Aliens Poll: Crew of USS Sulaco

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6f/Alienscolonialmarines1.jpg

Vasquez

vasquez

XP

you should get bonus points for having zero screen time, but getting your name shouted out several times.

WIERZBOWSKI!

WIERZBOWSKI!

hicks

WHERE IS BISHOP

no skin jobs

hands down vasquez

later played the adoptive mom in T2

!

so gotta be hudson. GAME OVER MAN!!! GAME OVER!!! SEVENTEEN DAYS??!? WE'RE NOT GONNA LAST SEVENTEEN HOURS!!!!!

How many times have you guys seen a film like this? (I liked a lot in '86, haven't repeated)

fucking frame-by-frame

I've never seen it.

Hudson: Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?
Vasquez: No. Have you?

(I don't recall any of those character names, who was android?)

3-4

(honestly i don't recognize most of these dudes by name)

How many times have you guys seen a film like this? (I liked a lot in '86, haven't repeated)

-- Dr Morbius, Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:12 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

a bunch

Bishop was the android, but not being human, is not a classed member of the crew. I have probably seen this one 12+ times, but only because I taped it off cable and have a younger brother.

^^^racist

VOTE FOR BISHOP: YES HE CAN

watched this sooooo much. still love it, the ORIGINAL cheesy grunt storyline but with arguably the best ever designed movie monsters.

the ORIGINAL cheesy grunt storyline

surely it resembles earlier polyglot combat movies? iMdb mentions Sands of Iwo Jima...

I don't like movies about ACTUAL wars, though.

Vasquez. So hott. <3<3<3<3

later played the adoptive mom in T2

-- kingfish, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 19:54 (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

also the older vampire woman in "near dark" vv hott in that as well.

Let's rock!!

still have to vote for hudson

i have seen this prob once a year for the past like 17 years

"You always were a shithead."

I've seen this a few times but cannot recall a single one of these characters apart from Vasquez and whoever Paxton's character is. this movie pretty inferior to the original tho, that's for sure.

(also Bill Paxton is fucking horrible and I can't think of a single film I enjoyed watching him in, including this one)

u crazy

different kind of film, not inferior

insane

bill paxton is a beautiful man

Yeah, Aliens may be the best of its kind (i.e. Sigourney Weaver action flicks).

uh what other Sigourney Weaver action flicks ARE there...? Ghostbusters? the Ice Storm?

'twas a joke.

(also Bill Paxton is fucking horrible and I can't think of a single film I enjoyed watching him in, including this one)

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:58 PM (5 minutes ago)

^^^ nuke it from space, only way to be sure

Vasquez

didn't know that the name of this ship is a riff on nostromo.

also, sulaco.com resolves to google, interesting...

SFC Apone = gruff, yet lovable leader
Pt Crowe, = cannon fodder
Cpl Dietrich = female, gets killed first
Pt Drake = male version of vasquez
Cpl Ferro = female pilot, aviator shades
Pt Frost = slightly sarcastic black guy, incinerated
Lt Gorman = shithead
Cpl Hicks = romantic interest
Pt Hudson = game over
Pt Spunkmeyer = Ferro's asst, finds Alien spunk
Pt Vasquez = lesbian supergun
Pt Wierzbowski = cannon fodder with cool name

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUuhndeOuQI

wierzbowski sighting guide: http://www.wierzbowski.net/node/61

way superior to first boring (tho disgusting) haunted-spaceship movie

oh man i wish i could change my vote to Apone now

funny, the line that sticks with me the most is the pilot saying "we're in for some chop"

i have a car with shitty shocks so i say that to myself a lot.

One of my friends names his computers (he is an actual aspie) after fictional companies from sci fi movies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_companies (NB I contributed to this article)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyland-Yutani and this

Shakey & Morbs both wrong in the same thread! A banner day!

http://www.wierzbowski.net/ :: Aliens = http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/ :: Sega

I'm not too fond of the first one either, but I do wish Ian Holm was around to flirt with Lance Henriksen in the second.

"I hear there are some hot young cadets [or whatever it is] who need to be rescued from their virginity."

the new Aliens game coming out this year looks awesome

Wasn't there some sorta live-action Aliens experience in London at some point during the mid-90s?

the new Aliens game coming out this year looks awesome

if you can't play as an alien, then eh.

I'd like an Alien game where its like SimAnt when you play as an ant and can switch between bodies and command other people and manage the colony and shit but Rainbow 6 when you play as a human.

totally. all strategically planting facesucker eggs & shit.

Wasn't there some sorta live-action Aliens experience in London at some point during the mid-90s?

