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Joel Was Right
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The Librarian
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Joel Was Right
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I just imagined Littlefoot saying 'What do you know about hookers" with that look on his face and laughed
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While that's amusing, that's not how you avatar quote someone! I am REMOVING the check off the list.
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Joel Was Right
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Woah. Lets not do anything drastic here. I will avatar quote you properly one day to restore the balance
Insane Metal
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brandonh83
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why the sad face?
Salvor.Hardin
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Oh man that was fucking awesome. Loved every moment of it. Fassbender knocked it out of the park.
Insane Metal
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I want it to be >90 lol. I know it will never be. Most probably around 65~75.
I really don't care about the RT ratings or whatever, I'm just kidding.
Just got back. Was pretty hyped on this and left disappointed. Characters were a big let down. None of them brought anything interesting to the table apart from Fassbender. To make it worse Alien was on TV when I got back in. Such a shame. I'll have to give it another go sometime though.
I'm a bit surprised at everyone moaning about the characters. The main core; Shaw, David, Vickers, Janek are hardly the most developed characters ever, but neither is anyone in the first Alien and no one save Ripley in the second.
Insane Metal
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Well isn't that true?
SCULLIBUNDO
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I'm not reading this thread (had to open up the first page just to post), but I thought I'd let you all know that I'm seeing this 26 hours from now so you can bask in the unbiased and untainted impressions of somebody going in for the virgin experience.
Boards of Canada
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Exactly. Name one fully developed character in Alien, assuming you had seen Alien when it was released and none of the sequels. You know nothing.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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I hate your get-to-see-it-early ass.
David was great, Shaw was decent everyone else felt like they were in the background just for show. Vickers was completely under utilized and Janek seemed to only be there for that one plot device.
Hardly any of the characters bounced off each other like in the first two Alien movies. I like "crews" to play off each other but nearly everyone in Prometheus was flat.
JimiNutz
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Me and 5 other friends just saw this at the IMAX in London - went to a 2.45 am showing!
Film was amazingly gorgeous.
Best visuals I've ever seen with the best 3D as well. I don't want to go into too much detail but film was not a disappointment for me at all. Well worth seeing.
I really want to see this film high, think it will blow my mind!
When the Blu Ray comes out I'm goona get really baked and whatch the shit out of it.
Film was amazingly gorgeous.
Best visuals I've ever seen with the best 3D as well. I don't want to go into too much detail but film was not a disappointment for me at all. Well worth seeing.
I really want to see this film high, think it will blow my mind!
When the Blu Ray comes out I'm goona get really baked and whatch the shit out of it.
Battersea Power Station
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Why does everyone want to love this so much? Yes, I want it to be good, too, but I'd like to think I'm objective enough to admit it's pedestrian if it actually is. I haven't seen it yet; I'm just referring to all the tip-toeing "Well, maybe...," and "But if..." comments that are trying to find some way to prop up the quality of the movie.
brandonh83
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I want to love it but I won't force myself to love anything. If I have problems with it, so be it, I've been disappointed before and you're bound to be crushed now and again.
There's a few very blatant ones.
The creepiness is there in the first half, it rarely gets the same sense of dread as Alien though. There is a very disturbing scene though later in the film, rather unrealistic but still works.
Can't wait to lick it. But he'll probably just go "It's a good film, not awesome but good". I mean he won't even admit how basic Bomba Carter was.
ViewtifulJC
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That's unfair, he admitted War Horse was kinda shit.
Well, be thankful movies aren't rated like the mess that are videogames.
Jamesways
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So this movie is complete shit then?
I don't think so. But the reviews so far have said that while it's good, it's nothing remarkable. So better to lower your expectation. Haven't seen it myself so that's what I'll be doing despite my high interest in the film.
cj_iwakura
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So I just saw Alien for the first time.
Uh, yikes.
Confused about some bits(namely their origin of the eggs conflicting with Aliens', and why Ripley flipped out at Mother), but it was great to finally see the origin of it all.
