ALIENS THE OFFICIAL MOVIE THREAD

[JediMike71]

Awesome STENDEC! I wish I was getting the HT Hicks. I may still get him someday, but I'll be getting another Hudson from Dboz in a few days to make my custom Hicks from. I went ahead and did the Buy It Now on eBay for the famous "Stoner" head for Hicks. I thought what the heck, I'll give it a try as a possible head for my Hicks. Now I'll have three choices for his head. The Hudson head repainted, the "hero head" I've already painted, and the Stoner head. Here's the link to it on eBay:

https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWN:IT&viewitem=&item=300127283092&rd=1&rd=1

Hey, Les and anyone else that's repainted this Stoner head...how did you do it? Did you strip the head down first and put primer on it? Or, did you just paint over the existing paint job on it? Please let me know. Thanks.

 

[figuremasterles]

Strip Stoner? heck no!
Just slop paint 'til he's Hicks!
That is what I did. Clean him up if you want. But that is a lot of excess work.
That color stuff is fine sprayed on. No sense going through all that. Just put a good, solid skintone layer on him, and get going.

Les

 

[JediMike71]

Thanks Les. I really wasn't looking forward to all that extra work of stripping the head down first anyway. I'll likely end up with about two coats or so of skintone/flesh tone, and of course change the Stoner head eye color to blue like Michael Biehn's eyes. Thanks again.

Happy Birthday to the U.S.A.!

 

[customizerwannabe]

I bought one from the same ebayer. Striping is waaaay too much work. Les is right. Do a Mary Kay till you're happy.

 

[bwayne]

I bought one from the same ebayer. Striping is waaaay too much work. Les is right. Do a Mary Kay till you're happy.

I bought one from this guy as well. It seems the price goes up with each sale. I got mine for under 10 shipped.

 

[JediMike71]

Yeah, well with shipping mine will be almost $15.00 shipped. Not too bad I guess for such a great head that looks more like Michael Biehn than the "Hudson" HT head...don't you think? Would the Stoner head be the best choice for me for my custom Hicks? If there's a better choice out there...let me know here. Thanks!

I just will have three choices to go with for Hicks once I get the Stoner head in. So, feedback on the best one to use from you guys that have got the Stoner and are using it on your Hicks would be great. I am just painting over the camo on the Stoner head. I've never had to strip a 1/6 scale head yet, so I wouldn't know what I'm in for anyway. Thanks again guys!

 

[DouglasMcc]

Awesome STENDEC! I wish I was getting the HT Hicks. I may still get him someday, but I'll be getting another Hudson from Dboz in a few days to make my custom Hicks from. I went ahead and did the Buy It Now on eBay for the famous "Stoner" head for Hicks. I thought what the heck, I'll give it a try as a possible head for my Hicks. Now I'll have three choices for his head. The Hudson head repainted, the "hero head" I've already painted, and the Stoner head. Here's the link to it on eBay:

https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWN:IT&viewitem=&item=300127283092&rd=1&rd=1

Hey, Les and anyone else that's repainted this Stoner head...how did you do it? Did you strip the head down first and put primer on it? Or, did you just paint over the existing paint job on it? Please let me know. Thanks.

I am amazed how quickly the cost of Hicks jumped. Last summer, I waited too long to pick him up and he disappeared from retail. He was still going for 120ish on eBay. I eventually talked to The Godfather about an order from his store, and threw in, "oh, by the way, do you have an extra Hicks" not expecting any luck. He replies back, "not sure, but let me check our warehouse". Long story short, he found me one and sold it to me for 90 bucks SHIPPED. That, combined with the 280 dollar shipped deal he gave me on the Jabba, Throne, and Sale pack are why the Godfather is the end all/ be all of Internet Retailers. Still can't believe he is going for over 200 now.

 

[pjam]

sorry but Aliens and Terminator are hardly groundbreaking movies imo. They are pretty damn cheesey as well. But still good enough for a decent ride. comparing this new TF movie to those two, TF would own them any day.

ALIENS 1986 - AWARDS


Academy Awards, USA
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1987 Won Oscar Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing
Don Sharpe


Best Effects, Visual Effects
Robert Skotak
Stan Winston
John Richardson
Suzanne M. Benson


Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role
Sigourney Weaver


Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Peter Lamont
Crispian Sallis


Best Film Editing
Ray Lovejoy


Best Music, Original Score
James Horner


Best Sound
Graham V. Hartstone
Nicolas Le Messurier
Michael A. Carter
Roy Charman



Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2004 Nominated Saturn Award Best DVD Collection
Also for Alien (1979), Alien³ (1992) and Alien: Resurrection (1997).
For the "Alien Quadrilogy".


