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Re: Alien and gravity
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Date: 
Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:49:38 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, James Simpson writes:

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.

**snip**

I realize the crew didn't cause the disaster... but the ending of the movie
has just really stuck in my mind.

  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
favorite of mine, and it likewise doesn't present the most rosy image of
humanity, though it doesn't approach anything like the destruction in Alien
4.  He's another director, by the way, who loves using the same cast again
and again.

     Dave!



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(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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