So which is the best - Alien, Aliens, Alien^3 (ha) or Alien Resurrection (underrated).
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 05:07 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 05:12 (twenty years ago) link
Aliens is a grand action flick, Cameron showing again what he could do. But the first...man. Let's put it this way -- I STILL have never been able to watch the chestburster sequence.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 05:18 (twenty years ago) link
I haven't seen Alien3 since knowing who David Fincher is, and have been tempted ever since to watch it again, even though it was an incredible disappointment at the time.
Had no idea about the director's cut -- there's a 20th or 25th (can that be right?) anniversary edition of the DVDs coming out soon, I've got em queued up in Netflix.
― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 05:21 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 05:22 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 05:24 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 05:24 (twenty years ago) link
!!!
Okay, I'm definitely going to watch that. Maybe I won't watch the original version, I'll just wait for that.
― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 05:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 05:27 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 05:30 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 05:31 (twenty years ago) link
The visuals have stuck with me (the giant hive-alien thing, the tech church), but I remember very little about the plot or dialogue.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 05:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 05:40 (twenty years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 07:14 (twenty years ago) link
I guess I liked the first two just fine, for different reasons. I'm not sure I could stomach sitting through the first again, though. The third one was fucking appalling.
― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 11:55 (twenty years ago) link
which is kinda funny, since Doom & Quake had a helluva lotta basis in _Aliens_...
― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 12:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Dale the Titled (cprek), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 12:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Nicolars (Nicole), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 12:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 13:13 (twenty years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 13:18 (twenty years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 13:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 13:28 (twenty years ago) link
Yes. Basically she was supposed to have mini-Alien claws due to her hybrid nature, even though she looked mostly normal. (This gets traded on explicitly later in the movie when they wander into the horror room filled with failed Ripley-Alien clones and she sees the myriad horrors of existence she dodged by virtue of loking human.)
I recently saw "Resident Evil" and realized that I loved it because its tone and pacing were almost identical to "Alien Resurrection". (Also, it's more successful as a movie than the "Tomb Raider" flicks, which I also loved; why did "RE" get such bad press?)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 13:45 (twenty years ago) link
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 15:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:02 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:04 (twenty years ago) link
I suspect it'll be a bit like Apocalypse Now Redux: amazing new print, story none the better, and perhaps a bit worse.
― Lee G (Lee G), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:58 (twenty years ago) link
What I think will be interesting to see is how solid the visual effects will hold up on screen these days -- for its time and place, it was probably the best such effort outside of ILM's early work and in certain respects probably superior. The Nostromo really is an amazing model.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:50 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 22:54 (twenty years ago) link
(tho it's hard to beat "game over, man! GAME OVER!!" from Chet)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 23:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 18 September 2003 01:44 (twenty years ago) link
The chest burster was disgusting and scary, but the scene with Harry Dean Stanton and the cat is the one that caused me to absolutely freak the first time I saw the movie.
Aliens is a damn good 90s shoot 'em up with funny tag lines, but it never got me like the first one, which outside of perhaps Blade Runner is the best scifi movie of the past 25-30 years. Ridley Scott can still make movies with smokey rooms, but they are just not like these two.
― earlnash, Thursday, 18 September 2003 02:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Dale the Titled (cprek), Thursday, 18 September 2003 03:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan I., Thursday, 18 September 2003 04:01 (twenty years ago) link
― gazuga (gazuga), Thursday, 18 September 2003 05:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan I., Thursday, 18 September 2003 06:27 (twenty years ago) link
― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Thursday, 18 September 2003 07:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan I., Thursday, 18 September 2003 07:51 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Thursday, 18 September 2003 08:09 (twenty years ago) link
Have you checked first that Nicolars prefers The Godfather Pt I to Pt II (like some sort of freak)?
