Alien 'Quadrilogy'

However, the yanks have been one up on us with Indiana Jones too - cannot believe we got the but to pieces BBFC approved version of Temple of Doom.

i prefer to pretend that Ressurection doesn't exist.
bunch of shite, innit?

Rest in Peace, Dan O'Bannon. He was 63.

what?! ah, shit. RIP

nooooooooooooo

he was the real genius of sci fi. I credit him with inventing "Blade Runner."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QozLSpjQc0

i got the blu ray version of the quadrilogy, and just watched Alien 3 the 2003 version (which i've never seen before)

They really changed a lot didn't they. I think I preferred the dog host rather than the ox though.

one question. how did the 'company' know anything about ripley being impregnated?

The little scanner doohickie automatically sent the CAT scan to the company.

^ yes indeed

Preferred the ox host, but only because I'm a squeamish person who didn't like seeing the dog being killed

Surprised at how much better that version of Alien 3 was, and also and how feeble were the attempts to clean up the audio in the extra scenes

dude who came up with word "quadrilogy" should be fucking eaten by wolves

or any form of quadruped

Lobster Quadrillogy

haha I was just coming here to post that Phil.

the blu-ray set's just the "alien anthology" now, thankfully (at least in the US)

they shoulda just called it the "ALIEN THIS-MANY" with a pic of Ripley holding up 4 fingers on the cover

yes Latebloomer correct, i'm in uk and it's called the anthology too.

Bought the Alien Vault 'making of' book recently, pretty nicely produced and lots of detail on the production, pre-production sketches, storyboards etc. Doesn't have the hilarious ron cobb or chris foss visualisation of the spave jockey tho - just a crap humanoid skeleton in an office chair.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1845136675/ref=asc_df_18451366757156531?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&tag=googlecouk06-21&linkCode=asn&creative=22206&creativeASIN=1845136675

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8GJbAAr1DY8/TK_1Vxc-DYI/AAAAAAAABv8/Y1GVIAv2REo/s1600/spacejockeypic.jpg

doesn't quite have the belittling office cubicle perspective i recall.

this image satisfied Dan O'Bannon in terms of what he wanted.

obv he deserves a lot of credit for the story and script but you gotta be glad the design work was out of his hands. he didn't even like giger's derelict ¯\(º_o)/¯

http://parkablogs.com/content/book-review-book-of-alien

yeah i remember reading someone else's copy of this as a kid, definitely beats 'alien vault' for concept art.

So I ran into this company Super 7 over the weekend down in Orlando - they've received permission from 20th Century Fox to produce and sell the "Alien" action figures that were planned but never came to be:

In 1979, prototypes for 3 ¾” action figures for the ALIEN film were developed but never manufactured. Through our network of industry and collector contacts, Super7 has unearthed the original 33-year-old prototypes and will utilize these to help make these “lost toys” a reality.

With official authorization from 20th Century Fox, Super7 will produce the full series of ALIEN toys as part of our REACTION Figure Series (Retro-Action.) REACTION Figures are stylized exactly as items from the “golden age” of action figures with approximately five points of articulation, accessories, and period-authentic blister card packaging.

The original line up of 3 ¾” action figures for the ALIEN were scheduled to be RIPLEY, ASH, DALLAS, KANE in NOSTROMO SUIT, and the BIG CHAP (the nickname used on-set for the ALIEN creature).

http://getfile9.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2012-07-08/nwJHtaDvkluaDxGeJDlCxvprzrjDcrmzEtjFqzBFJGqAzBGAAxntbluehIyg/Alien_Lineup.jpg.scaled500.jpg

Kane in the Nostromo suit looks like one of the dancers from the "True Faith" video.

http://vincentwardfilms.com/concepts/alien-3/unrequited-visio/

http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Alien_III_(Vincent_Ward)

knew those were going to be about the wood-structured satellite thingy

they threw away more interesting ideas making this series than some movies have ever had

wood moon is a trippy idea that should not have made it past the drug session. i'm glad fincher changed it.

films never made and the documentary/speculation bits prob lend well to the imagination, may not have done well on film

the jodorowsky/dune doc being prime territory for that

has anyone seen aliens on 70mm? is it special?