1987 Won Saturn Award Best Actress
Sigourney Weaver


Best Director
James Cameron


Best Performance by a Younger Actor
Carrie Henn


Best Science Fiction Film


Best Special Effects
Stan Winston
Robert Skotak
Dennis Skotak


Best Supporting Actor
Bill Paxton


Best Supporting Actress
Jenette Goldstein


Best Writing
James Cameron


Nominated Saturn Award Best Actor
Michael Biehn


Best Costumes
Emma Porteus


Best Make-Up
Peter Robb-King



Awards of the Japanese Academy
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1987 Nominated Award of the Japanese Academy Best Foreign Language Film



BAFTA Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1987 Won BAFTA Film Award Best Special Visual Effects
Robert Skotak
Brian Johnson
John Richardson
Stan Winston


Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Make Up Artist
Peter Robb-King


Best Production Design
Peter Lamont


Best Sound
Don Sharpe
Roy Charman
Graham V. Hartstone



Casting Society of America, USA
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1987 Nominated Artios Best Casting for Feature Film, Drama
Mike Fenton
Jane Feinberg
Judy Taylor



DVD Exclusive Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2003 Won DVDX Award Best Overall DVD, Classic Movie (Including All Extra Features)
Charles de Lauzirika
Also for Alien (1979), Alien³ (1992) and Alien: Resurrection (1997)
(Alien Quadrilogy).

Nominated DVDX Award Best Audio Commentary (New for DVD)
James Cameron
Michael Biehn
Jenette Goldstein
Carrie Henn
Christopher Henn
Lance Henriksen
Gale Anne Hurd
Pat McClung
Bill Paxton
Dennis Skotak
Robert Skotak
Stan Winston
(Alien Quadrilogy).

Best Menu Design
Matt Kennedy
Also for Alien (1979), Alien³ (1992) and Alien: Resurrection (1997)
For "The Alien Quadrilogy".


2003 Nominated DVDX Award Best Behind-the-Scenes Program (New for DVD)
Charles de Lauzirika
For The Beast Within: The Making of 'Alien' (2003) (V) (Alien Quadrilogy).
Also for Alien (1979), Alien³ (1992) and Alien: Resurrection (1997)


Golden Globes, USA
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1987 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Sigourney Weaver



Hugo Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1987 Won Hugo Best Dramatic Presentation



Kinema Junpo Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1987 Won Readers' Choice Award Best Foreign Language Film
James Cameron



Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2004 Won Sierra Award Best DVD
Also for Alien (1979), Alien³ (1992) and Alien: Resurrection (1997)
For "The Alien Quadrilogy".


Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1987 Won Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing - Foreign Feature
unknown



Satellite Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2004 Nominated Golden Satellite Award Best DVD Extras
Also for Alien (1979), Alien³ (1992) and Alien: Resurrection (1997)
For "The Alien Quadrilogy".

Best Overall DVD
Also for Alien (1979), Alien³ (1992) and Alien: Resurrection (1997)
For "The Alien Quadrilogy".


Young Artist Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1987 Nominated Young Artist Award Exceptional Performance by a Young Actress, Supporting Role in a Feature Film - Comedy, Fantasy or Drama
Carrie Henn

 

[JediMike71]

Well...well...nash, I totallly, completely, and without a single doubt in my mind....DISAGREE WITH YOU! ALIENS and Terminator "hardly groundbreaking"? You claim they're "both pretty damn cheezy"?! Those two movies are two of my all-time favorite movies. They kicked ass back then when they were released in theaters, and STILL DO to this very day! You are dead wrong. As you can clearly see from pjam's recent post with all of the awards ALIENS received around the time of its release, and later as part of the incredible Alien Quadrilogy DVD set, that I have, it isn't cheezy at all!

Earlier science-fictions films in the 1980s quite literally paved the way for the CGI loaded movies we enjoy today. Hell, we're becoming so "jaded" now by CGI special effects that Hollywood HAS to impress us more and more with each coming movie to make an impression in our minds. Were it not for the pioneering artists and special effects wizards in ALIENS, and other notable science-fiction films, like the STAR WARS series, and thier in-house special effects company I.L.M. (Industrial Light and Magic) we would not even have CGI effects at the high standards we do today. So recent movies, like Spider-Man 3, Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Fantastic Four 2, and yes, even TF...Transformers...owe a HUGE debt of gratitude and appreciation for the pioneers who helped pave the way for them.

