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# Aliens follows all the same beats as Alien, just turned up to 11.
I do like both films though. If only they had stopped making them at Aliens.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Mon 22 Apr 2013, 14:27, archived)
# The longer cut of Alien 3 is much better than the cinema release
well worth checking out.

Aliens is ok, but it moves away from the 'scare' tactics of the original, and promises
much more 'gun-ho' action between marines/alien to take it fully into another area - yet there's very little of that given the run time.
It tries to be 2-3 different things and although loud and bombastic, doesn't really offer as much as the original did
/opinions on the internet lols
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Mon 22 Apr 2013, 14:30, archived)
# I have a lot of time for 3.
Lop off the last 10 minutes of ham-fistedly trying to retrofit a bigger picture to the film, and the actual "Alien" part of the film stands up pretty well.

Plus you get Brian Glover AND Pete Postlethwaite for your money.
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Mon 22 Apr 2013, 14:32, archived)
# and Charles Dance.
always a winner
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Mon 22 Apr 2013, 14:33, archived)
# Yeah he's OK, but his character is far too telegraphed a "semi-romantic interlude doomed to a messy end" for him to really give it much welly.
Where as Glover and Poss both deliver in spades. "This is rumour control, these are the facts..." is a well-used addition to my day to day life :o)
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Mon 22 Apr 2013, 14:36, archived)
# and Tetley Tea, don't forget the Tetley
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Mon 22 Apr 2013, 14:37, archived)
# We found 'iz body wi' two thousand perf-a-ray-shuns.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Mon 22 Apr 2013, 18:48, archived)
# i suggest you watch up n' under
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# That one's passed me by but I'll have to give it a look.
Brian Glover is an actor out of the Danny Trejo mould - only ever plays one character, but does it so well that he keeps getting work and it never gets dull.
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Mon 22 Apr 2013, 14:46, archived)
# A Brian Glover and Danny Trejo team-up.
Now that would have been interesting.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Mon 22 Apr 2013, 14:53, archived)
# Once Upon A Time In Harrogate
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# danny trejo gives me the wronghorn
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# it was the last film he made
and it's dedicated to him. funny as fuck, too.
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# personally
i enjoy the complete swing from gun-toting marines to mop-wielding cons
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# It promised more than it delivered. I think I read that the director had a very unhappy time making it due to studio pressures.
There are moments in all the sequels that stand up, just the films overall are a bit crap.

Resurrection has a few good bits, but the aliens look sort of crap and the newborn thing is terrible. Ron Perlman though, always a bonus. AvP is cheap and cheerful. AvP2 is utter shite apart from the bit where the lass gets on the wrong end of the Predator throwing star.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Mon 22 Apr 2013, 14:38, archived)
# Because the monster is so good, there has been a natural tendency to tear the arse out of it.
Please, Hollywood, leave it alone.
(I helped save b3ta! Ham o' Shatner -.-- --- ..- .-. / .- .-.. .-.. / --. .- -.--, Mon 22 Apr 2013, 14:40, archived)
# I got a FP out of it so it can't be all bad.
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Mon 22 Apr 2013, 14:42, archived)