Aliens Poll: Crew of USS Sulaco

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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

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

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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!"

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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