 

[dekadentdave]

You tell him Mike!

 

[JediMike71]

Damn straight dave! I've lived long enough, I'm 36 now, to remember the early days of CGI, and even before CGI, "stop-motion" animation perfected by I.L.M., and another master before even them...Ray Harryhausen. CGI films of today owe a lot to what has come before them. The hard work of stop-motion arists was what paved the way to computer special effects that most people tend to take for granted nowadays. To trash classic movies like ALIENS and Terminator just WILL NOT fly while I'm around to stand up for them!

 

[dekadentdave]

Well us "old dogs" gotta stick together Mike. These bratty kids today have no appreciation for the aesthetics of film pre-Michael Bay era.

 

[Stendec]

Damn straight dave! I've lived long enough, I'm 36 now, to remember the early days of CGI, and even before CGI, "stop-motion" animation perfected by I.L.M., and another master before even them...Ray Harryhausen. CGI films of today owe a lot to what has come before them. The hard work of stop-motion arists was what paved the way to computer special effects that most people tend to take for granted nowadays. To trash classic movies like ALIENS and Terminator just WILL NOT fly while I'm around to stand up for them!

Right on Mike, well said!!

Ray Harryhausen is a hero of mine and I wrote an essay on him while studying animation at college. Animators like him and incredible artisits like Rob Bottin, Stan Winston and Rick Baker really blew me away as a kid growing up with their movies and still hold up as some of the best ever made. CGI pioneers like Dennis Muren used computer graphics to create characters and drive the plot but that concept is lost on many film makers today. All to often I feel empty and unsatisfied by the excessive use of CGI in modern movies and I feel that hacks like Micheal Bay are responsible for this trend. One of the reason I think the Star Wras prequel trilogy failed was due to the over-reliance on CGI, of course the dire scripts had a big part to play also lol.

Having said that, CGI certainly has its place in movies and when used correctly (as in the LOTR trilogy) it can really help create an enthralling movie. Peter Jackson and WETA got the balance perfect between shooting things practically (they used a lot of minatures as well as prosthetics) and using computer graphics.

I mean, is AVP a better movie than Aliens because the creatures are more dynamic and articulated . . . . . . HELL NO!

 

[Mudshark]

Did I read that right? Transformers... Transformers own Aliens or The Terminator??? That can't be serious, it just can't... But if it is, well, I have no polite explanation to offer for such a silly notion in that case. I think Paul and Mike have pretty much said more than needs to be said on that score, but I find it very hard to believe that was serious! C'mon nash, tell us you were only kidding... Please???

 

[Darren Carnall]

*puts his hand up to join the "old farts who remember films when they were good" club*

 

[MaulFan]

Wow, interesting goings on overnight to wake up to. I'm not an "old dog" but I would never pit Transformers against Aliens or Terminators. For one thing, Transformers was a ride, there was an attempt but poorly made one at having a deep underlying lesson to it, where Cameron's Terminator's were as much a fun time as a statement about humanity, which is what made them so great, the deep human story that lay beneath the machines story arc. And as far as Alien and Aliens, Scott created a film which challenged the human mind and manipulated it to create it's success where Transformers and such films simply throw it all out there and you're given everything to enjoy without fire up brain cells, which again is fun, but a better film does not make. And again, Cameron took Scott's work and brought his touch of humanity to Aliens and gave us a badass action flick with a touch of morality and lessons about teamwork woven into it.

3 hours til Warrior arrives....by tonight we'll all forget about silly Transformer comment, I'll make sure of it I was going to go out and buy Optimus Prime today from the movie (I still like the film, just wouldn't put it over Aliens), maybe it'd be funny to have the warrior kicking Prime's ass in a photo or two?

 

[Stendec]

Hey Maulfan, be sur eto take plenty of pics of your Alien

Remember thats an order Private!! lol

Oh yeah, my Hicks just arrived about 10 minutes ago :chew :chew :chew

Thankfully the package got through Customs without being singled out for charges so all in all I got a pretty good deal on it

Man I cant wait to put the figure together, got a ton of work to get done first though lol

 

[screamingmetal]

I looked and can't find the answer. Has it been reveled if the hands are bendy hands or preposed?

 

[MaulFan]

I looked and can't find the answer. Has it been reveled if the hands are bendy hands or preposed?

You should know 100% for sure in a few hours

 

[pjam]

T MINUS A FEW HOURS FOR MAULFAN'S ALIENS WARRIOR PICTACULAR!...

OR SOONER!

TAKE IT AWAY MF!