ALIEN and ALIENS Thread...

[dekadentdave]

Bishop should go! Good idea!

 

[pjam]

Gorman, Bishop and ???? Next? You fill in the blank.

I say Spunkmeyer! He drove the Loader, hung out with Bishop in the lab, got sticky fingers, etc...

 

[dekadentdave]

We know Frost is next because he was shown at SDCC.

 

[pjam]

Harsh language guy won't cut it with me, I'd take a Ferro or Spunk waaaay before Frost, lots of guys dig him but I'm getting very selective now, besides the original Apone head (which I replaced with a FL HS in the group deal) looks like Frost anyway, many agree including AB who pointed it out first.

 

[Qrest Fourstar]

Wonder what my chances of my waitlist for Hicks, apone and Vas getting converted...ever?

 

[screamingmetal]

What's next? I'd really like one of those white soldiers from the end of Alien 3.
Colonial Marines, I think we'll get a Bishop, Frost, Dietrich, and possibly Gorman. I actually bought a second Aliens BDU just so I could make a Gorman, I kind of don't think they'll make him since he wouldn't come with all that much. I really hope they make a Ferro.
Burke and Newt don't seem all that likely, unless Sideshow makes a Newt with their Hobbit Bodies.

 

[dekadentdave]

Unless Hot Toys makes a second production run of these I'd say your chances of wait list conversion are pretty much nil. These sold out over a year ago. I'm surprised that SS hasn't closed the wait list on these. I've been on the wait list for some Predators for a LONG time.

 

[screamingmetal]

Wonder what my chances of my waitlist for Hicks, apone and Vas getting converted...ever?

I've been on the Wait List for Vasquez for about three months now, no conversion yet.

 

[Wor-Gar]

For ALIENS SERIES 3, I'd like:

Bishop - with that handy communications case and kitchen knife

Gorman - with bandages and some kind of command console

Carter Burke - with the 2 facehuggers he released

 

[MaulFan]

I'm anxious for the ALIENS alien warrior to come out, Alien design is classic, but I think the more skeletal dome of ALIENS adds a more viscious look to the creature.

 

[One of Nine]

Anyone going to show Wierzbowski some love

 

[Qrest Fourstar]

I'll tell ya'll-they do figures from ALIEN, and I'll go ape*****.

 

[gdb]

With all the sequels talk, I'd like to throw this out there before ducking for cover. I'd love to see the cast from Resurrection made.

Yeah, act three is so embarrassing it should be recalled and the baby alien was so stupid I wish the Haitian from Heroes could scrub my mind of it. But Joss Whedon wrote the script, creating the characters and you can deffinately see an early version of Firefly in there.

 

[dekadentdave]

With all the sequels talk, I'd like to throw this out there before ducking for cover. I'd love to see the cast from Resurrection made.

Yeah, act three is so embarrassing it should be recalled and the baby alien was so stupid I wish the Haitian from Heroes could scrub my mind of it. But Joss Whedon wrote the script, creating the characters and you can deffinately see an early version of Firefly in there.

Resurrection sucks so bad, I'd hate to see Firefly if it's anything like that was.

 

[gdb]

I felt that way, too. Completely missed the series' original run due to the fact that commercials reminded me so much of Resurrection. But with the passing of years I checked out the DVDs. Besides, after AvP, I'm no longer that critical of the Aliens franchise. Some movies suck, some movies rock -- but the concept survives.

 

[MaulFan]

The thing that gives Resurrection some points with me is seeing the Aliens under water, I always enjoy seeing creatures/characters in environments and situations significantly different than anything you'd expect or have seen.

 

[dekadentdave]

The thing that gives Resurrection some points with me is seeing the Aliens under water, I always enjoy seeing creatures/characters in environments and situations significantly different than anything you'd expect or have seen.

See, to me that's where they got it all wrong. We saw too much of the Aliens. Cameron showed them but they were always lit in such ways as to make their physiology seem more mysterious and Alien like Scott did in the first film.

 

[MaulFan]

See, to me that's where they got it all wrong. We saw too much of the Aliens. Cameron showed them but they were always lit in such ways as to make their physiology seem more mysterious and Alien like Scott did in the first film.

Good point and deffinately positives of those films, but for me, Resurrection was the first time I ever could see the Alien design, internet wasn't big back then and I was only a teen anyhow, so my only reference was the films and the mystery of Alien and Aliens made me want to see the design, of course I'm an artist so I really get into details of things more so than others.

 

[gdb]

Good point and deffinately positives of those films, but for me, Resurrection was the first time I ever could see the Alien design, internet wasn't big back then and I was only a teen anyhow, so my only reference was the films and the mystery of Alien and Aliens made me want to see the design, of course I'm an artist so I really get into details of things more so than others.

That's true. I dismissed the film outright when I saw it originally. But when I caught it on Sci-Fi a couple years back I was struck at how it had some good elements and being able to see the aliens and deal with them as characters is one of the things I must have been responding to.

Yes, Dave makes a great point about the power of keeping the monsters in the shadows, but Scott's already done that and attempting to compete with Scott's film was the primary problem, IMO, in David Fincher's Alien 3.

 

[dekadentdave]

The real problem is that the Aliens have been reduced to 2D comic book creatures. They no longer have that primal element of fear. In the first two films you could feel the presence of the Alien when it wasn't shown onscreen lurking behind every corner. In Resurrection you see exactly when and where the Aliens attack and there is no sense of fear or terror. They just seem like oversized bugs. If I wanted to see a bunch of oversized comic book bugs I'd just watch Starship Troopers. When I watch an Alien movie, I want to be scared.