Alien War! I went to it :D

they've brought it back, iirc. or they're planning to maybe?

apparently

i like the suggestion that anything could equal uk:resistance

Jordan, have you seen Dwarf Fortress? I bet an Alien vs. Marine game done in this style would be cool.

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/in-game/a/Alien.gif

I'd like an Alien game where its like SimAnt when you play as an ant and can switch between bodies and command other people and manage the colony and shit but Rainbow 6 when you play as a human.

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:37 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

id buy that for a dollar

haha, i will check out that game when i get home.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/01/Alien_CPC.jpg

DG, that spectrum game reminds me of the Friday the 13th for Nes.... tell me about it

it's Alien!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/Aliens_Spectrum.jpg

^^^would never work on my spectrum :(

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8e/Aliens-_The_Computer_Game_ZX_spectrum.gif

^^^was given away by Your Sinclair on their covertape in 1992 and was incomprehensible

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/Aliens_video_game_cover_scan%28mod%29.png

^^^never met anybody who had an MSX

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Alien3_SNES.gif

^^^convinced me to buy a SNES

never played this, but it looked cool: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_vs_Predator_%28Jaguar_game%29

^^^convinced me to buy a SNES

but was it any good?

yes! very hard tho

ha i nearly bought a Jaguar for that AVP game! instead a i borrowed one a few years ago from a certian infamous ginger ilxor

hmm it's £7 on ebay with 3 days to go

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/Alien_Trilogy_PlayStation.jpg

^^^bought a playstation for this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_versus_Predator:_Extinction

there was an AvP strategy game for PS2?!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Aliens_a_comic_book_adventure.jpg

^^^never seen this anywhere but the internet

there was an AvP strategy game for PS2?!

a friend of mine had it on the xbox, really good apparently

xx-post

Alien Trilogy got me into the PSX as well.

It's one of the better pre-Quake-style fps games from that era. good atmosphere.

there was an AvP strategy game for PS2?!

it wasn't bad, actually...i'm not good at those games though, so i never got very far in it.

Alien Resurrection for the Playstation is pretty good too. It's really hard, though (I had to use a cheat code to finish it). Really good late-generation PSone graphics, and they look even better when you use the PS2's smoothing option.

this thread was obviously started to keep me posting...are you guys distracting me while you steal my horse or something

dom's stealing all your scarfs

now i will be cold forever:(

http://www.lastexittonowhere.com/tshirt/018/

i want that Antarctica outpost one

That Alien game is great, such atmostphere. The best parts are trying to catch Jones the cat!

the AvP for PSone was awesome

there wasn't an AvP for PSone

do you mean the PC game?

^^^never met anybody who had an MSX

-- DG, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 22:07 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

I had an MSX! A bunch of people I knew had them, we all had the Yamaha version, the CX5m, it had a built-in FM synthesizer, and there was a sequencer program you could write music on. I even had the disc-drive to go with it, a single-sided 3 1/2" floppy that cos something like 200 quid (!) The setup was the shit at the time, like owning a mini-fairlight. In retrospect, it was fucking crap. When I got my Atari w/Pro24, and transferred all my shit over, everything sounded so much snappier and tighter, you wouldn't believe it.

Not once did I ever see a game for the machine.

this is still available and popular online

In retrospect, it was fucking crap.

that seems a good explanation

Shit I was thinking of the Jaguar game lol ;_;

i think it was like the only well-reviewed game for the Jaguar

that, tempest2000 and the conversions of good pc games, pretty much all the other jaguar-only games were rubbish

I've seen this a few times but cannot recall a single one of these characters apart from Vasquez and whoever Paxton's character is. this movie pretty inferior to the original tho, that's for sure.

-- Shakey Mo Collier

^^^ pretend forgetfulness

Would vote for the plucky android if I had the choice.

:D

i remember staying up all night with a couple of mates and playing the saturn version of Aliens Trilogy, much fun. I remember at some point we managed to convince one guy that smoking dead spiders through buckets would get him high and he tried it.

We didn't quite finish the game, got stuck somewhere near the end where a lot of button pressing was involved in some horrible maze section. And it was about six in the morning.

omg that wierzbowski sighting page is... incredible. <3 internet, again.

Everytime I see this, during the "WIERZBOWSKI! WIERZBOWSKI!" scene, I end up thinking to myself "who the fuck is Bowski?"

Wierzbowski, the underrated, the forgotten. <3

I like pretend that I'm Hicks when I ride public transportation.

For now I can only get it down to him, Drake, Vasquez, or Apone.

