BattleMonkey
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I just checked, the whole tunnel/turret sequence of Aliens DC was over in little over 1 minute.
10 minutes :lol
10 minutes :lol
GhaleonEB said:Personally, I love Alien and Aliens equally, though they're very different films.
Furret said:They may have said something like that, but the scene went on forever and dozens of aliens were killed for ultimately no reason whatsoever.
Compare this to the way they acted when the marines discovered the nest or when the came in through the ceiling in medical.
In general Aliens does portray the creatures with less individual intelligence than Alien, but in this scene it totally tips the balance and completely changes the audience perception of them.
The theatrical cut is vastly superior.
Mr. Snrub said:Eh, I'm kind of divided. Just technically speaking, the turret scene was awesome. Almost a "land stand" situation, a count down to when they would break through, and then it stops.
At the same time, I agree--it makes the Aliens seem a bit hive-mindish, and not the individual killing machine that the first one was.
julls said:I like the way Snrub thinks!
I agree with what megashock5 said... and James Cameron really plays off the suspense created in the first. You know what's coming but not when, and by the time the colonists first encounter the woman cocooned in the wall and the aliens start waking up (some of my favourite shots of the film), the tension is almost unbearable. Then it's released with the final reveal of the fully grown alien and all hell breaks loose.
The '2 aliens attack another' scene in Resurrection was one of the (if not the only) inventive and interesting scenes in the movie.
megashock5 said:Bascially:
Alien=it could be anywhere!
Aliens=they're everywhere!
agrajag said:I don't remember that part, sorry. Basically, Ripley fought really hard to protect Newt and at the end of Aliens she was triumphant. To take that away in mere minutes takes ruins her triumph. For me anyway.
Furret said:They stole it from the comics.
The bit where the infected guy put his chestburster through the other guy is from the first Aliens comic book series too.
That's as perfect and succinct a distinction between the films as I've seen. Bravo. :lolmegashock5 said:I agree with this. And, really, they almost had to be different. The first one worked from a horror/suspense perspective because the thing could be lurking around any corner and you only caught glimpses of it up until the end. If there's one thing horror movies have shown is that once you have fully seen the monster and been exposed to it, it becomes a bit less frightening.
So Cameron couldn't really hide the thing around the corner again since we now knew what it looked like. So what could make it scary again? Tons of them swarming around. Scary in a different way than the original, but scary nonetheless.
Bascially:
Alien=it could be anywhere!
Aliens=they're everywhere!
Raist said:And Star Wars
Raist said:And Star Wars
And there goes the last remaining thread of respect i had for Resurrection. :Lolspookyfish said:For truth.
It was a shocking move, but yeah - the appeal of Alien 3 is in the absolute bleak world it presents. It's a miserable movie, really.. but i still love it.mantidor said:Killling those two for me wasn't dissmising what happened before, it was a way to show just how hopeless the Alien universe is.
Macam said:Aliens vs Predator was terrible, terrible, terrible.
Really though, I can't think of a more popular movie franchise that is so utterly hit and miss as the Aliens franchise.