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Aliens ... 30 years (I'm so old...)
« on: July 28, 2016, 01:26:37 PM »
30th anniversary of one of my favorite films ever.

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Re: Aliens ... 30 years (I'm so old...)
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2016, 01:49:22 PM »
Great film.  :aok
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Re: Aliens ... 30 years (I'm so old...)
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2016, 01:57:22 PM »
 "You know, it should be illegal for you to be able to do this to little kids..."  :rofl
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Re: Aliens ... 30 years (I'm so old...)
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2016, 02:43:23 PM »
The prequel is almost 40 years old.
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Re: Aliens ... 30 years (I'm so old...)
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2016, 04:55:20 PM »
Aliens is my all time favorite.   The only movie I ever saw three times in the theater.


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Re: Aliens ... 30 years (I'm so old...)
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2016, 09:26:02 PM »
"Well, look where your team is. They're right under the primary heat exchangers".

"So, so what?!"


Great film, one of the best Cameron has made IMO, although it's tough to pick from about 5 of his many great works.  I could recite it verbatim after watching it dozens if not hundreds of times.

I remember playing the Commodore 64 Aliens game for hours while simultaneously watching the film on VHS on our 32" TV, which was gigantic back then. 

Anyone one else have the experience of first seeing the "director's" cut on TV?  It was on late night in 1990 IIRC, and I'm watching it in the background while into something else at the time, probably early PC gaming, when I hear this talk about robot sentry guns.  WTF?!  Instant attention.  The entirety of the robot sentry sequences never made the release/theatrical cut?!  Wow, talk about a bad decision.  Those were fantastic, as was the rest of the unseen footage in the director's cut, much of it prior to the sentry guns, such as Hudson's great speech on the drop ship.
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Re: Aliens ... 30 years (I'm so old...)
« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2016, 11:01:52 PM »
I became a legal alien in 1979 too.


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Re: Aliens ... 30 years (I'm so old...)
« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2016, 11:24:22 AM »
 :rofl :aok
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Re: Aliens ... 30 years (I'm so old...)
« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2016, 03:38:49 PM »
Game over man!!  Game over!!!
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Re: Aliens ... 30 years (I'm so old...)
« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2016, 03:49:53 PM »
"Well, look where your team is. They're right under the primary heat exchangers".

"So, so what?!"


Great film, one of the best Cameron has made IMO, although it's tough to pick from about 5 of his many great works.  I could recite it verbatim after watching it dozens if not hundreds of times.

I remember playing the Commodore 64 Aliens game for hours while simultaneously watching the film on VHS on our 32" TV, which was gigantic back then. 

Anyone one else have the experience of first seeing the "director's" cut on TV?  It was on late night in 1990 IIRC, and I'm watching it in the background while into something else at the time, probably early PC gaming, when I hear this talk about robot sentry guns.  WTF?!  Instant attention.  The entirety of the robot sentry sequences never made the release/theatrical cut?!  Wow, talk about a bad decision.  Those were fantastic, as was the rest of the unseen footage in the director's cut, much of it prior to the sentry guns, such as Hudson's great speech on the drop ship.

Love the turret guns.   :aok
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 To every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late.
 And how can man die better, than facing fearful odds.
 For the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his Gods."

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Re: Aliens ... 30 years (I'm so old...)
« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2016, 05:03:27 PM »
Two-and-a-half hours is a long time for one sitting even today. Back in the '80s it was unacceptable. The robot sentries scenes were awesome, but they didn't move the story forward in any real way, and thus they were expendable. Love them too though, and I haven't watched any other cut than the director's since I first saw it back in the '90s. I've
watched his film several dozen times over the years.



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Re: Aliens ... 30 years (I'm so old...)
« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2016, 10:16:35 PM »
Thanks for the reminder.  Watching it now.