her old building to begin seeing strange things in her refrigerator, causing her to make the call she never thought she'd have to make. Along with her neighbor, Louis Tully (Rick Moranis), she becomes the conduit for the rise of the malevolent Babylonian spirit, whose aims are to bring darkness onto the world. Directed by Ivan Reitman.
Erratum: The artist friend Aykroyd used for conceptual art on Ghost Smashers was John "The Viking" Deveikis, not the cited Thom Enriquez, who made additional conceptual art once Reitman was on board.
Aliens (1986) | James Cameron
August 24, 2019 Alien Killing MachinesAlien franchise, aliens, Bill Paxton, Carrie Henn, colony, corporation, cryogenics, James Cameron, James Horner, Jenette Goldstein, Lance Henriksen, Marines, Michael Biehn, moon, mother-daughter, rescue mission, set in the future, Sigourney Weaver, spaceship, traumaqwipster
Aliens starts where the first one leaves off, with Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in hypersleep drifting in the escape shuttle. What Ripley doesn't know until after she is rescued is that she has been that way for 57 years. When she gets back, the company that owned her ship is very interested in why she decided to blow it to smithereens, and are not too impressed with her implausible "alien on board" story, since they have recently inhabited the newly terraformed world Ripley claims to have encountered the alien on, and have found nothing to indicate there is any danger there. That is, until the company loses all signal from the far-off settlement, and offers Ripley full reinstatement if she will act as an advisor to a squad of Marines sent to investigate the affair. Features Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Lance Henriksen, and Bill Paxton in support. Written and directed by James Cameron.
Alien (1979) | Ridley Scott
August 18, 2019 Alien Killing Machinesalien, android, cat, corporation, Dan O'Bannon, Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, John Hurt, mining, Ridley Scott, Sigourney Weaver, space, spaceship, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartright, Yaphet Kottoqwipster
The story begins in the year 2122, onboard the commercial towing vessel, the Nostromo. Its mostly blue-collar crew, five men and two women, are awakened prematurely while still in deep space from their cryogenic slumber en route back to Earth. The reason for their early disturbance has to do with the company's policy to investigate potential alien life forms, so when what appears to be an SOS signal is being transmitted from a moon in their relative vicinity, their overriding primary mission is changed to checking out the situation. Upon landing on the desolate planet, the scientists discover what appears to be eggs containing another form of life, one of which hatches and latches itself to one of the crew. Unable to remove the creature, it is brought back on board the Nostromo, where it grows at a rapid pace to become one of the deadliest killing machines humankind has ever faced. Alien would make a star out of Sigourney Weaver, and Ridley Scott one f the most sought-after directors in Hollywood.