Alien (1979)

[version]

Have we mentioned Dark Star?

I did, yeah. I mentioned it when Dilbert was asking for similar films.

 

[IdleRich]

Red Dwarf though?

 

[version]

The derelict was originally storyboarded to be a pyramid, and later under Ridley, became a temple-complex of ruined steps and broken columns and hieroglyphs etched on cliff walls. Crescent moons like scythes—two symbols of death—show up constantly in this film; the derelict is one example. And what is so particularly haunting about the first Alien—and about Prometheus, the prequel which follows its example—what is so particularly haunting are the ruins. The ossified, stone Space Jockey collecting dust. The pile of bodies outside the airlock, inevitably breached.

Ancient Egypt's running through both Alien/Prometheus and Blade Runner. Pyramids and hieroglyphs all over the place.

 

[version]

Giger did a mural showing the egg-facehugger-xenomorph sequence based on the Egyptian sky goddess, Nut.

 

[catalog]

I had this in middle school

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Still waiting for you and version to do a skate thread

 

[IdleRich]

Ancient Egypt's running through both Alien/Prometheus and Blade Runner. Pyramids and hieroglyphs all over the place.

Isn't that cos the illuminati control Hollywood?

 

[dilbert1]

Everyone watch this to have a good laugh today

 

[dilbert1]

Still waiting for you and version to do a skate thread

That and then me and linebaugh will do a punk thread and then I’ll get kicked off this website

 

[sus]

It's obviously a Cold War metaphor. The tidal wave is nothing if not a stand-in for a nuclear blastwave

 

[dilbert1]

We also loved the guy who wanted to nuke the aliens up to the very end. He was a great cartoonish villain. Obviously a metaphor for anti-USSR paranoia. Cameron buried tons of subtle messages in there, for those with eyes to see of course

 

[dilbert1]

They decided not to destroy humanity because Bud loves his wife. Our end of the bargain is that we must “stop playing with childish things.” Then a guy turns to the military commander and says “looks like you’re out of a job!” because the aliens have affected defense spending by making the tidal wave go away. Lots to chew on for the thinking mind

 

[luka]

That and then me and linebaugh will do a punk thread and then I’ll get kicked off this website

version still wears airwalk trainers and listens to green day. you could mount a coup. he has a wallet chain.

 

[sus]

Dilbert's takes are admittedly very amusing and in some sense, not even wrong

Still, I pity him. He has not mastered the art of Return-Maximizing Reading. The trick is to first assume that you are experiencing a world historically great piece of media, and then figure out how that might be the case.

 

[sus]

With this trick, you are no longer subject to the whims of chance, whether you are experiencing a great work of art. Every work of art you experience is great, because you make it so.

 

[Corpsey]

If you lot don't stop talking about Alien (1979) so help me god

 

[IdleRich]

Why's that?

 

[version]

Everyone watch this to have a good laugh today

Beautiful.

 

[version]

It's obviously a Cold War metaphor.

Same goes for Aliens. Not much of a reach to see Vietnam and anti-communism in US marines being deployed against an alien hivemind and camouflaged enemies coming out the walls.

 

[IdleRich]

‘ALIEN ROMULUS’ director Fede Alvarez reveals he would approach an Alien vs Predator movie by keeping the Xenomorph a secret. “You think you’re watching a Predator movie and then they land in some place and there are creatures, and fucking hell, it’s a Xenomorph.”

Won't the title give that away somewhat though?

 

[version]

The derelict gets all the buzz, but the Nostromo set's even more impressive. The walls were meant to look slightly Aztec with those big, chunky patterns.They had a ceiling on the the thing and you had to walk down the corridors of the ship to get anywhere. It was like a big maze and everything in it worked, all the chairs in the cockpit had motors, the screens lit up, the buttons, controls and keypads everywhere made other components light up or release steam, the doors really slid open. Apparently if you wanted to find someone the crew would just say "they're in the mess hall" or whatever and you'd have to walk down and find them as though you were on a real ship.