flipsnip Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 has anyone seen this film yet? i got a pretty rubbishy quality version off a friend. the film is amazing though! cant wait to see it at the cinema when it comes out on the 22nd of october. Link to post Share on other sites
Marcus Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 Saw it, enjoyed it Paul Anderson is shaping up to be a decent action flick director. M. Link to post Share on other sites
rhino Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 Good film, if a little drawn out. Loved the spinny Glaive thing one of 'em has! Link to post Share on other sites
Mattitude Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 I really didn't like it...espically compared to the other films. The gestation period for the aliens (face hugger, embryo and baby alien) was WAAAAAAAY too short, espically compared to the other films. Usually takes a few days for the chest burster, but only like 10 minutes in this movie. The queen alien chained up like a slave was pretty gay and the eggs on a conveyor belt. That is a bit too high tech conpared to when and who built the pyramid. There are more things that really bothered me about the film but I don't want to ruin it for anyone. I believe they took a real cool concept but screwed it up royally. Link to post Share on other sites
TIMMYBOYB89 Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 I really wonna see that film but no way would i get into an 18! damn, just have to wait for it on DVD Link to post Share on other sites
richie_j Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 seen it....good, but poor. Good if it was just a film poor coz it was meant to be a super uber mega film. i mean the thing was being hyped when i was 3 in pred 2. it could have been sooooooooooooo much more, yet still a good film if you want to pass 2hours with guns and monsters and the boom and stuff Link to post Share on other sites
Arnie Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 Regards chest bursting... in the first film it's within a day (but a few hours), in the second it ranges from hours to weeks, in the 3rd Alien film it's several days, in the 4th it's less than 24hours, and in the AvP movie it's down to hours. ..continuity wasn't what they were after at any point. As for the film - it was fun to watch, but not what I'd call a good film. It should have been stuck on an 18cert and been truer to the older films in terms of gore. I'm no great fan of stuff that lowers the age limit to pander to the wider audience. At this rate we'll all be watching PG-12 stuff in a few years (and nothing else) that will reduce films from the status of classics like Robocop to trash like Robocop 3... Link to post Share on other sites
rhino Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 On the plus side, i like the continuity to the other Alien films. Weyland Enterprises is mentioned in the Aliens film and Weyland appears in AvP and Alien 3 and also was what the artificial lifeform Bishop was based on. Link to post Share on other sites
Arnie Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 That bit I don't get. The first Alien film was set (if memory serves) in 2087, then Aliens is 57 years after that making it 2144. This means that Bishop was made to look like a guy called "Weyland" who was the co-founder of the company almost 150 years previously (as seen in AvP)? Then there's Lance Hendrickson looking like Bishop/Weyland at the end of Alien3 who is human (note the red blood). Anyone got a bead on who he's meant to be? I recall he's meant to be a "friendly face" but past that I don't recall. ..just seems all a bit odd, unless Weyland was cloned over the 150 years the films are set over. Link to post Share on other sites
rhino Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 that'll be in the next Alien film, working title:- Alien 45: Ripley and the Alien have tea together (with special guest star *Yawn!* Lance (ain't he dead yet?!?) Henrickson) Maybe... Link to post Share on other sites
Arnie Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 No I think you've got that confused with "Alien - Spy Kids", certificate U-12. In this amazing pre-pre-prequel Ripley at age 10 on her way to playskool stubles into a house full of some naughty xenomorphs that have appeared from some highly implausable plot twist. All seems lost until her Teacher who si also her dad (bizarrely played by Lance Henrickson) comes in to save the day, after learning kung-fu in mere seconds, and raiding the local gunclub for supplies, as it turns out he's actually a top US spy. ..thankfully Ripley undergoes hypo-regression to make her forget the events of the film.. or something. Useless fact. Hendrickson was first cast as the Terminator for the first Arnie film, but wanted to play the policeman instead. Heaven knows how history would have panned out if that had happened the other way around. Hmm further thought: You do realise that this means that they can release ANOTHER box set next year, this time with Alien1-4, AvP and the two Predator films? Now stick in 54 weeks of boring documentaries, old trailers and voiceovers, not forgetting the special edition of Aliens/Alien and you've now got the best part of a 10 disc DVD box set. ..yawn. At least the days of VHS are over or they'd re-release that lot in widescreen, then THX after that, all in pretty different coloured carboard boxes that fall to bits. Link to post Share on other sites
rhino Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 well for a start it would bring back a whole new perspective on the phrase "I'll be back". Another note about AvP, i couldn't help noticing that the Erm... Mouth of the Predator no longer looks like a womans (..insert own word here...). Wonder if it was because of complaints regarding the similarity? Link to post Share on other sites
Arnie Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 From what I know about the guys behind the film the effects crew behind the new Predator look are not the same folk that did the previous films. I guess there's a lot of personal taste and flair in such designs, thus reflecting the artist and hence a rather different look Lets not forget the fact that the age limits were dropped for this film, so it was somewhat sanitised. Link to post Share on other sites
rhino Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 slightly off topic, don't suppose anyone knows where i can get me one of them green lasers that they have on the Desert Eagles and the G36's? Link to post Share on other sites
Arnie Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 Depends how much you want to pay. You can get green laser pointers cheaply. You can then retrofit the laser unit guts into a conventional cheapy laser body, such as the ICS or beamshot copies. http://www.edinst.com/greenlaserpointer.htm http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...6325617722&rd=1 I've not seen any green lasers specifically designed for weapon use though. It's not hard to fit a pressurepad switch to any of the laser pointers that are around. Link to post Share on other sites
doc_newstead Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 You're all too kind. I must have seen Aliens, ooh... 15+ times? Predator, 15+ times... I watched AvP once, and I'll never watch it again Link to post Share on other sites
snake_goth Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 lol i got into a 16 when i was 12, and whent to see the new dawn of the dead with my mum, might go catch it, big aliens fan Link to post Share on other sites
Rikkster Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 Haven't seen it but I did get into a very interesting conversation with a random chap on the train who works in special effects. He did a load of the post-production work on AvP (which he said was naff) and had just started on the Doom movie, which he raved about - apparently the director's gone for an all-out 18 rating with copious amounts of death, carnage and upside-down crosses. Just what you'd expect, really Link to post Share on other sites
ANDY_B Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 seen it, some cool scenes, but mostly predictable and cheesey. Link to post Share on other sites
doc_newstead Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 Actually, thinking back, it wasn't helped at all by the censoring. I can see why the studio butted in to drop it's rating; as an 18, it would have flopped, as it was a pretty childish film anyways. But removing the gore and swearing from an Aliens/Predator film? /shakes head Link to post Share on other sites
Tripod Posted September 23, 2004 Report Share Posted September 23, 2004 Gore and swearing should be in every movie. /shakes head Link to post Share on other sites
Catchv22 Posted September 23, 2004 Report Share Posted September 23, 2004 Yes... nothing like watching Lost In Translation with an excrutiating amount of gore and cursing... Link to post Share on other sites
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