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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. Ticketmaster 8 I only wish there were seven more of me to do the things I don't want to do, and to help me do the things I enjoy, but better. I seem to be doing alright for myself, though, as we're poised to pass twenty thousand views for the month. But (save one or two sources of light) work is not my friend at the moment, so a few viable clones, or more realistically, a more enjoyable paying  job, would make life a lot more bearable. To ensure that  Just the Ticket  stays viable and enjoyable, please remember to tell each of your friends, family members, and clones to  Become A Ticketholder  if you haven't already, send a beacon to the comments section at the bottom of this post because it's the only way to be sure my site doesn't get nuked from orbit, help out my ad revenue as you read to keep The Company happy, and use the air ducts to follow me on  Tumblr ,  Reddit ,  Facebook , and  LinkedIn  so yo...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster This review connects back (as all of my Alien  April reviews have so far) to my 65  review, where I made reference to Hicks and Newt dying between films. Which pissed off a lot of fans at the time, and still does, considering how integral they were to Ripley's character growth and psychology in Aliens . Michael Biehn even fought to get paid the same for his "this character died from this cause between films and here is their blurry, pixelated photo" cameo in Alien 3  as he did for his entire active role in Aliens . To ensure that Just the Ticket  isn't killed off between films, reduced to a cameo, or underpaid, please remember to  Become A Ticketholder  if you haven't already, send a beacon to the comments section at the bottom of this post because it's the only way to be sure my site doesn't get nuked from orbit, help out my ad revenue as you read to keep The Company happy, and use the air ducts to foll...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster. At the end of my 65  review, I said that if I wanted to watch a good version of an astronaut dealing with time dilation and the loss of their daughter, I would re-watch Interstellar  instead. But I could have just as easily name-dropped Aliens  into the mix. If you'd like to drop my content into your mix of daily and/or weekly intake, please remember to  Become A Ticketholder  if you haven't already, send a beacon to the comments section at the bottom of this post because it's the only way to be sure my site doesn't get nuked from orbit, help out my ad revenue as you read to keep The Company happy, and use the air ducts to follow me on  Tumblr ,  Reddit ,  Facebook , and  LinkedIn  so you can like what you see and receive the freshest Xenomorph eggs of news on my chest-busting content. Set loose in 1986,  Aliens  is perhaps the beginning of James Cameron's career of directing...

Article by Sean Wilkinson,  a.k.a. The Ticketmaster When I was originally deciding which movies to review in which months for the List Lookback , my only reasoning for reviewing Alien  in April is that they start with the same letter. But with all of the references to the franchise that I made in my 65 review, and the obvious fertility bottomtext of the various stages of the Xenomorph life cycle (the most relevant being the eggs), April turned out to be a perfect fit. In space, no one can hear me blog, so please remember to  Become A Ticketholder  if you haven't already, send a beacon to the comments section at the bottom of this post because it's the only way to be sure my site doesn't get nuked from orbit, help out my ad revenue as you read to keep The Company happy, and use the air ducts to follow me on  Tumblr ,  Reddit ,  Facebook , and  LinkedIn  so you can like what you see and receive the freshest Xenomorph eggs of news on my chest-b...

Last time, via Ticket Stubs , we looked at the AVP films, which served as horribly non-canon prequels to the Alien franchise (a little tidbit that I didn't realize when I was watching AVP the first time: Lance Henriksen, who played the android Bishop in Aliens  has a role in AVP  as Bishop's likeness, Weyland-Yutani founder Charles Bishop Weyland). The crossover event continues in this issue of Just the Ticket , which will be devoted to the canonical pre-boot, Prometheus , with a special Critical Quickie  on Predators . I recently read a review of the Blu-Ray release of Prometheus , which said that the movie answered none of the questions its cover promised (tagline: "Questions will be answered"). It's been such a long time since I saw an Alien  movie that I really had no questions, and very little basis on which to found any. For me, the Alien  series was just a fun, scary monster-fest with iconic creatures and (I now realize) predictable plot mech...

In a typical issue of Ticket Stubs , I'd give you guys a re-print/post/whatever of a review I did in the old days, closing things out with a relevant Critical Quickie  or two before the usual "stay tuned" mumbo-jumbo. This time, however, we're talking about the twice-mashed-up (and once-screwed-up) worlds of Alien  and Predator , where blood isn't always red (or safe to splatter every which way), what you don't see may kill you, and what you do see is worth screaming about, except that no one in space can hear you. So a little more web space is required to give the newcomers their due. To make the due-giving adequately possible, Ticket Stubs  and Just the Ticket  are crossing it over once again for a two-part update on a one-shot I wrote in college. Without further ado, here it is FROM   April 5, 2005 (SW@ Ticket #35: Rogue V. Prey):  Alien V. Predator . Cheap cast, choppy conglomeration of the two franchises (unless you place AVP after Pre...