Wow, everyone had bad ideas all around and none of this can be compromised. I still end up sympathizing more for the studio though. Their ideas are bad, but they are logical marketing kinds of stupid ideas; you really can't call a movie without Xenomorphs Alien anything, after all. Ridley's Scott's ideas are pseudo-intellectual pretentious bad ideas that were better executed by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin in Stargate.
Christ that's depressing when you say it out loud.
I liked how it felt like its own thing and was trying to be more... Traditional sci Fi instead of just being horror. Like a star trek episode gone wrong because everyone is too naive.
He probably would have made the xenomorphs into an allegory for opressed people or something equally retarded.
I do love Aliens but it kinda ruined the xenos for me. I view the first movie as fantastic lovecraftian horror, Kane's Son is so, well alien lol, while at the same time having some twisted sense of humanity (like how its implied to rape Lambert, or it having a human skull under its dome) that makes it so unsettling, I also really dig the weirder shit they hint at with for example in that deleted scene where its shown to have the ability to turn people into eggs, in Aliens they're just animals, reduced to essentially being hive insects with an exotic reproduction method, the fact that you see them getting mowed down by the dozen also makes them a lot less scary (the design of the queen is fucking fantastic though).
Of all sad words of tongue or pen; the saddest are these: Roland Emmerich did it better than you.
The spectacular thing about District-9 is what it says about the audience. So many people praising it as an allegory, bravely and insightfully talking about racism or the situation in South Africa. None of them seeming to notice that in this movie the Nigerians are all cannibal gangsters and the "prawns" who supposedly are a stand-in for Black South Africans are nearly all sub-normal IQ creatures that live in filth voluntarily and are violent and feckless.
It's actually Parker's leg getting pulled by the xenomorph if you look closely. But they cleverly reedited the scene so that it looks like Lambert is being raped. In the original Alien script Lambert was going to be sucked through a tiny hole in the hull into space with her organs being ripped from her body like the newborn death in Alien Resurrection. But they didn't have the budget to film the airlock scenes in Alien so it was scrapped. You still see Ripley bleeding from the nose though from being exposed to an open airlock. Ridley Scott improvised Lambert's death on set and through editing.
The crab walk was taken from a famous deleted scene in The Exorcist where the girl is walking up the stairs on all fours. The crab walking xenomorph just looks goofy and nonthreatening. Like Lambert and Parker should be bursting into laughter and pointing at the alien instead of cowering in fear.
Literal space marines need to be depicted more often as being well trained tough sons of bitches who can hold their own in a firefight with their dropships being both the valkyries that spirit them from orbit to ground and back again, and also avenging angels laying the weight of their firepower onto the enemies of their charges.
Too high iq.
I want a Generation Kill set in the Aliens universe. Not even a bug hunt, just what the USCM is like when they're not getting picked off in a hive while the ROE prevents them from using their weapons.
Nah, it's actually Brett's legs. His death was supposed to be notably more gory. The tail was supposed to slam through his neck and then the Alien would crush his head with his hands. During the Christmas Screenings, a decent chunk of the producers and Scott himself realized that less would've been more, since they wanted to minimize how often you saw the Xeno on screen. The Christmas screenings also being the "three hour cut", which really was mostly due to there being multiple takes and long shots to have on hand in case it was needed.
It was supposed to be off putting; in fact the tail reaching out to her was supposed to hint that the creature was fully intelligent and could communicate. Up to and including gaining some memory from the host it grew from. It's also shown by how Scott fought hard to try and kill Ripley at the end, with the Alien mimicking her voice. Producers and O'Bannon fought that one hard since they thought it was a shitty ending.