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 September 2003 08:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 September 2003 08:28 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 18 September 2003 10:39 (twenty years ago) link
still, i like how some random project first proposed about12-13 years ago is finally coming to light.
no doubt it'll be filled with really bad CGI, tho.
― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 18 September 2003 11:38 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 18 September 2003 11:52 (twenty years ago) link
Aliens spoilt by resemblances of formerly unheimlich creatures to, variously, men in (ill-fitting) suits and finger puppets, with distracting tendency to emit angry rhino noises when squished (and they're far too easily squished).
Alien 3, 2nd best, valiantly fatalist (as with the 3rd Terminator film. Is this a trend? Does American Pie 3, also, reassert the universal ascendancy of some mad demiurge's implacable design?).
Alien Resurrection spoilt by unwarranted introduction of French visual humour.
― Neil Willett (Neil Willett), Thursday, 18 September 2003 18:57 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 19 September 2003 00:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan I., Friday, 19 September 2003 01:31 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 September 2003 01:47 (twenty years ago) link
it also might be my favourite movie ever in any case
― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 19 September 2003 02:54 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&s=1&c=2224
I'm all for the huge slew of extra features on the first two, hope these all get released individually...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 September 2003 04:40 (twenty years ago) link
http://skeletonart.com/images/Art/334-Strange01-400.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 November 2003 02:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Saturday, 1 November 2003 03:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee (Leee), Saturday, 1 November 2003 05:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 November 2003 05:59 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 1 November 2003 07:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 November 2003 07:24 (twenty years ago) link
I'm quite curious to see the Director's Cut. Is it radically different? -- Alex in NYC (vassife...), October 26th, 2003.
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Couldn't say, since I didn't see the first version. I assume the big dance number with Madeline Kahn and Burt Reynolds was in the original? -- Skottie (n...), October 26th, 2003.
No, it was pulled because RS was worried it'd be too scary for family audiences. -- s1utsky
― Skottie, Saturday, 1 November 2003 07:27 (twenty years ago) link
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
That made my night.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 November 2003 07:30 (twenty years ago) link
Nine discs. Three billion hours of bonus material, including featurettes, screen tests, production artwork, interviews, and way more. All in a tidy little case. It's beauuuuutiful.
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:24 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:43 (twenty years ago) link
DVDS ARE A SCAM
― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:53 (twenty years ago) link
Region 1 - 2 December.Region 2 (UK) - 8 December.Region 4 (Australia) - 10 December.
All the sets are identical.
― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:56 (twenty years ago) link
I picked up both, but used and some time back. So I'm content to rebuy in this case.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:00 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:22 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 14 November 2003 18:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Friday, 14 November 2003 18:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 November 2003 18:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 November 2003 18:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Hunter (Hunter), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:31 (twenty years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:32 (twenty years ago) link
(Also, how glad am I that the theatrical Aliens will FINALLY be on DVD? I like some of the extra footage but the whole feel of the movie is undercut by showing the happy terraforming station before the aliens come along -- the Marines arriving and finding nothing = far more effective.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:35 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee Majors (Leee), Friday, 14 November 2003 22:22 (twenty years ago) link
― DG (D_To_The_G), Friday, 14 November 2003 22:25 (twenty years ago) link
Along with Ned, I'm happy that the theatrical version of Aliens is getting released. It's really the only one of the four that I would want on DVD.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 15 November 2003 12:07 (twenty years ago) link
Alien: too scary for me! I had to watch the intense parts virtually on mute.
Aliens: I love video games dressed up as movies. If they limited the dialogue to practically nothing, this would be the best movie ever. (which also holds true for first Matrix)
Alien^3: terrible. Brits in movies must be classy and well-groomed, otherwise they are just Australians. CGI was wretched, obv.
Alien: Resurrection: surprisingly good, I'd actually watched it once before and I think I was lukewarm to it, not to mentioned confused b/c I had not seen the others yet. However, I have a feeling that Ripley/Sigourney hurt the film; since the film was mostly about gloss, having a familiar character and the attempts to provide enough characterization really conflicted with the mood of the band of outcasts, who are all neat poses and smarmy one liners.
