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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 06:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2004 06:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 06:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2004 06:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 06:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2004 06:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 06:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 06:17 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't think this is a particularly good argument, but I must pause to say that I like the first film better, easily. I like the pacing and the dialogue better. I like the tone better. I just don't think that that's a good jumping-off point to argue that the second film is bad.
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2004 06:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 06:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 20 August 2004 06:33 (nineteen years ago) link
If it does this to a man who has seen 20,000 movies, what will it do to the average filmgoer?
Answer: thrill the shit out of them.
― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2004 06:50 (nineteen years ago) link
(also, Newt was traumatised,FFS. What were you expecting, Alex, some nice, likeable, well-adjusted kid? Of course she wasn't fucking likeable...)
― David A. (Davant), Friday, 20 August 2004 06:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― David A. (Davant), Friday, 20 August 2004 06:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― David A. (Davant), Friday, 20 August 2004 06:59 (nineteen years ago) link
The actress who plays vasquez, I forget what she's called, she was in "near dark" and IIRC terminator 2 as well? K-ROWR!!!
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 20 August 2004 07:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 20 August 2004 07:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link
foolish elvens.
― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Friday, 20 August 2004 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:54 (nineteen years ago) link
you can't say that thats a cliche can you?
The trouble is films since Aliens have robbed it to fuck and now admittedly watching it again it some parts seem cliched but you have to realise it was unique at the time and was, and remains to be, an absoloute classic
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 20 August 2004 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyway:Alien: claustrophobic atmosphere, good script, suspense, nasty shocks, superb design
Aliens: Suspense, nasty shocks, superb design and GUNS GUNS GUNS! LOTSA GUNS!
I declare a tie.
― robster (robster), Friday, 20 August 2004 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Alien 3 is underrated, by the way.
― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 20 August 2004 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link
haha xpost
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 20 August 2004 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 20 August 2004 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link
Alien: haven't seen it! wtfAliens: That's the clumsiest exoskeleton I've ever seen, HOMO SNAPIES U HAVE NO CHANCE 2 SURVIVE MAKE UR TIME, also kind of an injustice to the Aliens that they keep getting killed so easily, yes I understand the guns are big but seriously people, this is the most dangerous species in the galaxy, they don't need numbers to winAlien 3: I have tried to watch this like 5 times and have been unable to figure out what is going on enough to bother sitting through the giger cave bukkakeAlien Resurrection: Am I the only person who thinks this would have been better standalone, without trying to tie in to the Alien franchise? Ron Perlman!!! Whoop
― TOMBOT, Friday, 20 August 2004 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Heavens! This is the best of the lot.
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 20 August 2004 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 20 August 2004 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 20 August 2004 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 20 August 2004 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link
OTM.
i can't really participate in this thread objectively, as i'm an alien/aliens obsessive. but Alex, you ARE SO FUCKING WRONG!
ripley's character "humorless and wooden"? echhh. she is traumatized, she narrowly escaped being killed by a space monster. she is the only one who realizes how much of a threat the alien really represents, and she is exasperated by the marines and the company's incompetence. to her this is serious shit, the stakes are just too high if the aliens spread. and i think sigourney weaver nails this perfectly.
newt annoying? i've always thought that newt was one of the least annoying child characters in a movie like this. she doesn't even have that many lines!
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 20 August 2004 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link
btw everybody I saw Sigourney at the Belmont last year and she's still SUPREMELY BEAUTIFUL at like 56 or whatever.
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 20 August 2004 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link
No I'm not, actually. You're just a fanboy in denial.
she doesn't even have that many lines!
One doesn't need lots of lines to be annoying.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 August 2004 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link
why did i become a fanboy in the first place then, hmm?
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 20 August 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 20 August 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 20 August 2004 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 20 August 2004 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 20 August 2004 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 20 August 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 20 August 2004 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 20 August 2004 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st, Friday, 20 August 2004 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link