Alien (1979)
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IdleRich
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I was just disappointed that predators were deemed tougher cos I prefer alien.
IdleRich
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No it's cos he identifies with a creature that keeps impregnating people with its artificial implant.
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He looks like he's already had a chestburster come out of that rib cage.
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Cameron was the one who made them expendable insectoid things, although it didn't feel like too huge a leap as the crew in the first one were just regular people with no weapons and the second lot were marines.
IdleRich
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Him having sex must be like the whale harpooning the little guy in the boat. Though I'm reading now that all his kids were actually conceived by IVF cos his dobber no workee.
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Pretty tough, but Ripley managed to beat one and a predator managed to beat another with the help of a human. The hybrid smashes the face off a queen at the end of Resurrection too. They usually just fire them out into space or drop them to the bottom of the ocean though, so it's never clear whether they've actually killed them or just trapped them / gotten away from them.
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Ridley's the only director who's really gotten what's so compelling about the alien, all the mythological and technological stuff @sus mentioned, the stuff to do with viruses and industry and gender and sexuality. Every other director treats it like just other movie monster and piggybacks off what Ridley, Giger and the original team built, often undermining and chipping away at it.
A director I reckon could actually nail it would be Robert Eggers as he has an eye for, and particular interest in, things like folklore and period detail. I can picture him doing a gothic take on it that pulls in all the hieroglyphs and temples and the like Gus was talking about, something much more in line with Giger's art.
A director I reckon could actually nail it would be Robert Eggers as he has an eye for, and particular interest in, things like folklore and period detail. I can picture him doing a gothic take on it that pulls in all the hieroglyphs and temples and the like Gus was talking about, something much more in line with Giger's art.
whenever I see that scene, it reminds of the hokey late 80s short-lived ebm project that chris & cosey did with lustmord
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To a certain extent, one of the blueprints for alien is 2001, cos of the hal/android thing going on.
It's a big part of it, as it is a big part of all these sorts of films. It's not just the monster that's bad, it's also your fellow man, or machine.
Shot by both sides.
It's a big part of it, as it is a big part of all these sorts of films. It's not just the monster that's bad, it's also your fellow man, or machine.
Shot by both sides.
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@vershy versh Have you watched his Nosferatu yet? Me n the Missus been meaning to but it's a little close to home, the '22 and Herzog versions both so dear to heart to verge on
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Cameron made The Abyss as an explicit "2001 but underwater" remake
Then he goes on to make Aliens sequel
All this stuff is so densely knotted up, there are like six directors making most of the classics and they're all part of an interlocking incestuous ideaspace
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Event Horizon is a decade after Abyss