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Just watched this again, I still love it, maybe my second favorite film ever! It works as a horror and an action film. And I love the double ending.
So have raiders and mad max been relegated down the pecking order henry?
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I didn't care too much for this one, seemed too much like a lot of other films of its ilk at the time. It was a big disappointment for me, especially at the end when suspension of disbelief be damned, the alien gets sucked out into space and Ripley gets saved by her one arm... they could have done a lot better. Alien 3 wasn't exactly a classic, but I did significantly prefer, and I must say I didn't exactly miss Gecko when she turned up dead in the beginning.
4/10 the aliens were cool.
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...It was a big disappointment for me, especially at the end when suspension of disbelief be damned, the alien gets sucked out into space and Ripley gets saved by her one arm...
She was running on pure adrenaline! She got a jolt like a mother who has to lift a ten ton Buick to save her trapped baby! She was really an android! She was really part alien and sent back in time from Alien#3!
I find it impossible to do anything but admire your avatar. It makes me want to watch the movie for the five hundredth time. Now.
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Jun 24, 2018 - 12:05 PM
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I didn't care too much for this one, seemed too much like a lot of other films of its ilk at the time. It was a big disappointment for me, especially at the end when suspension of disbelief be damned, the alien gets sucked out into space and Ripley gets saved by her one arm... they could have done a lot better. Alien 3 wasn't exactly a classic, but I did significantly prefer, and I must say I didn't exactly miss Gecko when she turned up dead in the beginning.
4/10 the aliens were cool.
Each movie got worst not better, the original is a classic you saw the xenomorph nest from that moment it made you wonder what was coming back into attack the others, as it turnt out very little but it made for a tense affair throughout the cast stands head & shoulders above the rest. Right!
III had very good actors, just no script or creature with authority, pity, I liked the way it played out it filled some gaps with the build-up an cast. II was more fun coz its teeming with aliens, I thought Newt the cast were a pain near the start, but as the movie moved on they became ok, Ripley saving Newt is a great iconic movie scene destroying xenomorph, love that moment.
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I saw aliens when i was 11 or 12 and loved it. Probably the best age to see films. Everything stuck with me; the characters, the memorable performances, the music, the designs and really nice model work, just wonderful. It's full of memorable dialogue and scenes.
The way they choreographed and directed and edited around the Queen Alien is superb. Far better than just doing anything you like with a CGI Alien Queen.
The music was outstanding and really powers many scenes. I think that's why i like it so much and is so memorable. I still enjoy it to this day but maybe watch it once every couple for years.
I remember seeing a fairly decayed print of it in a special showing in about 1996 in Bolton, but it was pretty special to see it on the big screen at the time.
Good stuff.
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Jun 24, 2018 - 12:38 PM
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Aliens is solid I liked the cast eventually, the script & cinematography was very good, but its not his idea originally, its easy to follow someone else's base & revamp it which he certainly did by flooding aliens throughout, Alien/Scott is a better movie by a tiny margin.
Terminator his best work, Arnie's finest hour, Hamilton, Biehn connected well together they were likable characters, Cameron directed a fine script of unknown's the movie is dark, emotionless, fast paced & edgy throughout, I enjoy it much more than II.
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i like that you think you see more of the alien "warriors" than there actually are. And even those you do see are almost entirely in shadow or fleetingly seen. But you feel their presence for the first 45 minutes though you actually see none. I thought that was well done. The attack scene where Hudson is dragged to his death is great, suspense-filled and action-packed (entirely bloodless if i recall), and the music hits all the right beats.
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