Alien - as classic as classic gets?/POO

(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.)

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.

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.

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...

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?

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.

http://www.sayagain.co.uk/b3tapix/images/alienminer.gif

bloomerbait

A+, btw

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 !

warriors vs aliens

http://rictone.tumblr.com/photo/1280/625849601/1/tumblr_l2w0epkJsG1qzu6nx

Needs the Alien standing behind them being all, "Hey, guys, what are we looking at?"

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.

http://i.imgur.com/avA7JBR.png

What's this?

that's the guy in the Alien suit IIRC

Wow:

https://news.avclub.com/this-high-school-drama-club-put-on-a-stage-production-o-1833515613

"you need a WHATomorph suit by tomorrow morning?"

max fischer would be proud

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.

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.

... but I'm not against all that.

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.