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    dilbert1 reacted to sus's post in the thread Alien (1979) with Like Like.
    In Annihilation the shimmer's quite beautiful too. Hypnotically so. Bit of a reach but vampires--who are also coldblooded immortal...
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    dilbert1 reacted to sus's post in the thread Alien (1979) with Like Like.
    Jurassic Park is part of this whole symbology too. Return of primordial, coldblooded, reptilian predators. Nature that natures, i.e...
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    dilbert1 replied to the thread Alien (1979).
    I won’t dare comment on Adams in her presence!!!
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    dilbert1 reacted to version's post in the thread Alien (1979) with Wow Wow.
    There's some interesting stuff out there about the design process for the alien in the third film. They had Giger on board at first then...
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    dilbert1 reacted to 0bleak's post in the thread Alien (1979) with Haha Haha.
    he don't need the missus when cute brooke adams is the main character
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    dilbert1 replied to the thread Alien (1979).
    Oh its so good, we were lamenting how the rest of the soundtrack was that cheesy acoustic guitar on account of what great work they did...
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    dilbert1 reacted to version's post in the thread Alien (1979) with Like Like.
    This scene felt like a clear nod to Alien's 'Space Jockey' and the two-headed corpse in The Thing.
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    dilbert1 reacted to version's post in the thread Alien (1979) with Like Like.
    Apparently the book's quite different. I've said it before, but I'm convinced there's a lot of Ballard's crystal world in the film. The...
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    dilbert1 reacted to version's post in the thread Alien (1979) with Fire Fire.
    I love the piece that plays when she encounters the alien.
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    dilbert1 reacted to sus's post in the thread Alien (1979) with Fire Fire.
    That "we" include the missus? Good man!
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    dilbert1 reacted to version's post in the thread Alien (1979) with Like Like.
    The major difference between The Thing and Annihilation is the latter's ambivalent about whatever the alien's doing. The emphasis is on...
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    dilbert1 reacted to version's post in the thread Alien (1979) with Fire Fire.
    Böcklin nod here, presumably a nod to Giger too as he did his own version of 'Isle of the Dead'.
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    dilbert1 reacted to sus's post in the thread Alien (1979) with Haha Haha.
    Annihilation always struck me a feminist remake of Tarkovsky's Stalker, like the way they made an all girls cast of Ghostbusters? They...
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    dilbert1 replied to the thread Alien (1979).
    Think we’ll do the 70s Invasion of the Body Snatchers tonight
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    dilbert1 replied to the thread Alien (1979).
    Annihilation was pretty good, strange in a ‘now’ way (cinematographically, soundtrack and acting-wise) but also laudably so. It...
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