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# watch out for splinters sitting up there on that fence ;)
/I love Aliens immensely, but Alien just edges it for me on direction.
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 4 Sep 2007, 16:12, archived)
# really?
if i'd watched it when it first came out, i would probably appreciate Alien more but, as it stands, i think Aliens is much better.
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 4 Sep 2007, 16:14, archived)
# Yup, Alien feels very close and claustrophobic
and it's supported by one of the most awesome casts of it's time.
Aliens did feel close and chilling in places, but went from small to big set pieces very quickly
(in my humble opinion anyway)
The extended version MORE than makes up for this fleeting direction though,
and makes for a much better film
(as indeed does the longer, uncut version of Alien 3, which introduces so much more, and is a cracking uncut film)
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 4 Sep 2007, 16:17, archived)
# Indeed.
Verily, you speak the truth.

The uncut version of 3 is good, is it?

*heads off to Play.com*
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Tue 4 Sep 2007, 16:20, archived)
# aye, plays out the story a lot more
and a nice twist which plays back to Finchers original idea as to where the Alien comes from.
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 4 Sep 2007, 16:21, archived)
# Cool.
It'll be here tomorrow!

Thank god for express shipping!

Edit: Damn! Next week. :(
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Tue 4 Sep 2007, 16:24, archived)
# its more like the book
as above, so out with the dog idea and back to the bovine, also there is a reference to it in the original cinema version, of the waste holding container that they want to burn the alien down from the pipes and capture it, but it was never in the film, is now back in there :D
(JadeFalcon, Tue 4 Sep 2007, 16:54, archived)
# the guns in the hallway?
loved them. i'm a fan of Alien 3 as well, purely because i like the concept of going from a well-armoured, well-trained fighting unit to a colony of weapon-free religious zealots, yet having to face the same enemy.
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 4 Sep 2007, 16:22, archived)
# Aye, Alien 3 (aka Aliens vs Brian Glover) ;)
even though I'm the 'Aliens' generation (30) i still prefer the first, primarily for its cast and feel
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 4 Sep 2007, 16:23, archived)
# i like watching Veronica Cartwright freak out
but, apart from that, it just didn't do it for me. i like more action and blowing stuff up ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 4 Sep 2007, 16:27, archived)
# hahaha, there is that, I suppose :)
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 4 Sep 2007, 16:34, archived)
# i always was
a girl who likes a big bang...:D
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 4 Sep 2007, 16:43, archived)
# I reckon 'Aliens' had some outstanding lines of script.
But the first one was a corker.

Mind you, I thought the *look* of the 3rd one was very good also.

Bit of a Fincher fan.
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Tue 4 Sep 2007, 16:15, archived)
# seen the uncut version?
loved that version. shows the cinema release up for the cack it truly was. Dreadful editing
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 4 Sep 2007, 16:18, archived)
# The original script was something about a wooden planet, wasn't it?
Vincent (The Navigator) Ward wrote it?

/failing memory blog
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Tue 4 Sep 2007, 16:22, archived)
# in the cinema release there is a fleeting shot of the animals which incubate the alien in Fincher's original idea
this was scrapped in favour of the 'dogburster' but the uncut extended version goes back to the original animal
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 4 Sep 2007, 16:24, archived)
# the big box set has a documentary all about that.
it's really funny because half the people are apologising for how crap it is and the other half are still really bitter about it after 20 years
(I helped save b3ta! monstrinho do biscoito teeeshurts = www.nogunarmy.com, Tue 4 Sep 2007, 16:26, archived)
# alien for the win. alien 3 for the bin
[edit]the directors cut is much better. the alien coming out of a cow should have made it a docile herbivore if you follow the gene borrowing logic of the other cut tho.
(I helped save b3ta! monstrinho do biscoito teeeshurts = www.nogunarmy.com, Tue 4 Sep 2007, 16:19, archived)
# Thing is...
...if you're in the mood for seeing a load of aliens being shot, it doesn't quite cut it. I think we can all agree that both are better than the travesties which followed!
(Sartori is moving to Canada, eh?, Tue 4 Sep 2007, 16:19, archived)
# Part three survived (just) in my books,
given they changed the formula again from what had proceeded it, but Resurrection was jaded and sterile in my books, with little that was original. Which is why I'm looking forward to AvP 2, given it's set on earth. Oh and will have an 18 certificate, as someone pointed out above.
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Tue 4 Sep 2007, 16:26, archived)
# it's a pity they killed off some great B-Movie actors in previous films really,
if they had a great plot/action, would be nice to have seen the likes of Brad Dourif, and Lance Henriksen in it, the latter was wasted in the first AvP
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 4 Sep 2007, 16:27, archived)