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Notes, queries and corrections: • I thought the jaw hinges of the OG Alien were made of condoms, not the lips? • Michael Biehn got paid because he happened to find the A3 crew using a dummy of his body they’d made without permission initially. After they’d paid for the rights they used the photo. • Bill Paxton is also super in True Lies. • These are a series of essays on typesetting in Alien and Blade Runner. If you haven’t ever read them, do so, as they’re amazing. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/typesetinthefuture.com/2014/12/01/alien/amp/
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VikingSkull posted:yeah it's this The novelisation has an alien attempt to attack him while he’s in the pipe, because he’s making a lot of noise, but it doesn’t press the attack when it realises he’s not human. Caveat: I haven’t read it since 1986, apologies if I’m misremembering.
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Xenomrph posted:In the original script, when Ripley, Brett, and Parker go looking for the chestburster, they were going to find that something (reads: the chestburster) had gotten into the Nostromo's food stores and gone to town. This is in the novelisation, as is a scene where they’re just about to blow the alien out of the airlock and Ash sets off an alarm to warn it.
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Mar 31, 2019 08:22
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quote:It always struck me as so weird that they were marketing these toys to kids based on an R-rated series. I'm not sure if that even happens anymore. There’s got to be Deadpool toys right?
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Apr 19, 2019 07:24
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null_pointer posted:Random Alien question that I've always wondered about but never found an answer to: This thread being what it is, someone can correct me if I’m wrong: the novelisation (which I haven’t read for at least thirty years) has hypersleep be gooey, for want of a better word. The novelisation was based on the initial shooting script, I assume, since it contained the cocoon sequence and the airlock plan. In the book they’re totally immersed in something like low temperature hair gel, or that poo poo from ‘The Abyss’, during hypersleep. I don’t remember if they actually breathe it, or if they have some kind of apparatus on their faces (which would be ironic), but it was described as pretty gross in the book. The aversion to going back under might just be an artefact from an earlier version of the script where we see that it’s an icky process?
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The American side of my family omit the ‘L’ in soldering, the British use it, if that helps?
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Apr 30, 2019 14:09
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Pennywise the Frown posted:American's don't omit the "L". Soddering is how my father in law says it, unless it’s a regional thing.
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May 1, 2019 06:08
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Hell, I can't remember a single thing Ron Perlman did in that film besides not die. He hangs upside down on a ladder firing two guns at one point, unless I’m remembering wrong. I love watching movies like this, where you know it was only two years before ‘The Matrix’ came out and the action sucks so bad because they were relying on cgi that wasn’t quite ready for prime time: just because it makes me remember how mind blowing The Matrix was back then.
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May 6, 2019 07:39
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If you’ve ever had sex, cherish the memories, because you aren’t getting any more with that on your mantlepiece.
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Jun 4, 2019 12:55
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Ghostnuke posted:heck yeah, I wonder if he got into the spicy stuff though. If you look at his samples on cameo now, he looks pretty out of it. He’s an alcoholic. There’s plenty of youtubes with him talking about his recovery. He’s probably fallen off the wagon a bunch.
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Xenomrph posted:But even if the characters are going “ho hum, another detour to look at space aliens” they still had never seen anything like the Xenomorph and definitely weren’t prepared for it. They don’t take anything approaching a weapon with them to explore the ship, and when it becomes obvious they need one it takes a while to fabricate one. This isn’t a society that has had lots of encounters with dangerous life forms, as apart from the (subverted) quarantine procedure, no one acts or behaves as if there’s even a possibility of danger. I’m probably just overthinking a basic horror movie trope (lone teenager exploring weird noise in basement).
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Aug 17, 2019 17:34
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Vagabundo posted:Oh man, now I wish Paul Verhoeven had directed Alien 4 Fixed.
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Aug 21, 2019 07:49
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It’s done in the Godfather.
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Aug 30, 2019 07:00
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A coke spoon and a built in bong.
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Sep 5, 2019 20:46
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The level of hubris they displayed in inventing a new monster beggars belief. If your starting point isn’t an artist of the calibre of Herr Geiger, what are you even thinking? I laughed out loud in the cinema when I saw it.
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purple death ray posted:I could really see Hudson or someone having this exact backstory It’s either that or be a supporting character in a Springsteen song.
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Oct 1, 2019 07:48
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Code Jockey posted:oh my god that owns Just lol if you think there isn’t already this in a range of washable fabrics with anatomically correct genitalia and slime reservoirs.
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Oct 4, 2019 07:33
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I think the Aliens novelisation explicitly calls the end of the Queen’s tail a stinger.
