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Post by rfan8312 on May 11, 2024 18:04:16 GMT
I just saw Alien at the theater. It really is that visceral experience that I've heard about. Seeing it on the big screen with the big sound is much different than watching on a small screen at home. Everything comes together including the acting to create something that feels real. The film feels creepy too. We are right there with the crew wondering wtf are we seeing unfold in front of us. Watching it was a powerful vicarious experience of being on that ship. Nothing felt rushed.
My first favorite movie ever was Predator from 1987 and we all know that those yautja hunt xenomorphs. Let's use this thread to occasionally dump some links to that world and to discuss the bonus situation.
This sound in Blade Runner can be heard in bits of Alien leading up to the scene when Kane wakes up at which point the sound is identical in both films. Sometimes I just let this play on the soundbar in the kitchen while I read or work on the house.
For anybody who never saw the original deleted scene of Fifield coming back to the ship in Prometheus here it is.
I've seen a lot of negative comments on social media about Prometheus but I love that film for the look it has and its atmosphere. Same with Covenant. These are slasher flicks set in space. The crew is expendable.
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Post by MartinT on May 11, 2024 19:01:19 GMT
The sound that I always remember from Alien is the clanking of chains together with the depiction of filth and abandonment in the storage areas when they are all looking for the xenomorph. That and the proximity detector noise showing its presence when they still can't see it.
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Post by brettj on May 12, 2024 2:16:57 GMT
I think I near shat myself when the alien burst out of John Hurt.
A parody many years later with Sooty bursting out was not quite so scary.
Seeing Alien Alien on the big screen (which was my 2009 50" TV - still my TV) was fabulous.
Seeing it at the theatre again would be brilliant.
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Post by Tim on May 13, 2024 8:35:27 GMT
I think I near shat myself when the alien burst out of John Hurt. I think a lot of the cast did too! |
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Post by Slinger on May 13, 2024 15:22:48 GMT
The genius that is Mel Brooks, and yes, he did get John Hurt to reprise his role.
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Post by Tim on May 18, 2024 19:26:28 GMT
Is this the best Alien movie review ever?
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Post by rfan8312 on May 19, 2024 1:29:10 GMT
It's a really good review. The movie itself is featured so much in the review that it's like watching a mini version of it.
I still can't get over how real that movie felt as opposed to feeling like watching a Hollywood film. They put me on that ship with those people dealing with that nightmare.
This video here does a good job of laying out where all of the films in Weyland Yutani universe land on the timeline.
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Post by mikeyb on May 19, 2024 8:32:27 GMT
I think I near shat myself when the alien burst out of John Hurt. I think a lot of the cast did too! Didn't the story go that Ridley Scott hadn't told them what was going to happen, hence the genuine look of shock on their faces. |
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Post by MartinT on May 20, 2024 19:47:47 GMT
Is this the best Alien movie review ever? It's an excellent summary with clever use of short clips so that it doesn't violate copyright. I shall watch his Aliens review (which I would give an A to the original's A+) and then probably stop at that point. |
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Post by Tim on May 20, 2024 20:35:56 GMT
Those two films are just perfect. I have no idea how many times I've seen them, but it's a lot, Alien possibly more times than any other film?
I sit with Chris, they both get an A+, but with Alien just on top.
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Post by rfan8312 on May 27, 2024 18:38:19 GMT
Wow this guy really tears into this AI film restoration of Aliens at 5:25 in this clip. The rest of the video is quite entertaining as well for his crusade against these kinds of restorations.
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Post by MartinT on May 27, 2024 19:37:46 GMT
Some of his examples look horrible. How can they think this is an improvement?
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Post by Slinger on May 27, 2024 19:44:47 GMT
Think of it like hi-fi, Martin. Most people are quite happy with a diet of Spotify/MP3 files played through ordinary, mass produced audio equipment. They wouldn't have the foggiest idea that, according to hifi "experts", they are listening to all sorts of artefacts and noise etc. You've seen most of those films, I assume. Did you spot anything that was pointed out in the film? I'm guessing the answer is no. It's there if you're looking for it, but it probably just washes over you if you're not, which is true for 99% of us.
