Alien Fanatic? Look Here
Tykjen
Join Date: 2003-01-21 Member: 12552Members, Reinforced - Shadow
Join Date: 2003-01-21 Member: 12552Members, Reinforced - Shadow
<div class="IPBDescription">new dvd disc set!</div> yea i know im off topic, but since theres so many Alien lovers here, like myself, i have to spread this good news!
There's an insert that's been included with Fox's X-Men 1.5: Special Edition DVD, which reveals a major upcoming release from the studio - the 9-disc Alien Quadrilogy box set! All four films in the series, Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection, are being given brand new special edition treatment (2-discs each) with a separate bonus disc of extra materials. Many of the extras on the set have never been seen before. There's no release date announced yet, but the title is set to be released in "2003".
There's an insert that's been included with Fox's X-Men 1.5: Special Edition DVD, which reveals a major upcoming release from the studio - the 9-disc Alien Quadrilogy box set! All four films in the series, Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection, are being given brand new special edition treatment (2-discs each) with a separate bonus disc of extra materials. Many of the extras on the set have never been seen before. There's no release date announced yet, but the title is set to be released in "2003".
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......does anyone know if there makeing an Aliens 5???
"Sigourney Weaver really, really wants Alien 5 to happen. Total Film learned that the 52-year-old star of the megabucks sci-fi series approached Ridley Scott last year with an eye to "do another one". And Scott has let one "earth-shattering" (his words) piece of news escape: "Well, James Cameron is involved in it now."Sigourney Weaver really, really wants Alien 5 to happen. Total Film learned that the 52-year-old star of the megabucks sci-fi series approached Ridley Scott last year with an eye to "do another one". And Scott has let one "earth-shattering" (his words) piece of news escape: "Well, James Cameron is involved in it now."
and if that was satisfying listen to this:
"Talk about a clash of the titans: Producers John Davis, David Giler, Lawrence Gordon, Walter Hill and Joel Silver have brought aboard "Resident Evil" helmer Paul Anderson to write and direct "Alien vs. Predator" for 20th Century Fox."
so yea, both movies are definatly goin to be made!
And there's never anything deffinite about any movie announcements. Fox has been announcing AvP for how many decades, now? Since the end of the eighties, really. I have one of the scripts that was refused then, as I'm sure many others do, and it's obvious to anyone who knows anything about the AvP franchise why it was canceled then.
I'm not too sure being the head of Resident Evil's production crew is much of anything to celebrate, considering how bad an editting and story-writing job it got [how many times did the boom come in to the final cut, and what about that box sitting on top of the camera in that lit-up hallway scene?]. Cute movie on its own merits, but a little off the whole Resident Evil -thing-, you know, like Resurrection was off the AL|ENS -thing-. But what the hell. The franchises have gotten to the point where millions of people will watch them five or six times on -principle- alone, so it's pretty much guaranteed money for them anyway, and will be all the more fuel for a few more collectors' packs before the next big AL|ENS hype comes along, I'm sure.
it still pisses me off, altho it was good to hear that fincher actually regrets makeing alien3, cause of its thin story line.
but now, hearing that alien5 most likely will have BOTH the masters, ridley scott&james cameron, i dont think its gonna go wrong. the most ive heard, is that ridley wants to make a humans visit the alien homeworld. and that we get to know the backstory about the ship with the spacejockey from alien 1.
i cant wait.
They broke the boundaries of what was expected. They offered a perspective on storytelling, moviemaking and humanity that wasn't really mainstream at the time, but now you've got Fight Club and all these other little movies that have come out recently, so there's no more of that left for the AL|ENS saga. Now the Fox corporation is doing exactly what we hate about Weyland Yutani, except most people are going to suck it up like their mother's milk. We sure hate Carter Burk, but we fall all over ourselves to kiss his **** when he wants a buck.
Maybe the fifth will be different, with James Cameron on the crew. I don't know. We'll have to see, won't we?
Just because there's Xenomorphs in a movie, doesn't make it worth drooling over. They're -in- the movie exactly because Fox -knows- you'll be drooling over it, despite the endless inconsistencies and the utter lack of any kind of soul or originality that the originals had.
At least have a reason better than "their **** kewl dood" [sic] for wasting your money on an other of Fox's cash cows. It's an insult to the blood, sweat and tears that went in to the original one. You remember that one? You know how much that crew had to fight to keep that project going? It's because they loved it and believed in it. Many of them weren't paid what they were supposed to be, but they kept at it.
I love it because the original three meant something besides money. There was something about humanity between the lines. Something that's apparently wasted here.
lol u noticed it too, what about the ax that kept "magically" moving around the lab (at the begining the guy tried to break the glass in the tank but couldn't, then you saw him walking around with it as a zombie, and at the end it was back in the room it started in).
anyways back to the topic, i might buy the set, but it would cost around $50 to $60 not really sure though. i think avp the movie is up there with HL2.
Aliens (2nd one) is the best imho
ehh, ur completely wrong about #3 being NOT made for the cash. the story just dont make sense.if u see the intro, how the hell did that egg get in, and she crashlands on a planet right after, lame coincidence. hicks and newt are dead, cause they didnt want to participate in a #3, so fox had to make something up there too.
and cause of the really flaw of taht story, FOX actually wanted #3 to be a dream in #4. that it never happend, cause of all the bad feedback from the tru fans of the films.but then again, cash ment more, so they made #4, with the worst story ever. just putting that poor winona ryder on the motion picture poster says it all.
and its ridley scott, that has said he wants to go back to the spacejockeys, its just that hes not alone wanting to know/show how it went down. sure we have read comics about the homeworld and the jockey. but thats not the same if #5 gets made by the first maker, plus if he gets help by mr cameron.
alien3 destroyed alot.
still pisses me off.
and it shouldnt be no problem to make a prequel, cause we still dont know the true meaning/life cycle of the xenomorph.
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No, but I do believe they're making plans for an Aliens vs. Predator movie... good universe to make a movie on... let's hope they don't **** it up, like Alien 4, and, to some extent, Alien 3. They got the guy who directed Event Horizon and SOLDIER to be the director.... oh and he also directed Resident Evil. Let's hope he doesn't do the same hack-job as he did on the RE movie. >_<
I want personaly want AvP more that aliens 5(which I see as being crap <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> ). Let's hope I am wrong and aliens 5 turns out to be good <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
The reason Ripley was in the fourth is because she was co-producer. As a "big-ticket" actress in Hollywood, now, she can easily throw up a stink that H. R. Giger can not compare to, if she's not happy. Remember what I said in an other thread about it not being about the Xenomorphs anymore? It's about Sigourney, now.
and alien3 was my fav movie of the 4
The first three, to me, were perfect, as I've said before. The fourth wasn't necessary.
And the script for the third was written by nine people, simultaneously, all going for a certain theme the director, or whatever, set forth from the start. The best of them was picked. The accepted one and some of the refused ones can probably still be found on-line on script sites. The script for the fourth is -good- reading. Too bad they butchered it in production. Also too bad it's better suited for something original. As in, with no association to the AL|ENS trilogy. The mutant alien child at the end, in the script, is a big spider thing. Don't ask me how they figured that'd work, but it's still a great story if you forget it's supposed to be about Ripley and Xenomorphs [the Xenomorphs obviously being background noise to Ripley's greatness--she did accept the part on a condition that she'd get to be, in her own words, "a super hero"].
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