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Oct 9, 2019 13:06
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skasion posted:Yeah I’m honestly kind of surprised there hasn’t been a period piece Predator yet. Ten Thousand Predators BC. Prædator. Crusadator. Aztec vs Predator. Schindler’s List but with Predators instead of Nazis
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Oct 18, 2019 18:39
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Pennywise the Frown posted:We were sitting right next to each other since we were using the ol' router and I kept being creepy. He backed into a corner, right below the shaft, and was frantically looking around. I came down the shaft a little until my jaws opened up and BOOM. He screamed. It was great. This probably sounded different in your head.
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Oct 25, 2019 22:08
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Hick’s “How long ‘til it blows?” is a masterpiece of resignation.
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Oct 26, 2019 16:23
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Jay_Zombie posted:See also: Add Harry Dean Stanton to this list.
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Nov 8, 2019 14:46
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“… but secreted from what?”. “Its penis. Or cloaca. Definitely its wing wang or hoohoo.”
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Nov 19, 2019 22:17
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Vagabundo posted:I consider them to be akin to stuff like Superman: Red Son or The Dark Knight Returns - other universe tales that while are still part of the Alien films, are only tangential to the overall lore of the series. gendered slurs. more than one in fact.
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Dec 17, 2019 23:37
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https://www.thewrap.com/syd-mead-blade-runner-and-aliens-concept-artist-and-futurist-dies-at-86/ Rip Syd Mead, you were a real one 
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The dropship is parked elsewhere according to the novelisation, on a landing pad I want to say? It’s been a long time.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:I loving love the music from the prom also, for such a seemingly throwaway scene it's really stuck with me.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Buttigieg 2020 I already use ‘his structural perfection is only matched by his hostility’ to refer to my shiba inu when people try to pet him.
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They appear to have tried to retcon the first point by giving terminators the ability to sense time disruptions or some poo poo in the new movie, so Carl sends the coordinates of arriving terminators to Sarah to give her some purpose in life. I’ll leave it to you to judge wether this is satisfying or not.
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The magic land of Tir Nan Og?
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Wutang-Yutani posted:Have you guys been taking about Aliens (the movie) for 121 pages? Everything in the Alien canon really. Also The Thing, Predator, Terminator and Starship Troopers make appearances.
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Mar 12, 2020 08:48
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Fans of Michael Biehn (who comes up in this thread a lot) can be happy, he just got cast in season two of The Mandalorian: I wasn’t crazy about the show, but I’m glad he caught a break on a big project like this.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:
No such thing as bad publicity. They get to ignore you and seem above replying to such base allegations from a grunt (no offence), while simultaneously cultivating a reputation for being willing to do literally anything.
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Mar 30, 2020 09:54
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Owlbear Camus posted:Ripley promised her ten year old daughter that she'd be home for her 11th birthday so we can assume FTL travel with no weird time dilation relativistic effects. It’s this, I think. There’s no visual indication at the beginning of the movie they’re at ‘warp speed’, but they are. The Nostromo ships metal or whatever back to Earth, they aren’t doing this to benefit people thousands of years in the future. They get in the truck, drive to Sirius to pick up a load, and drive back in time for Xmas. Time not at ‘warp’ leads to the conversation about the LV426 trip adding 8 months to their travel back. Arcturus, home of the infamous poontang, is a 75 year journey at .5c, and the marines in Aliens refer to it like it’s a trip to Coney Island. The answer to your question is almost anthropic: the story requires that people come and go as they please around the galaxy, so they do. Trying to explain things gives us loving Prometheus and Covenant.
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HiroProtagonist posted:Saw this this morning and thought of this thread (and also Alien[s]). I’m always annoyed at Ash dropping “You do your job, and I’ll do mine” on Ripley like it’s some sick own, when in fact she was and he wasn’t.
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I get extremely anxious just watching let’s plays of it on youtube, actually playing it will never happen.
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I shall be watching Alien this Wednesday with my wife, who has never seen it, and is a big fraidy cat.
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May 4, 2020 23:29
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Pennywise the Frown posted:You have to let us know how that goes. The opening of the eyes. If I could find a way to rig a camera I would.
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May 5, 2020 18:10
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Count me among the ‘watched Alien at ten with my dad at midnight’ crew. Kids with a regular upbringing love being scared when there’s no actual danger, it’s a formative part of growing up, I think.
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So it turns out my wife wasn’t that freaked out by Alien! In fact she only jumped at the two cat scares. Random quotes: as Brett leaves to find Jonesy “Don’t split up the party! You never split up the party.” “Whoever did the production design on this had a really clear idea of what the future was going to look like”.
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