TV/Movies Megathread

[Josephus]

Ok..."influenced"

[Queequeg]

Alien3. Very strange.

[Admiral Yi]

Told ya so.

[CountDeMoney]

Alien3. Very strange.

Strange good, or strange bad?  I say Strange Good.

[Queequeg]

Both. Replacing Charles Dance with an idiot sabotaged the rest of the movie. I thought he was getting orders from WY.  It's also gorgeous-I love lived-in Sci Fi looks generally but it just looked amazing. Not up to par with Alien or Aliens, but worth watching.

[Neil]

Alien3. Very strange.

Strange good, or strange bad?  I say Strange Good.

Yeah, I found that I've enjoyed the movie more as the years went on.  That said, killing Newt and Hicks was still bad.

[CountDeMoney]

Less Newt, more Charles S. Dutton = Good.

YOU DONT WANT TO KNOW ME LADY

[CountDeMoney]

Both. Replacing Charles Dance with an idiot sabotaged the rest of the movie.

Yeah, I was a bit miffed he was killed off so quickly.  Charles Dance rocks.

[Queequeg]

Both. Replacing Charles Dance with an idiot sabotaged the rest of the movie.

Yeah, I was a bit miffed he was killed off so quickly.  Charles Dance rocks.

The script already had too much clutter, if you'd have Charles Dance as a real WY agent with conflicted emotions about handing Ripley over it would have strengthened the entire movie.  Also, killing off two (or really three) of the most beloved characters in Sci Fi movie history before the movie even starts was a stupid, cost-saving move.

[CountDeMoney]

Also, killing off two (or really three) of the most beloved characters in Sci Fi movie history before the movie even starts was a stupid, cost-saving move.

I felt it added positively to the pathos and despair of the film.  It needed to be done to break the thematic connection between the shoot-em-up atmosphere of Aliens.

Besides, Michael Biehn wouldn't commit.

[Queequeg]

Biehn was half-dead so that made more sense.  Starting off the movie by killing the only loved child in the history of action movies or sci fi movies was stupid. 

[Sheilbh]

My favourite is Alien. Not least because I always felt the ending of Aliens is too positive and upbeat. It's a great action film, but I'm more into horror films so that many people surviving just doesn't sit well.

[CountDeMoney]

Starting off the movie by killing the only loved child in the history of action movies or sci fi movies was stupid.

Really?  Gertie from E.T. got whacked in that shuttle?

[garbon]

Body of Proof managed to fit both zombies and body snatchers/harvesters in one episode.

[Queequeg]

Also, having it be Weaver against a single Alien brought it really close to Alien, more or less all the time.  There were some scenes that were clearly references to the original, but a lot of the duct sequences just made me nostalgic for the scene were Tom Skerrit gets abducted.

Also, I really wish they'd incorporated the cocooning from cut scene of the original Alien.  That shit was fucking creepy.  Real shame that isn't canon.