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Here's a question, I can't find it online. Alien was originally going to be called something else, anyone remember what it was? The name was rather cheesy I think.

I have no idea.

Did you know this?



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyland-Yutani

A found it

'Star Beast'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(movie)

The phrase "In Space, no one can hear you scream" is frequently heard in reference to the first movie as a tagline. In fact, I believe it was the alien movies that first coined the phrase....could that have perhaps started life as the title to which you refer?


Hmm..."Star Beast"? Yes, I'm afraid that is cheesier than a weekend visit to a swiss dairy farm.

Star Beast. Oh god. And then, of course, you would have had Star BEASTS!! Or even Star Beasties.

Star Beastie3.



I did know that about Weyland Yutani actually. Good choice!

If they'd called it that, I doubt they'd get as far as Star Beasties

Why? Do you think the name will kill off the credibility? Dude, I don't think it's credibility would survive Star Beast 1.

He probably would have. Anyone know what films he is making at the moment?

Go back a couple of pages, i posted on them yesterday mr ed.

Star Beast vs Predator

but predators working title was 'Alien Hunter'
erego..... Star Beast vs Alien Hunter....doesn't quite have the same ring to it does it??

I think 'Death Race' will suit Anderson.

Oh, is he not going to be racing?

In fairness, it does sound like the kind of movie that would suit him...umcompromising violence, probably with little in the way of plot of character development.


How he plans to direct the other one, which sounds to me like a nail biting thriller, I have no idea He's been seen to have no talent in directing such scenes, let alone an entire movie

I actually considered by Resident Evil 2 today. In the shop looked at the back cover, it read "from the visionary director Paul Anderson (Alien vs Predator)" ...... visionary? .... then I came to my senses and put it back on the shelf.

I don't know if I could stand another movie of Newt going "Riiiiippppplllleeeeeyyy!" in her annoyingly high-pitched voice.

Edit - that's not to say I didn't like the movie. I loved it. But Newt was a one movie kind of gal i think.

Sera would like to add that Anderson is indeed a 'visionary director' ..... he has those visions while on opium, but he still has them.

Hey I liked Resident Evil 2...... Ok it was kinda like a john woo film, but it was ok...lol

To be honest, i think resident evil 2 is the best of anderson's work by far, and if it was £10 or less you should've bought it. Unfortunately it is less than visionary, unless your idea of visionary is stealing all the ideas already in place in a franchise, mixing them all up so they make no sense and filling in the gaps with crappy dialogue and special effects.

Star Beastie Resurrection

I didn't like AvP because the movie sucked. The close escapes of the humans from the traps in the pyramid were more exciting than the battles between Predator/human/alien. And since the escapes weren't very exciting really, that just says it all right there.

The director decided to go for the less is more kind of routine. I wanted to see an alien rip a human to shreds. What we got was an alien snarl, then a human scream, then a short two-second frame of a wall with blood being splattered on it. Where's the graphic violence of the previous films?

You know, I walked into Talon's room the other day, and found him watching Alien 3...the exact moment in the film was when the alien was chasing people through those tunnels, and, as I sat down, some guy got grabbed just as he ran through a doorway, with blood and dismembered limbs following close behind

Alien 3, however, was an exception....it was the only alien that actually killed people. The aliens didn't do that...it wasn't productive for them. In every other movie, they dragged people away to cacoon them...the number of people actually killed are greatly outnumbered by those dragged away to be hosts. Even the creature in Alien, despite not having a queen to lay eggs for it, did so.

The Alien in the third movie didn't seem to bother...probably because it came from a dog (or cow, depending on what version you're watching), and was less capable of a thoughtfull approach

I know what you mean Sera -

But (and I guess I haven't seen the movies for a while), wasn't one of the guys killed straight out in the first Alien movie? Set of teeth ripping the face apart, unless my memory is faulty.

I'm gonna have to go and check it out now. But hey, you can have graphic violence without anyone actually dying

Oh yes, the alien/s did kill people straight out in all the movies....they just didn't do it as a matter of course. I imagine the alien in the first movie started killing either when it's plan changed from incubation to escape, or when it decided it had sufficient hosts (the two people it had already cacooned).

It was £6.99

the movie alien vs. predator is said to be based on a true story

no seriously...you're joking right, please tell me you are

Yep, because we all know aliens are kept and bred in isolated temples hidden in the middle of frozen wastelands, only to be hunted by other aliens from other planets which at one point subjugated the entire human race, being worshipped as gods.....

If you said that in a few of the forums north of here you'd be greeted like a brother, android.

Like Alien3, it does grow on you with each watch. It's a terrible film as a whole, but entertaining. Good to throw on the background and sneak a peek when there's a decent shot of Jills legs.

A man with priorities

Eh? What about in AR when the men are being evacuted in their pods and you see an alien jump into their pod and hear them being torn apart?

AR made a lot of continuity errors

AR WAS a continuity error!!

LOL

Too true.

I seem to be the only one who liked it, maybe because I only took it at face value and didn't bother thinking about it.

Alien 2 is pretty cool.

Dis liked it too. Same reason most likely.

Given how bad RE4 and AvP were, maybe they should can the idea of Alien 5 and let the series end with what dignity it still has.

There is going to be an Alien 5?! If so detalis please.

You didn't read it earlier!!? oh man you are in for a surprise

What page ben?! Link it please.

There is more on page 8...if you can bare to look

That's got to be the only reason I might consider watching the thing.



Yes they are!

Who's kidding who? Lara Croft isn't female as some kind of attempt at empowering women...she's female so that horny young men will by the games. My only complaint is that, in the movies, she only wore those tight little shorts in that one scene.

But anyway, on the subject of Alien 5. I intend to wait and see...if Anderson writes the screenplay and/or directs, I'll just pretend the movie doesn't exist.

I wish James Cameron was still making movies.

I may be mistaken, but didn't both Alien 4 and AvP flop? Wouldn't that be a sure fire sign that finding a different director would be a wise course of action?

Well, as i said a few pages back, obviously Fox has some REALLY DUMB PEOPLE at the helm making major financial decisions.

It would appear so...buy the way, I shall from here on in be refering to AR as Alien 4, and nothing else. I cannot keep a straight face calling it by its true name, given the great irony that it buried the series.

I never even thought of that.

No, no, no, it cannot be true.

Why the hell did they let anderson get his mits on another Alien script!?
Nooooooooooooo.

I don't know...but I do know that it's because or Anderson that, whenever I went a good AvP experience, I hit my dvd player with a hammer, and read one of the books.