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‘Alien’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

The Rewatchables

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The Importance of Purpose in the End of the Movie

Every critical action sequence is basically a commentary on rape. The way that the alien attacks is rape, the chest burst thing is the vision of male rape. There's like five favorite moments. When I think he's a rolled up a magazine, he'll show me a downer throat. Ash first Ripley. Just a great heel turn by him. He needed like entrance music after that. Who's going to buy the hornet? No Jeff Bezos. You have my sympathy.

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