I watched the Alien 3 "assembly cut" once and thought it was OK. Am I misremembering?

I don't know if this was discussed in another thread, but last month the North Bergen, NJ high school put on a stage production of Alien that very quickly went viral. They apparently had zero budget, so they built all their own props and costumes, which all turned out to be very clever. It got some attention from both Ridley Scott, who offered his congratulations and future assistance; and Sigourney Weaver, who recorded a video thanking the school and then attended an encore performance.

Sigourney Weaver visiting the NBHS cast and crew at their encore performance of Alien after national media recognition was unbelievable!! #alien #Alien40th pic.twitter.com/2UXL0v1H3X

— Nicholas J. Sacco (@NicholasJSacco) April 27, 2019

The whole thing is now available on YouTube, and it's really nicely done. The special effects and staging are clever, they use pieces of Jerry Goldsmith's score and some video elements from the movie, and for not having any budget, accomplish some really great things on the stage!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX3VaFG7AvU

omg this rules

All I meant by "should" was to hint at the film's pulpy roots. It's a monster movie at its core but deepened by first-rate visualists and action directors like Scott and Cameron (and Jeunet). I don't feel a sense of betrayal because the last couple of installments were just as vaporous but at the moment diverting.

I didn't feel a sense of betrayal, just disappointment at how rote it seemed. I thought the last two Scott films were among the silliest sci-fi movies I'd seen in some time, but they looked great and had some sort of vision, even if said vision was as dumb as a rock and shapeless as sand. In a lot of ways I'm always more bummed by mediocrity than failure, because mediocrity often means there's a sad residual glimmer of what the movie could have been. This one, those glimmers are there, but they were reduced by all the endless, lazy callbacks and references to the other movies, which might have been more acceptable if they were in service of something more compelling. This one was just a pu pu platter of Alien tropes and (literal) quotes.

otm

Love your hard pan VG

One thing this film reinforced for me was how superb (and essential) the lighting in the first film was. Quite a few glistening closeup knockoff shots which just looked like maquettes being pumped with aloe vera in this one, whereas in the first film they look feverish and terrifying. Anyone who has a 4K player should get the disc of ALIEN, it’s an absolute revelation for the lighting alone.

and to be clear, if my hard pan made it unclear, i dont dislike Romulus more than Covenant or Prometheus - if anything i’m more irritated by Scott driving the whole thing into the ground with boring yet visually beautiful nonsense.
I had zero expectations going into this & was still left wanting so idk

I’ll keep seeing new Alien movies because of the good will still burning in me for the first two, and the hope for something creatively exciting … but at this point not clearing a very low bar is status quo

otm

saw this tonight, i would like just one morsel of a new idea in an alien movie pls

i was struck by how much it felt like ALIEN: ISOLATION, kinda sad that a videogame remains the best alien-related media of the last three decades

i guess i understand the complaints but this movie had someone floating in zero gravity through an acid vortex, so it was awesome

― ivy., Saturday, 19 October 2024 17:39 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I practically fell off my sofa yelling WHERE DID THE ALIEN CORPSES GO during this sequence

i was struck by how much it felt like ALIEN: ISOLATION, kinda sad that a videogame remains the best alien-related media of the last three decades

That said, the best Alien franchise installment aside from the first two remains the "Alien:Isolation" video game, which absolutely gets right everything the movies post-"Aliens" get wrong.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, October 16, 2024 6:31 PM (three days ago)

High-five!

