ubergine wrote:That's the one. Forgot to add that, must have been day dreaming about how good Alien 3 was. |
Neil Blomkamp's Alien
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the_milkybar_kid 8,474 posts
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AcidSnake 8,461 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI'm confused now, will this film ignore 3 and 4 or won't it?
Maybe the big idea ties in to Isolation?
Sure there's going to be a Ripley, but it's Amanda Ripley and she just looks a lot like her mother...Also Hicks had a son (Elroy) who looks like him and they hook up through a hilarious misunderstanding of some sorts... -
AcidSnake wrote:
If the news I've read/watched is to be believed then yes, it will pick up after Aliens and pretend the other 2 never happened.
I'm confused now, will this film ignore 3 and 4 or won't it?
I'm personally rather impartial to either option to be honest, as long as the film is decent in and of itself.
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JYM60 19,085 posts
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Registered 15 years agoDid the Newt actress ever go on to do anything?
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chopsen 21,958 posts
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Registered 16 years agoJYM60 wrote:
Nope. She did that and then grew up to be a normal person.
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I liked both Alien 3 and Resurrection to a point. The loss of Newt and Hicks was shocking but does not bother me. It is fundamentally a horror and stripping her of her 'family' and dumping her on a hostile planet informs this.
I always saw it has purely fatalistic. Shit happens, mankind will screw itself over and the xenomorph will never stop.
I don't care how the ensuing film fits in to the series just that it tells an interesting story. The franchise deserves more than a reboot. You wouldn't reboot the original Star Wars based on some shite interim films. The universe is fleshed out enough. -
JYM60 19,085 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI don't think it's so much the loss of Hicks and Newt, but that it just happened casually off screen, in a completely dumb was. Killing them off near the start/half way through/whatever in a decent way would have been a shock to the audience in a better way. The way it was done, was shocking in a pretty shit way. -
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I guess I can appreciate that. Doesn't the opening credits show them dying. I remember something to do with their cryopods. Maybe just in the director's edition?
Still, even as a kid I didn't mind it. I like things being left to my imagination. Alien 3 did some great universe building and just felt so oppressive.
Would like to have seen a Finch Alien film without the meddling though but as far as trilogies go it was one of the best caps. Bearing in mind how these things go I may be damning with faint praise. -
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Registered 15 years ago@JiveHound:
It shows brief sequences...They couldn't have done it further into the film though unless they swapped actresses for Newt... -
MrSensible 26,517 posts
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Registered 16 years agoJiveHound wrote:
This! It's why I LOVE them being bumped off so quickly and virtually off screen. It adds to the tone of the film and it's one of my favourite things in the series. I mean, how horrible is that, for Ripley? It's genius. They're dead and there wasn't a single thing she could do about it.
I always saw it has purely fatalistic. Shit happens, mankind will screw itself over and the xenomorph will never stop.
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ubergine wrote:
Most dramatic board meeting ever.
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FartPipe 5,307 posts
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Registered 9 years agoEatShitAndLive wrote:
Yeah this, Alien was and is a groundbreaking film, it's in my all time top 5 easily.
I must have seen alien 20 times now, and quite honestly each time it gets better and better. -
stephenb 3,551 posts
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Registered 15 years agoAlien was the first eighteen rated movie I watched. Scared the absolute shit out of me. It was the first year I didn't want to go to the local Christmas pantomime. My mum and sister went and my dad was like, 'I know what we can watch'
The bit with Dallas in the ducts. It's what you don't see that's always makes a bigger impression on me. -
Really don't think Alien3 was good enough to justify that bold premise.
It's partly why I liked Resurrection better, because the whole Alien premise had grown tired and a silly, throwaway film couldn't make things any worse. Kick-ass Ripley/Alien fusion clone? Fuck it - why not.
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Bit of editing works wonders.
Alien 3...
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MrSensible 26,517 posts
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Registered 16 years ago@ZuluHero you've summed up my view of the film far better than I ever could. Thank you! -
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Im just going to come out and say it... I loved Alien 3 when it first came out, and I still loved it when I rewatched all of the films last year. Far better than Resurrection, anyway. (which is on a par with the AVP films as far as I'm concerned) -
MrSensible 26,517 posts
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Registered 16 years agodfunked wrote:
At least there's a few of us holding the fort here then
Im just going to come out and say it... I loved Alien 3 when it first came out, and I still loved it when I rewatched all of the films last year. Far better than Resurrection, anyway. (which is on a par with the AVP films as far as I'm concerned)
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FartPipe 5,307 posts
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Registered 9 years agoI was only four when Alien came out, that just blows my mind.
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Hopefully they'll nuke that fort from orbit, you heathens.
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