Although when I saw the movie in the theatre, the projector cinched up right at the moment of the big (crap) reveal, the light burnt the film and the movie ended. We got free passes to the next showing. It was a way better ending than Jeunet's xp
― mom in the woods (Ówen P.), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
Wm Gibson did a draft of the Alien3 screenplay, iirc
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
The aliens killing one of their own to unleash enough acid to escape, after they've learned about the punishment button from creepy scientist dude
that part is awesome
the alien baby hybrid getting killed by mama ripley was ... sad :-(
― the late great, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah that's crazy. A2>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>A3>>>>>>>>>>>insert vastness of space where no one can you scream>>>>>>>>>>>A4
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
was there anybody NOT involved with A3 iirc
― Summer Slam! (Ste), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
tila tequila
― Conmetheus (latebloomer), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno, the A2>A3>A4 thing is popular consensus but I basically feel like Jeunet>Fincher>everybody>Cameron so whatever
― mom in the woods (Ówen P.), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
i mean i've always sorta felt like 2 and 3 were just sorta "here is the Alien story, with a slightly different (action! apocalyptic!) angle on it
4 was like HI ITS THE 90S
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
i think the jeunet 4 is kinda good, idk. it's a cable staple now, nobody gives a fuck about 3 anymore
― goole, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
3 is awesome
― the late great, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
i really gotta go watch all of them again, if i can (i've seen 1 & 2 so many times)
watched predator last night btw, à cause de l'action poll. fuck that is a terrific movie. only real flaw is that shot of the predator walking off while arnie is first caked in mud, he just looks wayyy too much like a dude skipping through the forest
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
and the pupil becomes the master
― catbus otm (gbx), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
"cable staples" could be a pretty good movie thread
― the late great, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
should be stratified by era imo
― catbus otm (gbx), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
James Cameron going on a "they killed Newt / I will never forgive them" tirade.
you act like cameron is the only guy who thought that sucked
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, March 19, 2012 10:23 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
― Conmetheus (latebloomer), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
i think alien 3's actually pretty good.
― Conmetheus (latebloomer), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
This is how it goes:
Alien: FantasticAliens: Sequel perfection--everything is "bigger/louder/more", but done intelligently and with beautiful design work that fits with and expands the world/universe glimpsed in the first filmAlien3: interesting ideas, hopelessly compromised production, flawed but surprisingly good film (especially the not-really-director's-cut)Alien Resurrection: get that shit away from me, made me hate Joss Whedon and his idiot fans ever since
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
exactly^
― Conmetheus (latebloomer), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
another thing i've noticed: Alien Resurrection and Deep Blue Sea are virtually the same movie
― Conmetheus (latebloomer), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
ALIEN is straight up a great (creeping terror haunted house let's take a B movie and make it A+) film. ALIENS is mostly bollocks and way too blue. Smaller/quieter/less is exactly what made ALIEN work. Shit give me just Tom Skerritt talking to Mother over all of ALIENS.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
u mad
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
I feel like Aliens is a great film but as far as the actual premise of the aliens being this insidious thing in the shadows, thinking of nothing else:1 > 3> 2 > 4
3 screwed up by showing the alien ripping up people in the hallways too many times in the run up to the ending, but ehhh
Aliens also gave us the whole egg-laying thing!
― mh, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
think there might have been an egg in ALIEN iirc
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
There were gestating facehuggers but we didn't get the "alien craps out eggs through giant weird tube" thing
― mh, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
The egg sequence at the end was cut. Still in the Alan Dean Foster novelization I got for Christmas in '89, tho
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
obviously you spray an alien with acid and facehugger eggs fly off, just like when a mogwai gets wet
― mh, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
if you feed them after midnight they turn into a predator
― Conmetheus (latebloomer), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
Gremlins Vs Predator
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
wonder if the franchise would have been as successful if they stuck with the original title of STAR BEAST
― Number None, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
I like Jeunet better than Fincher or Cameron too, but you gotta admit doing an Alien movie was not really playing up to his strengths.
If you're upset about Newt being killed in A3, you should read the original black & white Dark Horse Aliens comics by Mark Verheiden and Mark A. Nelson. They were made after Aliens but before A3, so they feature the grown-up Newt as the protagonist, with a pretty good plot that touches the origins of the Space Jockey and the Aliens too.
― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
STAR BEASTSSTAR BEAST³STAR BEAST: RESURRECTION
― Number None, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
STAR BEAST 4: SEXY BEAST
― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
boom!
― mom in the woods (Ówen P.), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, the DH comics were usually better written and more inventive than the sequels to Aliens.
Kinda wish they would have made "Earth War" at some point like the third one was teased as
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
Star Beast 4: Dancing With the Star Beasts
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
― Conmetheus (latebloomer), Monday, March 19, 2012
OTM and I find A:R much less painful if I watch it as spoof.
Need to watch A3 again, I think. iirc Charleses Dutton and Dance ruled pretty hard?
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
"Prometheus - Dunkle Zeichen"
oh man that's a great beer
― epistantophus, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
That whiny "They're gonna get us, Man! We're gonna die, Maaaan!" guy in Aliens ruins that movie for me nowadays.
― Lawanda Pageboy (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
HEY watch what you say about Bill Paxton, friend
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
Alien Resurrection: get that shit away from me, made me hate Joss Whedon and his idiot fans ever since
LOL ppl blaming screenwriters for what ends up on the screen. Like, Whedon is the LEAST responsible person for what happened there.
― butvi wouls (Phil D.), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
I love Hudson
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
maaaaaaaaaaaaan
Whedon's fans are idiots though. I think we can all agree on that
― Number None, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
wasn't resurrection based on a comic?
i am almost certain there was a comic about a dude who is studying captured aliens that also features a disabled character
worst thing about jeuneut is how he uses the same weirdo character actors over and over again
― the late great, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
I like them in his "own" movies, but yeah, it was pretty weird seeing the clown protagonist from Delicatessen in an Alien movie.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
Every director does that, you just hate Dominique Pinon
― mom in the woods (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
jeunet is really not that great guys
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
haha i've always thought this too
― Summer Slam! (Ste), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
also
Alien = greenAliens = blueAlien3 = yellowAlien4 = doesn't know what it is
― Summer Slam! (Ste), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 00:31 (twelve years ago) link