(May 18, 2017 at 6:56 am)Aegon Wrote: ^ See? Boring and predictable even then

I was a stoner then, so it was at least worth a giggle. When it came out on VHS we got together and provided "additional/alternative dialog" for the cast. Gawd I wish we had recorded that. 

What about in Alien 4 when that ultimate alien shows up with hanging tits and tongue like Jamie Oliver - I mean who doesn't like that?

(May 18, 2017 at 7:09 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: What about in Alien 4 when that ultimate alien shows up with hanging tits and tongue like Jamie Oliver - I mean who doesn't like that?

There was a fourth one?

Yeah in the old days of DVD they used to sell them as Alien Quadrilogy


now with all those sequels including AvPs it could soon be a Decalogue.

Puts me in mind of Douglas Adams' book Mostly Harmless, described in the cover blurb as "the fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers trilogy".

(May 18, 2017 at 5:07 am)Alex K Wrote:

(May 17, 2017 at 11:38 pm)Kosh Wrote: Totally different kinds of movies in my mind.  Alien is a slow burn horror-thriller.  It was also the first time most people had seen Giger's work.

ALIENS is your classic action movie full of great characters and one liners.  In my mind they are both are extremely entertaining for completely different reasons.

I was going to write exactly that. They are both my favorite movies *in their respective genres*, however, with Alien taking the overall #1 spot in the general category of SF themed movie.

Come on, gotta love Bill Paxton RIP

GAME OVER, MAN! GAME OVER!

But its a dry heat.

The question was never answered, was Bill ever mistaken for a man?

(May 19, 2017 at 1:32 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: The question was never answered, was Bill ever mistaken for a man?

Yeah impersonating Schwarzenegger but still having a small penis that is pathetic.

OK I watched the new Alien and it's your typical Alien movie that I even felt like I was watching Alien 4 in the cinema, although this is better movie then that. So like I said it's your usual Alien romp and pomp with a little intermission where there is some exposition where they tie all the movies kind of neatly. I guess die hard Alien fans will feel this is ruining their Enola Gay spaceship that was supposed to be in 1st Alien but there is some sort of poetic justice in this way. Also even the scene that I called "BS trailer" made it, although only parts of it.
Nevertheless movie ends (oh please spare me with your spoiler purity it's a mainstream movie) with little aliens being vomited on basically a conveyor belt which almost gives a feeling that Alien has become some sort of cancer of the silver screen - you just can't get rid of it.

All in all it left me craving for something that is yet to me made like a big space opera horror movie. Maybe they could have used that Enola Gay storyline that there were these huge species of aliens fighting in space and these "elephants" made this desperate weapon to beat their opponents but failed and now after many thousands of years human kind found this people that were battling "elephant" aliens and they had to fight them...

I'm not particularly looking forward to this new film... from the trailers I've seen of it. It looks too similar to the first one, so yeah, I would've hoped they'd try something new. I'll still watch it though. My favourite Alien saga films are Aliens and AVP (though I guess for the purists, that one doesn't count, but nonetheless I love it). And I quite liked Prometheus as well especially since it appears to me that though it's a prequel made long after, it's one that was perhaps envisioned from the start?... in that it has scenes from the original Alien film (such as the massive dead creature in a chair) that were never explained in the first one, but which make sense in light of this one (or they did when I watched it last... I've completely forgotten now what all that was about ).

(May 24, 2017 at 2:29 pm)emjay Wrote: I'm not particularly looking forward to this new film... from the trailers I've seen of it. It looks too similar to the first one, so yeah, I would've hoped they'd try something new.

Sure, the movie is a turd but still sort of mindless fun. It's kind of like straight to DVD movie. And let's rant about it: I seem to realize that I didn't like "Prometheus" not because it seems to me as stretched last 20 mins of "Tommyknockers" but because Scott didn't have any fun in it. While "C" is very derivative Scott did find some fun in some scenes like when Katherine Waterston is waking up. She is in the freezer and it starts shaking and then waking up, it looked interesting and I was under impression that Katherine Waterston had more interesting presence then all of the other actors in "P". I remember how Theron was boring and useless (like a decoration for a movie) and I remember thinking in that scene where she is sitting on the couch how Scott probably spent more time picking that couch and pillows on it then on the script. Plus there was more action in this because it seems they concluded that the "mysterious" part of "C" didn't work.

(May 24, 2017 at 2:29 pm)emjay Wrote: in that it has scenes from the original Alien film (such as the massive dead creature in a chair) that were never explained in the first one, but which make sense in light of this one (or they did when I watched it last... I've completely forgotten now what all that was about ).

To be honest "Prometheus" didn't make any sense to me and in "Covenant" it seems they distanced themselves from it as much as they could and to be honest if I bother to think more about "Covenant" I would probably conclude that it didn't make much sense especially for AvP movies and that it turned Alien movies into Battlestar Galactica.