A L I E N 30th Anniversary!

[cljohnston]

Hard to believe it's been 30 years since I defied my stepmother's edict, and went with my Dad to see A L I E N!
He was a set designer for TV, and we were both in total awe of Ron Cobb's Nostromo designs and HR Giger's designs for everything else.
They even had bits of the sets on display at the Egyptian theatre in Hollywood: We walked past a patch of eggs out near the street, through the corridor into MU-TH-R's interface chamber, then out to face... the Space Jockey!
I consider myself very lucky that I got to see it before some religious zealots flicked a match on it ('cause they thought it was the work of the Devil!).
This movie and Blade Runner were like religious experiences for my Dad, and we were constantly talking about the design work.

I've watched it at least 20 times since then, and several more when I bought the Director's Cut DVD a few weeks ago, but I think I'm gonna fire it up one more time today, just to mark the occasion.

What say you all?

 

[Andy44]

I was too young to see it in the movie house, but I remember the scary commercials.

I didn't know somebody burned the Space Jockey, that's terrible.

Even now when I see one of those plush toy facehuggers it gives me the creeps. And the Aliens franchise isn't dead, yet, either, with the AVP popcorn films.

 

[Notebook]

I went to see it on my own, none of my friends were interested, I was then ? years old, it scared the wits out of me, the monster, the parasiticism, the vulnerabilty, the lighting, the sense of desperation. I left the theatre depressed, don't know why.

N.

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Re above: I would give it a +10 even though it scared the wits out of me, and I made a point of seeing it in a proper film theatre.

 

[Moonwalker]

This movie is as old as I'm going to become in two and a half weeks, but I have never seen it

 

[Notebook]

Its a classic, but its of its time and you have to see it in a good cinema, preferably one that has a volume control.

N.

 

[cljohnston]

Its a classic, but its of its time and you have to see it in a good cinema, preferably one that has a volume control.

N.

Or wear headphones!

Oh, and it's "ALIEN Month" over on this blog!

 

[Notebook]

Nice blog, and lots of info. People have probably forgot what a unique movie it is(I'm not impresssed with the sequels). It was as good as "The Thing"(both versions) for horror, and Blade Runner for dystopian visuals.

N,

 

[cljohnston]

I know! I can watch it repeatedly, and my mouth still hangs open while looking at the Nostromo interiors. I've always thought of this movie as a "documentary from the future"!

I tried watching my Aliens DVD again, and I couldn't even sit through it all the way.

 

[Notebook]

A scary future, a spaceship that is basically a factory, a crew that is not in charge of it. All that technology, and it dosen't help. Brave new world, or more of the same? Lovely movie.

N.

 

[Bill LeClere]

one of the scariest--if not the scariest--film I've ever seen. I was 20 yrs old and I practically %$#@#$%ed my drawers. The sets were incredible.

 

[bujin]

I was a mere 2 years old when the film was released, but has become one of my favourite film series (even though 3 was a bit rubbish, and 4 was so bad that I don't consider it to exist).

Which is why I was just a little bit happy when I saw this:

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/teaser-trailer-aliens-vs/49480

 

[RocketMan_Len]

I was fifteen when a friend showed it at a party. It, and Scanners, were the first movies that really terrified me...

 

[Andy44]

Ah, Scanners! I was just talking about that at work today, since Michael Ironsides is in the new Terminator movie we were trying to name all the films he's been in.

 

[bujin]

Ah, Scanners! I was just talking about that at work today, since Michael Ironsides is in the new Terminator movie we were trying to name all the films he's been in.

I'm sure he'd claim he was never in Highlander 2...

 

[Pilot7893]

Even now when I see one of those plush toy facehuggers it gives me the creeps.

Valve makes plush Headcrabs. They're basically the same thing as the facehuggers, except they turn you into a zombie instead of laying eggs inside people

 

[Notebook]

For Alien:

A unique film, its production value at that time was outstanding; the cast were excellent. They showed how a crew could fall apart, (nice to see the engineer got it first!) Then one after another they failed, even when the two last crew members were abandoning ship, they couldn't succeed.

Marvelous Movie.

N.

 

[cljohnston]

They showed how a crew could fall apart, (nice to see the engineer got it first!) Then one after another they failed, even when the two last crew members were abandoning ship, they couldn't succeed.

Gee, now I'm feelin' kinda depressed.

 

[Ghostrider]

I'm sure he'd claim he was never in Highlander 2...

There is a rule about Highlander 2, and it is that we never talk about Highlander 2.

 

[Notebook]

Gee, now I'm feelin' kinda depressed.

Don't feel depressed, Ripley won, and the cat came second!
Still a scarey movie, I blame Ridley Scott.

N.