^ this guy gets it

did I get it when I mentioned Isolation a month ago?
🤔

alright fine glad we’re on the same page about this

but where did the alien corpses go ffs

Same place the facehuggers came from, a pocket universe of narrative convenience

Where have all the corpses gone
Gone to graveyards
Every one
Oh when will they ever learn

This felt so much like Dead Space: The Movie. It was all fetch quests. Pretty good derelict space ship set design though. Would have been a good airplane movie, not so bad watching it 1/2 an hour at a time while exercising.

Lol Dead Space is a perfect comparison

I watched it while working the other day and had fun. It’s pretty brain-dead and the obligatory fan service was embarrassing and the fake Ian Holm looked so bad. But the bulk of it worked for me. I especially liked the young android and his personality shifts.

BUT WHERE DID THE ALIEN CORPSES GO FFS

It could have been a pretty decent movie without the aliens, just some kids trying to figure out how to steal and fix a broke-down ship and outwit the corporation.

The director admittedly playing a shit-ton of _Isolation_ before beginning work of this film kind of structures the entire thing, with aspects down to using the exact same sound effects of the doors.

I get why they cast young people vs the older folks in the first one, as the differences between how film horror has been consumed between the 70s and now, but I wish they had done more with the characters to actually set them up and their relationships before you get to the picked-off-one-by-one section. I think I read that they had a lot more shot about all that but it got cut.

Watched ALIEN: COVENANT last night and was reminded once again that Danny McBride is the snob's Larry The Cable Guy, and nothing more.

when Larry creates something like The Righteous Gemstones, let me know. I'm tuning in

I made it halfway through one episode of that.

other than sounding vaguely folksy and being white dudes, I don't really think they have much at all in common. but it's really funny you're broadly painting them both as the same and live in Montana?

like, Larry is a fictional persona of a Canadian man who moved to the US and does his shtick as a wholesome parody, and McBride generally plays characters that lean into mannerisms that are only broadly similar to skewer the same

one of them is more a cynical ploy than the other and it’s not McBride, imo. but maybe I’m out myself as a snob!

"Alien: Romulus" or, for the Raimi-fans "Alien Resurrection 2"

Alien Resurrection is so much better

Until I watched Alien and Aliens on back to back nights it never clicked how much less I care about the latter. Alien is neck and neck with The Thing for sci-fi/horror GOAT and then s is a pretty good action movie (but itself not as good as The Terminator).

I would probably rather watch Resurrection over Aliens again if I had to do one in the near future.

Started watching Romulus a couple of weeks ago but only lasted about halfway (made it as far as CGI Ash's appearance). The less overtly Alien-movie it was (like the whole bit about the characters striving to escape their life of corporate wage-slave exploitation), the more I liked it. But when they were being attacked by 500 facehuggers it was just a video game and I lost interest.

...we're getting a sequel?

https://www.fangoria.com/alien-romulus-sequel-update-2/

We’ve almost checked all of the boxes of things that I want to see [in Romulus], and brought back a lot of the things I hadn’t seen in a while. Wherever we go now, we can go into uncharted waters […] I think it’ll be so exciting to go with characters you know from this movie, to a place in the Alien franchise that we’ve never been before, and to discover things that you’ve never seen before.

And they end up on a prison planet or something, calling it now.

A desert planet! No! Wait…an ICE planet!

If they CGI in a young Bill Pullman we burn down the studio.

ejecting myself into space in 3…2….

This time around an alien will say "Game...OVER."

Alien: Romulated

2 Alien 2 Romulus

Alien: Remustered

Alien: Romulus: Sure

Alien: Romulus 2: Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone

Alien: Romulus: Allstars vs UK Season 3

I would enjoy seeing those aliens serve.

Aliens: Romuluses

Alien: Romulans

2 Alien 2 Romulus

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, January 15, 2025 4:12 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Only if Tyrese and AI/CGI Paul Walker get a cameo

Got to be Alien : Remus

Honestly, I look a little forward to a Romulus sequel - maybe they'll feel less compelled to wink at the older entries, and keep the (surviving) likeable actors

All two of them!