Alien - In DS no one can hear you scream.

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The original and yes, the best. As great as Aliens was you can't beat this for gruesome greatness.

Looking forward to a new one, maybe they get to earth - that would be great, miss Sigourney Weaver with a flame thrower.:D

Channel 4 :o 11 - 1pm, Sun.. Now!:eek:
 
Listened to the Director's commentary recently....next year will be the 30th anniversary of when it was filmed. :eek:

Some of the old-school special effects involving the likes of rubber gloves and seafood still stand up.
 
It was great watching it yet again last night. So many classic moments.

I remember the first time I watched it and one of the scariest scenes was actually when Parker knocked Ash's head off and they realised he was an android. That freaked me out on first viewing more than the alien stuff (but not quite as much as the chest-bursting scene.)

Speaking of that scene, apparently John Hurt, the effects crew and Ridley Scott were the only ones who knew exactly what was going to happen - it had been rehearsed without the other principal actors, so when they shot the scene the actors' reactions were genuinely shocked.

You can see this clearly when Veronica Cartwright gets blood splashed on her face - it's a genuine reaction shot.
 
I had heard that somewhere and thought how brilliant it was! If they did things like that these days in movies! The reaction was perfect because it was real!

They don't make them like they used to. :)
 
Yeah, it's hard for directors to set up stuff like this these days as the efeects are added post-production. I also think the casting was better in this era. If it was made today there would be at least one pretty boy/girl toattract the teen audience or whatever, but this looked like a proper crew, weary and grizzled- more believable

One of the best bits on the DVd is the deleted scene of Ripley finding Dallas cocooned. It's so well done, atmospheric and disturbing, they should have had it in the film.
 
Yeah they put it back in on the Quadrilogy DVD box set. Belongs in it's place now. I wish they wouldn't cut films up like that... if it was for time then they are idiots... the scene barely takes up that much time. :o
 
That's what I thought, it's only a few minutes. Sometimes they do cut for the pace of the film, but that's oneof the few deleted scenes I've seen where I've thought they really should have left that in.
 
I was round a mates house once, was watching a film with his parents and we were discussing how good some special effects were.
I mentioned the use of condoms in Alien and his mum fired off "please don't discuss that sort of thing in this house"followed by an atmosphere you could slice with a knife.
I forgot she was a devout Catholic, didn't expect that reaction though.:eek:
 
Alien is a top film, such a shame Channel 4 couldn't manage to show it with decent sound quality though. It's 2007, buy a film print of Alien that features something called "Stereo" C4.

"Don't even get me started on ITV's disgustingly bad cheap prints of classic films either. I don't think they actually purchase prints of older films remastered after 1990." :rolleyes:

The image quality of Alien yesterday was decent enough, cropped yes, but decent. The Quadrilogy DVD however remains in another league altogether. The image transfer and 5.1 audio is the best you are ever going to get on standard DVD.

Aliens has never existed in any form with a "Mono" audio track. Phew! :D
 
It was Ridley Scott's decision to leave it out, & he changed his mind for the directors cut. Personally, I would have moved the scene to a little earlier & then had all the running about.


You should have told her they used the condom (which was shredded) on the alien's mouth, not it's cock!

Mind you, you never see an alien with an STI. :eek:
 
Funnily enough, the Directors Cut version on DVD (and recently on Sky Movies) featuring that scene is actually shorter than the Theatrical version.

The "Directors Cut" (or "Assembly Cut" considering David Fincher actually had nothing to do with it) of Alien 3 is also definitely worth checking out if you are an Alien fan and felt underwhelmed by the theatrical version, it's got 30 minutes of extra scenes and it's an infinitely better film for its longer running time (although i liked the theatrical version anyway tbh...).
 
The scenes demonstrating the computer graphics landing on the planet, and then seeing the alien ship in the distance (first through the viewers,then for 'real') were groundbreaking.

A few minutes could have been spent on more internal scenes,especially the centrepiece of the fossilised alien, but overall the film did exactly as it was supposed to do

And the final scenes in the escape ship have still to be bettered for isolation / claustrophobia.
 
I'd love to see what the fossilised alien looked like alive, and how it encountered the alien. Btw, it was nicknamed the 'space jockey'.

The computer graphics were done using vector graphics terminals, something you don't see any more (I used to use them at work in the early 80s).
 
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