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Scary and/or awe inspiring visions of an intelligence other than ours OR we're-running-out-of-budget-but-i've-got-this-really-tall-mate...

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 16 September 2002 05:59 (twenty-three years ago)

(Guess what we went to see Pete and Steve!)

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 16 September 2002 06:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i like john lithgow in buckaroo banzai

i dont like the aliens in alien/s/3/resurrection or that mel gibson one

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 16 September 2002 07:26 (twenty-three years ago)

signs = *sigh* (the crop circle was better on the led zep box set)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 16 September 2002 07:27 (twenty-three years ago)

haha the aliens in SPICE WORLD are the CUTEST EVAH!! (except also the little one which is piloting the man's head in MIB)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 16 September 2002 07:28 (twenty-three years ago)

i think its time for the alien autopsy: fact or fiction revival!!!

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 16 September 2002 07:29 (twenty-three years ago)

although the king of this thread is clearly MEN IN BLACK!!

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 16 September 2002 07:30 (twenty-three years ago)

i know hes not really an alien but rather a tiny mutant dude from another planet who lives in a guys chest, but the part with quato in total recall always makes me cry, its very beautiful

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 16 September 2002 07:36 (twenty-three years ago)

sp, 'kuato'
http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/reviews/totallrecallkuato1.jpg

sob...

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 16 September 2002 07:38 (twenty-three years ago)

http://swiftnaturecamp.com/images/2000photo%20folder/aliens.JPG

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 16 September 2002 07:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't believe NO ONE has mentioned THE THING!!! Or the ALIENS from THEY LIVE! (actually they don't look that cool, but fuck Roddy Roddy Piper is in that movie)!!!

KUATO hahahaha! I giggled actually. My fat ASS is soooooooo insensitive!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 16 September 2002 07:40 (twenty-three years ago)

The best Alien is the bloke from the Day the Eath Stood Still and Spock.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 16 September 2002 08:02 (twenty-three years ago)

there are very few films where the aliens don't come across as people in suits. Or where the aliens are not either maniacally dangerous or implacably friendly. Or else where the aliens aren't some kind of embodiment of a human characteristic. What you really want is aliens which are strange and alien, not necessarily hostile but working to rules of behaviour very difficult to fathom if you are human.

errrr, can't think of any examples.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 16 September 2002 08:03 (twenty-three years ago)

SEARCH: The cute little alien from Flight of the Navigatxx0r!

There is a monster from outer space demon in Buffy once (a snot monster actually) but that is a bit rubbish so I wd say DESTROY!

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 16 September 2002 08:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Strange and alien - the blue singing lady in 'The Fifth Element' (tho' she's a total Moebius rip)

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 16 September 2002 08:38 (twenty-three years ago)

MUTANTS are not ALIENS, trife!

― bob zemko (bob), Monday, 16 September 2002 08:38 (twenty-three years ago)

"open yr mind"

― bob zemko (bob), Monday, 16 September 2002 08:39 (twenty-three years ago)

hes from mars!!

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 16 September 2002 08:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Howard The Duck

― Graham (graham), Monday, 16 September 2002 08:55 (twenty-three years ago)

so if a humang goes to mars he's an alien? yr thinking "foreign". understandably.

― bob zemko (bob), Monday, 16 September 2002 08:57 (twenty-three years ago)

search: the sarky alien from Last Starfighter.

― chris (chris), Monday, 16 September 2002 10:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it's pretty hard to establish "otherness" in much depth in films, because of plot constraints etc. There's an impressively out-there alien in Babylon 5, but that's built up over years etc.

I understand that if they ever film The Mote In Gods Eye, we'll have an answer.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 16 September 2002 10:22 (twenty-three years ago)

is the last starfighter the worst film ever made??

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 16 September 2002 10:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: the Pierluigi Collina aliens in Mars Attacks!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 16 September 2002 10:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Let's just go to the beach and steal some kid's ball.

http://spazioinwind.libero.it/thedarkstar/pic/alien.jpg

Genius

― chris j (chris j), Monday, 16 September 2002 11:21 (twenty-three years ago)

> is the last starfighter the worst film ever made??

no. 8)

actually, what i like about it is the computer graphics. cutting edge in their day (on a cray i believe) but something i could probably knock up in my shed today. (actually, looking around, they weren't the flat shaded polygonal models i remember but more raytraced and realistically lit, cutting edge stuff in 1984, first film to use cgi models)

that said, i like tron for the same reasons.

fave aliens - alf and gilbert. neither of these are films though.

andy

― koogs, Monday, 16 September 2002 11:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: The Alien, not the queen, not the doggy one in the later films, but the original baddass one.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 16 September 2002 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

dragons are bettah...

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 16 September 2002 16:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Greatest alien ever, though not based on the films: Superman, obv. I like J'onn J'onnz, The Martian Manhunter too, and not only because this alien has a name that is basically John Jones. What was their second choice, F'red S'mith? And he is in a (very rub) film, laughably played by that Charles Winchester out of MASH.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 16 September 2002 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)

David Bowie was pretty convincing as an alien in "The Man Who Fell to Earth"... until the scene where he takes off his "human disguise". Actually I think the film is very good and quite moving.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 16 September 2002 20:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't it odd that such a rotten director in terms of acting performances (not just because of Teresa Russell, either) got the only good acting performance out of Bowie? Obv because of the role. (Actually Nic Roeg is one of my favourite directors, but if you want terrible acting there are few good directors who can supply more.)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 16 September 2002 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I like "They Live", the movie with wrestler "Rowdy" Roddey Piper where he has to put on the cheezee looking sunglass so you can see who is really an alien plotting to keep humans subdued and the subliminal messages bombarded by the Media like "Submit to Authority".

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 16 September 2002 21:49 (twenty-three years ago)

There's an impressively out-there alien in Babylon 5

That would be the Vorlon called 'Kosh' you're referring to? Vorlons were great - hardly ever spoke, and when they did it was with zen-like cryptic sparseness. A bit like some of the ILx posters actually....
(One of the *very* few redeeming features of EE Smith's 'Lensman' series was the alien race called 'Palainians' - SO alien that they just don't make sense to humans, not even visually: you 'see' them but you can't 'describe' them)

Best 'alien' EVAH is in 'Forbidden Planet' - nightmarish thing, basically a mouth on legs, but with demonically evil eyes - and drawn I believe by *Disney* animators. (Primeval ID of Mickey Mouse)

OK I know, it's more freudian then alien.

― Ray M (rdmanston), Monday, 16 September 2002 22:37 (twenty-three years ago)

the monstah from the id!! it's not alien at all, it's morbius's subconscious lust for his own daughter!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 16 September 2002 22:49 (twenty-three years ago)

oho mark I knew I was cheating - but I think I prefer the Mickey Mouse interpretation.
(Still waiting for that book abt The Thing btw - amazon.uk grrrrr)

― Ray M (rdmanston), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 10:15 (twenty-three years ago)

The Vorlons seemed promisingly weird and original early in Babylon 5, but it became clearer and clearer that there was little behind it as the show went on, and the way they turned out in the end was dismally uninteresting.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd agree with that Martin - the series began to deflate quite quickly after season 3, and the Vorlons were crappily misused in season 4.

― Ray M (rdmanston), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

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