How many times have you guys seen a film like this?

I have spent 3 or 4 days of my life watching this movie.

Weird, I was sure I posted to this yesterday, but my post cearly didn't post.
Anyway, I said: Voted for Ferro, I liked her laconic style (or bad acting).
Lumped with crap dialogue that she somehow managed to make oddly memorable-ish:
"Apparently she saw an alien once", "Coming in for a seven-zero-niner", "Where's the landing beacon? Oh there it is".
^gold.

lol her bad acting was such a hoot, see also when she 'mildy' complains about the sargeants orders after the briefing. "oh come on", and then suddenly freezes to the spot thinking he may have heard her.

so tempted to watch this again this afternoon :(

ilx got me craving a lot of viewing pleasures this week

yup, i've got a bunch of 80's sci fi on my queue now. and i want to watch this one again even though i just went through all (and i mean all) the aliens movies a few months ago.

but - oh no - do i watch the original or teh special edition?

i like the special ed, but i grew up on the original and i'll die with the original

this is a question that will raise blood pressure all over the internet

saw it in the theatres and didn't like it cause I was such a fan of the original and was totally not expecting an action film. but I came to terms with it on cable, it's a great popcorn movie.

and I'm voting for lt gorman. poor lt gorman.

(also Bill Paxton is fucking horrible and I can't think of a single film I enjoyed watching him in, including this one)

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

you should see near dark... there's a memorable scene where he gleefully slaughters a bar full of people to the tune of the cramps version of "fever".

near dark would make a great double feature with aliens, since bill paxton (hicks), lance henriksen (bishop), and jenette goldstein (vasquez) are all in it playing total opposites of their aliens characters.

henrikson in aliens = blank and wide-eyed pacifist android
henrikson in near dark = badass sinister vampire patriarch

pt drake was recently seen as "delahunt" in the departed

you never should have been able to play the alien in any of the games.

;_;

bill paxton (hicks hudson)

for the sake of accuracy and respect

also b/c i love ya edwardIII but i gotta get you somehow for calling aliens a popcorn movie
i don't even eat popcorn!

you never should have been able to play the alien in any of the games.

ha this gets at the key diff between Alien(s) and The Thing - the crew in Aliens never had to suspect each other - "them" and "us" was always really clear, even if someone became impregnated - for me this makes Aliens just a bit less interesting

vazquez is pretty awesome but i'd rather have yaphet kotto

(what i mean by quoting you, Kerm, is that if there were a "Thing" videogame (actually i think there is?) the possibility that you ARE The Thing would always have to be there, and an option to explicitly play as The Thing would seem like a natural thing to have in the game)

the crew in Aliens never had to suspect each other

Point taken - but you DO still at least get the fabulously sleazy Burke as played by Paul Reiser in his greatest performance ever. (It was a bad call, Ripley. A bad call.) It's not like a suspenseful, And Then There Were None type thing but it does introduce a little added tension, like, if someone is stupid enough to sell humanity out to the aliens, then these guys are really and truly fucked.

Voted for Hudson btw - I love all these guys, and the small bits of sorta plausible space marine dialogue they all get (except for Where's Bowski?) work really well. On the long ILX "aliens sucks" thread somebody makes a point of celebrating "We've blown the trans axle - you're just grinding metal!" which I think gets at a lot of the appeal of this film (and its underappreciated kinship with the first one).

should add a "but" in there between "btw" and "i love."

bill paxton (hicks hudson)

for the sake of accuracy and respect

He's Hudson, sir. I'm Hicks.

Seems to me, at least, the first one was genuinely suspenseful and NOT FOR EVERYONE , whereas this one went for the wider audience buck. That seems kinda crass to me.

-- Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, August 20, 2004 4:32 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

^^^very much in character

near dark would make a great double feature with aliens, since bill paxton (hicks), lance henriksen (bishop), and jenette goldstein (vasquez) are all in it playing total opposites of their aliens characters.

-- Edward III, Thursday, 20 March 2008 14:54 (4 hours ago) Link

OTM

Near Dark totally underrated film, if you like Aliens and haven't seen it... makes it clear why Cameron married Kathryn Bigelow

Does Strange Days make it clear why they divorced?

We all went over this in The Abyss.

i was pretty young when i saw the Abyss, but in my memory it is the most boring movie i have ever seen.

