rsmurphy wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 8:48 amNow, I really want to see 3: Alienses.

It's worth your time but be warned: There is terribly dated nineties CGI. As long as you can stomach that, the story is pretty good.

rsmurphy wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 8:48 amNow, I really want to see 3: Alienses.

If you like British character actors with shaved heads, you'll be in hog heaven, my friend.

Went to see Romulus last night. It was...fine? A competent action horror movie but little to do with any of the other films. A few odd choices jarred the flow for me.

Somewhere in Prometheus and Covenant there's a really good film with lots of Michael Fassbender. I missed him.

Charlie D wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 8:13 am That's just a bizarre thing to say. You're comfortable admitting that? In public?

Have you seen my username?

rsmurphy wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 8:48 am I've never seen any other movie in the franchise post-Aliens except for Prometheus which I kind of liked because it made me think about a lot of stuff. It also looked real nice. But this thread got me to thinking about what happened to Newt.

Start of Alienses: their pod crash lands, everyone who survived at the end of Aliens except Ripley is killed, bummer.

Alien 3 had an interesting gestation. For some reason they thought hiring Vincent Ward would be a good idea. Vincent Ward really wanted to make a movie set in a 10th century monastery or some shit, with monks. He got offered the Alien franchise and said, hey, what about if the alien was in a 10th century monastery, with monks? The execs said "what? no"

And Vincent Ward said but oak panelling. Shafts of sunlight in a dusty library. The execs said focus man, this is ALIEN.

Vincent Ward said ok, but what if it's set on a MONASTERY SPACESHIP, hear me out, and the monks have all vowed off technology, and so their spaceship is made of wood and looks like a 10th century monastery? In space?

And the execs said "OMG what a brilliant twist, this is why we hired you, auteur director Vincent Ward". Then the coke wore off, and they said "no, wait, what? I mean you're fired. Argh. Fuck"

Alien by a mile but Aliens has its charm as well - mostly Bill Paxton.

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The correct answer was Aliens. 37 of you are wrong. Sorry.

Alien, I think, but Aliens is a lot of fun too. I like how two directors were able to take the same basic parts and come up with very different yet still satisfying results.