Alien and Aliens

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14419

GazChap wrote:

Blucey wrote:

full of young people with no real personalities doing stupid things to advance the plot

Agreed on the lack of personalities, but I don't really feel like that second bit is warranted -- I thought it was a pretty refreshing change for the characters in a modern Alien movie to not do stupid stuff to advance the plot.

What did you think was stupid?

Taking a phone call, anyone!?

That one guy running off into the hive when he heard a whimper after seeing a load of open shrink wrapped facehuggers and actively turning around to walk off but then runs off without his friends or any discussion?

GazChap · **Posted:** Tue Aug 20, 2024 21:07

Actually yeah, I’ll give you the phone call one, I’d forgotten about that. That was incredibly stupid.

The other one isn’t really that stupid though. Sure, it’s stupid to us because we know it’s the hive, etcetera etcetera. Guess his fight or flight reflex is very much fly into danger

Blucey · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2079

I was super annoyed when Rain ran back to save Andy because at that point he was Corporate Bot 3000 I think. But even so, it's like you're almost out, you've got barely any time and he's a fairly broken robot who at the start of the movie was having a shit 'life' anyway.

One thing I hadn't quite figured out until after was that the space station

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was wrecked by the alien from Alien. I thought it was all some cloning super nonsense. Although I think there was some cloning super nonsense because they got all those eggs. It wasn't exactly well explained (and the dialogue was a little hard to hear in my showing - which was an IMAX one).

GazChap · **Posted:** Wed Aug 21, 2024 13:48

Yeah, the station was

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fucked up by the Big Chap from the original movie

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14419

GazChap wrote:

The other one isn’t really that stupid though. Sure, it’s stupid to us because we know it’s the hive, etcetera etcetera. Guess his fight or flight reflex is very much fly into danger

Aw come on, they saw a massive row of facehuggers all fresh out the packaging, decided not to go that way, and then…he just runs off in the direction of the creepy sponge wall without even a hint of consulting his companions, who he just leaves behind in this giant creepy ship where his other companion got their face shagged. It was fucking stupid.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38669

Romulus Spoiler but cool thing

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In Romulus you can see Ripley's escape shuttle from the Nostromo docked in the station and can later see it drifting away after the station breaks up. Meaning WY picked Ripley up earlier then lost her again.

Now I know you hardcore Alien nerds don't really like Romulus, or don't consider it canon, but c'mon, that's cool

Blucey · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2079

Now that it's out digitally, I'm up for watching it again with lowered expectations. Dav, that is kind of cool but I prefer the idea that she drifted for 57 years instead. Especially as this suggests that they got the alien, cloned it up, pissed about with the eggs, got killed and at no point thought to wake up Ripley.

I mean I guess the alien was found first but if they got the Narcissus, why not open it?

Anyway, I'll watch it again soon.

Looks like there's a new trailer for the Alien 3 fan remaster.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Oct 17, 2024 12:35

DavPaz wrote:

Romulus Spoiler but cool thing

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In Romulus you can see Ripley's escape shuttle from the Nostromo docked in the station and can later see it drifting away after the station breaks up. Meaning WY picked Ripley up earlier then lost her again.

Now I know you hardcore Alien nerds don't really like Romulus, or don't consider it canon, but c'mon, that's cool

a) We like Romulus
b) We already knew that, Out of the Shadows goes into detail on what happened next

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38669

Apols. Glad you enjoyed it

Out of The Shadows sounds cool, apart from the convenient (and entirely necessary) amnesia

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Oct 18, 2024 15:00

They pull it off. I much preferred the audio drama over the book.

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