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Post by trentvale68 on May 18, 2019 12:57:58 GMT
Hard to believe its 40 years old.
It really is a masterpiece, the characters, the sets, the soundtrack, the fx and a creature that is still today the stuff of nightmares and frankly will never be bettered.
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Post by trentvale68 on May 18, 2019 12:59:33 GMT
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Post by lordb on May 18, 2019 14:49:13 GMT
Superb film The best one in the series in my view although I know others prefer the second one.
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Post by chuffedstokie on May 18, 2019 14:59:45 GMT
Hard to believe its 40 years old. It really is a masterpiece, the characters, the sets, the soundtrack, the fx and a creature that is still today the stuff of nightmares and frankly will never be bettered. Forty years, bloody hell.
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Post by salopstick on May 18, 2019 15:11:24 GMT
Never seen an alien movie
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Post by trentvale68 on May 18, 2019 15:38:25 GMT
Superb film The best one in the series in my view although I know others prefer the second one. Same here, it's all the dark, psycho sexual stuff👍👍 Aliens is a really good movie but it's just a big, dumb action movie
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Post by trentvale68 on May 18, 2019 15:38:58 GMT
Never seen an alien movie Its never too late. I think you'd be surprised.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2019 15:49:40 GMT
Cant believe it's really that old 🤯
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Post by thevoid on May 18, 2019 16:49:32 GMT
Good looking woman was Sigourney Weaver.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2019 16:56:18 GMT
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Post by franklin66 on May 18, 2019 16:58:43 GMT
Took me a while to pluck up the courage to watch it, when I did it scared me for ages.
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Post by trentvale68 on May 18, 2019 17:09:36 GMT
Some panties are just made for pulling down
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Post by stokebloke on May 18, 2019 18:30:23 GMT
Never seen an alien movie Don't bother
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Post by Goonie on May 19, 2019 17:44:00 GMT
Saw it on telly as a kid and nearly shat me pants!
Aliens also superb then it all got a bit silly and lost interest by episode 3
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on May 19, 2019 18:28:53 GMT
I wrote my dissertation on "genre" in film and focused it primarily on the Alien and Terminator franchises.
Fucking love it.
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Post by trentvale68 on May 19, 2019 22:02:17 GMT
I wrote my dissertation on "genre" in film and focused it primarily on the Alien and Terminator franchises. Fucking love it. Have you got that that you would post it up? I'd really like to have a butchers at it 🙏🙏
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Post by bathstoke on May 20, 2019 6:05:36 GMT
I wrote my dissertation on "genre" in film and focused it primarily on the Alien and Terminator franchises. Fucking love it. What do you do Pretty...
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Post by chigstoke on May 20, 2019 12:38:33 GMT
I wrote my dissertation on "genre" in film and focused it primarily on the Alien and Terminator franchises. Fucking love it. Couldn't have chosen two better films
Alien, T1 and T2 are simply master pieces. No other possible way to describe them.
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Post by nik80 on May 20, 2019 14:14:20 GMT
Alien is a masterpiece and Prometheus is also a good film, all the others, including Aliens are a bit naff. Aliens is okay but it looks very dated now and shifts the concept of the alien to be like some kind of insect and that ruins a bit of the weirdness of the original. Alien 3 isn’t as bad as people believe but it has some truly awful special effects. The original is a stunning piece of cinematography that still looks smart today.
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Post by trentvale68 on May 20, 2019 14:26:39 GMT
Alien is a masterpiece and Prometheus is also a good film, all the others, including Aliens are a bit naff. Aliens is okay but it looks very dated now and shifts the concept of the alien to be like some kind of insect and that ruins a bit of the weirdness of the original. Alien 3 isn’t as bad as people believe but it has some truly awful special effects. The original is a stunning piece of cinematography that still looks smart today. Agree with every part of your assessment. Aliens has dated, it looks exactly like the old power station it was filmed in. It's a thrilling ride but it's not in the class of the first movie. It does seriously diminish the creature itself from something demonic to basically like you say a man sized bug. Agree on Prometheus too. It's a flawed masterpiece The less said about Alien Covenant.....
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on May 20, 2019 14:44:50 GMT
I recently played Alien Isolation: I've never been so fucking frightened playing a video game. They also had a downloadable section where you play as Ripley escaping off the Nostromo following the self destruct initiation, it's absolutely beautiful.
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Post by nik80 on May 20, 2019 16:41:23 GMT
Alien is a masterpiece and Prometheus is also a good film, all the others, including Aliens are a bit naff. Aliens is okay but it looks very dated now and shifts the concept of the alien to be like some kind of insect and that ruins a bit of the weirdness of the original. Alien 3 isn’t as bad as people believe but it has some truly awful special effects. The original is a stunning piece of cinematography that still looks smart today. Agree with every part of your assessment. Aliens has dated, it looks exactly like the old power station it was filmed in. It's a thrilling ride but it's not in the class of the first movie. It does seriously diminish the creature itself from something demonic to basically like you say a man sized bug. Agree on Prometheus too. It's a flawed masterpiece The less said about Alien Covenant..... As enjoyable as Aliens is, as an action movie, it’s also the film which ruins the alien as monster. The first film makes the creature like nothing seen before, utterly alien, from then on, as you say, it’s just like a big ant. Once the concept was changed, the franchise was wrecked. I loved Prometheus and wanted something similar from covenant but it was shit wasn’t it? Looked great, but I cannot believe the man who made Alien and Prometheus would want to put his name to that film. Awful.
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Post by kelw on May 20, 2019 20:53:12 GMT
Sigourney Beaver Never seen it either, the film that is
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2019 5:34:00 GMT
I'm not sure if anyone here has heard of these so I thought I'd put them on here for you. Last month leading into this one Fox released 6 short films based on Alien lore, some are absolutely fantastic, some are flawed but they are infinitely better than Covenant was.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2019 5:36:21 GMT
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on May 21, 2019 8:38:05 GMT
Some panties are just made for pulling down I was going to say something about that photo, but frankly Shakespeare would have been hard pressed to better yours.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2019 15:00:28 GMT
Watched it for the first time this morning. Honestly, didn’t like it half as much as Blade Runner!
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on May 21, 2019 15:53:38 GMT
I wrote my dissertation on "genre" in film and focused it primarily on the Alien and Terminator franchises. Fucking love it. Have you got that that you would post it up? I'd really like to have a butchers at it 🙏🙏 I'll have a look for it! My only concern is that if memory serves, I was fairly positive about Salvation, which I would retract now.
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on May 21, 2019 15:55:02 GMT
I wrote my dissertation on "genre" in film and focused it primarily on the Alien and Terminator franchises. Fucking love it. What do you do Pretty... Nothing overly exciting I'm afraid; I'm a Secondary School teacher.
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on May 21, 2019 15:55:54 GMT
Watched it for the first time this morning. Honestly, didn’t like it half as much as Blade Runner! Which version of Blade Runner was it?
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