Alien

I just love the fact that Alien, a great movie in itself, spawned an equally great movie of a completely different genre.

Yup, I agree. Cameron did an excellent job.

I like all three Alien movies, but I especially love the first one.

I like all 4 of the Alien movies but Aliens is by far my favorite. Just can't beat Hudson.

One of my favorite characters in all cinema.

How can you like AR it sucked

Originally posted by coolmovies
How can you like AR it sucked

It wasn't great either. Jeunet did a lot more interesting films, to me AR is also the worst film in his body of work.

i didnt think alien resurrection was complete crap, but i did hate what they did with ripley... turning her into this killing machine that could take down aliens by herself... for me the alien series was always about seeing things and experiencing them from ripley's point of view, feeling the tension and apprehension she felt... resurrection took that way, which i didnt like...

still better than avp imo...

Oh yes... but that's not really fair comparison.

The first two films are good becouse of the director's and the good cast and acting . Alien 3 and four are all down hill becouuse they try to copy Alien but they both failed .

Originally posted by queeq
Oh yes... but that's not really fair comparison.

cos avp was so bad? 😛

Originally posted by coolmovies
The first two films are good becouse of the director's and the good cast and acting . Alien 3 and four are all down hill becouuse they try to copy Alien but they both failed .

i actually like 3... maybe they did try to go back to 1 in some sense, but after watching the extended cut, i quite liked it...

AVP was terrible.

Alien3 Director's Cut, that's the one to watch. No copying there. Fincher was the only one attempting to make a movie that was not primarily about the aliens. That was new, not copying. But that can only be seen in de DC.

I like Alien3 Director's Cut its a blood bath . I like it when the guy goes into the fan

Originally posted by queeq
AVP was terrible.

Alien3 Director's Cut, that's the one to watch. No copying there. Fincher was the only one attempting to make a movie that was not primarily about the aliens. That was new, not copying. But that can only be seen in de DC.

i agree they made it less about the alien, and when they did bring it in, they did mix in a bit of mythology too about how some would worship the creature, which i found interesting...

i think there is a little bit of copying on a very basic level, but not in a bad way whatsoever...

But even after 30 years the orignial is still a shocking movie . Did you know riddly wanted a man to be a leader of the crew but Sigourney Weaver got the role .

Originally posted by coolmovies
But even after 30 years the orignial is still a shocking movie . Did you know riddly wanted a man to be a leader of the crew but Sigourney Weaver got the role .

yeah... i also heard he wanted ripley to die at the end too...

Originally posted by queeq
AVP was terrible.

Alien3 Director's Cut, that's the one to watch. No copying there. Fincher was the only one attempting to make a movie that was not primarily about the aliens. That was new, not copying. But that can only be seen in de DC.

Maybe it's high time I got myself a copy of Alien3 Director's Cut then. I like David Fincher's stuff, even if he is a tad overrated.

I think you should. I alwasy thought Alien 3 sucked big time, major copy of Alien... until I saw this: the twenty minutes in the middle they cut out made all the difference.

But does the movie scare you ? no only alien can do that

Well, the scary part was gone already. I mean the basic trick to the original is gone. I thought Fincher made a good attempt to focus on the impact such an alien intrusion has on the people. Especially after Cameron's action hour.