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Post by MartinT on May 27, 2024 20:29:12 GMT
I don't think I've seen any of the AI 'enhanced' versions.
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Post by rfan8312 on Jun 7, 2024 14:43:06 GMT
Just saw an image on FB titled "zero gravity acid blood" where some pour soul bought the farm in a bad way. Last week I saw the 'deacon sharks'. Xeno sharks. Crazy. Apparently they appeared in a comic book. I've wondered for years why nobody ever mentions the WordPress articles about the Alien mythology and how those films came to be. In this article it reveals that before Ridley came on board there were no eggs in the alien life cycle. Initially the story involved a silo that the crew sees on the horizon at LV-426. Inside is a spore that infects the crew. The company knew about everything beforehand and sent the android along to record everything. Another article describes how H.R. Giger first came up with the design for the derelict spacecraft. alienseries.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/the-derelictpyramidsilo/comment-page-1/ |
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Post by MartinT on Jun 7, 2024 16:36:52 GMT
That ship is a work of art in being awesome and other-worldly.
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Post by rfan8312 on Jun 7, 2024 17:02:39 GMT
When Giger was contacted to design the ship that the crew finds on LV426 they asked him to create something that looked like it wasn't built by humans.
One night he couldnt sleep and got up and started airbrushing what he thought of as some kind of aerodynamic bone that looked like it was grown rather than built.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 8, 2024 8:34:51 GMT
I've read the full article in the link you posted and it's fascinating to see how the end result was so last-minute.
I love Ridley Scott films and will always point to his two SFs (Alien and Blade Runner) as examples of his most epic and complete world-building. Every detail, up to and including the scores, are perfection.
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Post by Slinger on Jun 12, 2024 16:15:31 GMT
Noah Hawley's ALIEN Series Gets a Possible Title and New Story Details SharedSome new information has surfaced regarding Noah Hawley’s Alien series, which a lot of fans are very curious about. The new information involves a rumoured title and some story details. According to Hollywood insider Daniel Richtman, the series is currently being referred to as Alien: Neverland, but that may not end up being the final title of the series. It’s also said that the story is set three decades before the events of Ridley Scott's 1979 classic Alien and a few years before Prometheus. The series will find the characters " caught in a conflict with the beginning of artificial intelligence and the competition among developers and users." This is in line with what Hawley previously said about the story, saying: " It's set on Earth of the future. At this moment, I describe that as Edison versus Westinghouse versus Tesla. Someone's going to monopolize electricity. We just don't know which one it is.” He continued: “ In the movies, we have this Weyland-Yutani Corporation, which is clearly also developing artificial intelligence, but what if there are other companies trying to look at immortality in a different way, with cyborg enhancements or transhuman downloads? Which of those technologies is going to win?" This will be the first Alien project set on Earth, and it will blend “ both the timeless horror of the first Alien film with the non-stop action of the second, it’s going to be a scary thrill ride that will blow people back in their seats.“ Hawley previously talked about the project, saying: “ It's about how we're trapped between the primordial past and the artificial intelligence of our future, where both [are] trying to kill us. “ It's set on Earth of the future. At this moment, I describe that as Edison versus Westinghouse versus Tesla. Someone's going to monopolize electricity. We just don't know which one it is." He went on to share: “ I thought it would be interesting to open it up a little bit so that the stakes of ‘What happens if you can’t contain it?’ are more immediate.” The show also stars Sydney Chandler, and Alex Lawther (The End of the F*cking World) as the male lead, a soldier named CJ, with Samuel Blenkin (Black Mirror) as another main character named Boy Kavalier, a CEO. Additional cast members include Essie Davis (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries) as Dame Silvia, Timothy Olyphant, and Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger) as Slightly. Production on the series is set to resume in early 2024. SOURCE
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Post by rfan8312 on Jul 27, 2024 14:23:16 GMT
REALLY looking forward to Romulus and this new Noah Hawley series.
This is a fan short film but it's quite cool. Apparently took incredible effort to complete this.
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