I think it's a little too dystopian? There's not really much of a counter-culture or subversive element to it, I would say, because the heroes are more in the 'cynical realist' vein, rather than properly punk.

I’unno, it does have Ripley and she’s pretty damn punk. “They can bill me” comes to mind!

I struggled with how to couche that because, yeah, hard to get past how well written and characterized Ripley is and Sigourney is just -chef's kiss- in the role. I think it's that, rather than rebellious, Ripley is still a warrant officer with a heart of gold trying to get her kids/job back.

This is interesting because it certainly fits the bill as far as anti-capitalist futurism in a world where the divide between the physical slop and digital ideal is as big as possible. The weird part is that all the heroes work for the system instead of outside it, which is usually the play.

In fairness they work in it, sure, but inevitably screw it over.

Or it screws them. Either way the themes are right. Adding an alien mixes it up, obvs, as cyber doesn’t become the key idea. Make a movie in that universe about creating Bishop and then we’re talking.

I think it can inform cyberpunk aesthetic to an extent but isn’t itself particularly punk (apart from taping a flamethrower to a rifle, which is badass)