― Leee Majors (Leee), Saturday, 22 November 2003 21:32 (twenty years ago) link
Which to watch first? I just saw Alien in the theatre, so Aliens is the logical choice - but I've never seen ^3 and Resurrection has Winona...
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 27 November 2003 00:19 (twenty years ago) link
Revive.
I can't believe this, but I've never seen any of these in their entirety. Just watched the first one (director's cut, so I don't know what extra stuff I shouldn't have seen) and it was great, about to watch the second.
The question is, should I bother with the last two?
― S-, Friday, 6 July 2007 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link
god that scene in the air ducts with Dallas running around with the flamethrower, and that panicky woman yelling in his earpiece where the alien is. One of the greatest horror moments in movie history.
I said in my original post that the last two films were tripe. Actually the third was is worth a watch just for the dog alien, be prepared for some dodgy cgi though.
I may have to watch the fourth one again myself, can't remember much about it.
― Ste, Friday, 6 July 2007 13:23 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.sayagain.co.uk/b3tapix/images/alienminer.gif
― and what, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:47 (fifteen years ago) link
bloomerbait
― latebloomer, Thursday, 29 May 2008 21:23 (fifteen years ago) link
A+, btw
― latebloomer, Thursday, 29 May 2008 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Just watched the first one again, do we know if and when it's coming out on bluray?
Now to watch Warriors, movies from the fucking 70's are the tits !
― Ste, Monday, 23 June 2008 21:36 (fifteen years ago) link
warriors vs aliens
― s1ocki, Monday, 23 June 2008 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
http://rictone.tumblr.com/photo/1280/625849601/1/tumblr_l2w0epkJsG1qzu6nx
― like an ant to a crumb (DavidM), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Needs the Alien standing behind them being all, "Hey, guys, what are we looking at?"
― Shock and Awe High School (Phil D.), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lurx40MS0i1qbo6leo1_500.jpg
SFX-guy Gavin Rothery is posting lots of behind the scenes photos from the first Alien movie. They are all AWESOME.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/avA7JBR.png
― 龜, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 01:36 (ten years ago) link
What's this?
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 09:55 (ten years ago) link
that's the guy in the Alien suit IIRC
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 09:57 (ten years ago) link
Wow:
https://news.avclub.com/this-high-school-drama-club-put-on-a-stage-production-o-1833515613
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 24 March 2019 04:01 (five years ago) link
"you need a WHATomorph suit by tomorrow morning?"
― StanM, Sunday, 24 March 2019 06:19 (five years ago) link
max fischer would be proud
― i'm w/ tato, super hot AND weird!! (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 24 March 2019 22:18 (five years ago) link
I thought "Memory: Origins of Alien" was a really good doc. A bit of making-of/background (some of which was new to me), but it's mostly a lot of smart What It All Means discussion.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 February 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link
Memory: Origins of Alien on channel 4 now, I'm half way through. Seems to have a fair bit of interview footage from previous docs, still I'm always there for the story of the meeting of minds of o'bannon & giger & scott, especially the victory snatched from the jaws of defeat of giger being let go, then rehired by scott. Didn't know the comic book forebears of the script. I'm finding the 'what it all means' guy a wee bit much maybe I'm not against all that.
― ledge, Sunday, 5 September 2021 13:28 (two years ago) link
... but I'm not against all that.
― ledge, Sunday, 5 September 2021 13:29 (two years ago) link
A bit weird in the end, a mix of "making of" and "meaning of" but after they go all in on the chestburster scene it just ends, so nothing about the actual full size creature; I think there was one single mention of cobb, none of foss or moebius, excepting a brief shot of a moebius comic in o'bannon's archive.
― ledge, Sunday, 5 September 2021 20:27 (two years ago) link