Jesus I knew he was thin but I never realised he was THAT thin!
Always bugs me that the only time we get to see the Alien full length is when a stocky muscular stunt man is wearing a cruder mock up of the costume after it gets blasted out of Ripleys airlock, he looks nothing like the one we've been seeing all thru the movie at all, spoils it a bit.
I wonder how much the above dude got paid and whether he gets royalties, considering he wasn't actually an actor.
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..wil, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 8:26,
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I've always thought that's the worst bit of the film...
...you get the suspense throughout, then at the end my reaction is always "but it's just a man in a suit!"
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TheAlmightyBeev, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 8:42,
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That's what I mean
They'd have been better off using a mannequin for the initial ejection followed by a cut to the original Nigerian feller in his hero costume as it clings back onto the ship.
But what's done is done...
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..wil, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 8:46,
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Think that's bad.
See the scene when they're waking up and getting dressed and when Riply's getting into the space suit.
Lovely shots of Sigourney in her underwear.
However.....she's not changed her knickers in all that time.
Every tried to open up a toasted cheese sandwich?*
*©Tab Hunter
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 8:52,
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"What's done is done"
Haven't you seen anything by George Lucas lately?
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MyFrontFellOff ; his mouth full of teddies, urinating defiantly, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 8:52,
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Well, I have to say I wish he'd lent a hand to the directors cut of Alien
Just for the 'Ash is a goddamn robot' scenes as they are fucking poor by modern standards!
In one scene with it sat on the black dude you can not only see it doesn't have legs but all the cabling they're using to operate it.
Yeh there's a few scenes it wouldn't hurt to do a Lucas on, so long as it doesn't involve comedy Jawas and appalling key frame animation, anyway, as they're the main reason I find it hard to enjoy the first film now, lovely as it is, they keep bringing me out of the story.
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..wil, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 9:01,
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Yes, these things get me that way too.
You end up forgetting what you are watching and just wait for the jarring moment.
-Suspension of suspension of disbelief.
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MyFrontFellOff ; his mouth full of teddies, urinating defiantly, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 9:07,
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I try to watch fave old movies where the effects let it down now rather like I would watch a play
You have to use your imagination more basically, but it is a struggle sometimes.
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..wil, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 9:20,
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One of the few films to give me the fear is "Quatermass and the pit.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 9:29,
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I would say the most dumb looking by modern tastes film I can still watch and get spooked by
Would be Them, the one with the giant ants, and that's mainly because of the sounds, but the scene when they find the little girl gets me every time!
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..wil, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 9:37,
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I'm very against FX being redone
I recently watched a few Star Trek TOS episodes where some pillock had inserted a load of CGI into it. Cunts.
For me it creates the same problem you are hoping it avoids. It breaks my willing suspension of disbelief to see some sparkly CGI stuff in the middle of the 60s stuff.
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rob, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 11:15,
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^ this
There doesn't seem to be any kind of limit being imposed on the amount of design put into the CGI upgrades. I'm sure TOS could benefit from some subtle CGI (backgrounds, clearing up matte lines, stopping models from zipping about the place) but instead we get "Look what *I* can do!".
See recent redesign of ED209 for the new Robocop remake. The original was a beautiful combination of corporate design and function. The redesign is an exercise in "CGI Robot you say?? LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF POLYGONS AND POINTY BITS THAT MAKE NO SENSE!!!"
ED-209
TRANSFORMERSRGO-209
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Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 11:36,
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