Favorite scene in each of the Alien movies
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I'm a big fan of the Alien movies and most Ridley Scott movies in general. Alien and Blade Runner in particular are timeless classics.
My general comments below on each movie (nothing scene specific here though......)
As ever with these 'group of movies' ..... with a classic and all-time great original, it's always very hard to make any sequel and have it compare favorably. I feel all the movies hold up reasonably well, with the probable exception of Alien 3.
Alien is superb and I've seen it countless times over the years. I even remember a magazine cover back in 1979 featuring the original movie release. Wasn't old enough to go see it in a cinema in 1979 when it was released due to the film's rating, but I do remember clearly the publicity for the movie on magazine covers.
Aliens is different but also very good in its own way, James Cameron did what he does and made his own type of movie and didn't try to make a 'remake' of the original but went his own way, which was smart of him.
Alien 3 I've never actually watched the whole thing as I heard it really wasn't very good and the little I watched I was disappointed and just decided "nah...". Maybe because one of the actors (bald headed dude, Northern UK accent) was also in 'An American Werewolf in London' and I just couldn't quite get that out of my head.
Prometheus I liked, it was well done, any movie with Guy Pearce and Charlize Theron in it is usually good. Didn't like SOME of the casting, as any of these people on board the Prometheus are all, besides their specialist roles, *astronauts* and as such would not exhibit some of the unprofessional behavior ("Fuck this i'm out of here") that was in the movie from some of the dudes who went into the alien building, but yeah I know it's just a movie .....
Alien : Covenant (not "convenient" as a previous poster spelled it lol!) was good, and a reasonable continuation of Prometheus. Again.... it stretched the bounds of credibility when you have astronauts landing on an alien planet and sitting down and taking a cigarette break and flicking the cig butt on the ground (soon after landing the exploration party etc). Just....wouldn't ever happen as all these people should be creme de la creme and very aware of contamination issues and unknown pathogens on unexplored planets. Small details like that just rankle a bit.
Alien Romulus I have HEARD is pretty good and fairly scary. It's all down to the writer and director and that dude is Fede Alvarez and I think was a good pick for the movie. Uruguayan director and writer.
I definitely would like to hear feedback from any Sherbros who have seen Alien Romulus and tell me what they think. No spoilers please.
My general comments below on each movie (nothing scene specific here though......)
As ever with these 'group of movies' ..... with a classic and all-time great original, it's always very hard to make any sequel and have it compare favorably. I feel all the movies hold up reasonably well, with the probable exception of Alien 3.
Alien is superb and I've seen it countless times over the years. I even remember a magazine cover back in 1979 featuring the original movie release. Wasn't old enough to go see it in a cinema in 1979 when it was released due to the film's rating, but I do remember clearly the publicity for the movie on magazine covers.
Aliens is different but also very good in its own way, James Cameron did what he does and made his own type of movie and didn't try to make a 'remake' of the original but went his own way, which was smart of him.
Alien 3 I've never actually watched the whole thing as I heard it really wasn't very good and the little I watched I was disappointed and just decided "nah...". Maybe because one of the actors (bald headed dude, Northern UK accent) was also in 'An American Werewolf in London' and I just couldn't quite get that out of my head.
Prometheus I liked, it was well done, any movie with Guy Pearce and Charlize Theron in it is usually good. Didn't like SOME of the casting, as any of these people on board the Prometheus are all, besides their specialist roles, *astronauts* and as such would not exhibit some of the unprofessional behavior ("Fuck this i'm out of here") that was in the movie from some of the dudes who went into the alien building, but yeah I know it's just a movie .....
Alien : Covenant (not "convenient" as a previous poster spelled it lol!) was good, and a reasonable continuation of Prometheus. Again.... it stretched the bounds of credibility when you have astronauts landing on an alien planet and sitting down and taking a cigarette break and flicking the cig butt on the ground (soon after landing the exploration party etc). Just....wouldn't ever happen as all these people should be creme de la creme and very aware of contamination issues and unknown pathogens on unexplored planets. Small details like that just rankle a bit.
Alien Romulus I have HEARD is pretty good and fairly scary. It's all down to the writer and director and that dude is Fede Alvarez and I think was a good pick for the movie. Uruguayan director and writer.
I definitely would like to hear feedback from any Sherbros who have seen Alien Romulus and tell me what they think. No spoilers please.
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The fuck
Watch the whole Alien 3 bro
You cant do that.
You also missed Alien Resurrection.
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ahh the robotic machine guns, yeah that was a good touch and I liked it.
By the way., listen carefully to that clip you just posted. There's clear ADR dialogue dubbed in by Sigourney Weaver over the top of the original audio. Listen to her voice tone change quite dramatically from t=49secs and it ends at t=1m01secs as in the edit they then revert back to the original audio captured during the shoot. I guess maybe the Boom-Op didn't have the mic pointed quite the right direction or something. You might need headphones to hear this -- I use Audio-Technica ATH-M50x ($150) and they're pretty good.
I think there might be ADR vocals beginning at t=41secs as well, not sure.
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I mean to me Alien Resurrection is one of the worst movies but you should still see it.
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Alien was perfect until the ending where the alien gets stuck in the ship
Pointless for the alien to be there for 1 last fight just to be stuck lol they dropped the ball for me.
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What do you mean? When it goes into the smaller shuttle?
How does that ruin anything?
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Alien 1979 - The scene where they are all eating breakfast and the alien bust out of his chest is the classic scene.
Aliens 1986 - The scene where they first go attack the nest.
Aliens 3 - The scene where she finds out she has an alien inside her.
Aliens 4 - The scene where the aliens gets loose and everyone starts evacuating.
Prometheus - The whole ending sequence once they wake up the Engineer.
Aliens 1986 - The scene where they first go attack the nest.
Aliens 3 - The scene where she finds out she has an alien inside her.
Aliens 4 - The scene where the aliens gets loose and everyone starts evacuating.
Prometheus - The whole ending sequence once they wake up the Engineer.
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I dont get you.
The Alien doesnt know she was going to blow up the ship, it simply followed her. Once the small ship disengages from the main ship there is nowhere to go, so the Alien simply waits. Ripley pisses it off by setting off the steam or whatever where it was lying to provoke it out from where it was lying.
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Yes it was.
There is nothing to indicate it was stuck there and couldnt get out. You literally made that up.
She didnt "release" it. She pissed it off. She knew it would just wait there for as long as it took since there was no escape.
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I disagree, its very animal like. Many animals like to hide in nooks and crannies and often when you stumble upon them like that they are just as surprised as you are.
Bill Hader describes it well, compares it to getting into your car and driving before you notice a python waking up in the back.
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There is no getting stuck.
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My hot take in regards to the Alien franchise is that the only truly special film is the first one, its a perfect movie and a benchmark for cinema. Aliens is overrated, a good, competently made 80s style Hollywood blockbuster and a solid story to follow up the first one but something was lost there. Feels cheesy and unreal in a way that the first one didn't.
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I really liked what Hader had to say. I have always loved Alien but it was maybe 2 years ago when I watched it again I wasn't feeling the ending but the way it describes what he believes Ridleys vision was, I dig it.
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I agree. What's excellent about the first film is 1 alien is terrifying and deemed unbeatable
In Aliens, it eliminates all of that.
