"Aliens" : Some nice effects, but actually kind've a crap film.

Yeah, it's the aussie equivalent of chav/redneck.

Joss Whedon's Alien: Resurrection script.

Yeah, it's the aussie equivalent of chav/redneck.

-- chap, Wednesday, July 9, 2008 1:47 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

is this meant to imply chav = redneck

i read that script before the movie came out. there was this junk sale/knick knack convention at the mall and this dude was selling bootlegged scripts. i liked the script ok. certainly better than the final product.

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It must suck to work in the future where every utilitarian thing is sound-designed to make you more stressed out

still kills me

lololol

In Space Everyone Can Hear Those Eerie Steam Pipes

all of the unused alien3 scripts are rubbish :(

is "kind've" an accepted contraction?

"game over, man! scary-sounding game over!"

that rig sure did have a load of those steam pipes.

lots o'scripts: http://home.online.no/~bhundlan/scripts/alien3/

Results 1 - 10 of about 92,600 for "kind've". (0.22 seconds)

From what I can see, a lot of people use it, but completely incorrectly. Logic dictates that it's a contraction of "kind have":

"Want some gum?"
"What kind've you got?"

Everyone appears to be using it in place of "kind of," which makes no sense at all:

Kind’ve like candy…
Kind've frustrated.
It's kind've ironic that the image posted for this article
What kind've rims are these?

People be stupid.

language be flexible

i'm all about the fluidity of language, but "kind've" doesn't save you any syllables when spoken or any keystrokes when typed, which is typically the purpose of a contraction, plus it just looks weird and wrong

i wld take out the apostrophe

This is why god gave us kinda.

i'm all about the fluidity of language, but "kind've" doesn't save you any syllables when spoken or any keystrokes when typed, which is typically the purpose of a contraction, plus it just looks weird and wrong

It doesn't save you any syllables but it sure is nice not having to reach back for that voiceless glottal fricative between two frontally-articulated consonants. Whether it should be reflected in spelling as a contraction, I don't know. The fact that it sounds so much like "would've" and "could've" is probably a big factor in making people wanna do this.

Between two frontally-articulated voiced consonants even.

I love Aliens!

You can all kind've blow me.

"kind have"?

Read the thread.

no.

YESSSS

sigh

alex in nyc getting upset about corny one liners is pretty o_O

I'd say it's kind've o_O, kind've OTM.

lmao this fucken thread

i. superb trolling by alex in nyc, a+++
ii. slocki's finest moment????

ok so i watched this again (thank you alex for reminding me of this terrific movie!) and when it was over i am slightly embarrassed to say that i exclaimed loudly to no one in particular, "rockin' good times!"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, August 21, 2004 4:02 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

LOL

Newt ruins this movie just like Short Round ruined The Temple of Doom.

Kinda vs. Kind've = the "o" sounds vs the "f" sound in the word "of", no? Would prob explain the confusion about usage anyway.

Watching it again right now. Not as bad as I remembered.

Next up -- "Destiny's Child: hey, not bad!"

Watching movie on TNT vs. on Bluray/DVD

Ha. Seriously, when I composed this thread, it was 4am. I was doing the Friday night overnight shift at the TIME Magazine news desk (where I worked for over a decade). I was invariably tired, hungry and - thus -- wholly cranky and contrarian. That might explain a LOT of my posts between 2001 and the latter end of 2005, actually.

TNT's okay as long as the animated graphic ads in the lower third are kept to a minimum.

I did raise some decent -- or at least entertaining -- points here, though.

I bet a lot of fucked up parents brought their kids to both films. Don't be that parent, Alex!
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, August 20, 2004 6:48 AM (4 years ago)

Hah, my mother took me to see "Alien" in the movie theater when I was 8 years old. My first R movie. Loved it then, and still do. Sure, it was scary, but I knew it was make-believe. Being scared by choice when you can't really get hurt = fun.

my dad took me to alien 3 when i was 9, and nothing came of it.

...or did it

Airlock scene at the climax is still a towering stack of crap, though.

My new favorite part of this movie is when Burke is like "Hold on hold on, you're talking about nuking a very expensive installation here!" and Ripley goes "They can BILL me!" Somehow sums up the attitude of the whole thing perfectly. Much prefer pissed-off, working-class human Ripley to creepy, detached pseudo-alien Ripley of the latter two films.

What about the officious, middle-class Ripley of the first film?

Like.

These are all on sale at my local used book/DVD place. Despite them all being run on TV continually, I'm tempted to shell out and watch them again properly without commercial breaks/"formatted for your TV screen"/etc. etc.

"I'm tempted to shell out and watch them again properly without commercial breaks/"formatted for your TV screen"

I've been enjoying re-watching all of my favorite films widescreen with a projector. It's insane when you think that you've only seen 2/3 of most of your favorite movies.

If you can find the Alien Quadrilogy box set cheap it's worth investing, it has lots of goodness including alternative
cuts of the movies, including the original cut of Alien3.

I quite like Alien 3, does anyone else?