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Re: Alien and gravity
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Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:30:48 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dave Schuler writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:>I saw the first showing
> > in a mostly empty theatre with really high-backed
> > > seats. Just me and the Alien, and no one else except a big screen and
> > > thunderous speakers. Scariest movie I ever saw. :-)
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> > Back in '92 a local theater showed the Alien triple-header to a mostly
> > empty theater. It was wild to see the three different directorial styles
> > back-to-back like that. I still like the look of the Alien 3 alien, and
> > even though the movie itself offered a few disappointments, it made some
> > interesting dramatic choices that I like to this day.
> >
> > Dave!
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> After hearing the premise of Alien 3, I determined that I would never, ever
> watch it. Still haven't. :-)
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> Bruce
If I may stray into the topic of Alien IV, I've always found it ironically
amusing that the crew remarked how beautiful Earth is as they entered the
atmosphere shortly after the mothership took out all of southern Africa. The
crew seemed to be pretty unconcerned about the several hundred million people
that no doubt lay in smoldering heaps in their ruined cities. Not all that
beautiful. Anyway, just a nitpick...it's just always struck me as somehow
incongruous and disturbing that the movie ended with the ship flying through a
beautiful sunset (on the suprise! not so shabby-after-all Earth) while probably
the worst human tragedy in history just occured. I realize the crew didn't
cause the disaster... but the ending of the movie has just really stuck in my
mind.
james
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| (...) **snip** (...) Not as tragic, presumably, as if the aliens had landed, but that's another matter. That same guy (whose name I forget but could find easily enough if I weren't so lazy at the moment) directed City of Lost Children, another (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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