30th anniversary of ALIEN

I wonder if the remake of Aliens will be any good? I hope its not all CGI.

Lets hope it will be less CGI and more turbo-ultra-badassness that was in aliens.

Aliens v predator was almost good, except I thought the plot was too loose.

and for cripes sakes, can we get some freakin lights that dont get all blinky when our spaceship is being invaded? I mean seriously folks, who at GE can make me a friggin decent florescent tube...C'mon

When the first movie came out, I was stationed in Japan and had had no chance to see any trailers, I just knew it was supposed to be a horror film, and of course, there was a monster from outer space involved.

When they landed on the alien ship and started to walk among the pods....well, you knew this was where the trouble was going to start. I wanted to scream at the movie screen "...DON'T LOOK IN THAT THING, GET YOUR EFFING FACE OUT OF THERE, ARE YOU A COMPLETE IDIOT?"

Alien Ressurection is also very creepy, tho not so scarey, as the idea that someone would try so many times to recreate the monster and then try to "train" it as a potential super-soldier. And all the failures in the glass containers....if nothing else screams we should never clone people.............

I remember awakening at 0400 to watch it on television, against very specific instructions that I was not to watch it at any time of day or night. Scared the crap out of me, and still gives me goosebumps when I pop it into the DVD player. Which reminds me, I need to buy a new DVD player.

Even though I'm not a horror fan, this movie was high quailty. I read the book too.

The book was written by Alan Dean Foster... lots of stuff in the book that they didn't put in the movie, too graphic.

Mark

In many ways it was a modern day Hitchcock movie in that they left SO much up to your imagination

Heck yeah. And I love the fact that there are LONG scenes (including the opening sequence IIRC) that have NO dialogue and NO music.

cwh wrote: I was doing a camera installation at a new, upscale, club in South Beach. 1982 or so. Walked around a dark corner and came face to face with one of the actual Alien costumes. Just a display piece, but scared the bejeezus out of me. Face to face, two feet away.

LOL!

Yep hard to believe how old it is looking at the special affects. Most other movies were barely coming out of the laughable rubber toy stage

GameboyRMH wrote:

cwh wrote: I was doing a camera installation at a new, upscale, club in South Beach. 1982 or so. Walked around a dark corner and came face to face with one of the actual Alien costumes. Just a display piece, but scared the bejeezus out of me. Face to face, two feet away.

LOL! Yep hard to believe how old it is looking at the special affects. Most other movies were barely coming out of the laughable rubber toy stage

Kinda like Star Wars Vs. Battlestar Galactica (Original)

cwh wrote: I was doing a camera installation at a new, upscale, club in South Beach. 1982 or so. Walked around a dark corner and came face to face with one of the actual Alien costumes. Just a display piece, but scared the bejeezus out of me. Face to face, two feet away.

Cool, I remember back in the early 90's 'The Sharper Image' shops were selling life size Alien statues/manikins, not sure what you'd call it. Even then they were about $3k and I couldn't afford one. Would have been perfect for my bachelor pad :)

Adding Alien to my Netflix cue, it's been years.

vladha wrote: The book was written by Alan Dean Foster... lots of stuff in the book that they didn't put in the movie, too graphic. Mark

I could be wrong, but I thought Foster wrote the book as a movie tie in, i.e. after the movie was shot.

Heavy Metal magazine also had a really cool oversized 'slick paper' ALIEN graphic novel. I had a copy many years ago, no idea what happened to it. I bet it's worth a wad now.

Another movie with special effects that have really withstood the test of time is 2001. Hard to believe it was made over 40 years ago.

My parents went to see it in Japan when it first came out. As if it weren't inexplicable enough, imagine dealing with 1968 Toyko at the same time.

I need to go watch Alien again. Heck, I'll watch all four.

I remember taking my girlfriend (now wife) to see Alien when it first came out. She jumped pretty high while grabbing me when the little alien burst from the chest. After the movie I asked her if she liked it. she replied: Eh, alright movie.

FX played the forst and second Alien movies back to back this past Saturday night.