Uh, yikes.
Confused about some bits(namely their origin of the eggs conflicting with Aliens', and why Ripley flipped out at Mother), but it was great to finally see the origin of it all.
At the very end, Ripley was trying to abort the self destruct countdown because the alien was between her and the escape shuttle. She completed the sequence to abort a few seconds too late - Mother kept it going anyways. Ripley was not pleased with her options at that point.
cj_iwakura
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Ah. What about the 'kill me' scene? Kind of conflicts with the queen creating eggs, if one xenomorph can do it alone.
I think that scene wasn't in the original cinema cut. hence the conflict in aliens.
I prefer the single Xeno making eggs theory. But as it wasn't in the theatrical cut and the queen was. I don't know which one Scott goes with.
Ah, you watched the special edition. That was not in the theatrical edition of the film, it was added in 2003 by Scott in a special re-issue because so many fans wanted to see it in there. Without that scene, Cameron was free to add his own origin for the eggs.
I suggest seeing the theatrical cut; it's got a few fewer scenes but is a stronger version and is Scott's preferred one.
Some interesting additional deleted scenes scenes not in either version here, here, here. (Edit: first one is in the special edition, whoops.)
cj_iwakura
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Judging how critical he is of everything after Alien, I assume his version.
cj_iwakura
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The first one was on the version I saw, the second definitely wasn't.
(Blu-ray anthology.)
I couldn't remember if the broadcast scene was in it, for some reason I thought it wasn't; my bad. I haven't seen the special edition in a long time.
I have the Blu-Ray anthology, though only seen the original on it. I'll probably watch it again this week before Prometheus opens here on Friday.
I like that version more too. It's even worse body horror, and the 'queen and the hive' thing is just saying the aliens are just like earth insects instead of being more alien.
cj_iwakura
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By the by, I've seen Aliens like five times, I've just never seen the original because I'm not into horror. I'll still see Prometheus ASAP though.
I prefer Aliens, but I definitely respect Alien.
My first exposure to the franchise was, of all things, the arcade game.
I prefer Aliens, but I definitely respect Alien.
My first exposure to the franchise was, of all things, the arcade game.
This, so much. I like Aliens, but it's really unfortunate that Cameron took such a, well, alien creature and gave it a familiar life cycle and social order (they're scary ants/bees!). The deleted scene really makes their life cycle that much stranger and more frightening.
There's a scene in the Alien screenplay, I don't think ever filmed, where the crew finds the food lockers ripped into and the stores largely eaten, while looking for the creature. It gave some additional background on its life cycle; it couldn't just generate biomass on its own, it had to ingest food to do it. It had a crazy fast metabolism to grow with such speed, but it couldn't generate that much biomass out of nothing. I've always wished that was in; the sequels and spin offs did crazy things with how much mass they create out of thin air.
The Last One
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I've been in a huge blackout for this movie, and I wanna know only one thing... It's really a prequel for the Alien movies? I mean, same universe?
In the novel Ash is also leaving food out for it.
Same universe.
The Last One
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GREAT! Thanks for the answer.
Nappuccino
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He prefers the theatrical cut and sees that as the actual Directors cut.
Also the bluray has both versions of the movie. You should check out the theatrical version at some point. By most counts, it is the stronger version.
Oh wow.
TrumanBurbank
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People who have seen it, can you rate it compared to the other 4? Leaving out the AVP filth of course. Please no one tell me they found it worse than those...
Can't say I've ever done that!
Well I went to see it yesterday. It was freaking awesome, I really liked it for many reasons. Can't wait for it to come out on Blu Ray!
The 3D was really well used too, I didn't get any sort of headache which has happened to me in the past where the 3D effect has been purposefully too strong.
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Alien > Aliens = Prometheus > Alien 3 > the one with winona ryder.
Prometheus is just as cheesy as Aliens at times. But not as offensive cheesy as the 4th one.
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