Brilliantly parodied in the MST3K movie. So I will have nothing said against the original.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:41 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:46 (nineteen years ago) link
It's certainly the best-*looking*.
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:48 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:50 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/greatmovies/alien.html
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Because he's a COOL ROBOT!
Oh, there's no talking to you.
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:54 (nineteen years ago) link
"ALIEN 3 is one of the best-looking bad movies I have ever seen. It is a triumph of art direction and a disaster of screenwriting, and the eyes appreciate it more than the mind. Watching it in the moment, we are absorbed. After it's over, we are disappointed, because what actually happens in the movie is so much less interesting than where it happens and how it looks while it's happening."
http://www.scifimoviepage.com/alien_20.html
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:55 (nineteen years ago) link
The fat man nails it!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:56 (nineteen years ago) link
you can't tell me those flamethrowers weren't useful
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:57 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.planetavp.com/amr/films/a2/carriehennat22.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:57 (nineteen years ago) link
Doesn't this picture make you just want to root for the aliens?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2004 04:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 20 August 2004 05:00 (nineteen years ago) link
Of course they were useful. Flame-throwers are damn useful tools. Hell, I could certainly use one right now. But why would a space-age forklift come equipped with one? That's my question.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 05:01 (nineteen years ago) link
(Winona is at her loveliest in that movie, though.)
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 20 August 2004 05:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 20 August 2004 05:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 05:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Space-age palette wrapping is a motherfucker.
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2004 05:05 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 20 August 2004 05:28 (nineteen years ago) link
I would argue that it's a great deal more difficult to make an effectively scary, suspenseful horror film than an action movie (wherein all you really need to please certain folks, as noted, are "cool guns").
I would argue that that's bollocks. While we're being reductive, we could just as easily boil horror movies down to "sexual guilt." Formulas are formulas, and they exist because they work on a base level. Your base level may be different than mine, but I wouldn't hold horror movies up as a higher art then action movies. In fact, just typing that seemed silly to me. Really... come on.
Then there's this:
Seems to me, at least, the first one was genuinely suspenseful and NOT FOR EVERYONE , whereas this one went for the wider audience buck. That seems kinda crass to me.
Alien was the third highest-grossing movie of 1979, right between Star Trek: The Motion Picture and The Muppet Movie. Don't argue that the second movie sold out. DON'T TRY IT.
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2004 05:38 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.fact-index.com/1/19/1979_in_film.html#Top%20Grossing%20Films%20of%201979
My point remains the same.
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2004 05:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 05:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Aliens = Flimsy, cliche-ridden, poorly patched together whizz-bang blam-o action pic designed to sell popcorn. Bring the kids, hey, it'll be fun!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 05:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2004 05:47 (nineteen years ago) link