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Trying to get hold of a copy of Aliens on DVD. Is it possible to get the normal version not the special editions?
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WHAT?! Are you seriously trying to tell us that you prefer the original release of Bladerunner to the Director's Cut?Unlike Bladerunner, Aliens certainly benefits from its 'SE' treatment.
That's probably some sort of organic resin rather than water. There's the odd hint here and there that the aliens may be biomechanical - I think the adult ones probably eat plastic and metal rather than flesh, but that's pure speculation on my part.they drool a lot don't they
Yeah, but then an alien mouth wouldn't be a vagina dentata would it?Seems like a major flaw in the so called perfect race
There would have been 156, minus however many colonists were killed rather than cocooned (which I get the impression is quite a few).if everyone apart from newt had been taken to impregnated with an alien (excluding ones who were killed) there would have been hundreds of the bleeder
Originally posted by NicolasB
WHAT?! Are you seriously trying to tell us that you prefer the original release of Bladerunner to the Director's Cut?
Watching the aliens getting slaughtered by the sentry guns makes them look a lot dumber.
It's very short. Just before Ripley sets off to find Newt (leaving a wounded Hicks in the dropship) Ripley and Hicks exchange first names. "Dwayne! My name's Dwayne!" "Ellen." Or something along those lines. Nice tender moment.i don't remember the exchanging names scene
I don't think the scientists intended that to happen. What they wanted to do was create a clone of Ripley with a cloned queen alien inside her. Unfortunately they couldn't fully separate the two types of DNA, so the cloned Ripley ended up with some alien DNA (and acid blood) while the alien queen ended up with some human DNA.Infact, why would giving the queen a womb make it a better killing machine?
In the original version of the script for the first movie there's a scene where Ripley discovers Dallas and a couple of other people you thought were dead cocooned by the alien, and the cocooned people are actually in the process of metamorphosing into alien eggs. So the implication is that the eggs in the ship on LV426 have actually been made from the bodies of the ship's crew. Of course that idea pre-dates alien queens.I always got the impression that the aliens were developed by a human like alien race as the a fighting weapon and they were shipping the eggs to an enemy planet. Unfortunately it crashed onto LV426. I am not convinced this theory is correct mind you.
Originally posted by Lex
Personally I don't like the extra scenes at the colony before the marines arrive - I feel it takes away from the suspense, and also the special fx are fairly ordinary.
Originally posted by karkus30
Infact the only film I have seen where the extra footage works is LOTR
Originally posted by Lex
I would say that The Abyss is another film that works better with the axtra footage - and maybe T2 (so basically all of James Cameron's films! )
Ah, but the Aliens LEARN from their mistake - the guns still have rounds left when the firing stops - this is because the Aliens have 'decided' to stop and find an alternative way into the room.
there has been rumours for some time now of a fifth film featuring get predators!!!
Personally I don't like the extra scenes at the colony before the marines arrive - I feel it takes away from the suspense, and also the special fx are fairly ordinary.
In the original version of the script for the first movie there's a scene where Ripley discovers Dallas and a couple of other people you thought were dead cocooned by the alien, and the cocooned people are actually in the process of metamorphosing into alien eggs. So the implication is that the eggs in the ship on LV426 have actually been made from the bodies of the ship's crew. Of course that idea pre-dates alien queens.
As for Aliens vs Predator. It is moving forward at Fox, but unfortunately, Paul Anderson has officially been drafted to write and direct it. Big gulp.
But for Alien Resurrection, there is no excuse. Terrible film.