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(...) Wow... By the way, which book are you talking about? (a search for "alien" in amazon will give an undesirable amount of results I assume..:-) Selçuk (23 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You mean Timeline? For me, that book was the final nail in the Crichton Coffin, as if I'd needed another. He's a writer like Keanu Reeves is an actor. (...) What a waste of Bruce Campbell. And Laura Linney, now that I think of it. Tim Curry (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Guilty! I even read "Eaters of the Dead", "The Great Train Robbery" and his latest screenpla...book. The operative question is: Did anyone see "Congo" the movie? ...and not wish they hadn't? Bruce (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Did _anyone_ read Congo? I mean besides Crichton himself, of course! 8^) Dave! (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ever suppose Cameron read "Starship Troopers"? :-) Or, "Congo" for that matter (the dual automated machine gun sequence)? Actually, I always thought they left a perfectly good explanation out - there should have been a second squad that got (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Can't say that I disagree. "Oh, geez, we just laid waste to half the planet - kinda, pretty, though, ain't it?" StOOpid. Bruce (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yah, but the fun part is figuring out a reasonable "in-character" reason for only sending 12 guys. :) I got an impression of the CM that's a little bit like fire fighters are today... a lot of training, and a lot of specialized equipment, and (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I thought they only sent a dozen because it was a bug hunt. ;^) ~1st Lieutenant, Fleebnork Division Muffin Head (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Weren't they a bunch of pirates or mercenaries? ~1st Lieutenant, Fleebnork Division Muffin Head (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) sent a dozen troops solely for the purpose of increased dramatic tension? Dave! (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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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(...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The Sulaco was sent out on a special mission. Quite a lot of the ship was unused at the time. I typed up a big ol' blurb about it here: (URL) Lieutenant, Fleebnork Division Muffin Head (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) After hearing the premise of Alien 3, I determined that I would never, ever watch it. Still haven't. :-) Bruce (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:>I saw the first showing in a mostly empty theatre with really high-backed (...) Back in '92 a local theater showed the Alien triple-header to a mostly empty theater. It was wild to see the three (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That's true, and a good point. For consistency's sake, I guess we could posit that the automated ships aren't sufficiently savvy to drop from orbit and land in hostile environments without some sort of ground-based guidance, but even this (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) "We're looking for a few good men and women, and we *do* mean a few." (...) Not bad, and not inconsistent with most of what we see. Would there have been sufficient gravity, then, for the alien and Ripley to fall into the airlock? That would (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'd always understood it (aside from the dramatic necessities of the plot line) as a logical extension of the colonial marine mentality of "be prepared". It may well be more economical in the long run to send a ship that can do 95% of what (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That's down sizing for you. (...) Perhaps gravity genarators are very large pieces of equipment? (...) I'd say the propulsion systems WE'RE needed. (...) Perhaps the ship is multipurpose and designed to fight it's way into a heavily defended (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The ship and crew are full of gravity throughout the movie; it's a grave situation. (I apologize.) (...) I just saw Aliens again this weekend, and I have another question. Why does a ship the size of New Jersey (or whatever its size--it's (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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