Strange Days has serious problems but it's also got things you just don't see in most science-fiction films and I've kind of been meaning to see it again

I saw it once, opening night at the Coronet & I remember walking back to my car and realizing the couple in front of me was Kathy Acker & her boyfriend holding hands silently, then he says 'so.... what'd you think' and her yelling loudly 'well it was OKAY'

Kathy Acker OTM

i saw it in nyc and i thought it was totally alright, better than most sci-fi thrillers i've seen since.

strange days and johnny mnemonic are two of the best films made in the last 20 years
the other ones are sneakers, behind enemy lines, and the truman show

you left out Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

no I didn't

tom, the 90's sci-fi poll is all you.

i love Strange Days, altho tom sizemore gets on my tits in most of the movies he's in.

i went to the actual "rave" they had for the filming of the party scene at the end. they closed down parts of down town LA and Dee-lite played.

pt drake was recently seen as "delahunt" in the departed

-- omar little, Thursday, March 20, 2008 5:13 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

holy fuck! i didn't even make the connection!

i went to the actual "rave" they had for the filming of the party scene at the end. they closed down parts of down town LA and Dee-lite played.

-- carne asada, Thursday, March 20, 2008 8:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

lol "the future"

but - oh no - do i watch the original or teh special edition?

-- DG, Thursday, March 20, 2008 2:26 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

the original

special edition is way too...special edition-y

Meet the Crew of the USS Sulaco

haha of course that exists
also, aliens: colonial marines

"we're on an express elevator to hell! goin' down!"

haha but yeah ferro's lines really are weirdly memorable (xpost to way above) - 'we're in the pipe, fiiive by fiive'
i don't even know what that means and i don't even care

lol squad of ultimate bad-asses

science fiction really excells at notional numerical jargon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_by_five

whoa that explanation is way more awesome than i thought it wld be

you DO still at least get the fabulously sleazy Burke as played by Paul Reiser in his greatest performance ever. (It was a bad call, Ripley. A bad call.)

I forgot all about him!! It's true, it is a fantastic performance. I think the key is that Reiser just plays his normal ingratiating self, doesn't try to be evil whatsoever, which of course makes him twice as evil. And you're right that Reiser's character allowed Aliens to borrow a little bit of that "enemy within" paranoia from The Thing. Without which the movie wouldn't have worked, really. Reiser's not an Alien himself, but he's an Alien stooge, working for THEM rather than US -- given the blue collar space marine workplace milieu it feels like an allegory for strike breakers, or management spying, instead of the Thing's more visceral panic over body control.

xp: science fiction also excels at actual numerical jargon

xp Alien also had an enemy within character.

reiser really gives the ultimate '80s yuppie sleazebag performance

i'd like to see him team up with hart bochner from die hard

or possibly square off against.

or gordon gecko

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I went with Apone on an instinctive whim.

The t-shirt link posted upthread is fantastic, but just too pricey. I'd love an OCP t-shirt, but £20 is pretty damn expensive, no?

i'd like to see him team up with hart bochner from die hard

hahaha I love that guy! "Hans! Bubby!"

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Surprise upset! I voted Hudson but I can rally behind Vasquez - #1 80s badass tough chick with a gun? She would chew up Linda Hamilton from T2 and spit her out.

but he's an Alien stooge, working for THEM rather than US -- given the blue collar space marine workplace milieu it feels like an allegory for strike breakers, or management spying

I was gonna say, or the dumbass lieutenant everybody wants to frag, but clearly that's Gorman. In the 'Nam reading, then, Burke is clearly the military-industrial complex sending our boys to die for sleazy capitalist reasons. I realize this is kind of transparently obvious but one thing led to another when I was trying to make the strike-breaker thing work...

i went to the actual "rave" they had for the filming of the party scene at the end. they closed down parts of down town LA and Dee-lite played.

-- carne asada, Thursday, March 20, 2008 4:07 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

was skimming thread & thought you meant some deleted scene from aliens

Right right, somebody said Aliens, and he thought they meant deleted aliens and signed up.

you secure that zing hudson

Though my guy didn't win, I nevertheless approve of these results.

Right right, somebody said Aliens, and he thought they meant deleted aliens and signed up.

-- Doctor Casino, Tuesday, April 1, 2008 7:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

wtf does this mean? are you high??

As a rule, you can't lose if, on Aliens threads, when you don't get one of my brilliant jokes, you go and watch the movie again. Worst case scenario, the movie is still awesome but you find out my joke is lame and awkward.

Oh I get it now. Took a couple of reads through. Good effort.

As per Sparkle Motion, although my vote didn't win, this is a very reasonable set of results.

Still baffled by Edward III's vote for Gorman.

The Colonial Marines: Where Are They Now?

Nerf got interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7wvpeTXZyw