far as i'm concerned, they do
― contenderizer, Friday, 15 June 2012 05:34 (eleven years ago) link
i'm with you
tombot you should probably get cracking on that script
ALIEN vs SMALL WONDER
― the late great, Friday, 15 June 2012 05:51 (eleven years ago) link
alien vs roy beatty
alien vs data
alien vs terminator ... oh wait already exists
― the late great, Friday, 15 June 2012 05:53 (eleven years ago) link
alien vs ananova
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 June 2012 05:59 (eleven years ago) link
alien vs babar the elephant
― Number None, Friday, 15 June 2012 06:40 (eleven years ago) link
alien vs lily allen
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 15 June 2012 06:51 (eleven years ago) link
alien vs ALF
― Fiendish Doctor Wu! (kingfish), Friday, 15 June 2012 07:37 (eleven years ago) link
I'm actually encouraged that this movie has great images in it and actually "works" as a movie in a lot of ways. Hopefully Ridley gets a better script for the Blade Runner sequel.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 15 June 2012 10:40 (eleven years ago) link
Blade Runner sequel.
Maybe I've been blind dumb deaf but NOOOOOO
― BC Forgbs (Ówen P.), Friday, 15 June 2012 12:35 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, it's been in the works for a while. A hopeful sign, though: Hampton Fancher on board for the script, and since he cowrote the original, who knows? I've no doubt Dan O'Bannon is swearing loudly at Prometheus from the great beyond.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 June 2012 13:03 (eleven years ago) link
Hampton Fancher on board for the script, and since he cowrote the original, who knows? I've no doubt Dan O'Bannon is swearing loudly at Prometheus from the great beyond.
I have this nightmare of Lindelof being called in to rewrite it. Just leave Blade Runner alone please, tyvm.
― I found him in a Bon Ton ad (Nicole), Friday, 15 June 2012 13:11 (eleven years ago) link
i feel the need to say this morning how much i love that this thread, originally just They're Remaking 'Alien', starts with
psych
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― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 15 June 2012 13:14 (eleven years ago) link
it's just so perfect considering where we find ourselves now
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 15 June 2012 13:15 (eleven years ago) link
Waiting for the speculative fiction universe version of the avengers where all the robots form gangs and do battle, destroying most of humanity in the process.
Data and R2D2 vs Weyland bots & the Replicants; etc
Harrison Ford could stab R2D2 with a sword, Hylander style
― nuts spats (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 15 June 2012 13:15 (eleven years ago) link
Highlander
Prometheus was in the works for a while - is there any actual talk from Ridley Scott about "next year when I'm shooting the Blade Runner sequel"?
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 15 June 2012 13:16 (eleven years ago) link
idk if Prometheus will ever become my "I am drunk and want to eat salty foods and watch a movie before sleep" movie, thank god we still have Highlander
― mh, Friday, 15 June 2012 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
You know what we're missing in 2012? Science fiction/fantasy with music that has vocals. By Queen.
― mh, Friday, 15 June 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
cant even imagine how badly dude is gonna screw up bladeruntheus
― brony ver (s1ocki), Friday, 15 June 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
;_;
― mh, Friday, 15 June 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
Did I tell you guys about my plan to watch recent Ridley Scott films in the run up to Prometheus so I wouldn't get my hopes up? I ended up only having time for that Robin Hood one before I went on vacation. I watched the theatrical release, but apparently the thing with his recent films is that the theater version gets all the exposition cut because he can't make a movie of any reasonable length
― mh, Friday, 15 June 2012 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
Hmm and everyone else. I'm at a loss as to why Scott lacks the juice to push through 3 hour epics like Cameron and Nolan get away with.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 June 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
one thing about prometheus at least it was only 2 hrs long
― brony ver (s1ocki), Friday, 15 June 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I mentioned above that that in many ways is the biggest red flag that tons of stuff was cut.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 June 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
A 2 hour sci-fi epic ... how quaint.
xp - I'm guessing the lack of billion-dollar grosses in his resume?
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 15 June 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
Billion dollar grosses are a totally contemporary thing. I bet 90% of Scott's films were hits.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 June 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
the secret is that Ridley's 3 hour versions aren't any better, they just flesh out some unnecessary plot threads or show back story for boring characters
― mh, Friday, 15 June 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
Only "Kingdom of Heaven" has gotten the superzize treatment, no? "Blade Runner" and "Legend" both gets director cuts, "Alien" and "Gladiator" reluctant director cuts.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 June 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
Robin Hood had an extended cut, too
― mh, Friday, 15 June 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
lotta people must have watched that
― brony ver (s1ocki), Friday, 15 June 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― mh, Friday, 15 June 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
Eh, it's like 15 minutes more or something.
That movie made money. Cost $150, made $350? Something like that?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 June 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
let me check
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 June 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
Tickets for 21+ 10:15 PM show 2nite. Looking forward to (watching jbr) decipher this in a drunken haze whilst I cross-reference it with two weeks' worth of spoilers!
― Stravinsky joins the Zulu nation (zero of the signified), Sunday, 17 June 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
There are certainly annoying mistakes in the movie -- characters whose personalities flip on a dime, characters who figure out that the aliens created us based on who-knows-what, "DNA match". But there were a lot of things people consider errors that I thought added to the movie. The first scene, David's motivations, not knowing what the aliens' plans were -- these were all fine by me. I did not need the blanks filled in.
― abanana, Sunday, 17 June 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
They should make a movie that's just all blanks. It would look like this:
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 17 June 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
I JUST SAW ALL OF ALIEN FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS MORNING
HOLY SHIT
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Sunday, 17 June 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
Okay hold on
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 17 June 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
Let me just back up here
...first...time...ever?
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 17 June 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
this seems consistent with first time ever. also OTM.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 17 June 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah yeah I know
Fucking great movie, dunno why I waited so long to see all of it, in order (I'd seen most/all of the famous scenes)
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Sunday, 17 June 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
I re-watched Alien on the weekend. The shot of Jonesy when the Alien gets Harry Dean Stanton is the greatest piece of animal acting ever
― Number None, Sunday, 17 June 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
watched it not so long ago, noticed an audacious shot just before it gets harry dean stanton - might be director's cut only idk - where you see a kind of top-down almost full shot of it hanging there among the ducts, looking like part of the ship itself. if you know what you're seeing it's like a massive reveal but if not you probably don't even realise.
― Jesu swept (ledge), Sunday, 17 June 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Sunday, June 17, 2012 3:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
YES
― mh, Sunday, 17 June 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
I only saw it for the first time recently too, and yes I was suitably impressed. Just finished watching Aliens tonight and it's much better than I remember from when I saw it 15 years ago. Why do I vaguely remember seeing the Queen Alien hanging off the back of the ship at the end whereas this one I saw had no such scene...??
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Sunday, 17 June 2012 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
aliens is kind've amazing
― brony ver (s1ocki), Monday, 18 June 2012 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
i just watched the first 30 minutes of it last night after i got home from the bar... i love the space scenes at the beginning so much... the music cue when you see ripley's ship hanging underneath the salvage vessel (which you never actually see in its entirety... so great)
― brony ver (s1ocki), Monday, 18 June 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
I love how everytime the crew sits down together there's always those cross-conversations, it just feels so natural like you can almost right away tell who likes who, who's in charge...like natural lunch-room politics.
and I love the way he uses the classic horror camera tricks, but uses your knowledge of them AS a trick: in the scene where they're looking for the facehugger in the lab, you aren't sure if the camera being down so low is the facehugger POV and then when Skerrit knocks over the shelf you're like AGH OH FUCK wait no that's not it...
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 June 2012 01:44 (eleven years ago) link