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Sar wrote:It's pretty good. Some amazing-looking sci-fi sets, great atmosphere, lots of great shots. The story is pretty much haunted-house-in-space, but it's still worth it.
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Sar wrote:Then there are Alien 3 (generally considered to be completely terrible but I actually liked it a lot) and Alien 4 (generally considered to be completely terrible, though it does have Ron Perlman). You can skip those.
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Sar wrote:I thought 3 was pretty damn dark actually, felt much less Hollywood than 2. The original script? Wasn't it the one with some monks on a wooden station, and new Alien would be a plant? Written by William Gibson?
@Aule: Prometheus is visually impressive, but the plot... I learned later the script was written by Lost scriptwriter. Yeah.
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Sar wrote:I thought 3 was pretty damn dark actually, felt much less Hollywood than 2. The original script? Wasn't it the one with some monks on a wooden station, and new Alien would be a plant? Written by William Gibson?
@Aule: Prometheus is visually impressive, but the plot... I learned later the script was written by Lost scriptwriter. Yeah.
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Aule wrote:Sar wrote:I thought 3 was pretty damn dark actually, felt much less Hollywood than 2. The original script? Wasn't it the one with some monks on a wooden station, and new Alien would be a plant? Written by William Gibson?
@Aule: Prometheus is visually impressive, but the plot... I learned later the script was written by Lost scriptwriter. Yeah.
I didn't know about that script. As for Prometheus,Spoiler: show
Somebody put spoiler tags on daggaz's post! LOL
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another of Ridley Scott's movies, "Blade Runner
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Aule wrote:I always liked Robert Heinlein, also, but please don't blame him for the film version of his "Starship Troopers."
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Aule wrote:I always liked Robert Heinlein, also, but please don't blame him for the film version of his "Starship Troopers."
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n1000 wrote:Remarkably, each of the characters is as delightfully normal as Ripley. Even those who have, err, rather short roles, speak and behave distinctly and in accord with fleshed-out backstories.
Sprucery wrote:But Starship Troopers is a great parody!
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daggaz wrote:Hollywood is so radical left these days
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Wikipedia wrote:The movie started life as a script called Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine. When similarities, especially the "bugs" were pointed out between this and the novel Starship Troopers, plans were made to license the rights to the book and tweak character names and circumstances to match. Verhoeven had never read the book, and attempted to read it for the film, but it made him "bored and depressed", so that he only read a few chapters:I stopped after two chapters because it was so boring,...It is really quite a bad book. I asked Ed Neumeier to tell me the story because I just couldn't read the thing. It's a very right-wing book.
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Pollen_Golem wrote:Seriously how DOES one ever watch goddam Alien?
a) see a random movie on tv one day, and it turns out to be Alien
b) seek it out based on its reputation
c) watch it for class or something
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Sar wrote:@daggaz:Wikipedia wrote:The movie started life as a script called Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine. When similarities, especially the "bugs" were pointed out between this and the novel Starship Troopers, plans were made to license the rights to the book and tweak character names and circumstances to match. Verhoeven had never read the book, and attempted to read it for the film, but it made him "bored and depressed", so that he only read a few chapters:I stopped after two chapters because it was so boring,...It is really quite a bad book. I asked Ed Neumeier to tell me the story because I just couldn't read the thing. It's a very right-wing book.
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