Alien (movie) – Lee Duigon

From July 6, 2017

Hi, Mr. Nature here–with a deep-sea creature that looks like the product of a special effects crew.

The goblin shark wasn’t discovered until 1898. It has two far-out features. First, that long thing sticking way out the top of its head. It’s not a nose or a horn. It’s full of tiny sensors that enable the shark, in deep and lightless waters, to detect electrical fields given off by living things it might want to eat.

The second weird feature is a set of jaws that can be shot out in front of its head to catch prey–sort of like the choppers on the monster in Alien. Zap! Gotcha!

The shark in the video probably didn’t mean to attack the diver, and only accidentally got its teeth caught in the wet suit. This gives us a really good look at those extendable jaws.

Probably the closest look we’ll ever want to get.

Alien 1979 movie screenshot and Alien book

Remember Alien? A particularly gory and violent science-fiction movie from the 1970s. It spawned a couple sequels, but the first was really gross.

So! Now Disney Corp., aided and abetted by Random House and Little Golden Books (what a disappointment! for shame!), next summer will release a children’s book, A Is For Alien, described as “a light-hearted re-imagining of the iconic movie.” How many cliches can they fit into one sentence?

By “children” they mean pre-schoolers.

That scene where the alien parasite tears its way out of John Hurt’s abdomen–think they’ll have that in the children’s book? And what’s next–a light-hearted re-imagining of Hannibal Lecter’s personal cookbook? All for the children, of course.

Man, there are air forces that drop fewer bombs than Disney.

While we snarl at each other, Disney, teachers’ unions, the Democrat Party, and all their friends are injecting poisons into our culture. I saw Alien in the theater: I like monster movies. But I wasn’t four years old at the time.

(“Yeahbut, yeahbut! It’s a book–it isn’t like the movie!”)

Are the groomers at Disney Corp. crazy… or do they know us better than we think? Heaven forbid the latter.