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Yeah, Quint at AICN has one of the coolest series of posts EVER with those BTS pics.
is there a compilation of the pictures... like a gallery of some kind? All i can find are random, individual, pictures.
Yeah, Quint at AICN has one of the coolest series of posts EVER with those BTS pics.
Yeah that's from the special edition. In my opinion of all the added cuts should've just been deleted scenes material on the dvd. The scene you mention completely interrupts the badass drop into the planet.
The special edition is awesome because of them mentioning Ripley's daughter and the turret scene. But the scenes on LV426 prior to the team arriving are wack.
Great film though. I don't think the victory goes so easy to Alien anymore now that I think about it.
Alien has great atmosphere but Aliens also has it's moments of tension and I'm honestly now starting to think this might be Cameron's best film (above the Terminators)
District 9 is the closest to what you're describing, low budget and gritty sci-fi imo, though obviously nowhere near as good as the original Terminator.yeah that was great too. I lament what we'll no longer ever get from hollywood. This type of movie just seems impossible now due to the budgets and the glossiness involved.
Cameron doesn't get out of bed for less than a $250 million budget anymore . If anybody puts out another Terminator-style film in the near future I'll be stanning them for life.
Alien has great atmosphere but Aliens also has it's moments of tension and I'm honestly now starting to think this might be Cameron's best film (above the Terminators).
The turret scenes are kind of cool, though. Those should have been left in the theatrical cut.
everyone comes around eventually. welcome to the club! I've always thought Aliens was by far his best film. not that I dislike Terminator or anything but I would never put them over Aliens.
the characters, set design, score, atmosphere, action... everything in Aliens pretty much kicks your ass. it also has pretty memorable dialogue.
everyone comes around eventually. welcome to the club! I've always thought Aliens was by far his best film. not that I dislike Terminator or anything but I would never put them over Aliens.
the characters, set design, score, atmosphere, action... everything in Aliens pretty much kicks your ass. it also has pretty memorable dialogue.
How is Noomie Rapace in SH2?
Very poor. Shouldn't have landed this role. I fear she will hurt the movie.
How is Noomie Rapace in SH2? Only seen her in the dragon tattoo films and she was great in them, I'd like to see more from her, hopefully she's great.
her character is irrelevant, but Noomi herself is fine.
Wrong.
New pic.
Would anyone be kind enough to make an avatar out of the Charlize Theron booty scene from the trailer?
Cheers!
Who would win: the T800 or a xenomorph? Because I think the T800 has the brute strength needed to tear a xenomorph to pieces, but the xenomorph would leak blood everywhere and destroy the T800, too. Maybe a draw?
Anyway, we answer that question and we know what film is better.
T1000 would win easy for sure though, so T2 is definitely best minus it looking like it was shot on video but then Aliens also has that problem with many of its shots so who knows? In the end Arnie naked in T2 was one of the most gorgeous looking creatures ever put on film like a marble statue so I think we all know what's the best option.
Best it can hope for is to take the T-800 down with it.
The queen could probably destroy a lightly-armed T-800.
I have to redesign the elements that led to the thing you finally see in Alien, which is the face hugger I dont want to repeat it. The alien in a sense as a shape is worn out..maybe well come up with something different. What were trying to do is squeeze in two prequels if you explain who he was and where he came from then you want to find out where they came from and you might was to go to this place where his people come from.
That is a mash-up of [mis]quotes from a 2010 interview MTV did with Scott.
Scott: Yeah, the thing about "Alien vs. Predator" is, I know it's commerce, but what a pity. I think, therefore, I have to design or redesign earlier versions of what these elements are that led to the thing you finally see in "Alien," which is the thing that catapults out of the egg, the face-hugger.
MTV: OK.
Scott: I don't want to repeat it. The alien in a sense, as a shape, is worn out.
MTV: Will you consult the original alien designer, H.R. Giger, on these ideas?
Scott: Yeah, he's still around. Once I get more serious and get going, and the big wheels start turning, we'll certainly talk. And maybe we'll come up with something completely different.
MTV: In your mind, when do cameras begin rolling on the film?
Scott: We're hoping to have it in theaters in late 2011, or maybe the best date in 2012.
Jaime,
It was really sort of a "coming around to a full circle" for me working with Ridley on Alien Prequel...
I was thirteen or fourteen when "Alien" originally opened at the theater in 80. Because I was under age at the time I first saw it with my parents and then dragged every aunt and uncle that would go to see it with me to the theater 8 times..That movie affected me more so than Star Wars...well Star wars was pretty huge but Alien was serious..and I think that was what was so cool about it. It wasn't a comic book or so far out that it couldn't happen in a real future....very, very impact-ful movie experience for me at the time. Also the exposure to Giger's work which knocked me around for years....
As high as my expectations were, working with Ridley was better than I expected...He was focused on the design and what I was doing for the first 3 months.. It was great......I can't talk about the movie but it was a great experience for me.. I don't know what they ended up using of mine in the end but I was the only one designing the Alien creatures at that time (5 months)......I know he brought in a classical Italian sculptor to make one of the characters...he had something in mind for one of the characters that didn't require my eccentricities..(heh) but...there it is...once the movie comes out I will be able to speak more freely..
Thanks for your interest
-C-
I haven't (knowingly) watched enough first-time director films to make a strong case against your claim, but did it not strike you as undercooked? Naturally, the on-going duels between the two is the centre focus (and how magnificent they were!) but it was at the complete expense of other elements in my opinion. And the scenes were just too damn short - it was like breezing through a sequence of plot points rather than actually following a character on their journey.I love The Duelists, the best movie from a first-time director that I've ever seen.
I haven't (knowingly) watched enough first-time director films to make a strong case against your claim, but did it not strike you as undercooked? Naturally, the on-going duels between the two is the centre focus (and how magnificent they were!) but it was at the complete expense of other elements in my opinion. And the scenes were just too damn short - it was like breezing through a sequence of plot points rather than actually following a character on their journey.
Well way to kill the conversationI haven't seen it in many years so I couldn't tell you details, other than I really liked it and had no problems with it.
The movie is definitely epic in its scope. One of the filmmakers that we ended up talking about to a fair degree of redundancy was David Lean, who directed Lawrence of Arabia, he said. We wanted to make the movie feel big by having the characters be small in big spaces. That connected to the larger themes we were talking about that were all just these little gnats crawling around on our little planet.
I am not getting the same sense of size from the space jockey in those shots. In Alien it looks huge, with one of their legs being almost twice the size as a normal human. Here it looks like it's only 7 or 8 feet tall.
The size should be fine - they weren't that 'big' in ALIEN.
The size should be fine - they weren't that 'big' in ALIEN.